Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 30, Number 8, 1 ʻAukake 2013 — FLORIDA BOOK ARTIST WINS AWARD FOR ULUHAIMALAMA PROJECT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FLORIDA BOOK ARTIST WINS AWARD FOR ULUHAIMALAMA PROJECT

Native Hawaiian book artist Allison Leialoha Milham, inset, has received the Florida Artists Book Award for "Uluhaimalama: Legacies of Lili'uokalani," a project that uses the music of Queen Lili'uokalani as a portal to Hawaiian history. The centerpiece is a vinyl album featuring 1 1 compositions written by Queen Lili'uokalani and performed by Milham, a singer and multi-instrumentalist who teaches book art at Florida State University. The albums are housed in hand-crafted clamshell boxes, of recycled letterpress printed paper and original artwork, packaged with "action kits" meant to present Hawaiian history from a Native Hawaiian perspective and shed light on Hawai'i's ongoing struggle for self-determination. The kits include Queen Lili'uokalani's portrait on 1 2-inch stencils and 4-inch stickers, letterpress printed "Honest Tourist" postcards advertising Hawai'i's illegal occupation, paper lei-making kits of crown flowers printed with signatures from the Kū'ē Petitions and the booklet, "Uncovering Hawa'i's Past." You ean hear the entire album free online at www.soundcloud.com/allisonmilham. Milham plans to launeh a Kickstarter campaign this year to fund an Uluhaimalama CD release. Uluhaimalama boxed sets are available at www.greatbasinproductions.com. - Courtesy photos