NVAEC 2016

Workshops + floor talks

Workshops are filled on a first in first served basis. The number of participants is limited so that the workshop is a quality experience. We expect that workshops will book out so please book early to avoid disappointment.

Traditional Victorian coiled basketry
with Lee Darroch

(Yorta Yorta, Mutti Mutti, Boon Wurrung)
Friday 22 January  | 2.30 – 5.00pm | 2.5 hours | $50 | Small Theatre

Learn traditional Aboriginal coiled basketry originally from the South-east of Australia using bundles of fibre wrapped and stitched together in a growing coil.  Discover the grasses used to make coiled basketry. View different baskets made using this method. Participants will be taught to make a small basket. Lomandra longifolia grass, knives and wooden pegs supplied.

18 participants

 

Lee Darroch, Emu Feather Basket

Remote drawing workshop
with Cameron Robbins

Thursday 21 January | 3.00 – 5.00 pm | 2 hours | $50 | Gandel Hall west

In this workshop, artist Cameron Robbins will present a dynamic group drawing activity, aimed at all ages from primary school to adult.

Participants are invited to take part in a large scale action-drawing project and drawing skills of every level will be catered for as various devices are used to extend the hand and help create pure lines and trajectories.

In a series of timed exercises, groups of participants are asked to move around long sheets of paper attached to the floor to produce large drawings in ink pen. The pens are extended on long wires which distances the self-conscious feeling of drawing. 

The lines produced are energy trajectories, building up over time to form a skein or orbits, like plants moving or protons in a particle accelerator. Water will be used to create a variety of weather-like effects. The resulting drawings will be quite lovely and free feeling, with a wide variety of marks and a lot of condensed energy.

Participants are asked to walk around for 5 minute periods and be quite active in order to make the works.

See Cameron Robbins' work: Wind drawing: 20-24 March 2013 (equinox) 98 hrs NKD 20 to 24 March 2013

20 participants

Photography and Film for digital stories
with Rick Connors

Thursday 21 + Friday 22 January | 3.00 – 5.00 pm | 2 hours | $50 | Gandel Hall stage

This workshop will explore how to take better photos with a personal device using exposure and composition. Beginning with a story, participants will first head outside and take photos and shoot film.

Using devices and computers participants will then use apps and online tools to edit and create their own digital stories with images, film, music and text. Once the stories have been created participants will then look at tools to share the digital stories with the rest of the world.

Participants are required to bring their own mobile device that can take photos (DSLR or point and shoot camera would be the best option)

15 participants

The Creative iPad Classroom
with Cathy Hunt

Thursday 21 + Friday 22 January | 3.00 - 5.00 pm | 2 hours | $50 | Gandel Hall centre

This super-session will provide you with the confidence, tools and tactics you need to enhance creativity, visual literacy and divergent thinking using mobile devices for learning in your creative classroom.  Full of apps, lesson ideas and concrete examples from real classrooms, participants will mix paint and pixels to explore abstraction, use reflected images to create kaleidoscopes, drawing digital tessellations, talking sculptures and timelapse towers. Want more?  Well, you'll have to come to the workshop! 

Key concepts:

• Designing lessons with technology that extend on your classroom tasks for practical, rich learning experiences you can implement successfully.
• Understanding and utilizing a 'learn by play' mindset for serious learning.
• Instructional design for technology – strategies for engagement and management in the classroom.
• Attaining mastery by trialing processes virtually - the power of 'undo'.
• Creating opportunities for digital failure in the classroom - empowering students with choices and confidence.
• Exploring tasks with 'endless possibilities' for content creation - using an inquiry model, exploring the creative process, revealing tools for ideation and enhancing divergent thinking.
• Documenting and reflecting on learning journeys, as they happen – folios, sharing work and presenting reflective journals.
•  Identifying opportunities to incorporate digital tools in learning programs and evaluating their success.

25 participants

The Art of Linocutting
with Brian Robinson

Thursday 21 January | 1.30 – 5.30 pm | 4 hours | $70 | Megalo Print Studio + Gallery

In this workshop, artist Brian Robinson will present an informative and hands-on printmaking activity at Megalo Print Studio + Gallery. Within this four hour workshop participants are invited to explore and develop basic linocutting skills. This introductory lesson will cover the processes of linocutting and printing using a small press and hand burnishing techniques, as well as experimentation with existing prints.

12 participants

Drawing
with Adriane Boag and John Carey

Friday 22 January | 3.00 - 5.00 pm | 2 hours | Free ( bookings essential) | Throughout the Gallery

Within without, James Turrell Skyspace

This drawing workshop will investigate how a layered creative response can make visible the embodied experience of this remarkable work of art. There will be a focus on geometry which will connect light, colour and architecture using rulers, viewfinders, colour pencils and ink. The workshop will be a sustained response to a unique environment.

20 participants

 

Dr Sketchy's Anti-Art School - Burlesque drawing

Friday 22 January | 3.00 - 5.00 pm | 2 hours | $50 | Gandel Hall west

Originating in Brooklyn in 2005, Dr Sketchy's branches draw in over 100 cities around the globe. Part performance art, part burlesque show, Dr Sketchy's is the perfect place to get your fill of life drawing, whether you're an art star or a scribbling newbie. In this session you will draw glamorous models and performers inspired by Andy Warhol's The Factory, in a fun, welcoming atmosphere with a retro flavour. Ages 18+

40 participants

Dr Sketchy's workshop ANU workshops

Friday 22 January | 2.45 – 5.00pm | 2 hours (15 min travel time) | $50 | ANU School of Art

Primary Printmaking
with Alison Alder

• Learn two simple printmaking techniques that can be used in the primary school classroom with no specialist equipment required
• Work creatively with practicing visual artists in the studios of the ANU School of Art
• Engage with the international printmaking exhibition 'Interchange'
• Make your own artworks!

Participants will learn two printmaking techniques: monotype, which produces strong designs from hand-worked hard surfaces, and pochoir, which produces strong bold colours from stencils. They will also interact with the international print exhibition 'Interchange' and reflect on their practice-led research and the work of their colleagues.

20 participants

 

Experimenting with Inkjet Printing
with Dr Rowan Conroy

Participants will work together creatively with practicing visual artists in the ANU's state of the art Inkjet Research Facility. Using their fundamental knowledge of digital printing, they will explore recent developments in digital photography and inkjet printing technologies at both small and large scale in UV cured printing. They will make their own creative artwork by collaboratively exploring different hard and soft substrates, such as glass, wood and textiles, and different creative printing techniques, on the IRFs large-format UV cured flatbed printer, as well as its conventional wide-format inkjet printer. They will have a creatively stimulating experience while reflecting on their own creative practice with their peers and contemporary artists.

20 participants

 

Making GIFS
with Dr Lucien Leon

Participants will work creatively with practicing visual artists in the ANU's Animation and Video computer laboratory. Using their fundamental knowledge of digital image editing, they will explore recent developments in digital animation and video technologies. They will make their own creative artwork by sourcing, importing, editing and exporting a series of animated Gifs for publication on a personal blog.

20 participants

Additional programs which require booking as places are limited:

 

Collection Study Room: Out of the Box

Wednesday 20 January | 3.30 – 4.30 pm |1 hour | Free (bookings essential) | Collection Study Room

Participants are invited to a behind the scenes experience of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art collection with Franchesca Cubillo, Senior Curator and Tina Baum, Curator, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art who will explore the conference theme practice+ innovation+ learning through the work of contemporary Aboriginal artists such as Abe Muriata, Tony Albert and Lorraine Connelly-Northey. Facilitated by Rose Montebello, Collection Study Room Coordinator.

20 participants

Behind the scenes: Tyler Graphics at work

Wednesday 20 January | 3.30 – 4.30 pm |1 hour | Free (bookings essential) | Orde Poynton Gallery

Behind the scenes: Tyler Graphics at work engages our enduring fascination with how fine art prints are made. The exhibition investigates the processes of printmaking, as well as illuminating the collaborative relationship between artist and printmaker. The National Gallery of Australia's Kenneth Tyler Print Collection is the most comprehensive collection of post-war American art outside the United States. Consisting of over 7,000 works of art and extensive holdings of documentary film, sound and photographic material, the collection provides insight into the workings of the most innovative print workshop of the twentieth century.

The Behind the scenes: Tyler Graphics at work exhibition presents a selection of artworks alongside photographs and a series of specially produced short films to provide audiences with a framework for understanding the technical aspects of fine art printmaking. The session will include an overview of the exhibition with Emilie Owens, Assistant Curator International Prints Drawings & Illustrated Books and Julia Greenstreet, Curatorial Assistant, Kenneth E. Tyler Collection, followed by a discussion of the unique resources available to teachers and educators through the Kenneth Tyler Printmaking Collection website

30 participants

Exploring Islamic art in the NGA collection with Frances Wild

Friday 22 January | 3.00 – 4.00pm | 1 hour | Free (bookings essential) | Throughout the NGA Galleries

Patterns of Resilience

During this workshop the NGA's Islamic art collection will be used as a focus for a discussion on the topic of cultural and professional resilience. Participants will be encouraged to share their experiences of resilient teaching practice and how they have utilised these skills in the classroom with students and more broadly in their school community.

The workshop will begin with an overview of Tom Roberts' travels to southern Spain where the artist visited Granada and the magical Alhambra and will then move into the Islamic Galleries. A collaborative drawing activity will be included.

15 participants

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