Mary Ama

Mary Tupai Ama CNZM is a Cook Islands-New Zealand artist and community arts organiser.

[4] Ama founded Pacifica Mamas, a community arts collective based in Auckland, New Zealand, in the late 1980s.

Ama also developed a programme for Pacific prison inmates, which she has delivered at Spring Hill Correction Facility near Huntly for more than ten years.

[5] In 2015, Ama and the Pacifica Mamas won the Arts Access Corrections Community Award for their work at Spring Hill.

[6] In the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours, Ama was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the arts and the Pacific community.