Maiangi Waitai
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Maiangi Waitai is a New Zealand-born artist.{{Cite web|url=http://maiangiwaitai.com/about/|title=About|website=Maiangi Waitai|language=en-US|access-date=2019-03-22}} She works across a range of mediums, designing clothing and accessories for her Who is Dead Martin label, creating comics, figurines, toys, jewellery, mosaics and painting.{{Cite book|title=Three words : an anthology of Aotearoa/NZ women's comics|others=Joyce, Rae,, Laing, Sarah, 1973-, Neville, Indira, 1973-|year=2016|isbn=9780994120502|location=Auckland, New Zealand|pages=100|oclc=948291321}}{{Cite journal|last=Hoare|first=Rose|date=23 May 2010|title=Talent show|journal=Sunday Star Times|pages=supp. 12–24}}{{Cite web|url=https://misscrabb.com/blogs/archive/who-is-dead-martin-miss-crabb|title=Who is Dead Martin? + Miss Crabb|website=Miss Crabb|access-date=2019-06-01}}{{Cite journal|last=Watson|first=Aaron|date=June–September 2007|title=Aesthetic Decathlon|journal=Artzone|pages=29–36}}
Education and awards
Waitai received a Bachelor of Arts from Quay School of the Arts in Whanganui in 1999.{{Cite web|url=http://enjoy.org.nz/tea-time|title=Tea Time {{!}} Enjoy Contemporary Art Space|website=enjoy.org.nz|access-date=2019-06-01}} The same year, she received a Te Waka Toi award from Creative New Zealand.{{Cite journal|date=June 1999|title=Te Waka Toi honours nine Maori artists Profiles award winners|journal=Maori|volume=4 |issue=114|pages=5}}
Exhibitions
- Bowen Galleries, Wellington, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2012 {{Cite journal|last=Amery|first=Mark|date=3 Feb 2006|title=Lured into the realm of imagination|journal=Dominion Post|pages=B7}}
- Tea Time (with Ron Dixon, Don Driver), Enjoy Gallery, Wellington, 22 October 2009 - 14 November 2009
- Ātea-ā-rangi - Interstellar, The Dowse, 15 Jun – 20 Oct 2019{{Cite web|url=http://www.dowse.org.nz/exhibitions/detail/maiangi-waitai-atea-a-rangiinterstellar|title=Maiangi Waitai: Ātea-ā-rangi—Interstellar {{!}} The Dowse Art Museum|website=www.dowse.org.nz|language=en|access-date=2019-06-01}}
Personal life
Waitai is of Ngā Wairiki, Ngāti Apa, Tuwhāretoa, Rangitāne and German descent. She has worked as a kindergarten teacher since 2010.{{Cite journal |date=December 2005 – January 2006 |title=Reaping what you sew |journal=Tū Mai |volume=71 |pages=46–47}}{{Cite news |date=2017-03-29 |title=Mischief's mosaic makeover |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/wanganui-chronicle/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503426&objectid=11827784 |access-date=2019-03-22 |journal=The New Zealand Herald |language=en-NZ |issn=1170-0777}} She has also been a musician, singing and playing the flute and guitar in a band called Beam (1997–1999) in Whanganui.
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Category:New Zealand comics artists
Category:New Zealand female comics artists
Category:New Zealand people of German descent