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Their professional practice has evolved over time across fashion, theatre, installation and curatorial projects, as tentacular research on ancestral heritage textile plants for speculative ancient-futures in a changing world. Okada has deepened their research through several artist residencies nationally and internationally, including Haystack Mountain School of Craft, in Maine, USA, Banff Centre for the Arts, in Alberta, Canada, and Kawashima Textile School in Kyoto, Japan. Okada’s projects have been presented throughout Southern Ontario including Cambridge Arts Galleries, Art Gallery of Burlington, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre in Toronto, Craft Ontario, The Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington, and recently, with Theatre Replacement in Vancouver. They have received multiple grants, and awards including Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and Hamilton City Arts Award. They are seasonal volunteer at Backyard Harvest Urban Organic Farms in Hamilton, Ontario as a practice of continuous learning and community care. photo credit: George Qua-Enoo http://hitoko.ca/currentcollection daily 0.75 2025-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5310e2a6e4b04fb5b2d1ab0f/1395382558986-C25TYEHGJ8MNL5TEZFAC/image.jpg Hive Hive is a clothing collection and series of paper- based sculptures that employs a motif of the honeycomb cell, in repetition, to represent a divisive barrier as a social structure created by its workers; designed for inequity. In the struggle to navigate socialized and internalized barriers in employment, as it relates to issues of class, race, and gender, I seek a reimagining of work centered in empowerment, healing and emancipation beyond the dualities of valued and unvalued labour through entrepreneurial endeavours in craft. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5310e2a6e4b04fb5b2d1ab0f/1404580715030-DX0JXURQ3R2EKZC2Y33E/IMG_1008.JPG Hive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5310e2a6e4b04fb5b2d1ab0f/1404589567911-795TJ6UDBPFQT1KOKON9/IMG_4975.JPG Hive merino leather https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5310e2a6e4b04fb5b2d1ab0f/1404589105376-7NQBKWJWDE8BL75WD9IG/IMG_5531.JPG Hive Model: Eimildh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5310e2a6e4b04fb5b2d1ab0f/1393648261261-F1VT2V4QVG3JTKSD7H10/image.jpg Hive double knit jersey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5310e2a6e4b04fb5b2d1ab0f/1393824622448-H2I1QIZ9SJRH21P6NXQA/image.jpg Hive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5310e2a6e4b04fb5b2d1ab0f/1404589508385-YMR5A83I0CH3X1BKEQF9/IMG_4371.JPG Hive organic ramie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5310e2a6e4b04fb5b2d1ab0f/1404580602442-Y6G7HCN0BOBMGUBB5I6W/IMG_2389.JPG Hive http://hitoko.ca/art-works daily 0.75 2025-04-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5310e2a6e4b04fb5b2d1ab0f/1517980712500-CUSN31YC1DO7SD24BJWG/HitokoOkada.HarvestDetail.jpeg Fibre Art - Harvest detail (Copy) Harvest detail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5310e2a6e4b04fb5b2d1ab0f/1517981557519-MJ2RKMUKU5PHM8MHHK4Q/HarvestReducedSize.JPG Fibre Art - Harvest (Copy) Harvest 20 Minutes of Action exhibition curated by Sally Frater Centre[3] Gallery; 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Bling! is a series of clothing and textile necklaces of clustered screen printed gems. This series explores the capitalistic drive for representational objects of status and power that are often derived from exploit and colonial means, produced by geo- politically or social- economically disenfranchised sectors of the population. Bling! attempts to question how the role of the consumer is complicit in and perpetuates these economic relationships rooted in colonialism. This series has been featured on renowned design sites including Mocoloco, Design You Trust, TheMag and selected as one of Trendhunters top 65 statement necklaces. Bling! was initially launched in 2009, as a solo exhibition at Centre[3] in Hamilton, Canada, and has been exhibited in various art galleries throughout Toronto and Hamilton, Canada.     https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5310e2a6e4b04fb5b2d1ab0f/1395451779775-YAXZMUAXSELW68LDX1IM/image.jpg Bling! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5310e2a6e4b04fb5b2d1ab0f/1395450754588-T5U1XORVTLWR0FJ5E2NU/image.jpg Bling! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5310e2a6e4b04fb5b2d1ab0f/1395452300950-OBCKFAP1IS1O1UB95K2O/image.jpg Bling!