This event is collaboration between UNSW, COFA and VADEA.

ART WORLD ALLIANCES: NEGOTIATING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE ART

CLASSROOM, ART WORLD AND ART TEACHERS PROFESSIONAL OBLIGATIONS
Date: 20 June 2014 Time: 9.30am - 4pm Cost: $310 (Includes lunch and parking) Payable by credit card or invoice NOTE: There is a discount of 50% for VADEA members, please use the voucher code VADEA to receive the discount. Location: UNSW Kensington Campus, John Goodsell Building, Room 119 - (Map ref F20) This professional learning day provides the opportunity for highly accomplished Visual Arts teachers to address contemporary developments in art and education that affect teaching and learning in Visual Arts 7-12 in NSW schools. Content will include: 1. The Australian curriculum: the Arts and concepts of available for use; awaiting final endorsement with a focus on NSWs position 2. Opportunities and tensions that arise in using the Visual Arts Stage 6 syllabus that has been in circulation for 15 years 3. Opportunities and tensions in assessment practice 4. Recent developments in research involving how students learn to build and apply concepts in their critical interpretation of artworks 5. Innovative approaches to programming that include: a. The use of contemporary Chinese art as a hook to engage students and develop their critical and historical writing b. Connecting students and communities through contemporary art and architecture in Japan and western Sydney with a focus on examples from the recently developed Architects Registration Board teaching resource c. Codexurbanite students public interventions in the urban environment using coded messages and QR codes in socially engaged art. All presenters are highly qualified and well known to Visual Arts teachers. They include: Dr Kerry Thomas, Honorary Associate Professor, School of Education, UNSW, Visiting Fellow, COFA Dr Karen Maras, Acting Head of Education, Senior Lecturer, Visual Arts Education, Australian Catholic University Graeme Colman, Head Teacher Visual Arts and Design, St Vincents College Luise Guest, Visual Arts Coordinator, Loreto Kirribilli Karen King, Creative Arts Coordinator, Caroline Chisolm College Karen Profilio, Head Teacher Creative Arts North Sydney Girls High School

TO REGISTER VIST: https://education.arts.unsw.edu.au/students/study/short-courses/

Artwork supplied, Year 11 Installation, North Sydney Girls High School