Haeata

[1][3] The publication featured twenty-eight Māori women aged sixty and over that had been interviewed.

[2] The artists involved in these exhibitions were Tungia Baker, Ani Crawford, Melanie Cullinan, Kōhai Grace, Patricia Grace, Jolie Marianne Gunson, Kataraina Hetet-Winiata, Hinemoa Hilliard, Wendy Howe, Keri Kaa, Robyn Kahukiwa, Maxine Montgomery, Hana Pōmare, Janet Pōtiki, Diane Prince, Eranora Puketapu-Hetet, Veranoa Puketapu-Hetet, Irihapeta Ramsden, Lee Retimana, Mihiata Retimana, Waireti Rolleston, Rea Ropiha, Ngapine Tamihana Te Ao, Raiha Te Hiko Waaka, Stephanie Turner and Grace Warren.

Bub Bridger and Bruce Stewart along with Patricia Grace and Robyn Kahukiwa expanded the membership from writer and poets to artists including weavers, performers and 'composers of traditional and contemporary waiata'.

Haeata hosted Indigenous women artists to visit New Zealand including from North America and Australia.

[3] Haeata were also connected to Ngā Puna Waihanga, the Māori Artists and Writers Society that was founded in 1973.