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Location: Sheaff Family Gallery - Te Kōputu a te whanga a Toi - Whakatāne Library and Exhibition Centre
The 2018 Whakatāne Society of Arts and Crafts exhibition, Visual Expressions addresses a theme of black, white and wood – and showcases the members’ diversity of inspiration, method and materials.
Whakatāne Society of Arts and Crafts is one of the Bay of Plenty’s original champions of the traditional craft movement, and is keeping artistic skills alive in the face of fast moving technology, mass production methods, and planned obsolescence. Around the world, and here in our back yard, societies of arts and crafts bring people together in pursuit of hand-made processes, collective purpose, and ongoing comradery.
This exhibition includes representative works from groups of local painters, potters, wood workers and fibre crafters. It reveals traditions handed down through generations of makers through familial relationships, teaching, and the ongoing work of arts and craft guilds.
Since the 1960s, Whakatāne Society of Arts and Crafts has nurtured a range of creative groups and interests. The organisation continues to offer classes and workshops to anyone wanting to develop a new artistic skill and those seeking to find their creative spark.
Opening event and craft market
Whakatāne Society of Arts and Crafts are holding an outdoor market and indoor demo-day to celebrate the opening of their new Visual Expressions exhibition on Saturday, 16 June.
Whakatāne Society of Arts and Crafts groups
- Arty Farty Tarts - Painters
- Eastbay Quilters
- Krafty Katz Painting Group
- Decoupage
- Fibre Crafters
- Monday Morning Painting Group
- Paper craft
- Pottery
- Friday Watercolour Painting Group
- Wednesday Art Group
- Woodcraft Club
- Weavers
New members are always welcome. For more information on individual groups, visit the Society's website »
