Home News News Menu ↑ BlogMedia ReleasesPodcastOur Favourites 25 Mar 2021 Showcasing Aotearoa's urban art scene - from the streets to the gallery The Most Dedicated: An Aotearoa Graffiti Story and the TMD Street Art Festival The first major public museum display of street art collective, TMD Crew, The Dowse Art ... Read More 21 Mar 2021 Terminus: Artist Talk Visual artist Jess Johnson & video-maker and animator Simon Ward in conversation with curator and Dowse director Karl Chitham about their unique collaborative relationship and the process of ... Read More 8 Mar 2021 Decolonising your Puku: indigenous food sovereignty How do our food systems impact our lands, waters and whānau wellbeing? Jared Hiakita, Kelly Marie Francis and Dr Jessica Hutchings with facilitator Kaye Maree Dunn, discusses approaches ... Read More 19 Feb 2021 The Dowse launches first survey exhibition of Jane Dodd jewellery The Dowse Art Museum presents the first major survey of contemporary jeweller Jane Dodd in a new exhibition titled Wild Domain: The Natural History of Jane Dodd Jewellery. Read More 1 Feb 2021 Digging for gold - The Dowse celebrates its 50th year with new exhibition Fool’s Gold The Dowse Art Museum will celebrate its 50th anniversary this year starting off with a new exhibition, Fool’s Gold, opening on 2 February, featuring the golden, yellow and ... Read More 19 Jan 2021 Angela Singer: Second Sight artist talk Dr Chelsea Nicholls chats to artist Angela Singer about her most recent exhibition, Second Sight. Singer discusses her practice and shares stories behind the ghost birds, floating snouts, ... Read More 18 Dec 2020 Our top 5 unique Christmas gift ideas – For something a little bit different It’s time to cut through the Christmas chaos, and fill in the blanks on your gifting to-do list. Lucky for you, we have a great selection of gifts ... Read More 15 Dec 2020 New opening times from 2021 From January 4th 2021 The Dowse Art Museum will be closed on Mondays. Read More 1 Dec 2020 BC Collective in Conversation BC Collective, Cora-Allan Wickliffe (Ngāpuhi, Taniui, Niue) and Daniel Twiss (Lakota Sioux, Rosebud Reservation) was in conversation with curator Grace Ryder about Following the herd, their new installation ... Read More 30 Nov 2020 Making Like a Forest: Xin Cheng and Adam Ben-Dror In Making Like a Forest, artist Xin Cheng and designer Adam Ben-Dror explore how kindness and care is embodied within two local communities: Common Unity Project Aotearoa and ... Read More 23 Nov 2020 Reuben Paterson: in conversation Listen to artist Reuben Paterson (Ngāti Rangitihi, Ngāi Tūhoe, Tūhourangi) in conversation with curator and The Dowse director Karl Chitham (Ngā Puhi, Te Uriroroi) on the opening weekend ... Read More 20 Nov 2020 The Dowse receives the newly established Blumhardt Fund The Dowse Art Museum is delighted to announce it is one of the first recipients of the newly established Blumhardt Fund. The Blumhardt Fund provides a dollar for ... Read More Load More
