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Professor Robert (Bob) Jahnke PhD. ONZM

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Professor Robert (Bob) Jahnke PhD. ONZM

Collective(s):

Bob is the Professor of Māori Visual Arts atMassey University’s Whiti o Rehua School of Art at Massey University. He becamean Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to Māori andindigenous art and education in the 2016 Honours list. In 2018 he was awardedthe Massey University medal for individual research, and he was the recipientof the Wallace Arts Trust Paramount Award in 2019. In 2020 he received the TePapa Rongomaraeroa Award for his contribution to Te Ao Māori. In 2021 he becamea Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand for contribution to research. Inthe same year he was awarded an ANZAAE Premier Award for ‘Sustained leadership,outstanding service, and contributions to research in art education’.

 

He contributes to Māori Development throughhis teaching at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, his research intotraditional Māori carving, and his academic writing straddling art education,contemporary and traditional Māori art, and identity politics.

He is also a practising artist.

Championing the finest of Māori creativity, past, present and future. Championing the finest of Māori creativity, past, present and future. Championing the finest of Māori creativity, past, present and future. Championing the finest of Māori creativity, past, present and future.