Pacific origins inspire student art

&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;" alignright size-full wp-image-1100" src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;schoolnewsnz&period;fastrackdev&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2014&sol;10&sol;SND08-wk3-News-Pacific&lowbar;art&lowbar;300x225&period;jpg" alt&equals;"SND08-wk3-News-Pacific art 300x225" style&equals;"margin&colon; 5px&semi; float&colon; right&semi;" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"225" &sol;>Thirty senior secondary students explored their Pacific heritage in art over the term break&comma; carving coconut shell&comma; collaborating on a mural and writing and recording an original piece of music&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p> <&excl;--more--> <&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The students were taking part in a Fresh Horizons programme of workshops offered by the Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust at Eastern Institute of Technology&&num;8217&semi;s ideaschool&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Over three days the Year 11-13 students were guided by artists Chris Charteris&comma; Lizzy Leckie Amiria Puia-Taylor and Anonymouz as they carved coconut shell into objects and body adornment&comma; responded to local social issues in painting a transportable mural and created a &&num;8216&semi;soundscape&&num;8217&semi; inspired by Pacific music&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A non-profit organisation established in the 1980s&comma; Tautai Contemporary Pacific Arts Trust is funded by Creative New Zealand and ASB Community Arts Trust to mentor and support contemporary Pacific art and artists&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Tautai Fresh Horizons Pacific Arts Workshops have been hosted on the EIT campus for the last four years&comma; attracting 115 Hawke&&num;8217&semi;s Bay students interested in expressing their Pacific heritage in art&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This year&&num;8217&semi;s workshops were coordinated by Auckland-based artist A&period;D Shierning &lpar;Tautai&rpar; and Maryanne Marsters &lpar;EIT&rpar; and the students were drawn from Hastings Girls&&num;8217&semi; High School&comma; St John&&num;8217&semi;s College&comma; Taikura Rudolf Steiner School&comma; Hastings Boys&&num;8217&semi; High School&comma; Napier Girls&&num;8217&semi; High School&comma; Napier Boys&&num;8217&semi; High School&comma; Sacred Heart College&comma; Williams Colenso College&comma; St Joseph&&num;8217&semi;s Maori Girls&&num;8217&semi; College and Taradale High School&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Participating schools will have the opportunity to showcase the mural at their school&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;