Whangarei Art Museum - Latest News [Page 3]
WW1 Centenary Remembrance - Living Floral Carpets
Tuesday, 7 May 2013, 3:38 pm | Whangarei Art Museum
The Whangarei Art Museum is delighted to announce The Lottery World War One Commemorations Environment & Heritage Board have approved and application by the art museum to create five living floral commemorative carpets next year as part of official WW100 national ... More >>
2nd Annual Charity Whangarei Fashion Parade
Tuesday, 22 January 2013, 5:30 pm | Whangarei Art Museum
Following our very successful 2012 Charity Fashionista Runway Show – Project Promise-Project Runway – we are pleased to present the next Whangarei 2013 fashion-forward event: fashion extravaganza fundraising for Whangarei’s Women’s Refuge Houses: Tryphina ... More >>
Doris de Pont ONZM New Years Honour
Tuesday, 8 January 2013, 2:17 pm | Whangarei Art Museum
The art museum would like to congratulate Doris de Pont curator of the Whangarei Art Museum's current Summer exhibition HOME SEWN for her New Year's Honour. More >>
Legend! Myth and Allegory in Aotearoa - Exhibitions
Wednesday, 18 July 2012, 3:24 pm | Whangarei Art Museum
Norm Heke OMG’s: Maori Gods in the 21st Century. Digital photography by Norm Heke. More >>
Israel Tangaroa Birch & Ralph Hotere
Thursday, 5 April 2012, 12:58 pm | Whangarei Art Museum
Ara- i-te -uru Israel Tangaroa Birch – an installation project curated by Reuben Friend and toured by City Gallery Wellington. More >>
NOM*d floor talk by Dr Natalie Smith
Friday, 24 February 2012, 1:06 pm | Whangarei Art Museum
The Whangarei Art Museum is hosting a floor talk by Dr Natalie Smith one of the curators of NOM*d the art of Fashion which is currently on show here at WAM. More >>
artpractice! – opening at Parliament House
Thursday, 16 February 2012, 1:00 pm | Whangarei Art Museum
On Wednesday 4pm 8th February 2011 the Whangarei Art Museum exhibition of 8 Whangarei connected artists Artpractice! opened at Bowen House Gallery Parliament Buildings. More >>
FASHIONISTA! From SUBLIME TO street savvy
Friday, 20 January 2012, 4:01 pm | Whangarei Art Museum
FASHIONISTA! From SUBLIME TO street savvy Conceptual Couture - Art and Garment Design from the early 19th Century to the 21st Century - a suite of 3 exhibitions announce the New Year More >>
Drawn from Italy: Mantegna to Kauffmann Exhibition
Thursday, 3 November 2011, 3:48 pm | Whangarei Art Museum
The Whangarei Art Museum is very proud to present Drawn from Italy: Mantegna to Kauffmann This selection of drawings and prints from Te Papa's collection illustrates the influence of Italian ideas about art and artists that spread throughout Europe from the time ... More >>
Haere Mai The New Art Museum@THE HUB HUGE Success
Friday, 14 October 2011, 11:49 am | Whangarei Art Museum
From the 12th September to the 12th October 2011 just short of 5,000 people have visited the new art museum premises – more than an entire year’s audience at the old museum premises. More >>
Richard Parker: Master of Craft
Thursday, 25 August 2011, 2:05 pm | Whangarei Art Museum
Toured by Objectspace, Auckland 13 September – 30 November 2011 Official Rugby Exhibition Program 2011 at the NEW Whangarei Art Museum More >>
STANDS - Stephen Roucher - Photographic exhibition
Wednesday, 24 August 2011, 2:02 pm | Whangarei Art Museum
A photographic essay of provincial rugby stands across ‘heartland New Zealand’, 13 September – 30 November 2011. Rugby Exhibition Programs in the NEW Whangarei Art Museum -Te Manawa Toi @ THE HUB – Te Manawa Town Basin, Whangarei. More >>
Hard on the Heels, Capturing the All Blacks
Friday, 1 July 2011, 5:03 pm | Whangarei Art Museum
LEGENDARY PHOTOGRAPHER PETER BUSH AND A SELECTION OF HIS PEERLESS PHOTOGRAPHS OF ALL BLACK TEAMS OVER THE PAST 60 YEARS. More >>
The Franz and Maria Iseke Oceanic Arts Collection
Wednesday, 4 May 2011, 1:54 pm | Whangarei Art Museum
Collections for a public art museum are the ‘heart and soul’ of the institution and the cultural memory of their communities. The Whangarei Art Museum collection has grown enormously since it opened 15 years ago this month on 31st May 1996. More >>
Upcoming Exhibition at Whangarei Art Museum
Wednesday, 30 March 2011, 3:25 pm | Whangarei Art Museum
Much like Rita Angus, the celebrated artist Jo Hardy moved North just as the centre of gravity for creative culture was moving from Christchurch to Auckland and beyond in the 1950s and 1960s. Unlike Angus who sojourned only for a few months (in Mangonui), ... More >>
Look Forward to an Exciting New Year
Thursday, 23 December 2010, 2:06 pm | Whangarei Art Museum
- Look Forward to an Exciting New Year – - Art Museum to be re-sited to Town Basin More >>
Carols in the Park
Wednesday, 15 December 2010, 10:01 am | Whangarei Art Museum
The Harmony Chorus will sing Carols in the Rose Gardens Saturday 18th December @ 11am Sponsored by the Whangarei Art Museum as part of the Artisans Fair Christmas Market More >>
Credo and Quest: Religion & Spirituality in NZ Art
Friday, 22 October 2010, 5:04 pm | Whangarei Art Museum
Art and religion have been intertwined since the first glimmerings of human history but in New Zealand - somehow despite our Missionary colonialist connections, any major survey of the visual arts in this genre has been entirely minimal. More >>
INNOVATE NZ 2010 Award of Excellence Winner
Thursday, 12 August 2010, 5:49 pm | Whangarei Art Museum
The Whangarei Art Museum is delighted to congratulate Whangarei engineering company Richardson Stevens and Grant Stevens for success in the New Zealand Association of Consulting Engineers Awards announced 31 July in New Plymouth for their work on the ... More >>
Museum Marks 25th Anniversary Of Rainbow Warrior
Friday, 25 June 2010, 3:07 pm | Whangarei Art Museum
Opening guest speaker Bunny McDiarmid - Chief Executive Greenpeace NZ and a former Rainbow Warrior crewmember More >>