Home News Media Releases News Menu ↑ BlogMedia ReleasesPodcastOur Favourites Media Releases 15 Dec 2020 New opening times from 2021 From January 4th 2021 The Dowse Art Museum will be closed on Mondays. 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 19 Nov 2020 Excellence in student design celebrated at the 2020 ECC NZ Student Craft/Design awards A multi-sensory audio-tactile installation made up of three-and-a-half-thousand individually handmade ceramic pieces by Imogen Zino, has been crowned the Supreme Winner at the ECC NZ Student Craft/Design awards. ... Read More 14 Nov 2020 Terminus - A choose-your-own adventure into the technological Geometric patterns, humanoid bodies, alien architectural environments and relics of an ancient world appear throughout Terminus - an immersive, virtual reality installation by Jess Johnson and Simon Ward, ... Read More 30 Oct 2020 The Dowse reopens Nuku Tewhatewha Following an extensive refurbishment, The Dowse Art Museum reopens Nuku Tewhatewha – the only known intact pātaka of seven or eight built as symbols of support for the ... Read More 24 Oct 2020 For the love of food - From the Ground Up, new exhibition opens 24 October Living māra kūmara (kūmara garden) grown inside wardian cases; films sharing local stories on community cultivation; and dinnerware ceramics from The Dowse Collection — a new exhibition at The ... Read More 26 Sep 2020 Explore art through play in Toi Hut, a new whānau space at The Dowse The Dowse Art Museum has opened its new whānau space, Toi Hut, to the public. This new and improved space is a custom-made area for families to learn, ... Read More 22 Sep 2020 COVID-19 update: The Dowse is open The Dowse Art Museum is open today. Read More 13 Jul 2020 TMD & local rangatahi take art to the streets of Lower Hutt Year-long street art mentoring programme begins 16 July 2020. Nine Lower Hutt rangatahi will have the chance to learn from world-renowned street artists and create murals around their ... Read More 23 Jun 2020 Kia ora to our new Senior Curator Chelsea Nichols We’re excited that Dr Chelsea Nichols will be joining our team as Senior Curator in early July. Chelsea is a curator and writer with a passion for the ... Read More 16 Jun 2020 A journey into Maramataka: New solo show by Nikau Hindin opens 20 June Intricate star maps painted on hand-beaten aute (Māori barkcloth) feature in Kōkōrangi ki Kōkōwai, a major solo show by artist Nikau Hindin (Ngai Tūpoto, Te Rarawa, Ngāpuhi) opening ... Read More 16 Jun 2020 What we cast aside: New solo exhibition by Bekah Carran opens 20 June What we cast aside: Mystical sculptures cast from everyday clutter.Bekah Carran: And we look and comb our hair opens at The Dowse, 20 June 2020 Mystical and delicately ... Read More Load More
