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Art & Craft Materials, Stationery ITALIAN MASTERPIECES traditional culture of the Martu people with cutting & Educational Supplies FROM SPAIN’S ROYAL COURT MUSEO DEL PRADO edge new media artists from across Australia. 16 MAY 2014 – 31 AUGUST 2014 Featuring stunning paintings, digital animation, Zart Extra: ISSN 448—8450 Zart - Supporting Teachers in NGV INTERNATIONAL, 180 ST KILDA ROAD Zart Extra is published Creative Education immersive video installations, aerial desert quarterly by Zart 4/41 Lexton Road, The holdings of Italian art in the Museo Nacional del photography, handmade Martu objects and a public Education, a division of Box Hill North, Prado, Madrid are unique and unrivalled in museums program featuring key Martu participants, We don’t Zart Art Pty Ltd. This Victoria 3129 Australia publication is mailed Ph: (03) 9890 1867 outside Italy. This exhibition of over 70 paintings and need a map invites visitors to interact with the lively prior to the first week of Fax: (03) 9898 6527 30 drawings presents a rich selection of works and enduring culture of the Western Desert. the term issue date. This www.zartart.com.au spanning 300 years of Italian art, from the early newsletter allows art E: [email protected] GUNTER CHRISTMANN: NOW AND THEN teachers/co-ordinators to sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. Artists Administration Hours: 26 JULY - 16 NOVEMBER 2014 learn about what is represented include Raphael, Correggio, Titian, happening in art M–F: 8.30am – 5.00pm HEIDE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART Tintoretto, the Carracci, Poussin and Tiepolo. Many of education and what Customer Service Centre: 7 TEMPLESTOWE ROAD, BULLEEN VIC 3105 other art teachers are M–W & F: 8.30am–5.00 pm these works are at the heart of the Prado’s collection Th: 8.30am – 6.30pm At the time of his death in 2013, Gunter Christmann doing. You will fi nd and have never before left Spain. information on new art Sat: 9.00am – 2.00pm was gathering a new type of critical and public techniques and WE DON’T NEED A MAP: A MARTU attention that surrounded his striking debut as an processes, the latest materials and resources EXPERIENCE OF THE WESTERN DESERT artist in the 1960s. Gunter Christmann: Now and Then is on the market. Please Find us on Facebook: 17 AUGUST 2014 - 02 NOVEMBER 2014 the fi rst exhibition to survey the 50 year career of this note, all prices quoted www.facebook.com/ZartArt MCCLELLAND GALLERY & SCULPTURE PARK remarkable Australian artist. It includes sound works, are valid for the duration Follow us on Twitter: 390 MCCLELLAND DRIVE, LANGWARRIN VIC 3910 photographs and drawings alongside his paintings, of the current term only www.twitter.com/ and are subject to zarteducation We don’t need a map: a Martu experience of the Western and traces the evolution of his major themes and change without notice. Read our Blog: http:// Desert is a groundbreaking exhibition that brings the series, from the geometric and constructivist The insert of the zartartnews.blogspot.com/ newsletter provides Watch Us on YouTube: remote Western Australian desert to regional abstracts, splatter and shaker box paintings through details of our term's ZartEducation Australia. First shown at Fremantle Arts Centre in 2012, to his sensitive fi gure studies, silhouette paintings workshops, so teachers Follow us on Instagram: this critically acclaimed and popular show melds the and landscapes. can then contact us and Zart_Art book into the workshop.

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McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery is exhibition is accompanied by an education connections to the works. This student located within 16 hectares of bush and resource to help explore this fantastic show centred approach encourages students to landscaped gardens in Langwarrin on the with your students. evaluate ideas and messages and to develop Mornington Peninsula. McClelland’s unique The varied landscape surrounding creative and critical thinking. sculpture collection showcases over 100 works by McClelland features ti-tree forests, bracken Our extended Art and Nature programme prominent Australian sculptors, such as Inge stands, heath lands, landscaped gardens and combines the above programmes and King, Lenton Parr, Clement Meadmore, Norma lakes, and provides a wonderful opportunity provides students with an opportunity to Redpath, Rick Amor and Lisa Roet. The indoor to explore habitats, biodiversity and nature. participate in ‘hands on’ scientifi c processes gallery spaces accommodate changing This landscape is a stimulus for our Art and including observing, classifying and exhibitions and collection displays of works on Nature programmes. Many artists recording information with a focus on paper, photography, painting and sculpture. represented in the outdoor sculpture plants and trees, or insects living in the Opening on August 17 and showing collection have responded to the water. Full day programmes include art through to November 2, 2014 we are excited environment through their work. Exploring making workshops that incorporate natural to be presenting: We don’t need a map: a Martu these ideas with students aims to broaden materials and explore themes around nature. experience of the Western Desert. This is a their understanding of environmental These programmes are tailored to suit the groundbreaking exhibition that brings the concerns and sustainability. Students are age of the students. We also tailor remote Western Australian desert to regional encouraged to discuss issues that concern programmes to meet other needs and Australia. First shown at Fremantle Arts them and identify ways in which even small interests of schools, teachers and students. Centre in 2012, this critically acclaimed and things we do individually can impact on the Our programmes relate to a number of popular show melds the traditional culture world around us. AusVELS Domains, Strands and Cross- of the Martu people with cutting edge new Art is a visual language. A tour of the curriculum priorities. For more detailed media artists from across Australia. Featuring Sculpture Park and/or gallery affords information of curriculum links please visit stunning paintings, digital animation, students the opportunity to develop their our website. immersive video installations, aerial desert understanding of art, symbols and art Imogen Good photography, handmade Martu objects and a specifi c language and terminology as well as EDUCATION OFFICER public programme featuring key Martu how artists convey messages and ideas For further information or to arrange a booking participants, We don’t need a map invites through their work. Our tour guides please contact Imogen Good: 03 9789 1671, visitors to interact with the lively and encourage students to explore ideas and [email protected] or visit our enduring culture of the Western Desert. The interpret meaning as well as make personal website www.mcclellandgallery.com

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Zart Education has established a registry of artists, illustrators, authors and art consultants who wish to work directly with children in schools. These individuals are ideal for artists in residency programmes and have vast talent and expertise in “Losop”, Michael Duncan their particular discipline. Schools can contact the “Xavier College has run M: 0434 520 894 artists directly to negotiate a suitable programme. programmes with Michael Duncan E: [email protected] at the senior college art department www.losopstencils.com.au now for two years with our Year 10 Artists & Authors Registry Check out Top Arts 2014 to see Nick and Year 11 Studio Arts students. Mahady’s I appear missing. Nick Michael’s enthusiasm and skills in You will fi nd our complete Please scan! worked closely with Michael during his his art form are impressive and so is Artists and Authors in TO GO TO THE ARTISTS & AUTHORS time at Xavier last year. his ability to engage the students. Residence Registry under REGISTRY. Stencil Art is a relevant and ‘WORKSHOPS & BOOKINGS’ contemporary art form that speaks on our website. to our boys. Since we have included a stencilling unit at Xavier in the art Marjory Gardner programme, our intake for art has increased twofold.” P: 03 9880 7880 M: 0419 532 694 Jane Kennedy, HEAD OF ART “There are so many XAVIER COLLEGE benefi ts to be gained from inviting a children’s book author/illustrator to speak Carroll Karpany to your school. They will M: 0429 881 558 give an insight into the E: [email protected] process of book-making, Carroll Karpany is a Ngarrindjeri Man from the and inspire and motivate Coorong Region of South Australia. He was your students to read, schooled at Maitland Area School, Yorke Peninsula, write, draw and express South Australia. Recently he performed for their ideas in dynamic and teachers at the Zart “Understanding the Culture” creative ways. By sharing workshop. As a singer, songwriter and storyteller, rough drafts and works in progress, they facilitate a deeper Carroll will captivate students of all levels. He will understanding of the book-making journey from fi rst spark of be in Melbourne until November 2015 and is an idea to the written manuscript, and the illustrators’ many available to come to your school. and various techniques and styles. Writing and drawing exercises form part of most presenters’ sessions, and provide Please scan! an inspiring springboard for future classroom activities.” TO VIEW A VIDEO OF CARROLL KARPANY’S RECENT Marjory Gardner PERFORMANCE AT ZART.

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choice, but one which lead to many lively interpretations of the word in the artworks. As usual, there was a great camaraderie at the event as artists caught up with each other, shared information about projects and took risks with new materials. ‘It was a really well-matched partnership with Zart, the ABC, the ILF and the ASA,’ illustrator and ASA Board member Ann James said. What she loved most was watching another artist ‘…play with the textured papers and build an amazing collage, say “This has changed my life! I’m going to do my next book in collage!”’ There have been other unexpected benefi ts to the artists as well – a character an artist created for last year’s event was seen on the OWOD website and has been One Word, One Day picked up by a major publisher as the star of a new picture book. The day was punctuated with laughter, Eighteen illustrators from around Victoria chatter and absorbed silence, and gathered at the ABC Centre in Southbank on everyone went home with paint on their April 30th for the start of the third annual ‘One hands, new ideas and thoughts of a child Word One Day’ (OWOD). This national event, living in the outback discovering the joy which travels around Australia and raises funds of reading. and awareness for the Indigenous Literacy As Karen Williams said, ‘It’s astounding Foundation (ILF), is a chance to gather together to think that in some of these Indigenous illustrators who normally work in isolation, to communities there are no books in help other remote communities in central homes and no access to books through Australia. libraries or the local shop. Our An initiative of the Australian Society of foundation together with partners like Authors (ASA) and supported by the ABC, the ASA, ABC and Zart are helping to this year OWOD welcomed Zart as a provide access through early literacy

sponsor. Zart brought a tantalising array of packs, translations of books into fi rst Images: Ann James and Rebecca Mirabella from the ABC art materials to the event, which not only languages and through our fi eld trips delighted illustrators, but enticed them to with authors who run writing workshops create work using materials new to them. for remote schools.’ ILF will use the works to encourage OWOD will be held in Queensland in schools to join their Fundraising and June, and Tasmania and New South Wales Advocacy program: the Great Book Swap. later in the year. The schools which join this programme will Marie Alafaci go into a draw to win a piece of artwork DEVELOPMENT OFFICER – VICTORIA, ASA produced on the day. For more information about OWOD, go ‘We’re incredibly honoured to have some to: https://asauthors.org/event/11633/ of Australia’s fi nest children’s artists and one-word-one-day illustrators so generously contributing to this support of the ABC has been critical to the To fi nd out more about the ILF and how project which is now in its third year,’ Karen event’s success. your school can get involved, go to: http:// Williams, Executive Director of the ILF said. ‘The ABC has supported the initiative www.indigenousliteracyfoundation.org.au/ ‘Through it, the Australian Society of Authors since the outset not just by allowing us to and their artists have not only helped us to splash paint around their foyer, but also raise awareness but also important funds to with radio and television coverage to PD WORKSHOP! address literacy levels in the most promote the ILF’s work of providing books Zart will be hosting a workshop for teachers to work disadvantaged communities in Australia.’ for young Indigenous children where with illustrator Ann James on Saturday 6th Laurine Croasdale, Professional libraries are in only 30% of communities.’ September. Please see page 6 of the Term 3 PD Insert Development Offi cer of the ASA says the This year’s word was ‘Pounce’ – a tricky for further information. 6 www.zartart.com.au study tour

New York City Art Study Tour

Museum, MoMA and The Metropolitan. They the old Brooklyn Navy Yard, students covered themes such as: Society and Politics participated in a workshop where they learnt in Art, The Artist Speaks and Power and how to fashion their own cuff bangle out of Belief. It was an interesting experience, for either copper, brass or bronze. Other both the students and myself, to see how art hands-on experiences included loom weaving educators from America are approaching at the Textiles Arts Centre, as well as meeting teaching and learning within a gallery space. local ‘creatives’ who spoke to us about their Other highlights included the day we took work and career paths in the Arts. But a train out of the city to visit DIA:Beacon perhaps the most profound experience we (allowing us to breathe some fresh air and get shared was when we visited The New York respite from the constant car horns and Earth Room. The installation by Walter De Over the Term 1 holidays a group of 15 senior emergency vehicle sirens!). DIA:Beacon is an Maria has to be experienced to be believed! students from Fintona Girls’ School, along with impressive and expansive gallery space that Our visit was made all the more amazing by two other staff members and myself travelled to houses many large-scale and the impromptu history lesson the eccentric New York City for our inaugural 15 day Art Study artworks spanning from the 60s through to gallery attendant gave, on his experience of Tour. today. The students found the exhibited tending to the living artwork every day for New York, as they say, is the city that never works of Sol LeWitt, Richard Serra, Dan the last 26 years. sleeps – there is always something to do, see Flavin, and Louise Bourgeois particularly Everyone had a really fantastic time; we and experience. We certainly took advantage unique and inspiring. Another experience now share some amazing memories and feel of this – our schedule was jam-packed and that provided some respite from the concrete very inspired as a result. The tour has most included visits to the Museum of Modern Art jungle was the impressively tranquil Noguchi certainly impacted on classroom learning in and MoMA PS1, The Metropolitan Museum, Museum. Located in an unlikely industrial terms of strengthening the students’ The Frick Collection, Whitney Museum, The spot in Long Island City, this museum was a understanding of particular art movements International Centre for Photography, The serene and meditative space fi lled with Isamu and artists, and also broadening their ideas Fashion Museum at FIT as well as numerous Noguchi’s stone and marble sculptures, on what is possible in their own arts practice. contemporary art spaces including, of course, architectural models, drawings and furniture Shannon Kosub the colourful streets of the city itself. designs. Many of the students took the ART TEACHER Over the course of the two weeks the opportunity to sit quietly and practise their FINTONA GIRLS’ SCHOOL students participated in engaging workshops observational drawing skills whilst there. with education offi cers from the Whitney While visiting Carrie Bilbo at her studio in Zart Extra_Term 3 2014 7 pottery plaster sculptures

Haileybury, Basic Mixing: Modroc Substitute: Berwick 2 1. Dry powder is always added to If you are working on a large the water. Always keep one hand scale project, Hessian strips dry. It is best to work on top of can be dipped in your newspaper or a plastic covered mixture and applied to an surface. armature like Modroc. 2. Put the required amount of water Textured Surfaces: into a plastic bucket or ice cream Before plaster sets it reaches container. Make sure there is 3 a whip cream stage, where it enough room in the container to is easily spread over add the plaster as the mixture will surfaces. If you would like to increase in volume. Warm water will create texture on a Modroc speed up the setting time, which is piece you can apply the an advantage when sand casts are mixture at this stage. being made. Pottery Plaster Carving: Pottery Plaster can be poured into 3. Sprinkle the powder onto the Plaster that has been cast can moulds, used like Modroc when surface of the water. DO NOT STIR then be carved into. Chisels, hessian is dipped into it, carved and 4 YET. rasps, rifflers and applied to surfaces to create a textured 4. Keep adding powder until the sandpapers can be used to finish. When it is mixed with water it “hill” which forms in the centre of modify the form. Wear a dusk will change from a pourable the water ceases to sink under the mask while carving. If you consistency into a hard solid when dry. surface. This is the correct keep the plaster wrapped up During this change the plaster heats proportion of water to plaster. Wait in plastic, it will stay moist up. Various materials can be added to until this entire “hill” is dampened and the shavings will not be the plaster to modify its behaviour e.g. by the water seeping up. airborne. When it dries, the salt to speed setting, wallpaper paste 5 5. Stir the mixture with one hand, dust created will be finer and to slow setting. Aggregates can also be carefully in such a way that air you can use sandpaper to added to make the mixture occupy a bubbles are not created. Upon refine your form. greater volume e.g. sawdust, sand, removing your hand, it should be vermiculite. coated with the mixture. Storage: 6. When the mixture is ready, lift the This dry white powder must be stored container and gently bang it down in such a manner that water cannot 6 onto the bench or floor a few times come into contact with it. to force any air bubbles upwards. It should now be ready to pour for Safety: whatever purpose is intended. Always wear a dust mask when 7. Leave plaster to set for at least 24 handling dry powder. You may choose hours before removing from mould. to wear gloves. Drying time depends on weather and thickness of plaster. Plaster sculpture: Cleaning up: design was 7 carved into WARNING: Do not allow mould set unset plaster to be washed plaster. down any drain; never allow children to wash their hands at the sink, an accumulation of plaster sediment will block drains very quickly. Allow children to wash their hands and equipment in a Moulds: plastic bucket. The sediment There are many different ways you will settle and harden or gel, can create a mould to pour your then the water may be plaster mixture into. A cardboard Haileybury - Brighton poured off, and the plaster box with its joins sealed with residue disposed of as solid strong tape is an inexpensive waste. Plastic mixing option. WARNING - DO NOT containers can be cleaned Pottery Plaster Please scan to view Haileybury’s attempt to make an enclosed cast Slow setting plaster for casting work. work in our Term 3 Gallery, and by allowing the plaster to set of any body parts such as hands or 5kg (reusable bucket) ML627 for some hard. It falls out easily when fingers. This product gives off heat Each $14.95 interesting the container is tapped methods when mixed with water for setting, vigorously. Plastic Sheeting 20kg bag ML625 of pouring which may result in serious skin may be reused and cleaned Each $25.50 moulds. irritations if used for casting body in the same way. parts. 8 www.zartart.com.au zart student gallery Zart Student Gallery Term 3 2014

Current Exhibition on until 9th September 2014 Australian International Academy Ceramic Monsters Cranbourne West Primary School Owls Edithvale Primary School Jigsaw of Australian History Geelong Lutheran College Howard Arkley Patterns Australian International Academy Haileybury - Berwick Henry Moore Plaster Sculptures Haileybury - Brighton Henry Moore Plaster Sculptures and Haileybury Berwick & Monster Buildings Brighton Horsham West Primary School Shoe Box Art Mont Albert Primary School Ceramic Weaving Looms Horsham West Narre Warren South P-12 Primary School Embossings and Etchings Research Primary School Sirius College - Fish Sculptures Keysborough Ruyton Girls’ School Textiles Sacred Heart Primary School, Oakleigh Japanese Batik Windsocks Sirius College - Keysborough Arcimboldo Studies St Margaret’s School - Berwick Edithvale Primary School Monster Drawings Strathcona Baptist Girls’ Grammar School Puffi n Screen Prints Yarra Valley Grammar School Animals of Asia Haileybury - Brighton Zart Student Gallery Situated upstairs in the Zart Customer Service Centre. Each term the Student St Margaret’s Gallery exhibits a new display of work from Geelong Lutheran College School - Berwick 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 [email protected] or visit www. zartart.com.au AusVELS Visual Arts Units The Zart Student Gallery will now include an AusVELS unit for most schools that exhibit. These will be available on the Zart Student Gallery webpage. StrathconaStrathconaBa BaptistBaptitist Girls’Girls’ Yarra Valley Grammar School Grammar School Zart Extra_Term 3 2014 9 new resources

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CBCA Authors & Illustrators ONE MINUTE’S SILENCE In this profound and deeply moving picture book David Metzenthen’s lyrical and beautifully balanced Book Week Publication! text and Michael Camilleri’s powerful and haunting Connect To Reading illustrations, combine seamlessly to honour the courage and sacrifi ces of war, whilst recognising its Link Art With Literature! Includes 29 Activities on terrible price. Hear author and illustrator, with their the 2014 Theme ‘Connect to Reading’, as well as publisher Eva Mills, in the chair; reveal how this the Shortlisted Early Childhood and Picture Books. stunning result was achieved. Date: Wednesday 10th September, Time: 5.30pm until 8.00pm, Venue: Zart BK625 Box Hill North, Limited to the fi rst 70 respondents NEW 80pp $39.95 Cost: $30 (CBCA members) or $40 (non members) or FREE $20 (students); Bookings: Phone CBCA on 1300 360 with every Book Week 436 or email [email protected]. Bookings are workshop! essential so book in early to avoid disappointment. Customer Service Centre Visit our Customer Service Centre, in Box Hill North, during Term 3 to view a range of new products and resources and to see our latest foyer display. The Centre has a play based learning area stocked with a range of products suitable for Early Childhood and Early Years. While in the centre don’t forget to visit the Term 3 Student Gallery, full of stunning artworks from Primary and Secondary art students. AusVELS Visual Arts Units The Zart Student Gallery will now include an AusVELS unit for most schools that exhibit. These will be available on the Zart Student Gallery webpage: http://www.zartart.com.au/html/gallery.html

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