Year 9 Ngaa Toi

Year 9 Ngaa Toi is a new course, being offered for the first time at Pukekohe High School.  By taking this course you can begin a journey of learning in Contemporary Maori Visual Arts that you could continue with right through to Year 13 if you want to.  In 9 Toi, aakonga will look at and learn about some customary and contemporary Maori artforms and motifs.  

You will make work using a variety of media and processes ranging from 2D media (such as pencils, pastels, paints and woodcut) through to active use of more 3D materials and processes (such as harakeke, clay, weaving or construction).

You will make work responding to a range of ideas and starting points, such as your pepeha, stories, legends, history, whakatauki.  A lot of our learning will be linked to work made by some of Aotearoa's amazing Māori Artists.  You will learn about what, why and how they make their art, then use that learning to support your own art making.  

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