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MAKE YOUR MARK: Workshop Series

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

Unleash your creativity in this hands-on visual art workshop series exploring storytelling, belonging, and collective imagination in Tāmaki Makaurau.

Through activities like collage, stencilling, painting, zine-making and more, you'll create artworks that reflect personal and community stories of identity, place, and connection. Along the way, we'll explore the work of contemporary artists to inspire our thinking and making — and discover how art can respond to the world around us.

An exciting highlight of this programme is learning to install your final artworks in a real exhibition at Te Oro, displayed alongside Marie's end-of-residency exhibition.

These workshops offer a welcoming space to reflect, connect, and create together. All materials provided. No experience needed — just come as you are.

5-week term dates:

Wednesday 16 July 3:30-6pm
Wednesday 23 July 3:30-6pm
Wednesday 30 July 3:30-6pm
Wednesday 6 August 3:30-6pm
Wednesday 27 August 3:30-6pm (Final class for the practical art exhibition installation portion)

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.