Art -- Study and teaching -- New Zealand

Scope and Contents The collection contains letters from Ida Eise, an Auckland painter who taught at Elam School of Art and was a prominent member of the Auckland Society of Arts along with fellow artist Dorothy Morton. Eise was strongly influenced by the ideas of John Weeks (1888-1965), painter and art teacher, much of whose work was destroyed in a fire at Elam School of Art in 1949. The collection includes a letter from John Weeks to Dorothy Morton, referring to the fire and including a photograph, with...

Scope and Contents The collection consists of papers and published works relating to Jonathan Mane-Wheoki's teaching and curatorial activities, and is divided into two main series: ‘Teaching material and subject files’ and ‘Festivals and events’. Teaching notes feature largely in the first series; the thematic files being created and added to throughout his career. Personal subject files are also included and cover a range of interests and activities such as New Zealand and Oceania art and film,...

Content Description

A selection of fine printing from Robin Lush's personal collection of work produced on the Elam letter-presses.

All items were originally provided for a reunion display to mark the 125th anniversary of Elam School of Fine Art organised by alumni from the 1960s and 1970s.

Scope and Contents

The collection contains symposium planning and administrative material; speeches, personal notes, and resolutions from the symposium; and post-symposium material including action group minutes, correspondence, and a report by Valerie Richards for Agmanz journal.

Scope and Contents

The collection consists of 28 60-minute cassette tapes capturing most of the sessions presented over the course of the weekend.

The tapes include: the pōwhiri and speeches at the Waititi Marae, and at the University of Auckland venue; formal keynote speeches; commentators’ responses; open forums; and the reports on open group sessions. The open group sessions themselves were not recorded.

Keynote speeches include: Paki Harrison