Toi Maori: The Eternal Thread tours to the USA
The first major international touring exhibition to celebrate the changing art of Maori weaving.
Toi Maori: The Eternal Thread
The first major international touring exhibition to celebrate the changing art of Maori weaving.
Toi Maori: The Eternal Thread - Te Aho Mutunga Kore is a showcase of the very best in traditional and contemporary Maori weaving from Aotearoa New Zealand. This landmark exhibition premiered in Wellington at the NZ International Arts Festival in February 2004 before touring to the Rotorua Museum of Art and History, Rotorua and to the Auckland War Memorial Museum, Auckland.
During 2005 , 2006, the exhibition will tour to venues in the USA. Maori weavers will accompany the exhibition to give talks and demonstrations of weaving at each venue.
The exhibition contains over 90 works of traditional and contemporary weaving. The exhibition was developed by Porirua's Pataka Museum in partnership with Toi Maori Aotearoa - Maori Arts New Zealand and Te Roopu Raranga Whatu o Aotearoa , Weavers New Zealand.
Toi Maori - The Eternal Thread is generously funded by Te Waka Toi, the Maori Arts Board of Creative New Zealand.
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International venues and touring dates to the USA
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco, California
4 , 14 August 2005
Part of the Maori Art Meets America event on the Tourism New Zealand website
Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University
Salem, Oregon
24 September 2005 to 23 December 2005
Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture, University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
4 February 2006 to 29 May 2006
The Museum at Warm Springs
Warm Springs, Oregon
17 June 2006 to 5 September 2006
(New selection of weaving artworks)
Other websites of interest
Toi Maori Aotearoa - Maori Arts New Zealand
Pataka Museum
Creative New Zealand