Herb Kawainui Kane

Born in Minnesota, Kane was actually raised in Waipio and Hilo, Hawaii, and Wisconsin. His art and articles have appeared in locations such as the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and the National Park Service, as well as in books and major magazines, including National Geographic. He has designed postage stamps for the U.S. Postal Service and several Pacific island nations, including the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and French Polynesia. Kane is one of the founders of the Polynesian Voyaging Society, which engendered the historic Hokulea project. In 1984, Kane was elected a "Living Treasure of Hawaii". In the 1987 "Year of the Hawaiian Celebration", he was one of 16 selected as Po'okela (Champion). In 1998, he received the Bishop Museum's Charles Reed Bishop Medal. In 2002, he won the Hawaii Book Publishers Association Award for Excellence in Book Publishing.