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Critical Asian Studies Review
Laura Kina’s artwork is analyzed in Travis Seifman 2022 “Exhibition Review: Portraits of Ryukyu” in Critical Asian Studies. The exhibition “Portraits of Ryukyu,” held at the Okinawa Prefectural Art Museum from November 2021 through January 2022, featured works by sixteen artists with close ties to Okinawa.
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Oct 30th lecture – Tracing Uchinanchu Roots
Watch Laura Kina’s Oct 30, 2023 artist talk “Tracing Uchinanchu Roots” ) at the Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum.
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Okinawan Princess: Da Legend of Hajichi Tattoos Book Tour
Hawaii book tour August 17-Sept 1, 2019. Join author Lee A. Tonouchi and illustrator Laura Kina for their book tour of “Okinawan Princess: Da Legend of Hajichi Tattoos.”
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Okinawan Princess: Da Legend of Hajichi Tattoos
Okinawan Princess: Da Legend of Hajichi Tattoos (Bess Press, 2019) is a trilingual feminist fairy tale set in Hawai‘i and Okinawa that illuminates an ancient tradition and pushes back against white normative standards of beauty. Okinawan Princess is written in Hawai‘i Creole by Lee A. Tonouchi and translated by Dr. Masashi Sakihara into a mix…