About

VISUAL ARTS & PLACE-MAKING WORKSHOPS

Led by Marie Mapa (Te Oro Artist-in-Residence)

Join us for an engaging visual art workshop programme involving a series of hands-on community workshops exploring visual storytelling, placemaking, and creative resistance in Tāmaki Makaurau. Through collage, painting, sculpture, zine-making and more, we’ll create art that reflects our stories of identity and belonging.

Open to rangatahi and the wider community, these workshops are a space to connect, make, and imagine new futures for our neighbourhoods — together. All materials provided. Come as you are.

5x week term dates below:
Wednesday 9 July 3:30-6pm
Wednesday 16 July 3:30-6pm
Wednesday 23 July 3:30-6pm
Wednesday 30 July 3:30-6pm
Wednesday 6 August 3:30-6pm

Marie Hemo Titi Mapa

Marie Hemo Titi Mapa (Ngāti Te Rino, Ngāti Hine; Hihifo, Niuatoputapu; Taunga, Vava’u) is a Māori–Pasifika artist based in Ōtara. Working across painting, installation, and community engagement, her practice explores identity, memory, and power from an urban Indigenous perspective. A 2024 BFA graduate of Whitecliffe College of Art & Design, she recently debuted her solo exhibition reclaim at The Good The Bad Gallery and Tātou in Glen Innes. Rooted in wānanga and the act of luva, her work creates space for collective storytelling, Indigenous knowledge, and cultural resilience.