Subscribe to Blog via Email
Categories
Archives
Costume and textile organisations
Fashionable media
Museums, galleries and other spaces
Costume & Textile Association of NZ facebook page
Tags
A Common Thread art/fashion Auckland Museum AUT Buttons Call for papers City Gallery College of Creative Arts Massey University competitions CTANZ symposium Doris de Pont Dowse Art Museum Dunedin Public Art Gallery Dunedin School of Art embroidery Emerging Designers exhibition exhibitions fashion Fibre: Connecting People films Friends of Te Papa iD Dunedin Fashion Week jewellery John Gillow Jo Torr Massey University Massey University Wellington Masterworks Gallery Maureen Lander Nature Now New Zealand Fashion Museum Objectspace Otago Museum Otago Polytechnic quilts Suffrage 125 Te Papa The Dowse Art Museum Toitu Unbound: Liberating women Valerie Steele Victoria McIntosh Weaving Wedding dressFollow me on Twitter
My TweetsSocial
Category Archives: CTANZ people
Envisaging a symposium
Auckland’s back in business and looking forward to welcoming visitors from Hawkes Bay, Dunedin, Wellington, wherever, at the end of April for the 20-21 CTANZ symposium, Vision: Hindsight, Foresight, Insight, to run at AUT from 30 April to 2 May, … Continue reading
Posted in Artists, Auckland, Conference, CTANZ people, Museums, Symposium, Television
Tagged Giles Peterson, Maureen Lander, National Treasures, Te Papa
Leave a comment
More exhibitions
A postscript to last week’s exhibition posting: there’s more to visit in the lower North Island. At Masterton’s Aratoi, Wairarapa Museum of Art and History, Whakatau Miromiro showcases Terri Te Tau’s embroidery on linen. The work “was created in conversation … Continue reading
Posted in Artists, Craft, CTANZ people, Embroidery, Exhibitions, Taranaki, Textiles
Tagged From Out of the Blue, Masterton, Opunake, Stella Lange, Terri Te Tau
Leave a comment
Fashion forward
The New Zealand Fashion Museum turned 10 this year, a milestone that was submerged with all the others as we’ve grappled with the disruptions caused by the pandemic. With NZFM being an online exhibition space, it’s been able to continue … Continue reading
Posted in CTANZ people, Fashion, Museums, Uncategorized
Tagged Doris de Pont, New Zealand Fashion Museum
Leave a comment
Queen’s Birthday honours: congratulations to Maureen Lander
Wonderful to see leading fibre artist and longtime CTANZ member Dr Maureen Lander awarded MNZM in the Queen’s Birthday honours list. LANDER, Dr Maureen Robin For services to Māori art Dr Maureen Lander is a leading exponent of raranga … Continue reading
Crafting Aotearoa
Every couple of decades, someone takes stock of craft/object art in Aotearoa New Zealand. There was Doreen Blumhardt and Brian Brake’s Craft New Zealand in 1982 and Helen Schamroth’s 100 New Zealand Craft Artists in 1998, both of which won … Continue reading
Posted in Auckland, Books, Craft, CTANZ people, Embroidery, Jewellery, Maori, Pacific Islands, Textiles
Tagged Auckland Museum, Crafting Aotearoa, Damian Skinner, Karl Chitham, Kolokesa U Māhina-Tuai
Leave a comment
November update – textile stories on air and in print
Lots of recent coverage of textile events and people involved in CTANZ, including our members, our symposium speakers and attendees and subjects, offering up a rabbit warren of links. For starters, coming up on Choice TV this week (Monday 26 … Continue reading
Posted in Artists, Auckland, Awards, Craft, CTANZ people, Dunedin, Exhibitions, Festivals, Film, Jewellery, Media, Movies, Museums, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, Symposium, Textiles, Weaving, wool
Tagged Angela Lassig, Anna Williams, Auckland Arts Festival, Choice TV, Christine Keller, Creative New Zealand, Iran, Loom Room, Objectspace, Otago Museum, Pacific Sisters, Qashqai, RNZ, Rosanna Raymond, rugs, Sue McLean, Sulieti Fieme'a Burrows and Tui Emma Gillies, The Wool Lover
1 Comment
Symposium minus one week – what’s on in Dunedin, updated
With just a week to go before the symposium, some further information about all that’s going on, especially for our out of town guests. First: the service announcement. Dunedin has been trying this spring lark for size this week and … Continue reading
Posted in CTANZ people, Dunedin, Embroidery, Exhibitions, Heritage, Lectures & Talks, Local events, Museums, New Zealand Fashion Museum, Textiles, Weaving
Tagged Dunedin Arts Festival, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Emily Floge, est. 1868, Four, Loom Room, Megan Brady, Otago Museum, Space Suit, Suffrage 125, Suffrage and Beyond, Toitu
Leave a comment
Symposium announcements: the keynotes
The symposium committee is delighted to announce that this year’s symposium will feature two eminent national speakers as our keynotes. Nina Tonga is Curator Pacific Art at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. From the villages of Vaini … Continue reading
Ataahua Mahi – Beautiful Work
Fashion fans can see Simone Montgomery’s millinery on Display for Dunedin Fashion ID week. See her work on display from 30 April – 6th May in two venues: Mayer Shoes in Wall St Mall Dunedin – with thanks, Glen and Poppy Fashion … Continue reading