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Visual Arts Association
The Visual Arts Association, also referred to as the Visual Arts Society and VAA, formed in Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1952, for the encouragement and promotion of good design. Background A proposal for the establishment of a permanent national body called the Visual Arts Council, "to co-ordinate, direct and advise on all national visual art matters", had been submitted by the Auckland Society of Arts (ASA), to the Minister of Education, Ronald Algie, in 1950. "The Council should advise and make recommendations to the National Council for Adult Education and other bodies." ASA also urged that local societies be represented in regional councils. By 1954 discussion on the establishment of an Arts Council in New Zealand looked to combine some chief functions of such British organisations as the Arts Council of Great Britain, the Council of Industrial Design, and the Royal Fine Art Commission. The Visual Arts Association (VAA) formed in Dunedin in 1952, following several mee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Learned Society
A learned society (; also learned academy, scholarly society, or academic association) is an organization that exists to promote an academic discipline, profession, or a group of related disciplines such as the arts and science. Membership may be open to all, may require possession of some qualification, or may be an honour conferred by election. Most learned societies are non-profit organizations, and many are professional associations. Their activities typically include holding regular conferences for the presentation and discussion of new research results and publishing or sponsoring academic journals in their discipline. Some also act as professional bodies, regulating the activities of their members in the public interest or the collective interest of the membership. History Some of the oldest learned societies are the Académie des Jeux floraux (founded 1323), the Sodalitas Litterarum Vistulana (founded 1488), the Accademia della Crusca (founded 1583), the Accadem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Len Castle
Leonard Ramsay Castle (23 December 1924 – 29 September 2011) was a New Zealand potter. Early life and family Born in Auckland on 23 December 1924, Castle was educated at Mount Albert Grammar School. He went on to study at Auckland University College, graduating Bachelor of Science in 1947, and trained as a secondary school teacher at Auckland Teachers' Training College. After a period as a science teacher at Mount Albert Grammar School, he took a lecturing position at Auckland Teachers' College. In 1959, Castle married Ruth Main. The couple had one child, but later divorced. Pottery Castle's first experience of pottery was as a 10-year-old, seeing Olive Jones demonstrating at the Auckland Easter Show. Castle began making his first pottery in 1947 and took night classes with Robert Nettleton Field at Avondale College, Auckland. In 1956, he moved to St Ives, Cornwall for a year to work with Bernard Leach and became a full-time potter in 1963. The same year he helped est ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Learned Societies Of New Zealand
Learning is the process of acquiring new understanding, knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, attitudes, and preferences. The ability to learn is possessed by humans, animals, and some machines; there is also evidence for some kind of learning in certain plants. Some learning is immediate, induced by a single event (e.g. being burned by a hot stove), but much skill and knowledge accumulate from repeated experiences. The changes induced by learning often last a lifetime, and it is hard to distinguish learned material that seems to be "lost" from that which cannot be retrieved. Human learning starts at birth (it might even start before in terms of an embryo's need for both interaction with, and freedom within its environment within the womb.) and continues until death as a consequence of ongoing interactions between people and their environment. The nature and processes involved in learning are studied in many established fields (including educational psychology, neu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Design
New Zealand design is a product both of indigenous Māori culture and of European ( pakeha) traditions and practices. The concept of design applies to Māori kaupapa (fundamental principles) as well as to other cultural spheres. Māori design Māori concepts of design involve an active relationship between traditional and contemporary practices. Pre-European Māori had no written language so tribal history and beliefs were kept in the form of objects ranging from woven baskets to complex carvings in wood, bone, shell and greenstone. These objects or 'taonga' were passed down through generations of tribal elders, taking on the spirits of past owners. Therefore, Māori culture incorporates strong links between objects and spirituality. Early colonial New Zealand design New Zealand was explored and colonised by Great Britain, European settlement beginning in the late 18th century with the arrival of sealing and whaling crews. The construction of a schooner was started at Lunch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Design Institutions
A design is a plan or specification for the construction of an object or system or for the implementation of an activity or process or the result of that plan or specification in the form of a prototype, product, or process. The verb ''to design'' expresses the process of developing a design. In some cases, the direct construction of an object without an explicit prior plan (such as in craftwork, some engineering, coding, and graphic design) may also be considered to be a design activity. The design usually has to satisfy certain goals and constraints; may take into account aesthetic, functional, economic, or socio-political considerations; and is expected to interact with a certain environment. Typical examples of designs include architectural and engineering drawings, circuit diagrams, sewing patterns and less tangible artefacts such as business process models. Designing People who produce designs are called '' designers''. The term 'designer' generally refers to someone who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Blackman
Gary may refer to: * Gary (given name), a common masculine given name, including a list of people and fictional characters with the name * Gary, Indiana, the largest city named Gary Places ;Iran * Gary, Iran, Sistan and Baluchestan Province ;United States * Gary (Tampa), Florida *Gary, Maryland * Gary, Minnesota * Gary, South Dakota * Gary, West Virginia *Gary – New Duluth, a neighborhood in Duluth, Minnesota * Gary Air Force Base, San Marcos, Texas *Gary City, Texas Ships * USS ''Gary'' (DE-61), a destroyer escort launched in 1943 * USS ''Gary'' (CL-147), scheduled to be a light cruiser, but canceled prior to construction in 1945 * USS ''Gary'' (FFG-51), a frigate, commissioned in 1984 * USS ''Thomas J. Gary'' (DE-326), a destroyer escort commissioned in 1943 People and fictional characters *Gary (surname), including a list of people with the name * Gary (rapper), South Korean rapper and entertainer *Gary (Argentine singer) Edgar Efraín Fuentes, better known as Gary ( Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Mathie Dunningham
Margaret is a female first name, derived via French () and Latin () from grc, μαργαρίτης () meaning " pearl". The Greek is borrowed from Persian. Margaret has been an English name since the 11th century, and remained popular throughout the Middle Ages. It became less popular between the 16th century and 18th century, but became more common again after this period, becoming the second-most popular female name in the United States in 1903. Since this time, it has become less common, but was still the ninth-most common name for women of all ages in the United States as of the 1990 census. Margaret has many diminutive forms in many different languages, including Maggie, Madge, Daisy, Margarete, Marge, Margo, Margie, Marjorie, Meg, Megan, Rita, Greta, Gretchen, and Peggy. Name variants Full name * ( Irish) * ( Irish) * ( Dutch), ( German), (Swedish) * ( English) Diminutives * ( English) * ( English) First half * (French) * (Welsh) Second half * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Brasch
Charles Orwell Brasch (27 July 1909 – 20 May 1973) was a New Zealand poet, literary editor and arts patron. He was the founding editor of the literary journal ''Landfall'', and through his 20 years of editing the journal, had a significant impact on the development of a literary and artistic culture in New Zealand. His poetry continues to be published in anthologies today, and he provided substantial philanthropic support to the arts in New Zealand, including by establishing the Robert Burns Fellowship, the Frances Hodgkins Fellowship and the Mozart Fellowship at the University of Otago, by providing financial support to New Zealand writers and artists during his lifetime, and by bequeathing his extensive collection of books and artwork in his will to the Hocken Collections, Hocken Library and the University of Otago. Early life and education Brasch was born in Dunedin in 1910. He was the first and only son of Helene Fels, a member of the prominent Bendix Hallenstein, Halle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Esplin
Tom or TOM may refer to: * Tom (given name), a diminutive of Thomas or Tomás or an independent Aramaic given name (and a list of people with the name) Characters * Tom Anderson, a character in ''Beavis and Butt-Head'' * Tom Beck, a character in the 1998 American science-fiction disaster movie '' Deep Impact'' * Tom Buchanan, the main antagonist from the 1925 novel ''The Great Gatsby'' * Tom Cat, a character from the ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoons * Tom Lucitor, a character from the American animated series '' Star vs. the Forces of Evil'' * Tom Natsworthy, from the science fantasy novel '' Mortal Engines'' * Tom Nook, a character in ''Animal Crossing'' video game series * Tom Servo, a robot character from the ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' television series * Tom Sloane, a non-adult character from the animated sitcom '' Daria'' * Talking Tom, the protagonist from the ''Talking Tom & Friends'' franchise * Tom, a character from the '' Deltora Quest'' books by Emily Rodda * Tom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Stichbury (potter)
Peter Stichbury (10 March 1924 – 24 March 2015) was a studio potter from Auckland, New Zealand. Biography Stichbury was born in 1924. In 1957, he was the first recipient of a fellowship from the Association of New Zealand Art Societies, which is now Creative New Zealand, and went with his wife Diane to St Ives, Cornwall, England to study with Bernard Leach. From there, he went to Africa and was Michael Cardew’s first western student in Abuja in Nigeria. These overseas periods were a source of inspiration for his work. Stichbury set up the pottery department at Ardmore Teachers College. His pottery was given to Queen Elizabeth II during her 1974 royal tour to New Zealand. While Stichbury is mostly known for his pottery he also built musical string instruments (cellos, violas) in his later years. The work of Stichbury was honoured by exhibitions at the Auckland Museum in 2004 and the New Zealand National Museum Te Papa in 2011/12. In the 2002 Queen's Birthday and Gold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Charlotte Perrin
Patricia Charlotte Perrin (11 July 1921 – 12 November 1988) was a New Zealand potter. She was born in Auckland, New Zealand on 11 July 1921 and died at Auckland Hospital on 12 November 1988. Perrin began to learn pottery by taking night classes at Avondale College, and was taught by Robert Field. Within three years Perrin was herself teaching at Avondale College. Her works are held in the collection of the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki and the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Perrin exhibited with: * Auckland Society of Arts * New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts * The Group in 1951 Further information Artist files for Patricia Perrin are held at: * Robert and Barbara Stewart Library and Archives, Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu * Fine Arts Library, University of Auckland * Hocken Collections Uare Taoka o Hākena * Te Aka Matua Research Library, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Also see: * Peter Cape, ''Artists and Craftsmen in New Zealand'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Mason (potter)
Helen Wilmot Mason (née Valentine; 30 April 1915 – 22 August 2014) was a New Zealand potter as well as the co-founder and editor of the '' New Zealand Potter'' magazine for which she also wrote. She was appointed to the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to pottery, in 2005. Biography Born in Darfield in 1915, Mason grew up in Wellington. In 1938 her engagement to Malcolm John Mason was announced, and the couple married the following year. Mason took up pottery in 1953, attending classes and buying a diesel kiln from her husband's aunt, Elizabeth Matheson. Over the next few years she met and worked with other New Zealand artists including potters Olive Jones, Barry Brickell, Len Castle and Doreen Blumhardt, and painter Colin McCahon, and by 1957 had exhibited and sold her first pot. In 1958, she and Blumhardt co-founded '' New Zealand Potter'' magazine, which Mason edited for nine years. The same year she was commissioned to produce the crockery for Wellington's first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
