Reclaiming te reo Māori in design, work and life with Aroha Tamihana | Graphic Designer

The Creative Mother Podcast

This week on The Creative Mother Podcast host Kate Hursthouse talks to creative mum of two Aroha Tamihana.

Aroha is a Māori creative passionate about promoting the Māori language and culture through unique designs, products and resources. Her creative business, Maimoa Creative is a design studio based in Tauranga. Aroha’s aim is to help normalise the use of te reo Māori throughout Aotearoa using her background in graphic design and brush-lettering calligraphy.

Aroha has two free te reo Māori prints you can download from her website. One is a beautiful bedtime karakia written by Scotty Morrison and the other is a duo print; one in te reo Māori and the English translation so you can display them side by side to help with learning.

https://maimoa.nz/collections/free-downloads

https://maimoa.nz/

https://www.instagram.com/maimoa.creative/

https://www.facebook.com/maimoa.creative

Links from todays episode:

Matariki - In Māori culture, Matariki is both the name of the Pleiades star cluster and of the celebration of its first rising in late June or early July.

Waiata = song

Tamariki = children

Mahi = work

The Māori Picture Dictionary

Te Aka Māori Dictionary - website and also available as an app

Paraoa parai / fry bread tea towel

Kaupapa game

Aroha is listening to:

Nuku Podcast

Taringa Podcast

Everyday Māori Podcast

About your host:

Kate Hursthouse is an artist, creative business owner and single mother to one awesome kid. She has run her own creative business since 2014 and has been involved in a whole range of projects over the years - from commercial illustrations and design projects to contemporary art, children’s book illustrations and hand-painted murals.

She started this podcast to try and answer the question: how do we continue to be creative and produce creative work, while raising children? Her goal is to create a little corner of the internet where creative mothers share their stories and gain a feeling of community, understanding, and inspiration.

www.katehursthouse.com

@katehursthouse

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