Your Guide to Design and Fine Arts (2663 KB) - Massey University

DEGREES
ELECTIVES
Throughout your degree, you’ll choose elective papers.
Each elective is 15 credits, and you can select those that
align with your interests and future direction.
Year One electives offered by the School of Art tend to
focus on specific media or technical approaches to artmaking,
such as Introduction to Painting, Introduction to
Sculpture, Drawing, Drawing the Body, and Māori Art and
Design Studio: Toi Atea.
Electives also develop out of the research interests of our
staff. Projects in these papers change from semester to
semester and year to year, addressing titles as diverse as
performance, sculpture and site, self-published fanzines,
and the unusual ‘Conceptualisms, Conspiracies and
Counter-histories’.
In addition, you can take electives from the School of
Design, and from other colleges at Massey, such as
business, humanities or music, provided you meet their
requirements.
Academic Advising in September each year is a great time
to discuss your choices in detail, or contact the college
office at any time.
BRONWYN
HOLLOWAY-SMITH
BFA (Hons) 2006
Graduating from Massey University School of Fine Arts
left me with a strong passion for the arts. Seven years
later and I’m living a happily multifarious life – making
my own work, supporting the work of others, and using
art as a platform to critically think, write and talk about
big future issues. A few highlights so far include:
{ Working as Project Coordinator for the One Day
Sculpture public art series.
Serving for 4 years as a trustee for Enjoy Public
Art Gallery. Connecting with Artist Run Initiatives
overseas and subsequently exhibiting in Chicago,
Tokyo, and Melbourne.
Cofounding and directing the Creative Freedom
Foundation: a not-for-profit New Zealand
artist’s copyright advocacy group. In 2009, I was
spokesperson for the CFF-led “internet blackout”
online public protest that gained significant
media attention in NZ and overseas, paving the
way for high-profile 2012 SOPA/PIPA blackout
protests in the USA.
Making the NZ National Business Review’s
2009 list of the “25 Most Powerful People In
Technology”.
Being selected as one of the first artists to create
a billboard artwork for Wellington City Council’s
Ghuznee St Art Billboard series.
Working with the acclaimed public art
commissioning group ‘Letting Space’ to realise
the Pioneer City showroom and website – a major
installation in downtown Wellington in 2012.
Being included in The Obstinate Object – a major
survey of contemporary NZ sculpture at City
Gallery Wellington.
Working with AUT’s CoLab research centre to
develop a video work for Air New Zealand’s
Inflight Entertainment programme. The work was
screened on all Air NZ international flights for
three months in early 2013.
Winning the biannual New Zealand Open Source
Arts Award two years running: once in 2010 for
my project Ghosts In The Form Of Gifts and again
in 2012 for Whisper Down The Lane.
Being accepted into Harvard to study a copyright
course through the online education network
EdX.
BRONWYN HOLLOWAY-SMITH,
PIONEER CITY 2010
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