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Deadline approaching for applications for Te Waka Toi scholarships
If you are a post-secondary Mäori student studying in the arts then Te Waka Toi want to hear from you by the end of March 2008.
Every year Te Waka Toi, the Māori Arts Board of Creative New Zealand, offers two scholarships to post-secondary Māori students of Māori arts across artforms (e.g. visual arts, music, theatre, dance) and in arts-related areas (e.g. curation, arts writing, conservation). Applications are sought from students who are involved in a course of learning at a formal or informal place of learning (such as a marae). The scholarships of $4000 per recipient are awarded based on artistic and cultural merit, academic merit and leadership qualities.
Past recipients have come from diverse fields of practise from fashion design to theatre to the visual arts.
Taranaki-born artist Ngahina Hohaia (Ngati Moeahu, Ngati Haupoto) was a recipient in 2007and she is currently completing a Master of Visual Arts at Massey University.
Her fibre sculpture Roimata Toroa was recently acquired by the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth and is on display in the gallery until the beginning of March this year. The gallery wall is hung with 394 individual poi embroidered with symbols that tell the story of the Parihaka community's passive resistance against invasion by Government troops in the later part of the nineteenth century. One of these symbols is Roimata Toroa (the tears of the albatross), the three albatross feathers which represent the Parihaka movement itself.
For Ngahina Hohaia, being a scholarship recipient was overwhelming. "To be rewarded at the same time as the kaumatua and kuia who received Te Waka Toi Awards was amazing, receiving the scholarship has been hugely important to me."
Applications for Ngā Karahipi a Te Waka Toi/ Te Waka Toi Scholarships can be downloaded or please contact Creative New Zealand on (04) 498 0746. All applications must be accompanied by quality examples of applicants' works.
The scholarships will be awarded at the Creative New Zealand Te Waka Toi Awards in Wellington on the 30th of August 2008.
Applications for Ngā Karahipi a Te Waka Toi close at 5pm, 31 March 2008.
