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ZartZart ArtArt - Supporting Supporting teachers teachers in in creative creative education education Contents News, Events & Dates ...... 2 Iconic Landmarks in Print . . . 3 Spore Project...... 4 Zart Student Gallery . . . . 4—5 All the Fun of the Fair...... 6 PD Insert ...... Supplement Artists in Schools ...... 7 Linking Numeracy with Art . .8 Animated Drawings ...... 9 Classroom Displays ...... 10 Art for Wellbeing ...... 11 New Resources ...... 11 Zart Calendar Term 1 2011. . . 12 art events • news • updates Look! Galleries around Victoria The Art of Australian Picture Books NGV International: State Library of Victoria Gustave Moreau and the Eternal Feminine 3 December 2010–31 May 2011 10 Dec 2010 - 10 Apr 2011 For the fi rst time in its history, the State Library of Victoria 180 St Kilda Road, Temporary Exhibition Space 1, Level G presents an exhibition specifi cally for children: Look! includes History has bequeathed us a great repertoire of femmes 120 original artworks by 46 of Australia’s most accomplished fatales who are not Scarlet Johanssen or Sharon Stone – children’s book illustrators, including Shaun Tan; Graeme but had Gustave Moreau been alive today he probably Zart Extra: ISSN 1448—8450 Base; Bob Graham; Jeannie Baker; Gregory Rogers; Ann James; would have painted them too, as kin to the endless Zart Extra is published quarterly by Zart Education, a Leigh Hobbs; Ron Brooks and Frane Lessac. number of heroines who captivated him in the late division of Zart Art Pty Ltd. This publication is mailed prior This delightful exhibition displays sketches, drafts, mock-ups, to the first week of the term issue date. This newsletter nineteenth century. Powerful and beautiful women like fi nished artwork and publications demonstrating the various allows art teachers/co-ordinators to learn about what is the legendary Cleopatra and the vampiric Messalina, the stages of developing contemporary Australian picture books. happening in art education and what other art teachers are deadly but fascinating Salomé and Lady Macbeth, and doing. You will fi nd information on new art techniques and Curator Mike Shuttleworth says Look! gives children a chance luscious, hapless victims of male lust such as Helen of processes, the latest materials and resources on the market. to see artwork from their favourite stories up close and Troy – beauties whose names are the stuff of legend. Please note, all prices quoted are valid for the duration of explore the process of visual storytelling. Look! is an the current term only and are subject to change without Moreau brings them alive for us, as well as men like interactive, hands-on exhibition. It includes fun activities for notice. The insert of the newsletter provides details of our Oedipus whose lives were bound by tragic destiny. children such as: Learning to create their own illustrations, term's workshops, so teachers can then contact us and Admission fees apply book into the workshop. Reading and storytime, Meeting artists, Exploring lightboxes; playing with Fuzzy Felt; and games and puzzles inspired by Due to various circumstances some information may be Heide Museum of Modern Art subject to change. Zart Art, Zart Extra logo and masthead the books. are registered trademarks of Zart Art Pty Ltd. All content is Free admission Mirka subject to copyright and may not be republished without prior consent from Zart Art. All submissions become 23 October 2010 - 1 May 2011 property of Zart Art. Submissions may be published in the Heide Museum of Modern Art Zart Extra or posted on www.zartart.com.au the offi cial art 7 Templestowe Road, Bulleen Victoria 3105 education resource. Zart Art reserves the right to edit Showcasing Heide’s collection of works by one of submitted articles/activities for content, length and clarity. Melbourne’s best-loved personalities—artist Mirka Zart Art Mora—this exhibition features drawings, paintings and Supporting teachers in creative education soft sculpture. A number of the works were gifts from the Zart offers an extensive range of fine art materials, artist to Heide founders John and Sunday Reed and are resources, craft and technology supplies. You will inscribed with delightful personal messages that trace an find competitive prices and efficient and quick Leigh Hobbs, illustration from Old Tom’s Holiday, Little Hare Books, 2002, ink, pencil and watercolour on paper, State Library of Victoria of Library State on paper, ink, pencil and watercolour Books, 2002, Little Hare Holiday, Old Tom’s from Leigh Hobbs, illustration enduring friendship service. Open 10am-5pm Closed Mondays 4/41 Lexton Road, Box Hill North, Melbourne Vic 3129 Australia Ph: (03) 9890 1867 Fax: (03) 9898 6527 www.zartart.com.au E: [email protected] Join Us & Support The Big Read 2011 Administration Hours: State Library of Victoria Monday – Friday: 8.30 am – 5.00 pm 10 April 2011 Customer Service Centre: The Children’s Book Council of Australia (Victorian Branch) Monday – Wednesday & Friday: 8.30 am – 5.00 pm Thursday: 8.30 am – 6.30 pm invites you to join them and other passionate readers on Saturday: 8.30 am – 2.00 pm Sunday 10th April, outside the State Library of Victoria, as they attempt to set a world record for the most children reading with an adult at one time, in one place. Details are available from the CBCA Offi ce ([email protected] / Ph: 1300-360-436) and registrations will open in early February. Readers must register with CBCA in a bid to beat this world record, so be a part of history and register early!
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Iconic Landmarks in Print...
A Year 12 student’s fi nal work is a have always wanted to do, to make it mounted onto a piece of hardwood board and then painted snapshot of one of Melbourne’s stand out and make the viewer be the edges black. I also worked into the actual lino print itself iconic facades. Ruby shares with us impressed by its size. Firstly I took with soft pastels and mounted it on a hardwood board and the process she went through to my own photos of “Luna Park” in displayed this with my fi nished lino print. produce this magnifi cent work. both black and white, and colour. This helped me with sketching my Ruby Fillipino This year in Year 12 Art I decided ideas, fi nal design and colour roughs. Year 12 Art that I would like to explore types of After this I reduced a smaller Mullauna College, Mitcham architecture from different locations drawing to 50%, then photocopied and time periods. Every country has onto an overhead transparency and its own trademark for famous projected it to full size onto the architecture. In Unit 3, I explored and sheet of lino. The lino came in a roll trialled a variety of materials, of which I cut off the size I wanted. I techniques and processes, which I couldn’t use the school’s printing used as starting points for “my body press because of its size, so I had to of work”. I then decided I would like print it on two art tables pushed to do lino printing (very large lino together and then by hand. I then printing). The fi rst one would be proceeded to print each colour as based on the “Taj Mahal” in India and required on paper which was also on the second piece as a comparison, of a large roll. It was quite a diffi cult “Luna Park” in Melbourne. These two task, the inking-up of every colour types of architecture are similar but and I needed another person to help also quite different. The large lino me register each colour. I was very print of “Luna Park” was something I happy with the fi nal result which I
Zart Extra_Term 1 2011 3 Community
Spore Project
The SPORE Project is a worldwide effort developed to promote awareness for the support of art education and creativity in day-to-day life. The project illustrates the Student Gallery Exhibition Opening T4 2010 importance of self expression, resourcefulness and creativity – specifi cally, how to look at one thing (a simple paper bag) and GALLERY REVIEWS see what it can be instead of merely what it is. The project was Much of the joy and trepidation concerned with parenthood is created to build awareness, specifi cally to let people know the associated with our child’s growth, whether that growth is physical, importance of art. Art is essential: it promotes intelligence and emotional, spiritual or cultural. Our aim for our child is to be well creativity, and it’s a great expressive outlet that inspires people rounded and each aspect is important to that end. On Thursday toward new perspectives on life, which we all need and need October 7th I witnessed my daughter experience the nerves and then frequently. Creativity is needed in every aspect of life. It exhilaration of having her artwork exhibited in a public forum. In teaches us to think differently and allows us to consider other doing so she was able to experience the very same emotions as artists options. For the past few years, individuals, classrooms and have experienced throughout history. This was an outstanding organizations around the world constructed and planted opportunity for growth in personal esteem. The exhibition brought thousands of paper bag mushrooms in support of art education together students, teachers and parents and the positive and creativity! In May of 2010, a world wide effort was made to acknowledgement of all works meant that the atmosphere during the
spread the message. The offi cial SPORE Project count: - 92 evening was supportive and sensationally positive. PrimaryChandler Park School plantings - 46 cities - 15 countries - 10,170 mushrooms. Thank The diversity of works also meant that the exhibition was a gold you to everyone who participated! Let’s beat that in May 2011. mine for teachers as they develop their curriculum but also showed After you have planted your mushrooms, simply take a just what an amazing array of talents our youngsters have. I am digital photo and send it to… [email protected] extremely grateful for the opportunity this exhibition afforded my Include: 1. your school 2. your city and state 3. your country 4. how daughter and I commend Zart Art for their generosity of spirit in many mushrooms you made. I will then post your photo and providing this wonderful gallery. information on this site along with a world map, so we can see how Brett Pullyblank. much of the world we’ve covered with mushrooms! Parent - Haileybury College Brighton Doug Rhodehamel Project Director On the day a letter came from my school telling me that I had a piece of art in the Zart Student Gallery I was very excited but a little surprised my work would be good enough. I was still very excited when we arrived at the gallery as were my friends who were there at the door. I was a little curious as how my work would be presented and whether people would like it. The techniques used in my picture were time consuming but it was really good to hear the positive comments about my work and when I heard this I felt proud and this made it really worthwhile. I also enjoyed seeing the artwork of other students from both my school and other schools which were all very impressive but also very different. Many techniques were familiar so it was great to see the efforts of other students. Everyone was very friendly and I had a really great time. Millie Pullyblank. Student Artist - Haileybury College Brighton Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar
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Exhibiting Term 1 2011 On show until the 29th March 2011
Caulfi eld South Primary School Lino Prints Chandler Park Primary School Marionettes Brunswick East ICA Casey College Rainforests and Portraits Our Lady Help of Christians School ICA Casey College
St Francis of Assisi School Mill Park St Francis Lauriston Girls’ School Lino Prints Mullauna College Lino Prints Newhaven College Textile Dolls
Sacre Coeur Sacre Our Lady Help of Christians School Newhaven College Newhaven Brunswick East Bird Monoprints Penders Grove Primary School Stonehenge Caulfield South Primary School Penola Catholic College Mixed Media Ruyton Girls’ School Wall Hanging Sacre Coeur Clowns, Root Systems St Francis of Assisi School Mill Park Bear and Chook Paintings Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar Clay Figures TTrafalgar Primary School TTalking Art WWestbreen Primary School HHands and Feet WWheelers Hill Primary School FFlags
Zart’s Student Gallery Situated upstairs in the Zart Customer Service Centre. Each term the Student Gallery exhibits a new display of work from young artists ranging from kindergarten to VCE. We are always on the lookout for artwork to be exhibited that showcases new ideas and techniques suitable for all age levels. Please email images of work you would like to exhibit one term in advance to Jan Roker on [email protected] Penola Catholic College Penola Also visit www.zartart.com.au
Zart Extra_Term 1 2011 5 Skill Development
modelled the most wonderful glazed, ceramic clowns and created designer show-bags. The delightful 3D Carousel Horses PREP that formed the centre-point of GRADE FOUR the display were the work of the Year 3 & 4 students. They were also responsible for designing and creating the life-size clown puppets. Year 5 students were involved in the Animation Project for much of Terms 2 & 3, so I decided to give them an interesting task that could be completed outside the Art Room. Their task was to design, draft GRADE ONE and complete a long-stitch tapestry of a clown. A number of tasks, ranging from designing and creating carnival character masks, to meeting the challenge of painting ‘Moving Pictures’ and depicting an image of what could be seen while ‘Peeping Under a Circus Tent’, really kept the Year GRADE TWO 6 students thinking outside the square. The students could only show a portion of an act and the viewer had to be able to imagine ALL THE FUN OF THE FAIR! the rest. Our Year 6 students were involved in the When it was decided at Sacre Coeur, that the Junior School Art Stonnington Council and Duldig Show would coincide with the French Village Fair in October, I knew Museum initiative, ‘Clay for Kids’ exactly what path my Prep-6 Visual Art Program would follow this workshops, during Term 3. We year. I decided on a Circus/Carnival theme, focusing in particular on used the Art Show theme as the Clowns. The theme would also be linked to the Junior School Musical focus for the ceramic sculptures
in Term 2, which was titled ‘Vaudeville’. As I was responsible for the that were produced during the GRADE THREE props for this production, I made sure that I would be able to use the workshops. The students created artwork and recycle some of the props for the Art Show. We were also clowns, ferris wheels and various fortunate to receive a grant through Arts Victoria, Artists in Schools circus characters that were a Program and our aim was to link this with Visual Art. Film-maker, perfect addition to the Art Show. Gregg Brown spent approximately 14 sessions during Terms 2 & 3, The Art Show was certainly a working with Year 5 students to create an animation titled ‘Back-fl ips great success and showcased the and Butterfl ies’. This project was successfully incorporated into our enormous talent of our Art Show theme, with the students creating a variety of circus wonderful artists.
characters and props for the fi lm. In the Art Room, the students from GRADE FIVE all levels were immersed in research and discussions of their Susan McDonald experiences of the theme and they were encouraged to experiment Visual Art Teacher with a variety of materials and techniques. It was amazing to see the Sacre Coeur diversity and range of responses to a similar subject and when all of the artwork was fi nally assembled, the skill development from Prep-6 was obvious. The students really used their experiences, knowledge and imagination, to create some amazing 2D and 3D artwork throughout the year. Each level was introduced to a range of tasks including a variety of specifi c painting techniques, print-making, papier mache construction, ceramics, mask making, textiles and various collage techniques. The Prep students created clay clowns on GRADE SIX sticks and mixed media ice-creams. The students from Years 1 & 2
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The following two articles outline projects undertaken by two Artist in School Primary Schools during 2010 under the guidance of a visiting professional artist. They are two very different projects but both provided the opportunity for young artists to work side by side with Residencies a professional artist. Murals... In Term 1, 2010 Laburnum teacher Julie McCarthy and the Primary School received a grant artist in residence to brainstorm from the City of Whitehorse, images that would refl ect their Artist in Schools Program. This value statements. The Fable by grant enabled the school to James Thurber “The Moth and have artist Jane Byrne for 11 days the Star” printed in the story to work on a painted mural collection Fables for Our Time in which was to be located in their 1940 was used as a school hall at the back of the brainstorming activity to lead stage. The theme for the mural the discussion with the was to refl ect the School Values students. This Fable was used as of Integrity, Respect, the focus for the mural, “Always Responsibility, Passion and reach and do your personal best Optimism. The vision of the in whatever you strive to do”. mural was to refl ect through Go to www.zartart.com.au to images, the values of the school read more about this project. in such a way that it would give Jane Byrne pleasure, excitement, optimism Artist in Residence and a sense of innocence to the viewer. Children from years prep Julie McCarthy Visual Art teacher to six worked with their art Laburnum Primary School Garden Art... In 2009, Middle Kinglake portal. In our project a portal Go to www.zartart.com.au to Primary School was burnt down was an entrance to another read more about this project. in the February bushfi res. dimension. The idea being when Robyn Henchel Wanting to do something for you look through the opening it Art Teacher the school, I applied for an Arts changes the view and allows the Middle Kinglake Primary School Victoria Artist-in-School grant. observer to drift into a world of In 2010 Savaad Felich, a highly imagination, like the portals in regarded Yarra Valley sculptor many children’s books such as and curator of Yering Station art the wardrobe in Narnia, the gallery, worked at the school on rabbit hole in Alice in Wonderland a sculpture project. His fi rst and the portals used in the encounter with the students Harry Potter books. was met with enthusiasm, Three portals ranging in size evident by the children’s journal from 1.2 to 1.8 metres in diameter entries. were constructed. Each portal Savaad creates circular was linked by shape, colour and sculptures using laminated found objects. They will be marine ply that has a laser cut installed in the new school circle removed from the centre. grounds in such a way that you These sculptures are called can look through the opening of ‘portals.’ It is this negative space one portal onto the other two. that creates the concept of the
Zart Extra_Term 1 2011 7 Linking numeracy & Art Arrays & Aboriginal Art in the Classroom
Desert Art, Multiplication and Division and written multiplication and division division facts for each array. Fact Families and the Wathaurung Culture stories. A 7 by 3 array. Reading Learning Intentions: We will There are 7 rows of 3 or 3 columns of 7 During Term 3, the Grade ¾ Sebastopol read the resources that are available to learn 3+3+3+3+3+3+3=21 7+7+7=21 7x3=21 3x7=21 Primary School students were responding about the Wathaurung people and to fi nd 21÷7=3 21÷ 3=7 well to all the areas they were studying. They multiplication and division stories. Success Using paint, cover paper and Cotton were especially fascinated by Aboriginal Art Indicators: The artwork created and the Filters the students created rectangular and I could see a really strong learning link labels created will show factual information. arrays by printing. The students wrote between the dot paintings of the central Story Writing Learning Intentions: We multiplication and division stories about desert artists and our exploration of will write stories to explain our artwork to each array using the knowledge they had rectangular arrays during numeracy and our an audience. Success Indicators: The stories gained from the research the class had done study of the Wathaurung people as part of have facts about the Wathaurung people and about the Wathaurung people. For example, our “What is an Australian?” theme. It made multiplication and division problems. 3 sheep were brought to Lake Wendouree by sense to develop a project to create one piece Spelling Learning Intentions: We will the white settlers. Each sheep ate 7 Daisy of work that would demonstrate all of their develop a list of words for the grade to refer Yam plants each. That meant there were 21 learning. The students were presented with to when writing. Success Indicators: All less Daisy Yams for the Wathaurung people the learning intentions and the success writing will be correctly spelt. to eat. The stories needed to be hidden so the criteria for each learning area. They were History Learning Intention: To research students used the Zart Perspex Geometric also given a checklist to keep them on track the people of Ballarat before European Shapes and cover paper to cut and fold 3D and to help them monitor their performance Settlement. Success Indicators: The shapes. The stories were edited and written during the project. artwork created and the labels created will inside the shapes and paper stripping was Aboriginal Art Learning Intention: We show factual information about the used to connect the stories to the arrays on will develop an understanding of Aboriginal Wathaurung people and their culture. the artwork during the display process. The Culture by looking at Aboriginal Art. Success We looked at and discussed the artwork students were responsible for the display of Indicators: We will create artworks that will from the Central Desert. We discussed the their work. The class all worked on the tell a story of the Wathaurung people. stories the artwork carried and the layers of Project Title Banner when they had fi nished Multiplication and Division Learning stories the work holds. The depth of the their projects, during the many wet day Intention: We will use arrays to represent stories is not for everyone to know. We timetables we had during term 3. multiplication. We will use fact families to explored and made rectangular arrays on the Di Olsson solve division problems. Success Indicators: fl oor using round counters. We named the Grade 3—4 Teacher Artwork created will show rectangular arrays arrays and identifi ed multiplication and Sebastopol Primary School
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by the school and students were asked to preset teeth, lips, eyes, music and accessories. create a 2D or 3D mixed media portrait of As well as using digital technology to engage someone important to them and respond to the students more in the artroom I have found their work in the form of a short digital it to be an effective way of recording and presentation using a digital facial animation assessing student learning as it also program called CrazyTalk6. incorporates both standards of VELS with an CrazyTalk is a program we purchased after emphasis on Exploring and Responding. being trialled by myself and other teachers in All year levels at Trafalgar Primary have had the Creative Arts department who thought an opportunity to play with and explore this this program would be a useful and effective program during our Education Week Night addition to help engage and encourage School program and have enjoyed seeing how students to respond to their art and to the program works and the variety of things incorporate their increasing knowledge of they can do to their art. Using this program technology into the artroom. within the artroom has not only shown From a drawing or a 3 dimensional model, CrazyTalk is a facial animation program increased engagement in responding to art but students at Trafalgar Primary School have which when used with a digital image of any has also allowed students to expand both their created an animated talking character. What form of portrait can be used to create a talking creativity and imagination in art beyond the next? portrait with full facial expressions similar to traditional boundaries of the artroom. The those seen in the Harry Potter movies. incorporation of this technology has been well Technology is rapidly taking over all aspects CrazyTalk gives the students the ability to received by all students and staff in the 3/4 of our world and is becoming an integral part create scripts, record their own voice or type a Unit and is currently being extended to other of education, with the artroom being no text directly into the program, which is then year levels within the school. exception. transformed into spoken audio using A free trial version of CrazyTalk6 is available Trafalgar Primary, a school of approx. 328 CrazyTalk’s Text-to-Speech voice analysis for download online from the CrazyTalk website. students situated in West Gippsland, Victoria technology. http://crazytalk.en.softonic.com is embracing these changes in technology and This program identifi es and pinpoints the using it to engage and further complement main features of the face used to express Amy Mether students’ work in all areas of the curriculum emotion, e.g. eyes, eyebrows and mouth and Art Teacher including the creative and visual arts. syncs the student’s voice with the movement Trafalgar Primary School In Term 2, 2010 Grade 3 and 4 students at of the face to create a fully animated Trafalgar Primary School began a unit on presentation. It also allows a student to set NB: Child Face Mask used as a starting point for the portraiture based on an activity featured in the emotions for their portrait subjects and gives portraits featured in this article. 2009 Zart catalogue. This activity was adapted them the option of additional features such as
Zart Extra_Term 1 2011 9 Visible Learning
Classroom
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10 www.zartart.com.au Art Show & Resources New Resources! Real Life Journals Gwen Diehn Art for A Journal can enrich a person’s life, and this book helps readers design journals that enhance the experiences they’re chronicling. The unique format features Wellbeing an envelope attached to the inside front cover that contains a small book called Choose Your Own Bookbinding At Holy Saviour Primary School wouldld beb involvedl d in theh presentation Adventure so readers can select the
Light Blue prices do not include gst, Dark Blue prices include GST • prices are valid until April 8th 2011 Vermont South, we emphasise our and organisation of the Art Show. Just perfect journal for their purpose. 180 pp Visual Art and Performing Arts the same as with any meeting held, BK328 programs by presenting an Art Show minutes were taken and placed in the Each ...... $31.80 $34.99 and a whole school concert on children’s classroom fi les on the alternate years. school server for them to access and The New Paper Quilling In 2010 the Art Show combined its read again if necessary. As part of Molly Smith Christensen This title presents a perfect introduction focus on the countries involved in the their experience in being involved to quilling. If you can cut, roll and fold Commonwealth Games and the with the Art Show, they went on an paper then you can quill. This book opening of our new Multi-Purpose excursion to Zart Art in Term 3 with presents a contemporary take on this traditional craft, explaining the basics Hall. two teachers from the Arts committee before taking you to the next level. 128 pp At the beginning of the year, we to see how a variety of art work can BK432 established a staff Arts Committee be displayed. Each ...... $18.17 $19.99 who was responsible for the This team was responsible for the organisation of the show. This following: Drawn To Stitch committee held regular meetings 1. Creating a fl yer to advertise the Gwen Hedley Line is an essential component of throughout the year and was Art Show around the school. 2. textile art. When used effectively, it can responsible for making key decisions Designing and producing a Pamphlet convey texture, tone, form, movement in consultation with the staff. It kept that was handed out on the day of the and mood. This practical guide to the uses of line in embroidery and textile everyone up to date with their Art Show 3. Involved in the making of art is presented as a series of exercises progress. the Entrance Sculpture - a 3D piece of designed to help the reader explore The children completed two art art which was the basis of the whole line’s potential and develop their creativity. 128 pp pieces for the show. The fi rst piece theme of the art show 4. Assisting BK236 had a Mosaics theme. Each level with the setting up of the show as Each ...... $36.35 $39.99 completed a Mosaics piece, using and well as taking it down again. 5. developing skills appropriate to their Helping with the labelling and Collage Playground level. The preps created their mosaics mounting of the artwork 6. Informing K. Santiago using torn paper. The year 1/2’s used classes of what was happening in Discover textural ways to create with mosaic cardboard squares. The year regards to the Art Show. 7. Assisting papers, fabrics, paints and more. Learn tips for building up and using your own 3/4’s used mosaic ceramic tiles and on the opening night of the Art Show, found treasures. Collage is like a the year 5/6’s worked with a variety of showing parents and students where playground because it is user-friendly broken ceramic tiles and crockery. to go and explaining how the night and accessible to people of all ages and skill levels. Collage is layering and The second piece was related to the would be conducted. uncovering ideas; each collage evolves Commonwealth Countries involved The whole experience of the Holy into a piece of artwork. 144 pp in the Delhi Games. Each class Saviour Art Show is quite unique and BK422 selected a country that would special. The children and their parents Each ...... $27.26 $29.99 infl uence their artwork. get such a thrill to see their works of As part of our commitment to art on display for all to see. Much hard The Mask Handbook developing our grade six children as work is put in by all members of staff Anita Sinclair This book will offer you Mask activities school leaders they, along with their and this effort is so worthwhile when from around the world. It will present a teachers, formed a variety of we see the pride on the children’s range of possible applications for mask making and inform you of up-to-date leadership teams. The children faces. materials and methods. nominated themselves to an area of BKCR201 personal interest. One of these teams Megan Hughes Student Wellbeing Each ...... $68.18 $75.00 was the Arts and Culture Leadership Holy Saviour Primary School team. This group attended meetings Vermont South with our Arts Leader and Student Wellbeing leader to look at ways they Available now throughh ZtAtZart Art
Zart Extra_Term 1 2011 11 What’s on at Zart Art You’ll fi nd these Calendar - Term 1 2011 on our website... Back-to-School Orders, Free* Cover Paper & Bulk Buys! All 2011 Back To School orders over $770 (inc gst) will receive a FREE Ream of A3 Bright/Pastel Cover Paper valued at $48.93. Take advantage of our Bulk Buy pricing for great SAVINGS! Combining classroom school orders into one, buying artroom essentials for * the full 12 months and planning your needs in FREE advance makes Bulk Buys a smart saving option! Zart Art Professional Learning Programme Easter & Mothers Day Activities For all Professional Learning workshops offered by Zart You will fi nd a range of Easter and Mothers Day during Term One please refer to the insert in this activities on our website. Please go to art and craft newsletter. During 2011 VIT will launch My Pdi - a fi ling activity section. cabinet for teachers to store their PD hours and details. Easter: Easter Eggs, Bilbies, Cards and Chickens If you have done a verifi ed PD such as Zart Education’s Mothers Day: Button Box, Pin Cushion and Wall all you do is register the program code for that Hanger workshop and all the details of that PD will be www.zartart.com.au transferred into your VIT registration. CBCA – Authors & Illustrators Zart Art and CBCA invite you to an evening of discussion with Shaun Tan and Tohby Riddle Date: Thursday March 24th Time: 5.30pm until 8.00pm Venue: Zart Art NB: Limited to the fi rst 70 respondents Cost: $30 - CBCA members ($100 series of 4 seminars) $40 - non members Bookings: Phone CBCA on 1300 360 436 or email [email protected] Bookings are essential so book in early to avoid disappointment.
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Street Art Forum Zart Proudly Supportsts Street Art is now formally acknowledged as a new Art State Schools Relief Commiteeee Movement by major Art Galleries. Art teachers face State Schools’ Relief (SSR) is a challenges in deciding whether to include Street Art in charity supporting Victorian their programs and how to do so if included. This forum children and young people to is designed to provide answers. A range of views from reach their full potential by givingngg an expert panel will consider Street Art and its practical assistance at a time implications for Art Education. Date: Thursday 31st when they need it. March Time: 5.30pm until 8.00pm Venue: Zart Art NB: For more information visit Limited to the fi rst 70 respondents Cost: FREE www.src.net.au Customer Service Centre Term 1 sees the Centre transformed into a Flora & Fauna visual delight paying homage to the artist Fredrick McCubbin, an inspiring painter of the Australian Landscape. With a focus on the environment and the Year of sustainability, our displays will visually guide you on presenting & producing theme based work in This publication is printed in Australia under ISO 14001 Environmental stunning and engaging ways. Using simple techniques Certifi cations Zart Art has chosen to print on stock that is FSC certifi ed, FSC with fabric, cardboard, paint, paper & acetate, while certifi cation ensures traceability and verifi cation of well managed forest catering for varying levels. Please visit us soon! timber, from mill to printer to you.
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HeadlineArts Week! HeadlineTutankhamun HeadlineTeaching NotesStudents at Black Hill NotesWe help Melbourne Notesmathematics Primary School welcome The Golden through Art enjoyed a Performing Age of The Pharaohs Students embrace and Visual Arts Week Exhibition with a and explore a union that was “inside Tutankhamun of geometric shapes, down & upside out!”. treasures workshop! patterns and angles.
ZartZart ArtArt - Supporting Supporting teachers teachers in in creative creative education education Contents News, Events & Dates ...... 2 Disturbia ...... 3 Arts Week ...... 4 Zart Student Gallery ...... 5 Tutankhamun ...... 6 PD Insert ...... Supplement Linking Maths and Art ...... 7 Our Environment ...... 8 Asian Studies ...... 9 Poster Colours, an Exploration. 10 New Resources ...... 11 Zart Calendar Term 2 2011 . . 12
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Melbourne Galleries NGV International Vienna: Art & Design Zart Extra: ISSN 1448—8450 Klimt, Schiele, Hoffmann, Loos Zart Extra is published quarterly by Zart Education, a NGV Federation Square division of Zart Art Pty Ltd. This publication is mailed prior NGV Studio is an exciting new space at the National Gallery of 18 Jun 2011—09 Oct 2011 to the first week of the term issue date. This newsletter Stylish, provocative, rebellious, and unforgettable allows art teachers/co-ordinators to learn about what is Victoria. Located at the corner of the Atrium and adjacent to happening in art education and what other art teachers are NGV Kids Corner at Federation Square. NGV Studio will present – the world has seen nothing like Vienna in 1900. A doing. You will fi nd information on new art techniques and a changing program of exhibitions, installations and events century ago, a group of radical young artists, processes, the latest materials and resources on the market. Please note, all prices quoted are valid for the duration of that actively involve Melbourne’s youth. architects, writers, musicians, designers and the current term only and are subject to change without NGV Studio encourages innovation and experimentation, thinkers overturned all the rules and created a notice. The insert of the newsletter provides details of our curator David Hurlston stating: “The rules are that there are no brave new world. Gustave Klimt, Egon Schiele, term's workshops, so teachers can then contact us and book into the workshop. rules. We’re deliberately trying to keep it as open as possible Josef Hoffmann and Adolf Loos were central to this artistic revolution which transformed Vienna into a Due to various circumstances some information may be so that we can engage with artists in new ways.” subject to change. Zart Art, Zart Extra logo and masthead http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/ngv-studio dynamic metropolis at the forefront of ground- are registered trademarks of Zart Art Pty Ltd. All content is breaking modernism. subject to copyright and may not be republished without Small Worlds presents some of the tiniest objects from across Vienna: Art & Design will explore this extraordinary prior consent from Zart Art. All submissions become the NGV’s collections. Vastly different to everyday property of Zart Art. Submissions may be published in the period of artistic and intellectual genius, bringing environments that are made for adults, in this exhibition, the Zart Extra or posted on www.zartart.com.au the offi cial art together more than 250 works of art, including education resource. Zart Art reserves the right to edit children are bigger than the worlds before them. At the same painting, drawing, graphic and decorative art, submitted articles/activities for content, length and clarity. time, amongst the assembled objects, similarities and Zart Art furniture, fashion, jewellery and photography, differences can be observed creating interesting comparisons Supporting teachers in creative education most never before seen in Australia. Visitors will between the artworks. Artist Anna Hoyle’s imaginative Zart offers an extensive range of fine art materials, experience the inventiveness and brilliance of a response to these thematic groupings, together with a range resources, craft and technology supplies. You will unique generation who laid the foundations for life of creative interactive experiences, complement and extend find competitive prices and efficient and quick in the twentieth century - a legacy still vividly alive service. children’s learning and understanding about their world and today. ABN 23 796 863 716 that of different cultures and times. ACN 006 947 637 Admission fees apply 4/41 Lexton Road, Box Hill North, Melbourne Vic 3129 Australia Ph: (03) 9890 1867 Fax: (03) 9898 6527 www.zartart.com.au Website Discovery... State Library Of Victoria E: [email protected] This is a great site for hints for environmentally Graeme Base: The Waterhole Administration Hours: conscious classroom practices 11th March – 28th August Free Entry Monday – Friday: 8.30 am – 5.00 pm http://greenartroom.com/classroom_practices.html Customer Service Centre: This exhibition showcases the amazing artwork from Monday – Wednesday & Friday: 8.30 am – 5.00 pm Graeme Base’s renowned 2001 children’s book The Thursday: 8.30 am – 6.30 pm Resource Rescue Waterhole. Saturday: 9.00 am – 2.00 pm These vibrant images transport us from the plains of They collect clean industrial or household offcuts, Africa to the Amazon jungle and the deserts of outback rejects and discontinued lines that can be used in Australia. The display features Base’s working drawings, schools and kindergartens as art materials. sketches and fi nished artwork, drawn in watercolour, website www.resourcerescue.org.au pencil and gouache.
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were shown how to safely use a Utility Knife on a cutting board. They drew an irregular window shape in the centre of the card using a pencil and a steel ruler. They cut out the window using the Utility knives and steel rulers on the cutting boards. The background scene was executed on A4 sized Cartridge works inspired by Tim Burton Paper. We discussed creating “disturbed” environments. We looked at techniques used by Burton such as masses of concentric circles and spirals drawn on coloured backgrounds. Other ideas were using found papers, stained newspaper, straw blown ink In 2010, The Peninsula School’s Year 8 humans with crazy hair sticking out at and bubble prints [captured from ink and detergent blown English and Art faculty teams combined to all angles, graveyard scenes, rooms through a plastic straw]. Strong colours were best. develop an engaging learning unit on Tim with tilted tiled fl oors, staircases, Students trimmed around the edges of the acetate sheet and Burton’s unique style of writing, looming shadows, haunted houses... the “Disturbia” background and used masking tape to secure cinematography and artwork. The catalyst everything a soul searching Year 8 them to the inside of the black cardboard window. The work was to this unit was last year’s stunning Tim student could ever want to identify displayed and used as a catalyst for creative writing. Burton Exhibition held at Melbourne’s with! Students were encouraged to Lisa Smith Australian Centre for the Moving Image develop a folio of 4 different Burton Visual Art Teacher [ACMI]. Teachers should access the ACMI inspired pieces using a range of media The Peninsula School website for an array of excellent online and subjects for each piece. The resources including interviews with Burton Peninsula School students produced a and ideas for classroom learning. variety of artwork and writing which included poems, character studies, Students became aware of Burton’s prints, drawings, paintings, models and writing, artwork and cinematography. Disturbia Windows. Recommended starting points were the Students drew a dark and lonely Tim movies Edward Scissorhands [1990] or Burton styled human character. They The Nightmare before Christmas [1993] created their own rather than directly but shorter movies such as Vincent copying one of Burton’s. The character [1982] and The World of Stain Boy was drawn small. Practise sketches [2000] were more time effi cient for the were made in visual diaries until the classroom. drawing was fi nalised. The fi nal copy Students discussed imagery and they was worked in black felt tipped marker collected images of Burton’s work, and was drawn in the middle of an A4 glued them into their visual diaries and piece of Cartridge Paper. This was then annotated them. Students tried to draw photocopied onto the centre of an A4 in a method similar to Burton’s. acetate sheet using the bypass tray in Features of Burton’s style include fi ne the photocopier. pen and ink drawing. Subjects were The students were supplied with anthropomorphic creatures, wide- eyed thick A4 pieces of black card. They
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Arts Week is a unique biannual event at Black Hill Primary School where all teaching and learning across the school is focused on The Arts, both Visual and Performing, using creative and artistic pedagogies for an entire week.
Arts Week aims to promote within students a heightened sense of enjoyment and excitement, an increase in the knowledge and skills associated with particular art forms, the development of audience on one of the six stages set up within creativity and thinking skills, enrichment of the school grounds. For example some students Arts Week theme: ‘Inside Down and Upside communication and expressive skills and performed comedy acts and musical items and Out’. a range of programs and projects to growth in personal and social development. others demonstrated specifi c ceramic techniques challenge, enrich and engage studentand learning beyond. and drawing skills. in the classroom, the wider school community Features of Arts Week 2010 • A Whole School Project involved each • Visual and Performing Arts workshops classroom to make a typical lounge room item presented by artists within the school community, from cardboard to contribute towards the including teachers, parents and past students, and furnishing of a Black Hill Primary School ‘Inside local artists, including: hip hop dancing, highland Down and Upside Out’ Cardboard Lounge Room. dancing and tap dancing… theatre sports, circus Each lounge room item incorporated a quirky skills and puppetry…body percussion and jam twist with an unusual addition attached or • All Literacy and Numeracy sessions focused sessions…Australian indigenous painting, drawing uncharacteristic feature included. A fl oor lamp on providing opportunities for learning through and printmaking, sculpture, ceramics and graphic with human legs and a bookshelf in the form of a the arts. Prior to Arts Week the arts teachers design. giant book are two examples of these. organised a professional development session • Individual Class Projects with a Visual Arts • An evening exhibition of art works and music with classroom teachers to reiterate the value of focus and an emphasis on the work by a specifi c to share and celebrate students’ creative creative learning and provided ‘starting points’ artist. These projects created a collaborative ‘Yard achievements during Arts Week with the school for arts based literacy and numeracy lessons. Art’ piece to be permanently displayed within the and wider community. school grounds. One of these activities involved • An excursion to the Ballarat Art Gallery that Arts Week aspires to introduce new and the Grades 5 and 6 students creating life-size involved students participating in three rotating exciting ways of thinking and learning by sculptures of their limbs using clear packing tape artist response workshops (Sidney Nolan, Inge providing high quality educational as a casting material in response to work of Mark King and Peter Blizzard), experiencing a guided experiences. It challenges a student’s Jenkins. Using these packing tape casts, students tour with one of the education offi cers and thinking skills, problem solving, critical explored the concept of installation within the viewing the Reggio Emilia, “The Hundred analysis and constructive evaluation whilst school grounds, creating unusual scenarios and Languages of Children Exhibition”. immersing them in creativity. capturing these through photography. • Dance Workshops carried out in classes that • A ‘Kids Big Day Out’ was an opportunity for contributed towards a whole school dance Jacqui White students to perform or demonstrate to an presentation at the fi nal assembly. Black Hill Primary School
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Heany Park Primary School Exhibiting Term 2 2011 Exhibit ends 21st June 2011 Aspendale Gardens Primary School Wire Fish & Birds Black Hill Primary School Tape Sculptures Camberwell Grammar Jnr School Magpies and Sculptures Corowa South Public School White Drawings Methodist Ladies College - Junior Genazzano FCJ College MixedMix Media Collage GoulburnGoulb Valley Grammar Installation GreatGreat Ryrie Primary School Plush Monsters HaileyburyHailey College Berwick Flying Pigs HeanyHeany Park Primary School Record Clocks IvanhoeIvanhoe GrammarG Buckley House Ivanhoe Grammar Buckley House SeaSea and Farm Scapes KenningtonKenni Primary School Recycled Dress MLC Kew Max BeckmanBe Inspired work Kennington Primary School Kennington MountMo Clear College OurO Environment PeninsulaP School DisturbiaDi Windows St Pauls AnglicanAn Grammar School - Warragul Shoes StrathconaStrathcon Baptist Girls Grammar School Corowa South Public School MathematicalM Art Aspendale Gardens Primary School TrinityTrT ini School Richmond Portraits
Zart’s Student Gallery Situated upstairs in the Zart Customer Service Centre. Each term the Student Gallery exhibits a new display of work from young artists ranging from kindergarten to VCE. We are always on the lookout for artwork to be exhibited that showcases new ideas and techniques suitable for all age levels. Please email images of work Camberwell Grammar Jnr School Camberwell Grammar you would like to exhibit one term in advance to Jan Roker on jan@ Haileybury College Berwick zartart.com.au Also visit www.zartart.com.au
Zart Extra_Term 2 2011 5 Melbourne Museum Tutankhamun & The Golden Age of the Pharaohs
The Tutankhamun and the Golden Age students to recreate their own of the Pharaohs exhibition which opened images and designs. They can at Melbourne Museum on 9th April 2011 appreciate different cultural has captured the imaginations of approaches to representation teachers throughout Australia. More throughout Egypt’s past. than 20,000 students had already been booked in to see the exhibition. And To fi nd out more, join MV there is a lot to see. teachers at http:// museumvictoria.com.au/ Imagine if you could enter the tomb of education/mvteachers Tutankhamun, as Howard Carter did all those years ago, and see the ‘wonderful things’ it For more information about Professional Learning contained for the fi rst time. The belief and burial processes of the exhibition visit: www. Tutankhamun Treasures Ancient Egypt have fascinated subsequent generations for centuries, kingtutmelbourne.com.au. Levels: 3—5 with many mysteries remaining unsolved by archaeologists, Group and school bookings are Date: Saturday 14 May historians and scientists. available through Ticketek – 03 Time: 9.00am-3.00pm 9299 9030. Venue: Melbourne Museum This exhibition provides the opportunity to explore the fi gures that Liz Suda Address: Nicholson Street, guided ancient Egypt more than 3,000 years ago, delve into the Program Co-ordinator, Carlton Gardens VIC mysteries of Tutankhamun, and learn more about the extraordinary Humanities, Melbourne Museum Consultant: Tania Di Berardino discovery of his tomb. Visitors will be able to view the results from Cost: $165.00 Includes the latest scientifi c testing conducted on Tutankhamun’s mummy exhibition entry fee and what it is telling researchers about his life and death. Catering: Tea and coffee will be provided, please bring your The investigations continue to shed new light on a complex past. own lunch This new information offers answers to many questions that have The Tutankhamun exhibition long been asked about the life and death of Tutankhamun: how old comes to Australia for the fi rst was he when he died? Did he die of natural causes or was he time. Revel in the splendour of murdered? Who were his parents? The exhibition has more than 130 Ancient Egypt as you view a extraordinary artefacts from the tomb of Tutankhamun including his dazzling array of possessions royal diadem and one of the four gold and precious stone inlaid unearthed from the boy king’s canopic coffi nettes that contained his mummifi ed internal organs. A tomb. See Tutankhamun’s colossal statue of Akhenaten has been added to the exhibition as a golden canopic coffi nette and result of DNA analysis, which proves that Tutankhamun was the son the crown found on his head of Akhenaten and the grandson of Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye. when the tomb was discovered. Learn about the extraordinary There is a lot to learn about this fascinating period in Egypt’s discovery of the tomb and the ancient past. Five education kits have been developed to support belief and burial processes of student engagement with the exhibition, with before, during and ancient Egypt. Participate in after activities. Senior Ancient History, Middle Years Ancient History this wonderful opportunity of a and Geography, Senior English and an education kit specifi cally guided tour of the exhibition designed for ESL learners. The precious antiquities in the exhibition followed by some wonderful art offer teachers of Art and Design the opportunity to further students activities led by Tania. Be understanding of visual communication and the aesthetics of prepared for a day of discovery ancient times. The technical skills of ancient artisans can inspire and creativity.
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Teaching mathematics through art
The link between mathematics and art is a natural union because of the shared language and techniques that cross over the two subjects.
Mathematics and art have a long historical relationship stretching back to the ancient Greeks, Romans and Egyptians. Simple arrangements of geometric fi gures such as circles and triangles have been utilized by various civilizations throughout history. An example of this is the ‘Flower of Life` on the Temple of Osiris in Obydos in Egypt that is around 5000 years old. Mosques throughout the world and through the centuries have been decorated with complex geometrical patterns created with simple shapes. parallel, diagonal, perpendicular, straight and cut four fabric rectangles from each of these Mathematics is all about patterns and curved lines were identifi ed and included in templates. The design was drawn onto Vilene rhythms, so it is obvious that we fi nd many their design and complemented with and it is from this that the cushion was mathematical concepts in art. Mathematic primary colours. sewn. The central square was pinned onto skills can be a tool, an inspiration or part of the right side and sewn from the back. The the structure or design of an art piece. Lesson Two two smaller rectangles were pinned on Developing an understanding of symmetry, This session explored angles – right, opposite sides of the square, sewn then proportion, scale and measurement, obtuse, acute, straight and refl ex were really well pressed. The next two rectangles properties of 2D and 3D shapes and defi ned and drawn. Each axis must be the were sewn and pressed. perspective, provide skills that can be same length. Students were instructed to explored and applied creatively during art mark off equal distances along each line and Students gained a complex mathematical lessons. Three units of work were designed to connect the top point on the Y axis to the language related to line and angles. They using a heuristic approach for students to fi rst point on the X axis and so on. They became confi dent and competent in the use explore the links between these two made a number of discoveries, the most of sewing machines. Their interest in disciplines. The aim was to give students an important were that straight lines drawn in geometrical patterns has been stimulated understanding of line and; to build up a this way give the illusion of a curved line and they have knowledge which assists them mathematical vocabulary; to construct and and the type of curve is determined by the in breaking down techniques used in their identify different angles and lines; discover angle that has been drawn. They also found construction. When shown the ‘Flower of that straight lines connected on the two axes that accuracy is essential, an invaluable Life’ they were able to work out how the create a curve; to cut accurate squares and lesson leading into patchwork cushions. This design was drawn, create new designs and rectangles for a patchwork cushion; to unit was completed with students collaging observe the affect that colour has on their operate the sewing machine independently their angles into a visual image. image. In general, their experiences and safely in the construction of a patchwork broadened their understanding and cushion. Lesson Three appreciation of geometric design. The fi rst task was to screen print their Lesson One central design onto a 12cm calico square. Susan Clarke This session explored line and the language They then constructed two rectangular Visual Art Teacher associated with it. Vertical, horizontal, templates – 12 by 18cm and 18 by 10cm. They Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School
Zart Extra_Term 2 2011 7 Our Environment
Each year the tall pine next to the Art Librarian had found for me her book Waddle interest in the magpies, reporting to me their Studio is home to a family of magpies. I have Giggle Gargle! Which is a delightful story on activities and whereabouts. This project had watched as they rear their young, take their boisterous magpies. This gave me a great connected the boys to the school fi rst fl ying lessons and scavenge through the starting point to introduce the magpies in environment and made them aware that remains of recess and lunch discarded by the our art. We spent a productive lesson sitting others also share the playground and world boys. The quiet of the schoolyard and outside in the late November sunshine and with them each day. We painted the sky on abundance of crumbs provide a perfect drew the family of magpies as they simple MDF boards using sponges and blue environment for the magpies to live and rummaged through the garden near the art and white paint to mimic the soft clouds in raise their young. studio. The class had to work very quietly the sky. Glazed magpies were attached to the and stay still. This Plein Air experience gave soft-clouded skies. We fi nished the project On Tuesday afternoons I would collect the us much to discuss back in the studio as the by writing a couplet rhyme, which prep class and walk through the outdoor boys added to their sketches of the birds. encapsulated the boy’s ideas about the life of chess area, under the shade of the pine to the The following week we used clay to make the school magpies. The boys described their Art Studio. The boys had noticed the magpies simple bird shapes with spread wings. These observations of the magpies so vividly that on many occasions and we often chatted basic slab and sausage constructed birds gave creating a couplet came easy. about them on the way to class. This the preps their fi rst experience of using slip prompted me to create a unit of work based to join and toothbrushes to score. Each bird The magpies fl y in the sky Fly in circles, way up around the family of magpies in our school. was individual, some with wing tips and high James Eastwood I wanted to integrate the visual and others with long beaks. As they were fl at the kinesthetic processes of art with the boy’s sculptures dried quickly and were fi red Words were written in permanent maker verbal observations, by giving children a within the week. The next week we looked along the rim of the clouds fi nishing an chance to create not only with words, but closely at some photos I had taken of the artwork that brought together literature, art also with painting and sculpture. I aimed to magpies and discussed the patterns and and the realm of personal experience. celebrate the value of visual and kinesthetic features in their plumage. Black underglaze Ebony Russell learning alongside the verbal and written. made the distinctive markings with a simple Head of Junior School Art dot of red underglaze painted in the eye to Camberwell Grammar Last year’s prep boys were very fond of give the magpie its distinctive stare. Pamela Allen storybooks and our Teacher Throughout these weeks the boys took great
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Asia Education Foundation To support teachers and schools develop students’ Asia literate skills, you will fi nd Asian Studies information through the Asia Education In response to requests for Zart Art to support teachers in the Studies of Asia we have Foundation Portal. AEF information includes: devoted this page to provide a snapshot of how two schools have benefi ted by their • Asia Literate Australian Curriculum Resources association with the Asia Education Foundation (AEF). We are also fortunate enough to • Lesson plans for teachers • Grants to Schools have Lynn Jennison share her knowledge by providing a workshop here at Zart on the • Study tours for school leaders and teachers benefi ts of utilising the Visual Arts to implement and promote the Studies of Asia. • School partnerships Australia-Asia • School-Business partnerships • Endeavour Language Teacher Fellowships • School change strategies • Student activities • Business Alliance for Asia Literacy • Education Alliance for Asia Literacy • Asia literacy news for parents • Vodcasts of leading speakers Keep up to date, by signing up to Asia EdNet teachers’ discussion group, AEF eNews, online forums and school exchange strategies. www.asiaeducation.edu.au
Professional Learning Engaging young Australians Asia Week Studies of Asia Exploring Asia and with Asia through the Arts We have sister schools in Nanjing, China; in Australia’s engagement with Asia Asian Education Foundation: Cheetham, England; Singapore and Hong Kong. Levels: 3-5 Study Tours Together with our sister schools, we had many Date: Saturday, 21 May I was lucky enough to be part of an Asia literacy activities planned to promote our school values of Time: 9.20am-3.00pm study tour to Vietnam and Cambodia. As an artist respect, empathy, friendship and motivation across Venue: Zart Art and a teacher I was inspired by the quality and cultures. In 2010 we had a special Whole School Address: 4/41 Lexton Road, Box Hill North quantity of the sites, and the strength of the artwork Assembly featuring a number of performances by our Consultant: Lynn Jennison viewed — based in the traditional and historical students and featuring our own resident Chinese Cost: $140.00 contexts. instrumental teacher, Ting. Catering: A light lunch will be provided Ankor Wot and the variety of temples within the Activities and experiences during the week An introductory session about ‘Why Asia?’ & Ankor region astounded me as I saw architectural included a Chinese Opera, Chinese drumming the benefi ts of utilising the Visual Arts to structures with detailed decorations that I did not workshop, Lion dancing, Traditional Chinese implement and promote Studies of Asia. Lyn believe possible in one region. calligraphy brush painting, Cooking (including our will use her in-country experiences and share I returned home with a renewed passion! Art in our very own Chinese Masterchef competition), Chinese successful units/activities that she has used in school system is a way of creating deeper arts and crafts, games and a traditional Yum Cha her own teacher practice to maximize interest understandings that go beyond vocational necessity. feast. in the Asian elephant babies. You will in this How lucky we are to be at a stage in our history An Art Exhibition featuring Asian inspired artwork workshop, create a model of an elephant using where art is valued for its own sake. Where feeding created by all our artists capped off the week, as our Modroc, which you will then paint and the soul is considered an integral part of learning and guests were treated with Chinese delicacies! embellish. Participants will be given the multi-literacies are integral to teaching practice. What a week!!! starting point of creating an Asian ceremonial Julie Lach sash. Finally participants will contribute to Cheryl Bannon Visual Art Teacher felting a life-sized tiger head. Dandenong Secondary College Aspendale Gardens Primary School
Zart Extra_Term 2 2011 9 Activities, Ideas & Exploration Poster Colours Long lasting • Clean • Easy to Store • No Waste • Refillable
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Melbourne Galleries NGV International Kaleidoscope: Art and colour Zart Extra: ISSN 1448—8450 NGV Federation Square NGV International 180 St Kilda Road Zart Extra is published quarterly by Zart Education, a Square Contemporary Art of the Far Western Desert Date: 28 May 2011 - 05 Feb 2012 division of Zart Art Pty Ltd. This publication is mailed prior Kaleidoscope: Art and colour celebrates the power of colour to the first week of the term issue date. This newsletter Venue: The Ian Potter Centre allows art teachers/co-ordinators to learn about what is Cost: Free entry and the impact it has on our lives, from how we see and happening in art education and what other art teachers are Date: 24 May 2011 - 28 May 2012 experience the world around us, to how we employ colour doing. You will fi nd information on new art techniques and A modern art movement originated at Papunya in 1971, which to express ourselves. processes, the latest materials and resources on the market. has since transformed the way we see the land and the history How are colours made? How do artists use colour in Please note, all prices quoted are valid for the duration of different media? How can colour be used to fool the eye the current term only and are subject to change without of art in Australia. Almost forty years after the genesis of the notice. The insert of the newsletter provides details of our Western Desert art movement, its epicentre has dramatically through optical illusions? With over 40 works from across term's workshops, so teachers can then contact us and shifted from Papunya in the Northern Territory to the Pintupi the NGV collections, including paintings, textiles and book into the workshop. homelands of Kintore and Kiwirrkura in the Gibson Desert, objects by Asian, European, Indigenous Australian and Pacifi c artists, this exhibition encourages us to expand our Due to various circumstances some information may be and to communities that lie hundreds of kilometres to the subject to change. Zart Art, Zart Extra logo and masthead south and west in far-fl ung reaches of South Australia and perception, knowledge and experience of colour and are registered trademarks of Zart Art Pty Ltd. All content is Western Australia (the Far Western Desert). discover how colours are used to fool, delight and inspire subject to copyright and may not be republished without us in the kaleidoscope of life. prior consent from Zart Art. All submissions become property of Zart Art. Submissions may be published in the During the fi rst decade of the 21st century, Pintupi, Spinifex, Zart Extra or posted on www.zartart.com.au the offi cial art Anangu, Yulparija and Martu artists have developed a dynamic education resource. Zart Art reserves the right to edit and fresh expression of Western Desert Art. The male and State Library Of Victoria submitted articles/activities for content, length and clarity. female artists not only share close kinship, social, linguistic The changing face of Victoria Zart Art and ritual interconnections and lived experience of desert Date: Saturday 1 January 2011 - Saturday 31 December 2011 Supporting teachers in creative education country built up during pujiman (nomadic, bush) days but Cost: Free Admission Zart offers an extensive range of fine art materials, also have parallel experiences of making art with introduced Bookings: Not required. resources, craft and technology supplies. You will materials for the commercial market. Their paintings — Tel 03 8664 7099 for more information. find competitive prices and efficient and quick bearers of sanctity — resonate with the shock of the ancient Venue: Dome Galleries, Levels 4, 5 & 6 service. made new and tell tjukurrpa (stories) associated with special The changing face of Victoria exhibition brings together ABN 23 796 863 716 places in their ngurra (country). This dramatic new wave of historical artefacts, photographs, drawings, maps, letters ACN 006 947 637 acrylic painting is the focus of Living Water, comprising the and diaries to tell the stories of the people, places and 4/41 Lexton Road, Box Hill North, NGV’s 150th anniversary gift from the Felton Bequest of 107 events that have shaped life in Victoria over the past 200 Melbourne Vic 3129 Australia paintings. Ph: (03) 9890 1867 Fax: (03) 9898 6527 years. www.zartart.com.au The fi rst section of the exhibition focuses on the early years E: [email protected] of European settlement, daily life in rural Victoria, and the Administration Hours: events and mythology surrounding that most famous Monday – Friday: 8.30 am – 5.00 pm Website Discovery... Victorian, Ned Kelly. Customer Service Centre: Explore museums from around the world, discover and Items on regular display include key artefacts such as the Monday – Wednesday & Friday: 8.30 am – 5.00 pm Batman Deeds, the last notes of Burke and Wills and Kelly’s Thursday: 8.30 am – 6.30 pm view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels Saturday: 9.00 am – 2.00 pm
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The following is a diary of a VCE gracefully and effortlessly, they are student, and the process of her very strong. work, inspiration and challenges. After Unit 3, I reassessed the direction of my folio and decided to I thoroughly enjoyed completing explore an abstract drawing style combiningcombining ththeep patternsatternsa andnd tratransformingnsfsfforming silhouette of the VCE Art during 2010. It was a that I had developed during my dancer. challenging subject that required lots spare time. Despite changing the I then proceeded to experiment with a cruder patterned of time and effort; however I felt it stylistic direction of my folio, the painting style inspired by A.R. Penck. I decided to produce a all paid off with the successful movement of dance remained my fourth larger piece incorporating this less refi ned and more completion of my folio and four inspiration. This led me to expressive style. The bold black and white brushstrokes on fi nal pieces. My initial concept was investigate line, colour, space, size two layered pieces of plywood with curved patterns cut out, to explore classical dance and the and layering as well as to develop captures not only a sense of movement but also the raw type of movement it involved. I was symbols representing different emotions felt when dancing. motivated by my personal aspects of dance including I took a fairly structured approach to producing my folio. I experience and passion for dance, movement, costuming, music and preferred it being neat and easy to understand. I consistently which began at a young age. I was lighting. I completed numerous added to my folio throughout the year and completed interested in the fl owing, light, trials, exhausting all possible options numerous two and three-dimensional trials. I was always graceful and fl uid qualities that are that I thought could be interesting looking out for possible sources of inspiration. I was not only captured in dance and wanted to before refi ning my ideas and inspired by my personal experience but other artists as well. somehow recreate these qualities. creating two more fi nal pieces. The Investigating and creating work about a topic I was This initial idea led me to patterns evoke a strong sense of passionate about made my work far more enjoyable and I brainstorm possible directions and movement and refl ect the intricacy therefore put a lot more effort into it. I tried to utilise the explore a range of materials and and complexity of dance. Dancers analytical frameworks within my folio on a regular basis to techniques. This eventually appear to be moving with ease but not only explain my work but to also demonstrate other culminated in the creation of a they are actually putting a lot of possible ways people could interpret my work. sculpture suspended above the effort in, to achieve the correct I am happy with my folio of work and the fi nal pieces I ground at the end of Unit 3. It technique and perform diffi cult created, as I believe they meet my initial intentions of comprised of three ribbon-like metal steps. The highly energetic patterns capturing the qualities of dance. structures. Through this piece I also refl ect my personal emotions Dominique Blowes wanted to demonstrate that whilst linked with dance and performance. St Columba’s College dancers may appear to be moving My favourite piece is the one Essendon
Zart Extra_Term 3 2011 3 Art Experiences Abroad NEPAL ADVENTURE
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Can I interest you in a trip to Nepal – local people to volunteer to pose for us whilst paintings on lokta paper, using different Kathmandu – Everest – Sherpas – hiking? we all made quick gesture drawings in our leaves, found in the hotel grounds, as masks. To put it politely - NO THANK YOU! Well visual diaries as well as taking photos of the DAY 5 Tuesday: Woollen felt is very popular how about Nepal – Kathmandu – Everest – wonderful faces of our models. in Kathmandu and is crafted to make artists – art classes? YES PLEASE!! How Back in the studio in the afternoon we beautiful slippers, bags, toys and accessories. much? When? Where do I sign up? Check created a ‘fi rst impression’ painting involving We visited a factory a short drive away and out this website www. words, symbols and colours laid down in our were shown how the process was carried out internationalartworkshops.com and learn diaries using pens, markers and paint; colours and how to make different designs. We all all you need to know. and found symbols from our morning made a felt purse and then some of the adventures were also used to create an students helped make the cushions that were In 2010 I tried very hard to get enough expressive painting. being made that day. A very damp and soapy students together to visit Nepal, but DAY 3 Sunday: Seven Nepali Art students experience was had by all! unfortunately was not successful. Having from 4 different art colleges in Kathmandu Using the soft edges, strong colours and spent so much time and energy planning the joined us for the day. We visited simple shapes we had seen in the felting trip and getting so excited at the idea of Swayambhunath, often referred to as the factory as a basis, we worked from portrait visiting a country so different, I decided to go Monkey Temple, a particularly interesting photographs to simplify the forms and anyway! ! Two other staff members decided Buddhist as well as Hindu site. Being fairly shapes and come up with a strong to join me and spend 16 days in Nepal over high up it provided a wonderful view of the composition of blocks of colour and soft the fi rst term holiday. I hoped to get more city in the valley, as well as being a very busy edges similar to the felt images. information and lots of photographs as well market place for a spot of souvenir shopping! DAY 6 Wednesday: An hour’s drive from as fi rsthand experience, then come back and Our students paired with the Nepali students Patan, is a small country school with 120 talk about our experiences to all our students to learn about the place and went off with pupils, 3-16 years old, from the local in the hope that that would generate more the task of drawing portraits of each other. community. They are self-funded and poorly interest and we would get a group of students In the Studio later that day our students resourced so we had made badges as a together to make the trip in 2011. Our plan paired with the Nepali students and spent fundraising activity back at Beaconhills and worked and in April of this year, 8 students time looking for common ‘sayings’ in each had $300 as a small donation for this school. and 2 staff left Beaconhills for Kathmandu for other’s cultures. Once they found a saying We actually bought a computer for the senior the experience of a lifetime. This is what we that was similar in both cultures they wrote students and presented this to them just got up to in the ten days we were away:- the saying down on the other’s canvas and before we left. We had also made a badge for DAY 1 Friday: Arrived Kathmandu Airport then developed a painting based on the every student in the school as well as taking 12 noon, bus to Hotel, unpacked and settled in. saying. lots of souvenirs to hand out. Our students DAY 2 Saturday: Patan is a wonderful maze DAY 4 Monday: Lokta paper, handmade ran art activities with small groups of their of courtyards, tiny tiny alleyways, hidden from the bark of the Lokta bush, is very students, which was just the most amazing shrines, temples and people’s homes. We popular in Kathmandu and broadly used in experience for our students. Each student were taken through the streets with our guide all sorts of ways. We visited a local factory created a postcard size aboriginal style Sanjaya and everybody had the chance to and were all given the opportunity to make a drawing of an Australian animal. We took all take interesting photos of the architecture piece of paper for ourselves, as well as the materials and equipment with us and left and the many people in the streets going learning how to make a notebook using the it all behind for them to use to set up their about their daily lives. When we arrived at lokta papers. new art room. I taught the teachers how to the main square, Ilsa and Sanjaya asked the Back in the Studio we created abstract make paper mushrooms so that they could
4 www.zartart.com.au DAY FIVE DAY EIGHT DAY NINE work with the younger students and be a part They must learn the exact proportions of Nepal were at times overwhelming, but of the ‘Spore Project’. every deity, each colour with its precise always fascinating, new and so different We left the school on a real high and meaning, and the correct approach to from anything we’d experienced before. The headed back down the very narrow dirt road undertake their work with purity. It takes six art works and architecture were stunning, to Kathmandu. Ilsa Brittain (the artist who years to complete the course. We purchased beautiful and amazingly colourful. The cities runs the workshops) had an exhibition of her eleven Thanka paintings as mementos of our were busy, noisy, dirty, alive with people, artworks in the Siddhartha Art Gallery in time in Nepal in this Thanka painting School. traffi c and animals and in direct contrast to Thamel, so of course we needed to make a In the afternoon we visited Thamel for the quiet beauty of the countryside and small visit. The exhibition, titled ‘Female more shopping, then headed to Kathmandu villages we visited. We experienced many Substantive’ consisted of beautiful fi gurative Durbar Square – the traditional heart of the amazing places but it was the quiet dignity, pieces in oils, with a strong abstract element. old town, full of beautiful Nepali architecture amazing courtesy and wonderful humour of The students were very impressed with the and the courtyard of the living goddess. After the Nepalese people that was the highlight of many paintings and drawings, which created a short wait in the courtyard we were the trip for me. Their willingness to allow us much food for thought and some great rewarded with a rare glimpse of the living into their private lives, to try to discussions as we travelled back to the hotel. goddess, who is so beautiful, so tiny and so communicate with us and above all to have DAY 7 Thursday: We spent the day working young! No photos were allowed of the fun with them was what made the trip so with a master Thanka painter, Sudarshan goddess, but we made up for that by special. Suwal. Everybody learned about the very purchasing the offi cial photographs to bring Lesley Light strict and symbolic art of Thanka painting, home with us. Beaconhills College, Village Campus how to grind pigments from their original DAY 9 Saturday: A trip back to where we mineral sources, and then produced a mini started this adventure – Patan Durbar Square! Thanka painting of their own with the This time though, to take a really close look at pigments we had ground. This was a very the architecture, both at ground level ... and exacting and time consuming task, where from on high! everyone gained a great appreciation of the Our fi nal time in the Studio was spent traditional Thanka paintings we had seen on creating collaborative art pieces that proved our travels to date. to be a lot harder than you would think. DAY 8 Friday: Bhoudhanath is the religious Initially, it was hard to let go of your own centre for Nepal’s considerable population of piece and allow others to work on it, and Tibetan exiles. We walked around the equally, it was hard to work on someone Bhoudhanath Stupa – one of the largest in else’s piece because you didn’t want to ‘wreck’ the world, in a clockwise direction three their work! Eventually, we got into the task times. Once, to make sure we had seen and started to enjoy adding our own ideas to everything, then twice more to make all our the works. The fi nal results were amazing and purchases from the many shops and stalls. A were added to our visual diaries with pride. lot of bargaining took place and many DAY 10 Sunday: Easter egg hunt, pack up, purchases were made, in a very short space of farewells then head to the airport and home. time. There was time to visit one of the few From the moment we stepped off the places in the world where students learn the plane in Kathmandu, our senses were authentic and sacred art of Thanka painting. bombarded. The sights, sounds and smells of
Zart Extra_Term 3 2011 5 artist in residence The unbound Book of life Maroondah Education Coalition - Artists in Schools Project
Since 2009 our Maroondah Education variety of pop–outs within the landscapes. Coalition schools have been working The BIG BOOK pages will form a visual together on a Values project based on narrative that pays respect to the students’ Multicultural and Global Citizenship. Our culture and homelands, while focusing on project, “Youth Voice – Fostering Respect, their new life in Australia and their hopes Tolerance and Inclusiveness”, stimulates and dreams for the future. thinking and discussion about identity and The Artist, Conrad Clarke, who is well belonging, challenges misconceptions known for his drawing, painting and related to different cultures and provides sculpture, has been instructing students how opportunities for young people to change to make their 2D artwork into book pages community attitudes through the that have a pop-out or 3D effect. exhibition of their work. So far the students have had seven sessions, and the work that they have In 2011, the Maroondah Education produced to date is indicative of their artistic Coalition gained funding from Arts Victoria talents and willingness to learn. to implement an ‘Artists in Schools’ project, Zart Art has been a valuable supplier to particularly for our refugee students our art faculty in recent years and it seemed interested in working with a professional natural we continue this relationship when artist to further their artistic talents and seeking sponsorship. interests. The MEC would like to offer our sincere Aims and objectives of our programme: thanks to Zart Art for their generous support • Supports high quality student of our Artists in Schools Project. learning across the curriculum • Enriches teaching practice through Lyn McGoldrick, interaction with professional artists Assistant Principal & Artist in Schools • Promotes cultural vibrancy in Coordinator schools through creative Dina Mihailidis partnerships Art and Technology Coordinator • Encourages innovative ways to engage Maroondah Education Coalition with the wider community What the students have achieved: The programme has created the opportunity for these young artists to have intensive art training one day a week during Terms 1 and 2. Students from Croydon SC, Maroondah SC and Ringwood SC have been working individually and in groups, to create a joint work of art titled ‘The Unbound Book of Life and Journey’. The pages of this book will be made out of large sheets of plywood which can be detached to display them in different combinations as required. Students have been painting with acrylics to produce: background landscapes that depict their past, present and future lives, portraits of their future self and other large and bold shapes from nature that will form a
6 www.zartart.com.au textiles article Mirka Mora Soft sculptures join the parade
After visiting Mirka Mora exhibition at which culminated in Heide Gallery late last year Pam Fordham nearly 200 of our from the Rosanna Golf Links Primary students parading “the School was inspired to work with the art art of Mirka” down form of soft sculpture with the level 4 Burgundy Street in students. Heidelberg to great success. Each year our school participates in the The number of Banyule Festival Street Parade and as this students from all year year’s theme for the festival was “The Art levels that came and told Parade” it was a perfect vehicle to exhibit me they had visited large soft sculptures. Heide Gallery on The students were introduced to the art weekends to see Mirka work of Mirka Mora and were equally Mora’s art work fascinated with her dolls. They worked in indicated how groups of 4 or 5 to plan, design and create enthusiastic they were their own soft sculptures. They enjoyed about the topic and the using their imagination to incorporate art work they were their varied ideas into one creature. producing in term one. Midway through the term the students Finally we were all were fortunate to go on an excursion to thrilled to receive a Heide Gallery to view the Mirka Mora letter from Mirka Mora exhibition. They were excited to see the art saying how pleased she work “in real life” that they had previously was to receive photos of only seen in books and on computer. For our art work and letters many of them, it was their fi rst visit to an from the children and art gallery and it was a great learning how honoured she was experience. The realisation that art works that we had chosen her can be created for a purpose and for a art work as our theme variety of audiences became clear to them. for the Street Parade and In painting their soft sculptures they our focus of work in understood the importance of using strong term one. clear colours to capture the attention of a The whole term was large street audience. Size was also a factor fantastic for making art and they rose to the challenge of enlarging come alive and their designs onto calico. meaningful for the One parent offered her services to sew students. the two painted sides of each sculpture, Pam Fordham then the students stuffed the edges with Art Teacher polyester fi lling and the bulk of the Rosanna Golf Links sculpture with scrunched newspaper. Rods Primary School were inserted into the back of the sculptures for display in the Street Parade. The whole school focused on various aspects of Mirka Mora’s art during the term
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Stitch in Time School Community Quilt a story for future years
Each year at Buckley House we aim to loom to help weave two long cloth panels provide the students in Years 5 & 6 with which were incorporated into the fi nished the opportunity to work with a visiting piece. When all squares were completed, artist. It is a project which brings so Amy assembled over 120 individual many benefi ts to our children and school squares to produce a truly beautiful textile community. Previous projects had art work which was unveiled at our included the areas of painting, mosaics annual Art Show. and ceramics. In 2010 we were Our Artist in Residence Project introduced to Amy Carr Bottomley, an provided the students with an insight into enthusiastic and inspirational young how artists plan and execute their creative textile design artist. Amy graduated from ideas. Amy shared her portfolios and RMIT University Melbourne with a BA in visual diaries and was an enthusiastic Textile Design and a Major in Weaving. supporter of the students, supporting and She has won awards for her work in encouraging them to express their creative recent exhibitions and is currently ideas. It was a rich learning experience for lecturing at RMIT in textiles. our young artists to work with a skilled artisan who happily shared her expertise. After consultation, we decided on a It was wonderful to see the enthusiasm textile project in which the children with which the children tackled the new would be involved in both needlepoint techniques and skills, and the and weaving, to produce a large textile perseverance they displayed to complete wall hanging, approximately 3 metres by 4 their work. In fact some children metres, to be installed on a feature wall in continued to develop and pursue their the recently redeveloped Buckley House new skills in their own time. Library at Ivanhoe Grammar. Our 2010 Artist in Residence project Amy’s project was based on colour, resulted in the creation of a lasting work pattern and texture, centred around the of art that is admired and valued by the design theme of Optical Illusions. Each whole school community. It is a joy to see student designed an individual 12cm x children proudly pointing out their special 12cm square, carefully considering pattern square to family and friends, and of and colour combinations. Students were course, in future years they can also come introduced to various threads and textiles back to visit the school and remember and used needlepoint techniques to stitch their treasured contribution. their coloured piece. Some students also Helena Swain & Kym Leon took the opportunity to produce some Art Teachers – Buckley House squares using the rug hooking method. All Ivanhoe Grammar School students also worked with Amy on her
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St Leonard’s College Brighton Exhibiting Term 3 2011 Exhibit ends 13th September 2011 St Leonard’s College Brighton Colour Mixing Heathmont East Primary School Paul Klee Acacia College Portraits Rosanna Golf Links Primary School Mirka Mora Dolls Westbourne Grammar, Truganina 3D Animal Totems Mont Albert Primary School Snugglepot and Cuddlepies St Clement of Rome School, Bulleen Tree of Life Oakleigh Primary School Volcanos Ave Maria College, Aberfeldie Symbols in Architecture Yr 12 St Columba’s College Essendon The Rhythms of Dance St Simon’s School Rowville Magazine Bowls Doncaster Gardens Primary School Foot binding shoes Ah Xian’s sculptures Lynbrook Primary School Westbourne Collage Shoes Grammar, Truganina Cranbourne West Primary School Cityscapes Sacre Coeur Glen Iris Doncaster Gardens Fish St Simon’s School Primary School Cranbourne Carlisle Primary School Rowville Portraits Eltham College Worry Dolls Maranatha Christian School Clay Mexican Whistles
Zart’s Student Gallery Oakleigh Primary School Situated upstairs in the Zart Customer Service Centre. Each term the Student Gallery exhibits a new display of work from young artists ranging from kindergarten to VCE. We are always on the lookout for artwork to be exhibited that showcases new ideas and techniques suitable for all age levels. Please email images of work you would like to exhibit one term in advance to Jan Roker on jan@ zartart.com.au Also visit www.zartart.com.au Cranbourne West Primary School Acacia College Lynbrook Primary School
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EXPERIMENTATION INKJET PRINT ON CLAY Jenny Hodge At the end of 2008, Maranatha Christian School’s senior art teacher Maranatha, many experiments Visual Art Teacher Jenny Hodge, after much experimentation, pushed the boundaries of have already been done using the Maranatha Christian School printing on clay by developing a world fi rst method for transferring school’s electric kiln with Resource: The method can be images using the humble inkjet printer. Her method has now been different mixes and strengths of obtained by emailing Jenny on globally recognized, published and is highly sought after by teachers underglaze colours. Students [email protected] from around the world as an easily achievable and fun method for have been working their own students of all ages. A DVD on the method is soon to be produced. photos using their knowledge of The technique is called Inkjet Print on Clay and it is easier to Photoshop to apply them to their accomplish than to pronounce! The words of the methodology, heavy clay forms which can be bent or on technology, somehow have fascinating connotations. But it is not pushed into practically any only the name that evokes a sense of wonder and mystery. The pure shape. white clay, black where oxides stain it, the magical use of clear The medium has endless transparencies to transfer images and the brilliant end result all possibilities, both as an art form contribute. and as a dramatic new carrier of Appealing to students? Most certainly. This mysterious untapped messages and beliefs. It does not world is utterly beguiling! It triggers something inside of you; a mood have the limitations of hand which can only be described as artistic bliss, as you watch your own painting but can be combined photograph or drawing miraculously appear on the cool white with this. Two dimensional surface of the slippery clay beneath your fi ngertips. It whets your visual imagery can now be easily appetite for even more discoveries away from well known ceramic combined with 3D form and the paths and it stirs in students a quest for more and more creative ways sky is the limit. The new method to see their own images in a new medium. is both readily accessible for From years 7 to 12, Maranatha students have embraced print on schools and is visually exciting as clay as an effortless technique to learn. They were the fi rst in it produces instant results which Australia to try out the ground breaking method with interesting unfold before the students eyes results. and students enjoy working on The new method uses a simple process of applying a wet overhead their own photos or drawings in inkjet transparency to leather hard clay. Before the overhead is the start of the process. The applied to the clay, it is dusted with fi ne ceramic powders – oxides Maranatha Art Department mixed with underglazes to get a brilliant result. Timing is crucial hopes to really develop this however, as is the temperature of the rolled clay. Beautifully clear method further in the future. photographic images are able to be reproduced. These then become individual art works on formed and shaped clay as each clay fi ring will slightly alter the oxide colours producing different effects. At 10 www.zartart.com.au Art Materials & Resources
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A middle school approach to working with clay Textured Functional & Sculptural Pieces
Each year, students at Haileybury students to create textured ceramic tiles in the sources, then encouraged them to use and Castlefi eld in Brighton take part in shapes of leaves, butterfl ies, buttons and hearts. combine the textured slabs of clay to create Arts Week, fi ve days of immersion in Once fi red, the students later formed the tiles ceramic Trophy Fish, working Fish Fountains and celebration of both the Visual into a magnifi cent Hearts and Wings sculpture and Water Spouts, sculptural representations of and Performing Arts. – Hearts and Wings being one of the school’s the Bathers on Brighton Beach, and rain-forest- iconic emblems. These workshops inspired the inspired Cylindrical Vessels with wire creatures Our visual artist in residence this Visual Arts staff to create a Middle School adorning the trunks. year was Jane Byrne, who held ceramics program which engaged students with Year 5 students developed a Design Brief which workshops with the year 5 and 6 the creation of textures using a variety of textile gave them the task of creating textured Trophy
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Fish which would hang on a plaque on the wall. Using stretchy cotton netting and lace doylies as textural sources, students rolled out slabs of clay, creating beautiful scaly textures. Using fi sh templates developed earlier, the students cut out two fi sh shapes, one slightly bigger than the other. Scrunched up newspaper was used to create shape and form on the bottom template, while the textured slab was laid on top. The two fi sh slabs were carefully joined using clay tools. Further textured slabs were created from refi red and fi tted with small water pumps. which fi ns, eyes, tails and other details were Students are enthralled with their working created. The fi sh were air dried; bisque fi red fountains! and glazed using a variety of brush-on glazes. Year Seven students were set the task of Some students elected to wipe-back, others combining untextured and textured clay created a shiny fi nish. Following the glaze sections to create the bathing beauties on fi ring, the fi sh were mounted on black, Brighton beach. This Unit engaged students gold-trimmed trophy boards. The Unit was with the proportions of the human body and highly successful and really engaged the Year how proportion and balance could be fi ve participants. combined with texture and colour to create Continuing with the Fish theme, Year Six character and personality. The clay fi gures students created a Design Brief to make were designed in their Visual Diary, then working Fish Fountains, which, with a small built using a combination of slab, pinch pot, pump hidden inside, spurt water when and coil hand-building techniques. Posed immersed in a dish or bird bath. In this Unit, lying or sitting on the sand or a beach towel, students combined pinch pot technique the only texture and colour feature in the The groups who have participated in this (head and mouth of the fi sh) with textured bathing costume, hair or facial features. community project have included the slabs rolled onto hessian, netting, crotched Students completed the unit by building following: Karen Levy + year 9 students lace and macramé. The slabs were rolled small replicas of the Brighton Beach Bathing from Mc Kinnon Secondary College, Helen around small cylinders, which remained Boxes to complete their sculptural Kuriata & year 10 students Mc Kinnon inside the slab until the head and tail had arrangements. Secondary College, Jill Anderson & year 7 been securely joined and a state of balance Finally Year Eight students brainstormed & 10 students Glen Eira College, Jill obtained. The textured slabs provided rainforest and plant textures which they Stanbury + students from Wesley College, patterns for fi ns, tails, hats and other detail. used to create their Design Brief. They Elsternwick, Jo Harris & 4 year old group Following the bisque elected to combine ceramic and wire Bentleigh West Kindergarten, Staci fi ring the fountains mediums to create functional cylindrical Sterenberg & the St Andrew School, were glazed, vessels that depicted environmental textures. Chicago, USA, Karen Ami & Students from Onto each vessel, a creature that would the Chicago Mosaic School, Paula Rose & inhabit the rainforest, has been sculpted year 5 students MLC, Priscilla Williams & from wire, and arranged climbing into, out Year 4 students Scotch College, Karen of, or around the vessel. The marriage of the Neilsen & year 5 Brighton Grammar two mediums created a wonderful contrast School, Jane Byrne & year 9 boys from the of textures and this Unit was very much Sea Change program, Audrey Cardona & enjoyed by the students. Westbourne Grammar School, John Irving & year 7 Beaconhills College Pakenham. Judi Robertson Deputy Director Art http://www.theage.com.au/ Haileybury, Brighton photogallery/victoria/mosaics- 20110627-1gnna.html http://www.theage.com.au/ The Design Brief, Assessment Rubric, entertainment/art-and-design/ Student Self-evaluation Exercises and other stations-pieces-de-resistance- teaching notes for each of these Units of 20110704-1gz0d.html Work are available on the Zart Art website.
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Stationary Faces A community mosaic project at Patterson Station Bentleigh Four years ago I relocated my studio to surfaces to cover. I set my sights on spoke a little about the Patterson Station the little village of Patterson in Bentleigh, Patterson Station, 50 metres from my project and invited the audience to send a Melbourne. Having a passion for mosaic studio. mosaic face to me for inclusion in the environments, I was keen to turn the studio The underpass of Patterson Station was a station project. I thought that I would into my own little mosaic haven. Soon after huge temptation for me! That large expanse receive maybe 3 or 4 faces. However, to moving in, I began to mosaic my courtyard. of concrete wall was just begging to be date, I have received 78 portraits from the Every surface of my studio courtyard now is covered in mosaic! So I applied for an Arts USA. I have also received one from Italy, one covered in mosaic tiles of bird images. The Victoria Grant to create a community-based from the West Indies and some are on their “Birds of a Feather” Courtyard, as it has project. The theme I proposed was faces way from the UK. Many of these have come come to be known, was created with the – to refl ect the diversity of the people using from followers of my Facebook Fan Page. help of fi ve women from the mosaic the station. The initial proposal involved The mural is a wonderful teaching tool. It association, who I mentored. We ran a covering 30 square metres of the contains all the styles and materials community mosaic day, inviting people to underpass. However, currently I have available to the contemporary mosaicists. It make a bird mosaic. Approximately covered 130 square metres! illustrates what works in mosaic (and what seventy-fi ve members of the community Initially, I contacted some of the local doesn’t). I think this has been a very were involved. That initial wall inspired schools that I have a relationship with, to successful Community Arts project for students from Mc Kinnon Secondary see if they would like to be involved in the many reasons. Each face has been made by College (together with their very project. However, the “community” that is an individual or a group, rather than just enthusiastic teacher Karen Levy) to make represented on the walls of Patterson placing one or two tiles onto a pictorial more mosaic tiles. Generously, they gifted Station is much broader than Bentleigh. mural. The fact that people have their own them to me for inclusion in the courtyard. The project has grown and grown, with the complete section of the mural is important. Another section of wall was covered by generous contributions from schools all I was not too prescriptive about what the students from Sandringham Secondary over Melbourne. face/portrait should be, or the size. This College, with the help of their teacher Maria Furthermore, in February this year I was gave people the liberty to be creative and Morabito. The courtyard is a great example the keynote speaker at the Society of represent themselves or someone they love of what can be achieved in a small yard American Mosaic Artists Conference in in whatever way was most evocative of space. It has been featured in many Austin Texas. My address was mainly about their character. magazines. Once the courtyard was my latest commissions for Luna Park, Pamela Irving covered, I felt I needed to fi nd more Melbourne. At the end of my address, I Artist & Zart Education Consultant
Zart Extra_Term 4 2011 5 whole school project
Involving thethrough school community art The students’ fi rst attempts at their learning can drive them to share it with recreating Van Gogh’s techniques others. were displayed for students to Last term our Level 4 students showcased explain and share their learnings. their story of the wonderful inspiring Two students of Dutch descent Australian artist Mirka Mora. We decided to welcomed everyone to our Exhibition in present our artworks to our families in an Dutch. Their proud mum had worked with authentic French café. The Visual Arts them and also brought samples of the Dutch Leaders took on the task of organizing the culture to display. Dutch music played while two evenings. Notes were written home Aspendale Gardens Primary our Visual Arts Leaders explained our ‘Match asking parents to assist with the catering School invites the school the Van Gogh painting with its title’ arrangements for the nights. Parents and community to share in the competition to families as they arrived. staff were also ‘roped in’ to help with school’s visual arts program. Families rushed to enter, eagerly discussing decorations. Sewing bunting in the café the works and each member enthusiastically colours and sewing a MIRKAS CAFÉ sign to Preparations for our VINCENT contributing their ideas. Our LOTE room hang above the entrance. Students created EXHIBITION began with our study of the became a mini theatrette in which families invitations for the two evenings to ensure all artist’s life and works. Students passionately could view a DVD created with our LOTE would be able to fi t into our Level 4 delved into Vincent Van Gogh’s amazing yet teacher showcasing in more detail, the life Headquarter space. They stayed back after so tragic life. Students and their families and works of the artist as seen through school to help set up the café style were personally invited to join with us as we interviews and drama presented by the level exhibition. Hanging bunting, placing lamps shared our knowledge and understandings. 3 students. This was hosted and introduced and low coffee tables and chairs and Prior to the evening, families were also by our Visual Arts Leaders. hanging fairy lights. French music played as invited to create their own masterpiece for Families moved through the various cute lanterns fl ickered on the balcony, the our ‘Family Masterpiece Competition.’ I venues ending up in our school library aroma of coffee and French delicacies served couldn’t believe the interest that had where students had recreated their own by ‘our French’ waiters and waitresses’ bounced off the students and fi red the complete Van Gogh style masterpieces. dressed in French style. They welcomed and enthusiasm of whole families to recreate one Students proudly led their families to their made everyone feel like they were really in of Van Gogh’s masterpieces. Students arrived works and shared with them all they had the Latin Quarter of Paris! A visit by ‘Pierre in the art room days before the due date done. Our ‘Family Masterpiece Competition’ de la Rue’ our ‘real French and artiste added carrying their precious reproductions. was displayed in our school foyer and was a the fi nal touch to the night. He formally Others waited excitedly with proud mums wonderful fi nale to the evening….. thanked everyone for coming, praising the and dads and little brothers and sisters demonstrating how the students’ efforts of all in French and announced those watching, waiting for their turn to present engagement and who had won special mention for their their ‘entry.’ We had canvases, pieces torn love of efforts. Families soaked up the atmosphere, from sketch pads and even elaborate ‘Starry moving through the ‘café’ coffee and crepes Nights’ complete with real starry lights! in hand, discussing their own child’s piece but also relishing the opportunity to admire and celebrate the works of all the students. Julie Lach Visual Art Teacher Aspendale Gardens Primary School
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Promoting School Values Canterbury Primary School was looking for a new way to present the four school values of Respect, Responsibility, Resilience and Cooperation. The Zart Magicube provided the perfect solution!
Student leadership and student voice are key to the teaching and learning at CPS. With the help of the Arts Captains (Year 6 students elected by their peers) and Action Team Members (Year 3-6 students elected by their peers), the possibilities for the Values Cube took shape. Each Level created an artwork about a specifi c value. Then each class selected one artwork to represent their class. From these Resilience 25 artworks the Arts Captains selected one artwork for each value. Before commencing their artwork students explored different artists and techniques. They then planned for their piece in a specifi c medium, depicting how they show their level value at school.
Level 1: Explored mark making, line, colour and shape through a mixed media drawing about how they show Cooperation. Responsibility Level 2: Created a watercolour pencil planning drawing for a tissue paper collage inspired by Patricia Mullins’s Crocodile Beat showing Responsibility. Level 3: Modelled a plasticine relief about Respect inspired by Barbara Reid. Level 4: Investigated the works of Peter Booth, Pablo Picasso, Edvard Munch, Andy Warhol and Janet Culberston to understand why and how artists make artwork to inspire change or convey a message with out words. They designed and painted an image of how they show Resilience.
The Zart Magicube has nine faces in total. Four of the outside Cooperation faces contain the values. School contact information was printed on the fi fth face with the last face blank. This blank face was the perfect place to personalise the cube for each student by allowing them to draw or glue on an image of themselves. When fl ipped around, three rectangular faces are revealed on the Respect inside of the cube. Arts Captains and the Arts Action team divided into three groups to work on these. They determined it would be useful to give students strategies to use in the playground, ‘sentence starters’ and ideas for fun things to do in the playground. Each mini action team met at lunch time every Monday during Semester 1 to plan and create what they would like to include on their side. They considered appropriate text and images through consultation with their levels. Each group explained how they would like their work arranged so that text and images could be combined in Photoshop and InDesign. Thank you to Zart Art for their help with organising the printing of the new Canterbury Primary Values Cube! Deirdre Zabel Visual Art Teacher Canterbury Primary School
Zart Extra_Term 4 2011 7 opinion The Grass isn’t Greener in China
The OECD (Organization for Economic Xu Jilin, professor of intellectual history of We sympathize with Professor Xu Jilin’s Co-operation and Development) conducts East China Normal University, declared that views of China’s “terminal illness” but we are PISA - the Program for International Student China is “terminally ill”. He believes that also fearful of our own future. Will we become Assessment - every three years on half a everyone in China is complicit in a vile reality victims to this malaise? If politicians the million 15 year-old students in 65 - that Chinese society worships winners; the world over want to compete with China’s industrialized countries. The tests are only people looked up to as worthy of respect academic performance, does that mean our standardized and conducted in reading and dignity are the handful of mega rich children will also suffer at the hands of a more comprehension, mathematics and science. people at the top of the pyramid. Society is rigid education system? Will these changes be The latest PISA results, released in December ruled by a dog eat dog mentality. Fierce detrimental to our present educational 2010, included students from Shanghai* for competition for survival starts from philosophy that nurtures the individuality of the fi rst time and showed that these Chinese babyhood; children are forced to give up their the child and his talents? What about the time students out-ranked all other participating individuality in a rigid education system we give children to explore and to express countries, including Australia, the U.S. and obsessed with exams. Hours and hours of themselves – will that be sacrifi ced? PISA the U.K. study are done to acquire skills to beat others. raises more questions than it does answers. The results sent politicians in western An 85 per cent result is not good enough; you Dani Chak countries scrambling to fi nd ways to improve need virtually full marks to gain entry into a Zart Education their countries’ education system. key institution. Everyone hates the exams yet The PISA ranking gives China prestige but, it becomes more intense as the years go by. interestingly, not everyone in China is happy A Shanghai kindergarten teacher admitted *Testing was confi ned to Shanghai, a city that with this meteoric rise. Behind the Great Wall “Creativity is not an important part of our has experienced a rapid economic rise, huge the voice of discontent is getting louder from program. We do not focus on individual lifestyle improvements and signifi cant increase in academics, teachers and parents alike. Parents thinking. We love rote learning and analytical secondary school retention rates. Shanghai is one feel their child is over-burdened by thinking. No lateral or intuitive thinking. of the most progressive regions of China but the overwhelming academic demands, fi erce Having only one child in the family makes test results are not representative of all of China. competition and an exhausting and rigorous parents frightened of the child getting hurt so References: school regime. A typical secondary school day we have to be so careful in what we do. The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and may start at 7.30am and fi nish about 5.30pm children are frightened of taking risks. They development for International Student Assessment, an and then there is homework for another four are not taught to question but to accept and evaluation of 15-year-olds in industrialized countries
to fi ve hours. Much of the curriculum is taken learn it by heart”. One parent complained The New York Times, “Western nations React to Poor up with academic subjects delivered in the “our kids can’t create and they are turning Education Results” by D.D. Guttenplan, December, 2010 traditional rote learning method, using text into idiots”. Professor Xu Jilin, “Resistance between Discourse and books and there us little opportunity for There is no doubt that excellence in reading Practice” translated by David Kelly, Professor at the discussion and exchange. Children at primary comprehension; mathematics and science China Research Centre, University of Technology, school do not fair much better as they too have a very important place in the future of Sydney, in China Heritage Quarterly. have a predominantly academic program and developed countries but what other skills are an enormous workload; having an art lesson required for the future? What skills do our The Age, “Parents take aim at China’s school daze”, by is non-existent. Even at kindergarten the child children need to become well-adjusted, John Garnaut, December 11, 2010 is tested in an academic program. contributing members of society?
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St Leonard’sLeonard’s CoCollegellege BriBrightonghton Exhibiting Term 4 2011 Exhibit ends 29th November 2011 Aspendale Gardens Primary School Mirka Mora Ascot Vale Primary School Indigenous inspired works Box Hill High School Gaga Hats Canterbury Primary School School Values Mooroolbark East Primary School Carey Grammar Donvale Lilydale Primary School Mad Hatters Caulfield Grammar Malvern Caulfi eld Grammar Malvern Art Music Cranbourne Carlisle Primary School Houses Coolaroo South Primary School Distorted Lines Dingley Primary School Ink Blots Ascot Vale Primary School Glenferrie Primary School Glenferrie Primary School Aliens Haileybury College Brighton Ceramics Heathmont College Paintings Lilydale Primary School Pop Art Mooroolbark East Primary School Mona Lisa Penders Grove Primary School Willow Patterns Dingley Primary School Presbyterian Ladies’ College Burwood Sculptures Strathaird Primary School Dragon Masks Tucker Road Bentleigh Primary School Boats in Bottles Upwey South Primary School Reverse Applique Waverley Christian College Collages Penders Grove Primary School Zart’s Student Gallery Situated upstairs in the Zart Customer Service Centre. Each term the Student Gallery exhibits a new display of work Cranbourne Carlisle Tucker Road from young artists ranging from Primary School Bentleigh Primary School kindergarten to VCE. We are always on the lookout for artwork to be exhibited that showcases new ideas and techniques suitable for all age levels. Please email images of work you would like to exhibit one term in advance to Jan Roker at jan@ zartart.com.au
Zart Extra_Term 4 2011 9 product exploration Flex-It Mesh
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