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Lanipō creates healthy and sustainable relationships between ʻāina and kānaka through arts, culture, and education. We support ʻāina-based theories and practices that honor Kanaka Hawaiʻi ancestral knowledge, center cultural revitalization, and promote innovation rooted in tradition. We are committed to restoring pono to the people and places that we serve.

Lanipō is driven by the collective art practice of Nālamakūikapō Ahsing & Kamehanaokalā Taylor. We created Lanipō to celebrate and perpetuate Kanaka Hawaiʻi arts, to address social-environmental injustices in Hawaiʻi and to amplify creative, innovative, and community-rooted solutions. With healthy and abundant communities at its core, Lanipō envisions a self-sufficient Hawaiʻi empowered by a deep sense of aloha ʻāina, pono, ea, and kuleana.

Our family farm and art studio are based in Waimānalo, Oʻahu, at the base of Puʻu o Lanipō, the mountain for whom we are named. We cultivate ancestral foods including kalo, ʻuala, ʻulu, and many more. We are mahi ʻai and strive to amplify nature’s capacity for abundance. Artistically, we are papermakers, printmakers, and writers.

Lanipō is Kanaka Hawaiʻi owned and operated.

Our Mission

Meet our Team!

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Kamehanaokalā Taylor

Co-Founder, Artist

T. Kamehanaokalā Taylor is a Kānaka Hawaiʻi writer, artist, mahi ʻai, and voyager.

Born and raised in Waimānalo, Oʻahu, Kamehana received her B.A. in Hawaiian Language and Hawaiian Studies and M.A. in English from the University of Hawaiʻi. Her writing incorporates poetry, moʻolelo Hawaiʻi, and ʻike Hawaiʻi.

Kamehana has worked as a mahi ʻai at Hoʻokuaʻāina, Kauluakalana, and currently stewards her family farm in Waimānalo.

In her free time, Kamehana enjoys sailing, watercoloring, and surfing.

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Nālamakūikapō Ahsing

Co-Founder, Artist

J. D. Nālamakūikapō Ahsing is a Kānaka Hawaiʻi artist, mahi ʻai, and voyager.

Born and raised in Puʻuloa, ʻEwa, on the island of Oʻahu, Nālamakū serves as the ʻĀina Restoration Coordinator for Kauluakalana at Ulupō Heiau. Artistically, Nālamakū is a printmaker, carver, and papermaker.

He has exhibited artwork with the Hawaiʻi State Art Museum, Bishop Museum, Aupuni Space, University of Hawaiʻi, Puʻuhonua Society, Williams College Museum of Art and others.

He believes that the more we understand ʻāina as a kānaka, the more we can understand ourselves as kānaka.

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Close-up view of a light-colored roll of hau fibers (Hibiscus tilaceus), beautiful texture.
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Person mixing paper pulp in a white plastic container submerged in water, preparing a paper vat to pull handmade hau paper.
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