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Tag Archives: Otago Museum
The week in textile news
Breaking: huge congratulations to Claire Regnault for winning the Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction with Dressed (Te Papa Press). Claire’s award was announced on 11 May at the Ockham Book Awards. Very well-deserved. For a delicious review, … Continue reading
Posted in Auckland, Awards, Books, Christchurch, Classes, CTANZ people, Dunedin, Exhibitions, Fashion, History, knitting, Lectures & Talks, Local events, Textiles, Weaving, Whanganui
Tagged Bronwyn Lloyd, Claire Regnault, Dressed, McCahon House, Michele Beevors, Otago Museum, Rekindle, Sarjeant Art Gallery, Te Papa Press
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It’s in the making – Otago Museum
2021 was a great year for fabric culture at Otago Museum, what with the very successful Fashion FWD >> Disruption through Design exhibition on show over winter; for summer, the scale is both smaller and wider. Smaller in that the … Continue reading
Posted in Artists, CTANZ people, Dunedin, Exhibitions, International, Textiles, Weaving
Tagged Indonesia, Margery Blackman, Otago Museum, West Asia
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The annual Aotearoa summer dress and textile crawl, 2021-2022
It’s just about time for the annual post on what’s on around Aotearoa New Zealand in the CTANZ sphere of interest but it’s quite the season. This is just a starter: look forward to more detailed posts over the next … Continue reading
Posted in Auckland, Books, Christchurch, Collections, CTANZ people, Dowse Art Museum, Dunedin, Exhibitions, Fashion, Maori, Museums, Nelson, Textiles, Weaving, Wellington, Whanganui
Tagged Auckland Art Gallery, Broadgreen Historic House, Christchurch Art Gallery, Eden Hore, Feathermania, Margery Blackman, Mary Quant, Otago Museum, Otago Polytechnic, Rita Angus, Scope, Whanganui Regional Museum
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Armchair access
It’s a bit difficult to engage with the material world at the moment, but don’t despair, there are a few things you can check out online. Beginning with buttons: the treat that is the biennial button exhibition at Auckland’s Masterworks … Continue reading
Happy 2020
Welcome to another year. We hope you’ve all been able to enjoy relaxing time with family and friends, and members should have received their copies of the glorious summer issue of Context just before Christmas for their holiday reading. This … Continue reading
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
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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
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Spring in Dunedin, or what’s on in September as well as September’s Unbound symposium
With less than three months to the symposium now, plans are firming up nicely, as are registrations. Announcements on keynote speakers, the programme, and the exhibition are coming soon, but before you book your travel, you might like to know … Continue reading
Madelyn Shaw’s Dunedin talks
Visiting Smithsonian textiles curator Madelyn Shaw is having a busy time of her visit to New Zealand, and the Dunedin leg is no exception, with talks on Sunday at Otago Museum (Hutton Theatre, 2pm) and Monday at Otago Polytechnic. (You … Continue reading
Posted in Dunedin, Fashion, Lectures & Talks
Tagged Madelyn Shaw, Otago Museum, Smithsonian
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Exhibition: Current
Current, Otago Museum, 1877 Gallery, 18 March – 2 July 2017 To coincide with this year’s iD Fashion Week, the Otago Museum invited a group of emerging artists and designers to create new work based on the museum’s extensive textile … Continue reading
Posted in Artists, Craft, Dunedin, Exhibitions, History, Museums, Students
Tagged Current, Otago Museum, Otago Polytechnic
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