Waitākere Arts and Cultural Development Trust

Trust Board Members

Naomi McCleary MNZM 

Chair

Naomi has worked in the arts and cultural arena for over thirty years.

As Arts Manager for Waitakere Council, Naomi developed a significant arts portfolio for the city, including a ground-breaking arts/design practice placing artists at the heart of public space development, a model of best practice adopted by many councils around New Zealand. She also initiated an events programme including the Going West Books & Writers Festival and Trash to Fashion.

Naomi received the inaugural Creative New Zealand Award for Contribution to the Arts in Local Government (2003) and was a finalist in the Women of Influence Awards 2015.

Naomi was the founding chair of the McCahon House Trust and Chair for 18 years. She is currently also a Trustee on the Going West Trust.

In her spare time, Naomi runs an arts consultancy (advocART Ltd).

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Jarcinda Stowers-Ama

Co-Deputy Chair
Ko Takitumu te vaka
Ko Tumu-te-varovaro te ipukarea
E te Moananui o Kiva

Jarcinda is a New Zealand born Cook Islands and Samoan artist, project manager and producer. Living arts and te peu Kuki Airani – the ways of Cook Islands culture and values – were the foundations of her upbringing in West Auckland.

Jarcinda is the Director of the Pacifica Arts Centre (based on the Corban Estate) and serves as a trustee on the Objectspace board. She is also a founding member of Turou Takitua, a Cook Islands storytelling collective that is inspired by the knowledge and art practices passed down by her elders.

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Jermaine Reihana

Co-Deputy Chair and Interim Treasurer
Ngāti Hine/Ngai Tūpoto

Jermaine Reihana was born and raised in Waitakere, attending Kura Kaupapa at Hoani Waititi Marae where he also became a long time member of Nga Tumanako Kapa Haka Roopu. Graduating with honours in Māori Visual Arts (2012) from Massey University, Palmerston North, he then went on to take part in the 2013 Te Atinga 25 years of Māori Art Exhibition which helped to establish his professional arts career.

Jermaine is a CEAC studio artist and a kaiako for the Kākano Youth Arts Collective based at Corban Estate. He also currently supports The Depot Artspace (Devonport) as their Māori Liaison Advisor and has worked on art projects with a number of community-based arts organisations.

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Tara Jahn-Werner

(Currently on extended leave)

Tara has worked in the arts in various roles, including performing arts journalism, publishing, publicity, marketing, arts management, education, facilitation, and project management. She has held various academic and academic management positions in business and also arts management at the University of Auckland and AUT University.

She is director of arts consultancy Jahn-Werner and Associates, and chairperson of the Nicholas Tarling Charitable Trust which among its objects aims at facilitating and advancing the standard of performance of serious musical works in New Zealand, particularly in the orchestral, choral and operatic fields, with special emphasis on the lesser-known.

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Carolynne Stone

Trustee
Ngā Puhi/Te Māhurehure

Carolynne has been a strong advocate for local communities for over 30 years. Elected to Waitakere City Council in 1991 she remained a councillor for 15 years, becoming Deputy Mayor alongside Mayor Bob Harvey.

Living her whole life in West Auckland, Carolynne is involved in a number of community organisations and local projects. She has a strong understanding of the processes involved in the work with Auckland Council, the Local Boards and the community to ensure the continued success of the Corban Art Centre.

Her key interests are in best practice governance and the role of the Trust in the development of the Corban Art Centre in an increasingly challenging and dynamic environment.