SYMPOSIUM
Transitions: supporting moments in time
Art Education Victoria was proud to present our inaugural Secondary Symposium in 2022 in partnership with Monash University Fine Art.
We explored topics related to Transitions for students and art educators teaching years 7-10 visual art. We shared ideas, experiences and brought teachers together to support teacher professional learning. In partnership with Monash University Fine Art, this event took place at the Caulfield campus the home of MUMA.
Our program included keynote speaker Peta Clancy breakout sessions including a behind the scenes exhibition tour of Collective Movements at MUMA with Director Charlotte Day and an Art History talk with Luke Smythe, hands-on workshops, art educator panels and opportunities to network and connect with peers.
Educator led panel topics related to our theme of Transitions included:
- How do we support student choices and motivations to take up visual art in VCE?
- How do we address the issues that come up when students have gap years and do not study Visual Arts within the 7-10 year levels?
- What strategies do teachers implement to support Year 7 students with a diverse range of primary school art experiences, skills and knowledge?
Program
Keynote Speaker | |
Peta Clancy |
Peta Clancy - First Nations Artist presenter with Q&A Peta Clancy will talk about her work with a Q&A to follow. Peta will address her specific research areas which encompass themes including hidden histories of colonisation and climate change. Through introducing her individual practice, her talk will also consider her own teaching approaches in the studio, and ways in which her work may be referenced in the classroom. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Clancy’s has had numerous solo exhibitions including, Linden New Art (2015); Galerija Kapelica, Slovenia (2013); Performance Space, Sydney (2011); Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney (2007); Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, UK (2005). Selected group exhibitions have included Under the Sun: Reimagining Max Dupain’s Sunbaker, State Library of New South Wales and Monash Gallery of Art (2017); TEA Super Connect, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (2013) and National Centre for Contemporary Arts (Baltic Branch), Russia (2013).
In 2017 Clancy acted as a curatorial advisor for Science Gallery Melbourne’s season Blood. In 2009-2013 she collaborated with Helen Pynor on ‘The Body is a Big Place’ project, exploring organ transplantation, working with members of that community, medical clinicians, and scientists. The project won an Honorary Mention in the 2012 Prix Ars Electronica, Austria.
Image credit: Peta Clancy, Cutting Edge 2015-16. from the series She carries it all like a map on her skin.
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Exhibition Tour | |
Charlotte Day![]()
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MUMA Exhibition Tour with Charlotte Day
Exhibition: Collective Movements
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Charlotte Day has been MUMA’s Director since 2013. She has extensive curatorial and arts management experience having worked in contemporary art organisations including the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) and Gertrude Contemporary and as guest curator for the The Anne Landa Award (2013), Adelaide Biennial (2010), TarraWarra Biennial (2008) and Australian Pavilion for Venice Biennale (2005 and 2007). Charlotte has worked across a range of public and private contexts, both in shaping collections as well as managing public art projects, including for Kaldor Public Art Projects and the Michael Buxton Collection. Charlotte has a Master of Arts in Museums and Material Culture from Monash University (1995).
GIF image credit: Collective Movements Identity: Jenna Lee
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Art History Presentation | |
Luke Smythe |
Art History presentation
Luke Smythe will discuss his approach to teaching students about the key developments in the recent histories of art, design and architecture. Learning about each of these histories and the social developments they relate to, give students a clearer understanding of what it means to work in creative practice and why it is that creativity is so important to our lives. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Luke Smythe is a lecturer in art history and theory at Monash University. Luke has taught art history in New Zealand and the United States. From 2012–2014, he worked as a Curatorial Fellow in Postwar Art at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich. His recent research has focused on three main topics: the global evolution of modernism since the Second World War, abstract cinema and somatic experience, and the passage of analogue art media into the digital era. Articles and essays, addressing these and other topics, have appeared in a number of publications, including October, Modernism/modernity, the Art Journal (U.S.), and Oxford Art Journal. His book Gretchen Albrecht: Between Gesture and Geometry was published in 2019 by Massey University Press.
Image credit: I am a Sender. I Transmit! The Multiples of Joseph Beuys, 2014. Installation view at Pinakothek der Moderne. Photographer: Haydar Koyupinar. Investigators: Luke Smythe, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich Maja Wismer, The Busch-Reisinger Museum/Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts. |
Art Educator led panel discussions | |
Topics related to the theme: Transitions: supporting moments in time
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Art Studio hands-on workshops | |
Expanding Drawing/Sculpture
Printmaking
Topics include:
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Venue
Monash University Caulfield Campus
900 Dandenong Road
Caulfield East Victoria 3145
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