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Ray Thorburn (educator And Artist)
Raymond Wallace Thorburn (19 September 1937 – 16 March 2023) was a New Zealand artist, art educator and museum director. Life and education Thorburn was born at Wellington Hospital, New Zealand, Wellington Hospital in Wellington on 19 September 1937. He attended Wellington High School, New Zealand, Wellington High School from 1951 to 1954. From 1955 to 1959 he completed a diploma of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland and a diploma from the Auckland Secondary Teachers College. By 1967 he was a lecturer in art at the Palmerston North Teachers Training College. Thorburn completed an MA (1975) and PhD (1981) in the United States at Ohio State University and went on to make teacher training and art education the focus of his professional life. His roles included: Art Education Officer in the Department of Education, Director of Art Education for the Curriculum Development Division of the Department of Education where he created teaching programmes for tertiary institutio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wellington
Wellington is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the third-largest city in New Zealand (second largest in the North Island), and is the administrative centre of the Wellington Region. It is the world's southernmost capital of a sovereign state. Wellington features a temperate maritime climate, and is the world's windiest city by average wind speed. Māori oral tradition tells that Kupe discovered and explored the region in about the 10th century. The area was initially settled by Māori iwi such as Rangitāne and Muaūpoko. The disruptions of the Musket Wars led to them being overwhelmed by northern iwi such as Te Āti Awa by the early 19th century. Wellington's current form was originally designed by Captain William Mein Smith, the first Surveyor General for Edward Wakefield's New Zealand Company, in 1840. Smith's plan included a series of inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
