Friends' Speaker of the Month
Speaker of the Month takes place on the third Wednesday of the month in the Philip Carter Family Auditorium. Join us for tea or coffee first at 10am followed by the presentation at 10.30am. Friends: $2, Public: $5, Students with ID free.
Dr Karen Stevenson:
Arts of the Pacific
Wednesday 18 June 2008
Karen is interested in a variety of topics associated with the arts of the Pacific. Her writings and research have focused on the politics and institutionalisation of culture, art, and identity, the arts of the body - especially tattoo, and most recently on Contempory Pacific Art, particularly by "urban Polynesians " in New Zealand.
She is currently working on a number of projects including a book.
Darryn George: Recent Projects
16 July 2008
 Darryn George (Ngapuhi), was born in 1970, and completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) at Canterbury in 1993 and a Master of Fine Art (Painting) at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 1998. Since 1999, George has been Head of Department, Art at Christ’s College in Christchurch. Most recently he is known for Pulse currently painted on to the walls of the Sutton Gallery.
Darryn will give a slide presentation of recent projects. He will also give some background to the ideas that underpin his practice. Visit Darryn’s website.
Mara Miller: Chinese Gardens
Wednesday 20 August 2008
Mara Miller is visiting the University of Canterbury in August. She is a Professor at the University of Oregon lecturing in Japanese and East Asian Art History. She has a PhD in Philosophy: Gardens as Works of Art from Yale University. She has exhibited and lectured throughout the world and speaks Japanese, French, German (some Latin, Tamil and Pali)
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