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Wairarapa Museum of Art and History
What's On
Windows Gallery
Coming this week ...
Mirek Smisek - 60 Years, 60 Pots
Opens Saturday 4 September through 24 October
Born in Czechoslovakia in 1925, Mirek Smíšek (OBE) has forged a career as a remarkable New Zealand artist since arriving here in 1951. Smisek has built three studio potteries on the Kapiti Coast over the past 41 years, and Mahara Gallery, as Kapiti’s District Gallery, has produced the first full survey exhibition to honour his life-times’ work. Cultural commentator Hamish Keith has described the project as ‘a genuine revelation of Smisek’s achievement’.
Curator Gary Freemantle has selected 60 pots spanning 60 years of Smíšek’s work from private and public collections around New Zealand. They represent Smíšek’s main forms of vases, bowls, crocks, jugs and Yunomi (Japanese tea-bowls) and the variations in glaze, shape and decoration as his work matured.
Entrance Gallery
Sybille Eimermacher
Wesley Wing
WaiArt Awards Exhibition
The annual, judged exhibition open to artists nationwide,
run by Wai Art Carterton.
Saturday 14 August - 26 September
Main Gallery
From The Living Room
23 July until 10 October
An exhibition arranged by the Friends of Aratoi featuring work from private collections in the region.
Main Gallery James Bragge's Wairarapa
1876 - 1878
Photographic Exhibition
24 July until 10 October
Historic photographs of the Wairarapa from the Aratoi Collection
Term 3 School Holiday Programme
Tutor: Tina-Rae Carter
For children 6 – 12 Tues-Wed -Thurs 2 – 4pm $8 per session
Week I & II 28 – 30 September & 5 – 7 October
Simple animation: create a flip book inspired by works from In the Living Room from Wairarapa private collections
Book through Aratoi – spaces limited
Wairarapa Whakaputa Mohio - Settling the Land
Aratoi's permanent history exhibit opened to the public on 7 July, 2007. The exhibit spans the 800 year history of the Wairarapa, telling its story with objects, images and video.
Foyer
Jewellery by Local Artists
Kiwi Keepsakes by Sara Sarich
"Kiwi Keepsakes"
Jewellery by Deborah Walsh
Deborah Walsh
Jewellery by Agnes Coy
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General
Information
Find us at
Cnr Bruce and Dixon St,
P.O.Box 648,
Masterton.
Email:
info@aratoi.co.nz
ph: 0064 6 370 0001
fax: 0064 6 370 0003
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Hours: Open 7 days 10am - 4.30pm
Closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day,
New Years Day and Good Friday.
Museum entrance situated on Bruce Street
opposite the New World Supermarket.
Admission
by gold coin donation.
Some touring shows may attract
an entrance charge.
These
will be advertised on this website.
You can also find us using the Google map below.
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Aratoi's permanent history exhibit opened to the public on 7 July, 2007. The exhibit spans the 800 year history of the Wairarapa, telling its story with objects, images and video.
Main Gallery
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Contact details for exhibitions and venue hire as above.
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