![]() ![]() And, still does to this day, you know?” Hastings-McFall said. “That references the nuclear testing within the Pacific, which has had a huge far-reaching effect upon basically a third of the Earth's surface. Hastings-McFall describes it as a caricature of an atomic mushroom cloud. Stepping into the space, the first thing that strikes the viewer is the color, the range of color, before you can even decipher what the materials are and then see what it really is that they’re looking at. It is built using hundreds of synthetic leis. Hastings-McFall wanted her piece titled “No Man Is An Island” to be a conversation across time and geography with the other pieces in the exhibition. “They just sort of basically put me on a monitor, it was just wheeled round, like a great giant head, really pointing me in various directions, and it was quite, very disembodied feeling.” ![]() “It's very interesting, and it's quite nerve-wracking, sort of flying by the seat of your pants as it were,” Hastings-McFall said. Hastings-McFall used technology to overcome the logistical obstacles of creating a work and having it installed in a space she never even visited. ![]() “But then I thought, ‘No, it's That's a little bit too, sort of real, to be a joke.’ So, yeah, and it sort of went from there,” Hastings-McFall said. When Hastings-McFall received the first message about creating a site-specific piece for the Denver Art Museum, she said she initially thought it was spam. Eden Lane/CPR News Emelihter Kihleng, the curatorial fellow in Native arts at the Denver Art Museum, leads a group through a preview of "Islands Beyond Blue: Niki Hastings-McFall and Treasures from the Oceania Collection."Īotearoa is the contemporary Māori language name for New Zealand. “I immediately thought of Nikki Hastings-McFall, who's an Aotearoa-born artist” Kihleng said. Kihleng selected 25 treasures for this installation, and she was also responding to the wall angles of the space when she selected an artist to create a new work for the reopening. “Or we trace our genealogy to sometimes these objects and sometimes they're very sacred. Because for Pacific peoples, the treasures, oftentimes we have genealogical links to them, or they're part of our, I guess you could say, DNA in a way,” Kihleng said. “Because the word ‘objects’ doesn't really convey the essence or what the objects or treasures really mean to us. In the Pacific Islands, the people tend to refer to works as “treasures,” as opposed to “objects.” Kihleng brings personal insight to the project, including one of language. Emelihter Kihleng is the curatorial fellow in Native arts as the gallery reopens with a new temporary exhibition, “Islands Beyond Blue: Niki Hastings-McFall and Treasures from the Oceania Collection.” Since the Denver Art Museum acquired its first piece from Oceania more than 80 years ago, the collection has grown to about 1,000 pieces from all of the major island groups. This week, the reimagined galleries reopened to the public. The galleries in the museum’s Hamilton Building galleries were closed as construction around the campus took place. To be part of the program educators need to register on their website.Īustralian experience: Be You was developed in and for the Australian context.Back in 2016, the Denver Art Museum took down collections from three of its most well-known areas: the Arts of Africa, Arts of Oceania and the Modern and Contemporary Galleries. Training requirements: Resources and tools are available on Be You's website to support schools in implementation of each Be You cycle. Program adaptability: Each learning community has ownership of how, where and when they implement Be You to meet the needs of their school. Target population: Anyone who works with children and young people in early learning settings, primary and secondary schools. This includes 13 content modules which are grouped into five domains:īe You also provides suicide postvention support for learning communities. The initiative has a series of online professional development modules and resources which helps school staff contribute to a positive learning community. Learning communities can get support from Be You Consultants who guide schools through their resources and connect school staff with educator networks. Be You supports early learning services and schools to work towards a whole learning community approach to mental health and wellbeing. ![]()
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