2023 SYMPOSIUM
Reflections: Illuminating Inspiration and Growth, Sculpting Memories and Blurring Boundaries
Thurs 23 November 2023, 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
Art Education Victoria was proud to present our Secondary Symposium in 2023 in partnership with Monash University Fine Art.
The theme for the Secondary Symposium, "Reflections: Illuminating Inspiration and Growth, Sculpting Memories and Blurring Boundaries," reflects a deep exploration of the journey that art educators have embarked upon in the year 2023. The symposium is tailored for Visual Art Educators in Secondary School years 7-10, as well as VCE Art Educators. This theme encompasses a multifaceted exploration of artistic and educational experiences, embracing both personal and collective growth.
The symposium's focus on recent developments in art education, such as the introduction of new study designs for VCE Art and the review of the Foundation to Year 10 Visual Art Victorian Curriculum, highlights the importance of staying current and adapting to evolving educational landscapes. These changes present both opportunities and challenges for art educators, and the symposium provides a platform for the art education community to collectively reflect on their implications.
Through collaborative discussions and shared experiences, participants will delve into the impact of these curriculum changes on various aspects of their professional lives. This includes examining how the alterations may influence workload dynamics, requiring educators to find innovative ways to navigate increased demands while maintaining the quality of their teaching.
The symposium also underscores the significance of personal growth and ongoing learning for art educators. As they adapt to new educational paradigms and incorporate fresh perspectives into their teaching practices, they too undergo a process of artistic and pedagogical transformation. By encouraging the exploration of new learnings, the symposium empowers educators to enhance their instructional methods and enrich the artistic expression of their students.
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Keynote Speaker: Kathy Temin
Kathy Temin has challenged the idea of what a monument and a memorial can be since the mid 1990s engaging with domesticity, 1970s interior design and remembrance. Her signature medium of synthetic fur refers to the exaggerated emotions of soft toy imagery and the comfort and protection of childhood. Temin’s family history of persecution and displacement have generated abstract and materially based work, some large enough to walk through. Her sculptures refer to monuments and memorials where personal and collective remembrance are interwoven.
Kathy Temin has exhibited nationally and internationally since 1990. Selected solo projects and shows; The National Gallery of Australia, NGA, Canberra (2020) The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (2010 & 2018) GOMA, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane (2014) The Melbourne Art Trams Project, The Melbourne Festival (2015) The Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland (2015). In 2009 her work was the subject of a 20-year survey exhibition at the Heide Museum of Modern Art, (2008) Melbourne.
She completed a PhD in 2007 and MFA in 1991 both at the Melbourne University and a BFA Victoria College, Melbourne in 1986. Temin's work is represented by Anna Schwartz Gallery in Melbourne and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney. Kathy Temin is Professor in Fine Art, at Monash Art Design Architecture, Monash University, Melbourne. |
WORKSHOP SESSIONS
2A Drawing Workshop | Frankenstein Fragments
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Join the talented Ameliè Scalercio as she guides you through a unique drawing experience. You will be drawing different sections of the model, gradually piecing together a patchwork of body parts where there is no up, no down and no sense to the resulting structure. Play with line, scale and repetition and weave your body parts into a semblance of abstracted form.
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2B Sculpture Workshop | Inside Out
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Embark on a sculptural journey with skilled artist Benjamin Woods. Explore the relationship of interior and exterior spaces of objects through a simple but rewarding forming process using conventional sculptural materials of plaster and clay produce deep relief sculpture. Through this process you will understand the forces at play in processes of forming, such as touch, information, transfers and exchanges of energy. Work between senses of the visual and tactile to explore how a forming process can be informed by embodied experience.
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2C Print Making Workshop | A Printed Matter
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Dive into the world of screen printing with the brilliant Sarah Murphy of Troppo Print Studio. Explore techniques like hand cut stencils and pre-made screens, focusing on paper printing. Unleash your creativity in this collaborative medium. |
2023 PROGRAM SCHEDULE | |
Registration | |
Welcome | |
Keynote Speaker: Kathy Temin | |
Morning Tea | |
Curriculum update: VCAA - Kathy Hendy-Ekers (presented via zoom) |
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Educator discussion groups:
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Lunch | |
Workshops | |
MUMA Exhibition Wrap up |
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MADA NOW - Graduate Exhibition Networking drinks |
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In essence, the Secondary Symposium's theme encapsulates a year of artistic exploration and educational evolution, inviting art educators to come together as a community to reflect, learn, and inspire one another. Through shared insights and collaborative discourse, participants can navigate the complexities of modern art education and continue to nurture the creative spirits of their students in secondary schools.
Tickets
Payment Terms
Please note all personal payments must be made up front with a credit card at the time of booking.
Purchase orders are accepted from schools/organisations paying for teacher/employee professional development. Please ensure payments are received prior to this event.
Please note all in-person tickets include catering for lunch, morning and afternoon tea.
$299 - General Admission (Non- Member)
$225 - ArtEdVic Member
Please ensure your AEV Membership is current by logging in to your account online or please feel welcome to email us at hello@aev.vic.edu.au.
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Venue
Monash University Caulfield Campus
900 Dandenong Road
Caulfield East Victoria 3145
Flashback
2022 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
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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 | |
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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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