Location: Te Kōputu a te whanga a Toi - Whakatāne Library and Exhibition Centre
Free, no bookings required

Volcanic Artist in Residence Melanie Yazzie invites our local community to join her for an informal artist talk and creative forum at Te Kōputu on Thursday. Melanie will offer insights into her arts-practice, share her works in progress since arriving in the Eastern Bay, and talk about her experiences with the people and places of Whakatāne.

Melanie is a Native American of the Navajo Nation, in north-eastern Arizona, USA. She is professor of Art Practices and Head of Printmaking at the University of Colorado in Boulder, USA. Melanie has been travelling to New Zealand since 1995 - loves New Zealand’s culture and hopes to keep making connections while she’s here.

Melanie's works are held in many collections, including the Denver Art Museum, Anchorage Museum of History & Art, the Art Museum of Missoula, the Institute of American Indian Arts, the Kennedy Museum of Art, and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in countries such as New Zealand, France, Russia, Canada, Estonia, Northern Ireland, Korea, China, the United Kingdom, and Australia. She is known for organising over 100 print exchange projects that connect communities across the world. She makes prints, sculptures and paintings.

Whakatāne Museum and Arts are very grateful to the following partners for making the Volcanic Artist Residency programme possible: White Island Tours/Te Runanga o Ngāti Awa, Antipodes Water Company, Nicholson Autos, Arts Whakatāne, Whakatāne District Council, The Bach West End, Troy Baker Photography, Diverse Graphics and our very supportive local arts community.