SIAPO
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Volunteer museum curator Erika Radewagen and ASCC art professor Reggie Meredith Fitiao have been accepted into the 2022 University of Hawaii-East West Center Pacific Island Museum Institute Program funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Clara Reid, acting...
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — American Samoa Community College artist, Regina Meredith-Fitiao, has won a Founding President’s Award under the category “Individual Papers: Tradition”, for her paper titled “Making Siapo in Leone Today” during the 17th Biennial Symposia: HIDDEN STORIES/HUMAN LIVES —...
Meet three generations of siapo craftswomen in Palauli, Samoa: 48-year-old Faapito Lesatele, 79-year-old Faamuli Salu and 21-year-old Tamasailau Lemuelu. Tamasailau works alongside her two mentors, her mother and grandmother. The family paints siapo cloth with a sharpened pandanus fruit for a brush...
![Artist Regina Meredith-Fitiao (2nd from left) of ASCC, with her husband Su’a Uilisone Fitiao of Pacific Horizons School, giving a siapo workshop at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. The workshop was for the benefit of museum professionals responsible for the care of historic siapo in their collections. [courtesy photo]](https://www.samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/ASCC%20Meredith%20in%20Scotland.jpg?itok=582RWnNG "Artist Regina Meredith-Fitiao (2nd from left) of ASCC, with her husband Su’a Uilisone Fitiao of Pacific Horizons School, giving a siapo workshop at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. The workshop was for the benefit of museum professionals responsible for the care of historic siapo in their collections. [courtesy photo]")
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Situating Pacific Barkcloth in Time and Place is an ongoing, three-year interdisciplinary project currently underway at Scotland’s University of Glasgow. The project aims to find out more about the materials, history, uses and contemporary practice of making barkcloth,...