New Zealand-based artist Tui Emma Gillies has taken up residence in Taiwan teaching the traditional art of Tongan tapa cloth. Gillies, who has had a number of art exhibitions - cornered around her and ...

Traditional bark cloth art is more than a craft according to the University of Canterbury Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies’ 2023 artist in residence. Auckland-based Tongan artist Tui Emma ...

Tui Emma Gillies (left front) and Sulieti Fieme’a Burrows (right front) with Tui's daughter Aroha (middle front) with Tongan Queen Nanasipau’u Tuku’aho, Crown Princess Sinaitakala Tuhu'aho and ...

OAKLAND, Calif. -- A group of women sitting on the floor appeared too old to remain there for long stretches of time. But they did, smearing tapioca fruit on what was once tree bark but is now a ...

The Rev. Amelia Sivi Finau, Long Beach City Councilwoman Tonia Reyes Uranga, and Vice Mayor Val Lerch, from left, unfurl a Tapa cloth presented to the city by the Kingdom of Tonga at the Long Beach ...