Two Te Wānanga o Aotearoa arts graduates are about to pack their bags for a taste of the Big Apple. Source: Te Wānanga o Aotearoa Visesio Siasau and his wife Serene Tay, are off for a six-month residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in Brooklyn, New York after he was named Paramount Award Winner in the 24thWallace Art Awards earlier this month. Visesio and Serene, who leave in March, are among the first graduates from He Waka Hiringa, the Master of Applied Indigenous Knowledge programme run by Te Wānanga o Aotearoa at Mangakōtukutuku in Hamilton.