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education update

Term 4, 2012

Art Gallery NSW

Sol LeWitt, Wall drawing #1091: arcs, circles and bands (room)

Dear colleague,

We have been busy at the Gallery developing learning resources and programs for current and coming exhibitions highlighted below. These include education kits, videos, curator and artist insights, behind the scenes of the Bacon exhibition, blogs, audio and slideshows to support interactive classroom learning, as well as pre- and post-visit activities to inspire your students.

Sidney Nolan, First class marksman

Permanent display

Dadang Christanto, They give evidence

Current exhibitions

Francis Bacon, Three studies for a self-portrait

Coming exhibitions

Francis Bacon: five decades
Opens 17 Nov

Dobell Prize for drawing
Opens 30 Nov

We used to talk about love
Balnaves contemporary: photomedia

Opens 31 Jan 2013

ARTEXPRESS 2013
Opens 20 Feb 2013

Archibald, Wynne and Sulman Prizes
Opens 23 Mar 2013

For teachers

Showcase: Bacon
Saturday 1 December 2012, 9am–12pm
$25 – includes a champagne breakfast, exhibition entry and a presentation on Francis Bacon, resources and approaches. Celebrate the end of year with the Gallery and your colleagues.
More information + bookings

Learning symposium
7–9 March 2013
The Learning symposium, including a day focused on ARTEXPRESS, aims to support all educators in the Visual Arts – primary, secondary, tertiary and adult educators – with fresh ideas from the world of art and education. We invite respected artists, art historians, curators and educators to respond to current issues relevant to classroom programming.
More information + bookings

 

What’s on for teachers

New education poster

Look out for the newly designed education poster that will be posted to your school in the coming weeks.

Competitions

Only one month to go to submit your entries in the Gallery’s two student prizes:

Artwrite
the Gallery’s annual student art-writing prize

Screenshot
the Gallery’s annual student photo prize

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Images: Sol LeWitt Wall drawing #1091: arcs, circles and bands (room) 2003 (detail) John Kaldor Family Collection at the Art Gallery of New South Wales © Estate of Sol LeWitt. ARS/Licensed by Viscopy; Permanent display: Sidney Nolan First-class marksman 1946 Purchased with funds provided by the Gleeson O'Keefe Foundation 2010 © The Trustees of the Sidney Nolan Trust/ Bridgeman Art Library; Current exhibitions: Dadang Christanto They give evidence 1996-97 © Dadang Christanto; Coming exhibitions: Francis Bacon Three studies for a self-portrait 1979–80, oil on canvas, triptych 37.5 × 31.8 cm each, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998 Photo © The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Art Resources/Scala, Florence © The Estate of Francis Bacon. DACS/Licensed by Viscopy; Education poster: Wendy Sharpe Self-portrait in Antarctica with penguin and Mawson’s huts (detail), Archibald Prize finalist 2012 © Wendy Sharpe; Bec Stackpool, Monte Sant’ Angelo Mercy College, year 12, Day of the dead teenager, senior winner Screenshot 2011

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