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Designer Jamie Okuma Native American
Not on view
ASSOCIATION 1. The state of having shared interests or efforts:
Luiseño artist and designer Jamie Okuma learned beadwork, quillwork, and other traditional handcrafts from her Luiseño, Shoshone-Bannock, Wailaki, and Okinawan communities. This sweater is one of many collaborations between Okuma and her mother, artist Sandra Okuma, whose paintings concentrate on “the beauty of traditional clothing and the dignity of the individuals who wear it.” Jamie Okuma hand cut and applied a digital print of Sandra Okuma’s 1997 painting “My Country ‘Tis of Thee” to the front of this design to signify the bond between Native American communities and the land.
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