{"id":217,"date":"2007-11-14T12:21:51","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T19:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=217"},"modified":"2018-11-23T03:06:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T22:06:37","slug":"wanganui-whanganui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wanganui-whanganui\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanganui, Whanganui…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wanganui, New Zealand<\/em><\/p>\n

I’ve spent the past five days here in and around the far-flung, remarkable community of Wanganui (or Whanganui<\/em>, as preferred by the local Maori<\/a>), acting as an external moderator (re: graduating Masters and Bachelors students, along with Sherry Blankenship from VCU\/Qatar<\/a> and Rex Turnbull of Lino<\/em> magazine, Australia) at the Wanganui School of Design<\/em>. This remarkable school punches far above its weight (consistently out-pacing other NZ design programs re: student awards won, etc.) thanks in no small part to the inimitably dynamic Hazel Gamec (an ex-pat U.S. citizen from Minneapolis who jump-started the program here 20 years ago).<\/p>\n

Aside from reviewing student work (very talented, very intelligent), I was able to take in a day of New Zealand farm-life with Hazel\u2019s guy (tough ex-Navy Seal, diver, ardent hard-man hunter, deer expert), and I spent a day \u201cup the river with Riki,\u201d a cool Maori artist dude (working at the school) who took me to his ancestral land, introduced me to some of his relatives, welcomed me to his marae<\/em>, and gave me some insight into the fascinating cultural milieu of the Maori (and the polemic relationship between these native peoples and the pakeha<\/em>, or white folks). Fascinating, and something I\u2019ll be looking into further\u2026<\/p>\n

A hearty \u201ckia ora\u201d and thank you(!) to everyone at the school who made me feel so welcome!<\/p>\n

Photos above: The design school; awesome Hazel; tattoo-specialist Riki; a cool vernacular sign on the edge of town; freshly ironic graffiti (Maori accused of being \u201cterrorists\u201d headlined in daily news\u2026); and sheep-herding Harvey\u2019s way. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wanganui, New Zealand I’ve spent the past five days here in and around the far-flung, remarkable community of Wanganui (or Whanganui, as preferred by the local Maori), acting as an external moderator (re: graduating Masters and Bachelors students, along with Sherry Blankenship from VCU\/Qatar and Rex Turnbull of Lino magazine, Australia) at the Wanganui School […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5,19,6,7,21,14,16,17,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17100,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/17100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}