Miri Young-Moir

Project Lead

Miri is the Project Manager and Project Lead for the Colin McCahon Legacy Project. Miri is a contractor, working with the Art Curatorial Team at Papa. She holds a Master's Degree in Interdisciplinary and Museum Studies (New York University, 2013), gained as a Fulbright Scholar. She brings a combination of project and research management, learning and public engagement, and digital interpretation to the Colin McCahon Legacy Project.

Relevant digital projects for young people and teachers that Miri directed in her former position as Head of Learning Innovation at Te Papa include Raranga Matihiko—Weaving Digital Futures ($3m budget over three years), established in 2018 for the Ministry of Education, and she was the project sponsor for the Earthquake Commission funded Minecraft Shaker Mod, 2017 ($300,000). She is accustomed to managing budgets and ensuring project vision is articulated and realised.

Miri also brings research management and catalogue raisonné experience, having managed major research projects such as the archival and image research for Between the Flags: 100 Years of Surf Life Saving in New Zealand (2010). She contributed original research to Wendell Castle: A Catalogue Raisonné 1958-2012, (2016) where she managed similar levels of complex data and detailed research with owners and institutions. Miri worked for the Donald Judd Foundation (New York and Texas, USA) which gave her valuable insight into working with artist trusts and working with artist’s families.