This UPSKILL opportunities webpage is an initiative of M101 designed to provide New Zealand artists with various developmental opportunities. This initiative encompasses not only skill enhancement through hands-on workshops, masterclasses, mentoring, discussions, and lectures but also through development programmes such as the former ‘HANDSHAKE Project’ and the current ‘Object Makers Aotearoa,’ which caters to all object media.
more on UPSKILL workshops
UPSKILL opportunities webpage is an initiative of M101 designed to provide New Zealand artists with various developmental opportunities. This initiative encompasses not only skill enhancement through handson workshops, masterclasses, discussions, and lectures, but also through development programmes such as the former ‘HANDSHAKE Project’ and the current ‘Object Makers Aotearoa,’ which caters to all object media.
more on UPSKILL workshops
UPSKILL Wellington at Workspace & online (Feb – July 2025)
This advanced workshop will be held in Wellington and are for those who completed the 2024 pilot workshop.
It consists of a series of practical workshops and coaching spread over the first half of 2025, combining online and hands-on learning with theory and culture lectures by Andera Daly and Neke Moa.
UPSKILL Wellington (May – Oct 2025)
This UPSKILL workshop is CANCELLED due to a lack of funding
OBJECT MAKER Aotearoa Fellowship
The success of these mentorship workshops relies on maintaining small group sizes, providing personalised exercises with feedback, offering mentorship, lectures, and discussion topics, and fostering enthusiastic participation and strong group support. These workshops are exclusively for practising jewellery artists actively engaged in their craft.