Toi Māori Aotearoa
Established in 1996 as a Charitable Trust, we care for the interests of Māori art and artists. Want to know what’s going on in Te Ao Toi Māori? Stick with us!
Toi Māori was established as a charitable trust in 1996 with the board comprising Hirini Moko Mead (Chairman), Trevor Maxwell (Deputy Chair), Emily Schuster, Timoti Karetu, Derek Fox, Waana Davis and Dame Georgina Kirby. Its focus was on artists, their collectives and advocacy aimed at increased government resourcing for Māori arts. Artists were encouraged to promote the arts within their iwi netw
23/09/2024
🎉 Congratulations to Georgia Pani Nicholls who has completed the MAI Programme with Nelson Arts Festival! Georgia will continue working with the festival as their Programme Assistant 🙌
⚡️ As part of her internship, Georgia has curated an electrifying upcoming club event ‘WERO’ for the 2024 Nelson Arts Festival which honors and celebrates the vibrant contributions of BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ communities within Aotearoa’s electronic music scene. For tickets and more about the festival programme, visit: https://nelsonartsfestival.nz/event/wero-challenge/
Massive mahi Georgia! And thank you to Nelson Arts Festival for providing Georgia with the opportunity to grow as an artist, programme coordinator, and event curator. 💙
23/09/2024
🎉 Congratulations to Keporah Torrance who has completed the MAI Programme with Aronui Arts Festival as the Festival Coordinator!
Keporah helped to facilitate Aronui’s Matariki Drone Light Show earlier this year in June 2024, and supported the coordination of last week’s incredible Aronui Indigenous Arts Festival 🔥
We are in awe of Keporah’s diligence, work ethic and kind-hearted nature, and we wish her all the best for her future endeavours! And a huge and special mihi to Cian Elyse White (Founding Festival Director) and the team at Aronui Arts Festival for your expertise and all-round support throughout the MAI Programme. 💜
23/09/2024
PRE-ORDERS OPEN FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLY!
https://maoriart.org.nz/product/ringa-toi-2024-t-shirt/
The annual NZQA Ringa Toi Student Exhibition is now on at Te Papa, and showcases the arts excellency of secondary school students across the motu, with a focus on Toi Māori and Pacific Arts.
Pre-orders are now open for the 2024 Ringa Toi T-shirts which acknowledge the 45 schools that were represented in the exhibition this year, and also acknowledge the 40-year anniversary of Te Māori which opened at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, Sep 1984.
PRE-ORDER YOUR T-SHIRTS NOW:
https://maoriart.org.nz/product/ringa-toi-2024-t-shirt/
❗️ Pre-orders close Fri 11 Oct 2024
❗️ Orders are only available through our store and the webpage in our caption/bio
Image background: Exhibitors of the 2024 Ringa Toi Exhibition at Te Papa, courtesy of the NZQA. Photographer: Adrian Heke.
23/09/2024
Since 2016, Toi Māori Aotearoa has proudly supported the NZQA Ringa Toi Student Exhibition which celebrates and showcases the arts excellency of secondary school students across the motu, with a focus on Toi Māori.
Visit the exhibition at Te Papa, open until Fri 27 Sep 2024 and check out the catalogue and this years' winners online: https://www2.nzqa.govt.nz/about-us/ringa-toi/
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Image: Patrick Lemeki of Rosmini College (centre-right, back) and whānau support: Pacific Art Excellence – Te Moana nui a Kiwa Measina Award Winner, with Graham Hoete aka Mr G Hoete Art (toi Māori categories judge, second from right), Tamahou Temara (Tumu Whakarae o Toi Māori, second from left), and Creative New Zealand Pacific Arts team (l-r) Ali Foa’i (Manager Pacific Arts, Cultivation), Makerita Urale (Senior Manager, Pacific Arts), Erolia Ifopo (Mana Pasifika Navigator), Kawika Aipa (Manager Pacific Arts, Enterprise)
20/09/2024
Looking for your next ‘good-read’? 📖
Our Toi Māori Store is proud to offer rare, hard-to-find publications on Māori subjects.
Authors and editors that will resonate with readers include Te Wharehuia Milroy, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, Hone Tuwhare and Pou Temara.
Our publications have been selling fast! Shop online today so you don’t miss out: https://maoriart.org.nz/toi-maori-store/toi-maori-store-publications/
19/09/2024
TOI MĀORI STORE ONLINE 🌏
Our Toi Māori Store offers a wide range of high-quality artworks, tāonga and rare publications by Māori artists who are part of the national network of Toi Māori Aotearoa.
From weavers and carvers to uku artists and more, learn about our Featured Artists online now and shop our collections today! ✨ https://maoriart.org.nz/toi-maori-store/
“[Te Māori] made a really strong statement. It said ‘we are the tangata whenua o Aotearoa, these are our taonga, these are our tipuna.. we are connected to them and they are very much living and alive.”
"We were not that visible.. They didn't hear our voices.."
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10/09/2024
Te Māori Oho | Te Māori Ora | Te Māori Tū!
Te Māori Tū | Waiwhetu Marae
Over the next two days Te Māori Tū will commemorate 40 years since the opening of Te Māori: Māori Art from New Zealand Collections at the Metrapolitan Museum of New York.
This landmark exhibition of tāonga Māori toured art galleries and museums in the United States in 1984-85 (St Louis, Chicago, San Francisco and Hawaii), eventually returning to Aotearoa as ‘Te Māori: Te Hokinga Mai’ in 1986-87’
Te Māori Tū | Te Māori Oho | Te Māori Ora
10/09/2024
RĀ TUARUA O TE MĀORI TŪ 2024 🌟
Watch today's livestream at the Āti Awa Toa FM page 🙌
09/09/2024
RĀ TUATAHI O TE MĀORI TŪ 🌟
Watch today's livestream online at the Āti Awa Toa FM page 🙌
09/09/2024
“At dawn on the 10th day of September 1984 an exhibition of Māori art was ritually and officially opened in New York. Time magazine described it as ‘the most unusual opening in the 114-year history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.’
Journalists were forced to search hard for suitable adjectives to describe the exhibition.
The ceremony was indeed moving for all who participated in it. Most, if not all, of the people present at the dawn ceremony felt enriched and somehow ennobled by being part of it.
People at home wept too. They also felt ennobled by what they saw on television.”
- Distinguished Professor Sir Hirini Moko Mead on the opening of Te Māori, 1984.
Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision care for the significant collection of audio-visual media coverage of Te Māori produced for radio and television in Aotearoa.
On 10 September 2024, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision will launch their online curated collection to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the grand opening of Te Māori at The Metropolitan Museum (New York, 1984).
09/09/2024
Te Māori created space for ground-breaking Māori development initiatives at home, which is known as the Tū Tangata movement.
Seeking to shift government spending from Māori welfare to Māori development, Tū Tangata gave rise to Te Kōhanga Reo, Kōkiri centres and Mātua Whangai, and provided the foundations for Māori to stand tall in support of Te Māori.
The mastermind of the Tū Tangata movement was Dr Ihakara Puketapu, who simultaneously held the role of Secretary of Māori Affairs and Chairman of the Te Māori Management Committee from 1981-1983.
✨ In 2020, Te Māori Manaaki Taonga Trust with the assistance of Toi Māori Aotearoa and Creative New Zealand, honoured the visionary leadership of Kara Puketapu with the Te Māori Award comprising the wahaika, Te Rewanga, by Rangi Kipa.
08/09/2024
On September 10, 1984, history was made at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA, with the grand opening of 'Te Māori'.
This landmark exhibition of tāonga Māori toured art galleries and museums in the United States in 1984-85 (St Louis, Chicago, San Francisco and Hawaii), eventually returning to Aotearoa as 'Te Māori Te Hokinga Mai' in 1986-87.
More than just an exhibition, 'Te Māori' was a ground-breaking phenomenon engineered to position Māori art and culture among the great traditions of the world, and has been credited by many as inspiring their careers in Māori art, culture and heritage.
“Te Māori was the occasion when a very important thing happened.. that was the first time we stood up and talked for ourselves ... It was a seismic shift for that to have happened to all of us.”
At the 2023 Whakairo National Hui, Te Māori Manaaki Taonga Trust, with the support of Toi Māori Aotearoa and Te Rūnanga Whakairo, were proud to present the Te Māori Award to Distinguished Professor Sir Hirini Moko Mead.
This award acknowledged the impact of Mead’s scholarship as curator of Te Māori, which gave Māori art the status of one of the world’s great art traditions, shifted the perception of Māori art and culture in Aotearoa, and made a landmark contribution to Māori art history.
As Professor Sir Pou Temara emphasized to the attendees: “sitting before you is history.”
07/09/2024
We are proud and honoured to support Carla Ruka (Ngā Puhi, Ngāti Whātua, Ngā Kiriporouri), leading uku artist and curator of the beautiful new exhibition 'Hineukurangi', which opened last night at The Suter Art Gallery in Whakatū.
The exhibition brings together 22 Māori clay artists - including members of the pioneering clay collective, Ngā Kaihanga Uku - to celebrate and uplift the realm of the deity of clay, Hine-uku-rangi.
"He kōmiringa uku, he kōmiringa tangata."
"Like clay, the heart, mind, soul and spirit of the people may be moulded."
E poho kererū ana mātau i ā koe Carla, te ringarehe uku, ringapoke uku, nāu nei a Hine-Uku-Rangi i whakatinanahia, i whakarauora, i whakaputa ki te ao mārama.
📅 7 Sep - 8 Dec 2024
📍 The Suter Art Gallery
208 Bridge St, Whakatū | Nelson
⏰ Open Mon-Sun, 9:30am-4:30pm
https://thesuter.org.nz/
05/09/2024
Toi Māori Aotearoa is proud to support the operations of Te Māori Manaaki Taonga Trust. Our partnership respects the mastermind of Distinguished Professor Sir Hirini Moko Mead, curator of Te Māori and founding chair of both Te Māori Mānaaki Taonga Trust (1994) and Toi Māori Aotearoa (1996).
"Let the spirit of Te Māori prevail..."
- Distinguished Professor Sir Hirini Moko Mead
30/08/2024
Hei te arikinui e Kīngi Tūheitia.
Ko koe tēnei kua hinga ki roto i te riu o Waikato! Kua pākarukaru te haumi o tō waka! Kua tukituki ngā wai tuku kiri o tō awa tapu e kīa nei, he piko, he taniwha, he piko, ko Tūheita!
Tangi hotuhotou ana a Aotearoa mōhau kua riro nei. Kua tātaia koe ki te kāhui o Matariki e pīataata mai nā i te atahāpara. Nō reira hei te arikinui, takoto mai ki runga i te ahurewa tapu o wō mātua tīpuna, ki te moenga te rea, te moenga te au, ki te moenga te whakaarahia! E tatari mai nā te hunga pōkaikura mōhau, ki runga o Taupiri! Nō reira tau ārai o te pō, tītoko ki te ao mārama! Ko koe tēnei ka hoea ki te taiahiahi, ki te tira mātaipō, waiho ake mātau te tira mātaiao, ki te whai i te tai awatea!
Ngā maioha atu me ngā aroha tino nui, mai i a mātau, ngā ringa rehe toi o Toi Māori Aotearoa. ❤️
27/08/2024
Hapi has instilled his mauri within every tāonga he creates, giving each creation mana of its own.
To purchase and to see more of Hapi’s tāonga like the 'Ūpoko Collection', check out our website or visit the Awhi Awhi Mai exhibition in the Toi Māori Gallery 🙌
📍 Toi Māori Gallery: Level 4 of 'Change House'
150 Featherston Street, Wellington CBD
⏰ Open weekdays, 10am-4pm
Exhibition website: https://maoriart.org.nz/awhi-awhi-mai/
21/08/2024
“What we have in this exhibition is everything that I’ve made out of uku. It comes from out of my dreams and it comes from my heart, and I just make it.”
Hapi Matika (Tainui), the solo exhibiting artist of ‘Awhi Awhi Mai’ extends an invite to everyone to “come and see some love” through his mahi toi, now exhibiting in the Toi Māori Gallery. 🙌
📍 Toi Māori Gallery: Level 4 of 'Change House'
150 Featherston Street, Wellington CBD
⏰ Open weekdays, 10am-4pm
Exhibition closes Fri 4 Oct 2024
Exhibition webpage: https://maoriart.org.nz/awhi-awhi-mai/
20/08/2024
"Ultimately, it is wrong that for us to embody our customary practices, we’re seen as breaking the law."
In the latest episode of The Hui, Ngahina Hohaia, Sian Montgomery-Neutze and Pena Makoare discuss the ongoing challenges posed by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) to the cultural practices and exchange of taonga tohorā – watch now 👇
Precious taonga made from whale material blocked from the world stage I The Hui 2024 The Māori customary practice of creating adornments from whale bone and other whale material is being revived, however the harvest of beached whales that hav...
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Who is Toi Māori?
Toi Māori was established as a charitable trust in 1996 with the board comprising Hirini Moko Mead (Chairman), Trevor Maxwell (Deputy Chair), Emily Schuster, Timoti Karetu, Derek Fox, Waana Davis and Dame Georgina Kirby. Its focus was on artists, their collectives and advocacy aimed at increased government resourcing for Māori arts. Artists were encouraged to promote the arts within their iwi networks to ensure Māori art retained affinity with the culture from which it was nourished.
In its beginnings there were 8 foundation national art form committees; Te Atinga (Mixed Media Art), He Awhi Tikanga, Te Ha (Writers), Te Hunga Taunaki Kaituhi Maori, Puatatangi (Music), Te Ope O Rehua (Performing Arts), Nga Waka Federation (Waka), Te Roopu Raranga Whatu o Aotearoa (Weavers). In 2000 Te Uhi A Mataora (Tā Moko) and Runanga Whakairo (Carving) were added.
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