Teacher Professional Learning Program: STEM in Art (full day)
Taking ACCA’s exhibition Haroon Mirza: The Construction of an Act as a starting point, and the London-based artist’s approach to the medium and manipulation of electricity, learn how principles of STEM can be integrated in art.
This full day professional learning program is for teachers wanting to explore interdisciplinary opportunities in art making, to encourage collaborative and experimental approaches to new mediums and processes.
$89. Morning tea, lunch and resources provided.
Enquiries: education@acca.melbourne or (03) 9697 9999
This professional learning program addresses the following Australian Professional Standards for Teachers:
2.1 – Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area
2.5 – Literacy and numeracy strategies
6.2 – Engage in professional learning and improve practice
Teacher Professional Learning Program: STEM in Art (half day)
Taking ACCA’s exhibition Haroon Mirza: The Construction of an Act as a starting point, and the London-based artist’s approach to the medium and manipulation of electricity, learn how principles of STEM can be integrated in art.
This school holiday, half day professional learning program is for teachers wanting to explore interdisciplinary opportunities in art making, to encourage collaborative and experimental approaches to new mediums and processes.
$49. Resources provided.
The program will run between 2-5pm. Participants are invited to join us for end of day refreshments at 5pm.
Enquiries: education@acca.melbourne or (03) 9697 9999
This professional learning program addresses the following Australian Professional Standards for Teachers:
2.1 – Content and teaching strategies of the teaching area
2.5 – Literacy and numeracy strategies
6.2 – Engage in professional learning and improve practice
Teacher Professional Learning Program: Historical Traces and Speculative Futures
Take a long look at selected contemporary artworks at ACCA in Australian artist Tom Nicholson’s exhibition Public Meeting. This exhibition provides an encounter with artworks that have manifested from time the artist has spent looking, listening, drawing and researching.
Reflecting the complex dynamic between historical traces and speculative futures in Tom Nicholson’s drawing, sculptural and social practice, Tom Nicholson: Public Meeting is the first large-scale exhibition to survey the scope of the artist’s practice. Including key projects dating from 2005 to the present, alongside newly commissioned work, this exhibition aims to open up conversations concerned with the intersection and re-imagining of national and international, Indigenous and colonial narratives and histories.
In this professional learning program we will explore the potential of slow looking and reflective writing as creative strategies to deepen appreciation for and connection with complex contemporary artworks. Tom will join us in the second half of the program, affording participants the opportunity to enter into direct dialogue with the artist about his richly researched and nuanced artworks, providing valuable insight into his unique art practice for teachers of all levels.
The program will run between 2-5pm and then participants are invited to join us for refreshments to finish the day between 5-6pm.
Enquiries: education@acca.melbourne or (03) 9697 9999
This professional learning program addresses the following Australian Professional Standards for Teachers:
6.2 – Engage in professional learning and improve practice
7.4 – Understand the role of external professionals and community representatives in broadening teachers’ professional knowledge and practice.
Slow Art Day at ACCA
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see – Henry David Thoreau.
Slow down and take part in Slow Art Day 2019 at ACCA! Take a long look at selected contemporary artworks in Tom Nicholson: Public Meeting, before joining Eliza Devlin and Shannon Lyons, ACCA Educators, at 2pm for a relaxed group discussion about what you’ve seen and experienced.
Slow Art Day is a worldwide event with a simple mission: help more people discover for themselves the joy of looking at and loving art. The goal of Slow Art Day is to focus on the art and the art of seeing.
Find out more about Slow Art Day – www.slowartday.com
FREE. Bookings Essential
Social practice and education in contemporary art – in conversation with Mary Mattingly and Kym Maxwell
This seminar for teachers brings together New York-based artist Mary Mattingly, local artist Kym Maxwell and teachers Leanne Skaftouros and Alison Rogers for an informal discussion about the expanding role of social practice in contemporary art.
The discussion will focus on the development of Mary Mattingly’s ongoing project Objects in the Round, premiering in Australia at the Arts Learning Festival, and Kym Maxwell’s ambitious new commission Objects of Longing, presented at MUMA during the exhibition Shapes of Knowledge. Specifically, the artists will tease out their common interest in collaborating with young people to examine the politics of everyday objects and institutional collections through a multidisciplinary approach to storytelling and performance.
Mary Mattingly has been brought to Melbourne by Independent Schools Victoria for its Arts Learning Festival. Her work has been featured in prestigious art festivals, galleries and museums around the world, and she has also collaborated with New York’s Museum of Modern Art Teen program. Kym Maxwell’s practice explores the relationship between education and social space. She creates cultural products that are performative and often co-produced with children, linking art institutions with communities in unexpected ways.
The discussion will be convened by Monash University Museum of Art’s Senior Curator Hannah Mathews, and the project has been generously supported by Gandel Philanthropy and Creative Learning Partnerships, a Victorian Government Initiative.