Free art classes to support 2024 tenant art show
ŌCHT tenant Aimi is a busy creative who encourages people to explore their artistic side.
ŌCHT’s Tenant Art Show is back for 2024!
This year we’re teaming up with The White Room Community Creative Space to run a week long exhibition to display creative talent from our communities.
We’ll confirm the exhibition dates in our next newsletter (in late April) but we’re giving you a heads up so you can prepare to enter.
The White Room, which is part of Skillwise, will run free art classes from May with lots of free supplies for you to practice new techniques, materials and ideas. We’ll have more deails about this in our next newsletter, too.
ŌCHT tenant Aimi has enjoyed the tenant art shows from previous years and plans to exhibit again this year.
Aimi is a talented artist with a focus on drawing and painting. She’s also interested in photography, sculpture, print making and jewellery making.
“I observed my father drew on kimono fabrics as a job and have loved drawings since I was a young child,” she said.
“When I moved to New Zealand, I met few artists and they encouraged me to pursue art.
“I studied Design and Applied Visual Art at Ara. During the final year of my study at Ara, I was convinced that animals have emotions, they thus have unique individualities. In this extent, they have friendships among themselves and humans.
“As an artist, I want to learn about animals and their behaviours, connect with their innermost, and capture them precisely.”
Aimi’s incredible artwork will be on display at our art show. Aimi encourages tenants to take part.
“If you are creative, have desire, or even just thinking about it, this is a great opportunity, and just enjoy it.
“You may be interested in training or study. The White Room and other community-based places can help.
“If you love art, be creative, and don’t give up.”
Check out Aimi’s work on Facebook or Instagram.
If you’re interested in taking part in the art show or classes, please call ŌCHT on
0800 624 456 or email admin@ocht.org.nz with Art Show in the subject line and we’ll get back to you with more details.
