Ms Naomi McCleary, of Auckland, MNZM for services to the arts
Naomi McCleary was Manager of Arts for the Waitakere City Council from 1993 to 2010. She established the Going West Festival for authors and literature and chairs the Going West Trust. She led the Sites Pacific Symposium, in which teams developed projects as part of a creative urban development challenge. She founded and chaired the McCahon House Trust, which runs artist-in-residence programmes. She established the Trash to Fashion wearable art show. She helped to establish the Pacific HeARTbeat arts education programme. Ms McCleary is a board member of the Waitakere Arts and Cultural Development Trust and initiated the TEMP project, with artists and scientists co-creating artworks addressing climate change.