Runnin' Down A Dream . . . Tom Petty

The reason to come to Auckland was to see a small art exhibition of comtemporary Maori sculpture  by Fred Graham.  Visual story telling is an interest of mine and teaching art to children was something I  loved.  When I was teaching there was such a thing as an art advisor who came into school, took your class and by teaching them taught you how to teach clay, painting, printmaking or what ever you felt you needed help with.  That service was deleted about 2017.  I am still bitter about it.  
Gordon Tovey was an educator who believed the expression of the creative imagination held the key to children fulfilling their potential.  In 1943 he initiated a programme at Dunedin Training College to train teachers to be arts advisors and go around the country teaching teachers and their classes. Anyway Fred Graham was one of these early advisors picked from Teachers College to go and do specialist training.  The work in the blip is the first commision that enabled him to go on to be a full time sculpture.   Each panel represents a different part of the globe.   Seeing I have written so much about art I will add a blip from when I was in the classroom and it is connected to the Olympics.
https://www.blipfoto.com/entry/2212831240992589872
Other happenings were TLD and I had a delicious brunch at a Turkish cafe and went to the movies to see Twister.