News - Arts and Design

EIT Offering Creative Career Pathways
September 11, 2018

While first-year EIT student Emma Bergman expects to specialise in photography and graphic design, she is also welcoming the opportunities to work with other media at ideaschool. Emma is...

Art Student Opens Door to EIT
September 11, 2018

Savings on fees, accommodation and living costs weighed in “massively” on fledgling artist Emma Bergman’s decision to study at EIT. Runner-up dux at Napier’s Sacred Heart College last...

Ideaschool Celebrates Creativity
September 11, 2018

Ideaschool is to stage an on-site, end-of-year arts festival that will celebrate creative successes and showcase the work of the multi-talented arts students at EIT. The one-day festival is to...

Toihoukura Magic for Matariki
September 10, 2018

The status of Toihoukura – EIT Tairāwhiti’s School of Visual Māori Arts – as a world-class faculty was further enhanced when its professor/ahorangi and two colleagues starred in Māori...

New Kaitiaki for Toihoukura
August 31, 2018

There has been a changing of the guard at EIT Tairāwhiti’s iconic school of Māori Visual Arts, Toihoukura, with the appointment of high-profile lawyer Dayle Takitimu as its Kaitiaki (Head...

Professor Matthew Marshall Inaugural Lecture
August 28, 2018

‘That’s not research; you’re just the performer. Composer-performer collaboration and understanding the role of the creative process’. Matthew is acknowledged as one of Australasia’s...

Artist Explores Trauma Inflicted By War
August 14, 2018

Depicting combatant trauma began as a personal journey for artist Gilly Marshall, the granddaughter of the last New Zealand World War 1 veteran “still standing”.  Studying at EIT, Gilly...

Ink Splatters Inspire Student’s Art
August 14, 2018

A creative practice student at EIT, Taylor Donoghue uses ink splatters as the starting point for drawings that featured recently in a level 6 degree students’ exhibition at...

EIT Student Artists Exhibiting At Art-X
July 2, 2018

An ‘emerging artist’ in the Rotary Club of Greenmeadows’ Art-x national exhibition and sale, art student Noah Tucker most enjoys creating illustrations and cartoons at EIT’s...

Maori Carving to Enrich EIT Marae
June 27, 2018

Traditional carvers Te Rangi Robin and Emanuel Dunn are making steady progress on pou whakairo that will furnish the interior of the wharenui on EIT Hawke’s Bay’s Te Aro o Tāwhaki...