NVAEC 2019

Workshops

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Krysia Kitch (National Portrait Gallery) Exploring Art Through Visual Thinking Strategies
An introduction to Visual Thinking Strategies (VTS)—an inquiry-based approach to experiencing art through careful, close looking and questioning. Actively experience the method and explore how it can empower your students to discuss art based on what they can see. VTS encourages students to observe independently and to back up their comments with evidence through dialogue with their peers.

Margie Kevin and Jayne Smyth (National Gallery of Australia) Art from the Heart: The Legacy of Frances Derham, Artist and Educator
Frances Derham was a brave and inspired artist and educator who amassed a collection of children's art from around the world. Her visionary way of engaging children in drawing, painting and modelling changed the teaching methods of Early Childhood educators for generations. Following a viewing of the NGA’s Frances Derham collection, participants will be guided in creative drawing within the galleries.

Helen Champion (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority) The Arts, Literacy and Numeracy, Year 7–10
Students develop literacy and numeracy skills as they engage with rich arts learning. What does that look like in a visual arts context at Years 7–10? This workshop offers teachers an opportunity to explore these questions using the Arts learning advice for the National Literacy and Numeracy Progressions as provocation for discussion and sharing.

Anna Carrig (National Gallery of Australia) and Krysia Kitch (National Portrait Gallery) Gordon Bennett: Questioning the colonial narrative
An in-depth look at Gordon Bennett, an artist who critiques Australian history, the history of modern art and the resultant constructed stereotype of Aboriginality. Bennett strategically appropriates the work of Margaret Preston, Jackson Pollock, and Imants Tillers amongst others to interrogate the dominant narratives of art history. Complex, bold and politically charged, Bennett offers a rich case study for senior students.

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Tuesday 22 January

Afternoon: 1 hour

Emily Ashcroft and Dr Lynn Walker (University of Canberra)
The Fast Pace of Stop Motion
This workshop will explore how stop motion animation and design principles are applied by students to demonstrate their scientific understanding. Based on a unit (The Science of Teaching The Arts) participants will use stop motion animation to demonstrate their understanding of the effects of fire on a natural environment.

Fiona Bowen (Museum of Australian Democracy)
Political Cartoons—Inspiring Critical Thinking About Our Democracy
This workshop explores the world of political cartooning through the lens of MoAD’s annual political cartooning exhibition Behind the Lines. It will demonstrate how cartoons are an important tool to develop student's critical thinking skills. Trust in democracy is at an all-time low, and it is vital to engage the next generation to be active and engaged citizens to make positive change.

Alison Dowell (Anula Primary School, NT)
New Ideas in Classroom Recycled Art
Using easily accessible throwaway items, Alison showcases a range of quirky and fun ideas to create art with opportunities to try a couple of techniques. All participants will get a 'Take Away Goodie Bag' of recycled art samples, lesson plans with step-by-step photographs of the process.

Lee Fullarton and Megan Gaynor (Primary Arts Network, Ipswich)
RANGOLI: Inspiring Artist, Teacher, Student pARTnerships
Participants will be introduced to the history, culture and traditional practices of the Indian floor art known as Rangoli. Lee and Megan will share the process of their international art project including the artist’s letters to engaging participants in the making of both individual and collaborative Rangoli. Participants will apply the principles of design including colour, symmetry, repetition and pattern.

Carly Grace (Independent)
Student Centred Learning—Visual Thinking Strategies
This interactive workshop is an opportunity to experience the exhibition, Love & Desire through the application of Visual Thinking Strategies. VTS is an enquiry-based approach to experiencing art through careful, close looking and questioning. It empowers viewers to discuss art based on what they can see in an artwork and to construct their interpretation through a conversation with peers.

Steve Marks (Art Education Victoria)
Studio Habits of Mind
Art Education Victoria has been exploring Studio Habits of Mind (SHoM) as part of their professional development in 2018. Come and learn about the dispositions through workshop activities, explore holistic curriculum approaches, and leave with a greater awareness of resources to help you implement SHoM in your setting to improve student outcomes through authentic creative practice.

Wendy Ramsay and Helen Yip (Visual Art and Design Educators Association NSW)
Scissors, Seams & Simulacra: Waking the Mind’s Eye
Refusing to blend in seamlessly with our screen-saturated environment, collage is an empowering tool for disrupting habitual ways of thinking and seeing. The performative action of cutting and re-positioning, necessitates a restorative process that reveals and shifts the seams of our perceived realities. To cut and paste, is to rouse new frameworks for meaning and mending, deconstruction and reconstruction.

 

Stephanie Richter (Monash Gallery)
Making Photographs Without A Camera
Explore the storytelling potential of lumen printing, an alternative photographic technique that does not use a camera. In this workshop we'll harness the power of the sun, embrace the unexpected, and experiment to create meaning from diptychs and triptychs of images. You'll create ghostly images that abstract their source material, providing ample launching points for further exploration, manipulation and interpretation.

Josephine Townsend (Canberra Potters)
Using Clay as Your Canvas
A cook’s tour of the myriad of options for printing, drawing and layering pattern, colour, line and texture into clay. Josephine will demonstrate several techniques that can easily be implemented in the classroom using simple materials and found objects.

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Wednesday 23 January 2019

Afternoon: 2–2.5 hours

Lucy Irvine Thinking in Space
This workshop explores ways of learning that involve handmade, hand-thought processes. Through a series of individual and collaborative tasks, participants will consider how thinking and form might emerge in space, with the aim of extending interdisciplinary and divergent thinking for teachers and students alike.

Leona Beeson (S&S)
Printmaking
Experiment with two printmaking processes—CD etching and Gelli printing. Discover the ease of using a recycled, everyday item—the CD—as a plate. Scratch easily into the surface then complete your print with hand colouring. Then produce beautiful monoprints inspired by nature using Gelli plates. Participants will utilise the textures of the natural world to create soft, ghost-like prints.

Kate Murphy (NGA)
Zine making
An introduction to the DIY world of zine making. Zines are an easy publishing system to share stories, art, ideas and thoughts. Zines are copyright free, cheap to produce and a creative platform that’s used all over the world. This practical workshop will go through all aspects of zine making and elements to develop units of work, including basic zine folding, worldwide zine movements and use of typewriters, stamps and unusual tools.

Tracey Murphy
Brushmaking
Explore a new style of mark making by creating a series of brushes from natural materials and recycled fabrics then using them to create expressive marks in your own style. Tracey Murphy has 31 years of experience as an Early Childhood Educator, is an artist and a strong believer in the importance of Visual Arts in the early years.

Sally Smart
NGA Play inspired by the Ballet Russes
Join Sally Smart for a practical art making workshop using textiles, paper and other materials to create work inspired by her NGA Play installation and costume designs from the Ballet Russes. Delve deeper into the artists and ideas that inspire Smart’s artistic practice, which she will have shared earlier in the day in her keynote address.

Luna Ryan and Ellen Collins (Canberra Glassworks)
Glass Fusion
Enjoy a tour of the Canberra Glassworks and explore our exhibition of the work of Kate Baker. Follow with a making activity, designing and creating a collaborative artwork using kiln formed glass. Learn to cut and fuse glass and work closely to achieve design solutions. Each participant will contribute to a collaborative piece as well as take home their own postcard sized tile.

Tony Ameneiro
Dry point workshop at Megalo Print Studio + Gallery
Tony Ameneiro will present a dry point workshop using low cost plastic materials with an emphasis on ease and the versatility of the medium. Ideas explored in this workshop will relate to his 2017 exhibition 'Head Over Head' which evolved from an interest in simply drawing at two museums at the University of Sydney, but quickly grew into a project looking at ideas to do with mortality, regeneration and respect.

ANU workshop 1: Dr Kit Divine (ANU) Virtual Reality
This course will include a discussion of VR and its potential applications. Attendees will get the chance to experience several different VR implementations.

ANU workshop 2: Nyx Stone Adornment Heart and Home
This workshop will provide a hands-on experience in the Jewellery and Object studio using upcycled materials and accessible processes that can transfer directly to the classroom. Participants will produce a piece that explores the radical act of producing and wearing artworks designed to prompt conversations that lead to change.

ANU workshop 3: Mel Douglas Kiln Forming Glass
Kiln forming is a process of working multi coloured glass within a kiln. This session will introduce participants to these processes that include glass cutting, fusing and slumping in a hands-on introduction to kiln formed glass. The session will also introduce classroom approaches to translating ideas into this medium.