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Kia ora koutou,
We hope you're having a lovely holiday and look forward to welcoming you to the Gallery throughout the kōanga spring term.
We’re excited to host Primary and Secondary kaiako professional learning development days with artists, Dame Robin White, Ebonie Fifita and Grace Mirams; art historian, fiction writer and maker, Dr Bronwyn Lloyd; and our Schools and Learning team. Read on for more!
We’ve exhibitions to inspire all ages, and will work to develop a programme to suit you – find out how our current exhibitions relate to different learning areas below.
Finally, we’re delighted to welcome Louise Matthews as our new Learning Events and Bookings Coordinator, and Kendra Stoner as Gallery Educator – Primary, while Aya Y Francis goes on maternity leave. Haere mai!
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Kaiako professional development days
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Primary School and Kura Kaiako
Wed 2 Nov | 9am–5pm
Dame Robin White and Ebonie Fifita will host a kōrero in Robin White: Te Whanaketanga | Something is Happening Here; artist Grace Mirams will teach a print-making workshop; and the Gallery Schools and Learning team will run a series of workshops to develop skills and confidence in using art-making practices in teaching across the learning areas. We will finish the day by visiting Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: Art and Life in Modern Mexico. Lunch and morning tea provided. Please register your interest by emailing your name, school or kura, and any dietary and/or access requirements.
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Secondary School and Kura Kaiako
Tue 8 Nov | 9am–5pm
Dame Robin White and Ebonie Fifita will host a kōrero at our secondary school kaiako; art historian, fiction writer and maker, Dr Bronwyn Lloyd will run a workshop; and the Gallery Schools and Learning team will run workshops on how to use art and its contexts as starting points when teaching fiction and non-fiction writing. We will finish the day by visiting Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: Art and Life in Modern Mexico. Lunch and morning tea provided. Please register your interest by emailing your name, school or kura, and any dietary and/or access requirements.
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Current educational programmes
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Early Childhood Education | Ages 2–5
Book our 90-minute, educator-led Mini Gallery Explorers programme and/or self-guide through the Gallery. Our Mini Gallery Explorers programme provides tamariki with opportunities to enjoy, engage with and creatively respond to art and architecture through lively kōrero, a scavenger hunt and creative activities.
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Primary Education | Years 0–6; NZC L1–4
Our two-hour, educator-led Gallery plus Taupuni Mahi Studio programmes enable Primary-aged tamariki to explore, engage with and respond to the Gallery’s exhibitions. Ngā ākonga’s intuitive responses to a range of artworks are starting points for deepening understanding and appreciation of creative processes and ideas, and for developing their own mahi toi, facilitated by our skilled educators.
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Secondary Education | Years 7–13; NZC L4–8
A range of educator-led Gallery and Taupuni Mahi Studio programmes invite student-led responses to artworks to deepen appreciation and understanding of art and its contexts and ideas. Exploring connections between style, media, processes, contexts, meanings and personal responses, ākonga will develop and practice critical and creative thinking, while enjoying new experiences and insights.
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Tertiary Education
We offer two educator-led Tertiary programmes, as well as the opportunity to work with you to design a bespoke programme in relation to the current exhibitions, supporting critical thinking and creative responses, while achieving learning objectives across a range of disciplines.
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Pat Hanly Creativity Awards
Together with the Pat Hanly team and Programme Director for Master of Design at AUT, Dr Sue Gallagher, we shared a wonderful evening celebrating 89 Secondary ākonga from across Tamaki Mākaurau on Thu 8 Sep. There were workshops, awards and goodie bags, speeches and lots of good kai in the beautiful Mackelvie Gallery. Kia ora whānau.
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Beyond the Walls
Beyond the Walls is an outreach programme focused on Declaration: A Pacific Feminist Agenda. Over six months, our educators, the curator Ane Tonga and artists worked with 50 ākonga from five kura to engage with and respond to the exhibition artworks and their contexts. A celebration event on Wed 28 Sep acknowledged the participants, their kaiako and whānau, and showcased the ākonga’s creative responses. Invitations to participate in Beyond the Walls 2023 will go out later this year.
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Australasian Modernist Studies Network Conference
Tue 13 Dec | 5.30–8pm
Held for the first time in Aotearoa, this conference will bring together creative artists, historians and art historians, Indigenous studies scholars and literary scholars to discuss the many, varied, clashing and complementary cultures of modernity.
Email to register your interest and to receive announcements.
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Learning resources
Borne of Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art, CORE Education and the Gallery have developed a range of teaching and learning resources in English and te reo Māori for Primary and Intermediate kaiako and ākonga working with contemporary Māori art and its contexts. These FREE downloadable resources are intended for Years 1–3 (NZCL 1–2) and Years 7 & 8 (NZCL 3–5).
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Artist videos
We have produced an exciting series of educational videos profiling artists Latai Taumoepeau, Yona Lee, Reuben Paterson, Ana Iti, Tyrone Ohia, Zena Elliott, Ayesha Green, Natalia Robertson, Hiria Anderson, Reweti Arapere and Maree Sheehan. Available soon will be video profiles of Fiona Connor, Ebonie Fifita and Dame Robin White. Watch this space!
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The Faces I Have Seen: Clay-making with Suji Park
Book in for a Schools programme on Fri 11 Nov and add on a FREE 30 minute clay-making workshop with Suji Park, whose exhibition, Suji Park: Meonji Soojibga | Dust Collector, is currently on the North Terrace. More info here.
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Ngā mihi maioha to our supporters
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Schools and Learning Team
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Isabel Haarhaus-Michell – Senior Manager & Gallery Educator
Louise Matthews – Learning Events & Bookings Coordinator
Mosese Uhila – Gallery Educator, Pacific Engagement
Aya Yamashita Francis – Gallery Educator, Primary Schools + ECE
Kendra Stoner – Gallery Educator, Primary Schools
Diane Halstead – Gallery Educator, Primary Schools & Tertiary
Luise Fong – Gallery Educator, Secondary Schools + Outreach
Ata Black – Gallery Kaiārahi
Waha Gibson-Melbourne – Gallery Kaiārahi
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Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, part of Tātaki Auckland Unlimited.
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Image credits: Robin White and Ebonie Fifita at Laka, Onehunga, March, 2022. Photographed by Paul Chapman, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. | Heavenly Beings: Icons of the Christian Orthodox Faith, installation view, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki 2022. | Jasmine Togo-Brisby Open City (In Suspension) 2022 (installation view). Commissioned by Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2022 |
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