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Kea Tawana
Kea Tawana (born c.1935) is a Japanese-American artist known for creating the ''Ark'', a ship built from salvaged wood in a vacant lot in Newark, New Jersey’s Central Ward. The ''Ark'' was unfinished when it was condemned and dismantled in 1987. Tawana’s ''Ark'' is an example of visionary art and vernacular architecture.
Photographer Camilo José Vergara called Tawana “the only folk artist in the Eastern United States to have built a work comparable in scope and conception to the famous Watts Towers of Los Angeles.” Didi Barrett of the Museum of American Folk Art called Tawana and the Ark “compelling symbols of hope and human potential in a community that has suffered a troubled past.” Lynda Hartigan, former chief curator of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, called Tawana’s work “genuinely original, uncommercialized, and straight from the heart and mind...”
==Early life==
Kea Tawana was born circa 1935 in Japan, the second of three siblings. Her mother and sister died during World War II. Tawana and her brother moved with their father, an American, to the United States in 1947. Her father died in a displaced persons camp, leaving her homeless by age 12.〔 Tawana lived as an itinerant worker, finding acceptance primarily in the African American community. In 1953, Tawana freighthopped to Newark, New Jersey, where she found work in construction and theater lighting. She also worked in a shipyard in Brooklyn, New York.〔
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