Biography
Ivy Haliimaile Andrade is a Native Hawaiian (Kānaka ʻōiwi) artist and a retired University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa professor whose practice draws on Hawaiian cultural traditions and fiber arts. In 2024 she took part in the MI-LAB (Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory) Advanced Program E residency -- a mokuhanga (water-based Japanese woodblock printing) residency held from late July to August 2024 in Echizen City, Fukui Prefecture, a region long central to Japanese handmade-paper (washi) production. She joined the program as one of its international participants, from the United States.
As a Hawaiian artist working in mokuhanga, Andrade connects to the longstanding relationship between Hawaiʻi and the Japanese woodblock tradition. On Hawaiʻi Island, that connection is embodied by Hiroki Morinoue -- who studied sumi painting and Japanese woodblock printmaking in Japan and was named a Living Treasure of Hawaiʻi -- and by the Donkey Mill Art Center in Holualoa, which he co-founded and where he has long taught traditional water-based woodblock techniques.
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- Contemporary Mokuhanga
Frequently Asked Questions
Ivy Haliimaile Andrade is a Native Hawaiian (Kānaka ʻōiwi) artist and a retired University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa professor whose practice draws on Hawaiian cultural traditions and fiber arts. In 2024 she took part in the MI-LAB (Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory) Advanced Program E residency -- a mokuhanga (water-based Japanese woodblock printing) residency held from late July to August 2024 in Echizen City, Fukui Prefecture, a region long central to Japanese handmade-paper (washi) production. She joined the program as one of its international participants, from the United States.
Ivy Haliimaile Andrade's work was shaped by the Contemporary Mokuhanga tradition in Japanese woodblock printmaking. Contemporary Mokuhanga: Contemporary mokuhanga (literally "wood-block print") encompasses artists working from approximately 1970 to the present who continue or reinvent traditional Japanese woodblock printing techniques.