VADEA National Curriculum Bulletin
tober 21, 2010
1 June 2011 VADEA E-BULLETIN
VADEA NSW ANNUAL CONFERENCE
REGISTRATION CLOSES
10 Days!
CRITICAL JUNCTURES: TENSIONS,
EXTENSIONS, AND CONFLUENCES IN
VISUAL ARTS & DESIGN EDUCATION
The 2011 VADEA Conference celebrates the expanding
horizon of the visual arts and art & design education in the
context of an ever-changing globalised world.
Interconnectedness, interdependency and the dilemmas
of negotiating the local and the global have emerged as
key themes of contemporary art & design.
Confirmed Speakers:
LUCY CULLITON
Celebrated contemporary Australian painter
ROB RANDALL
Deputy CEO & General Manager, Curriculum (ACARA)
JAY MCPHERSON
Inspector Creative Arts (BOS)
SALLY HOGAN
Principal North Newtown Public School
RICHARD GOODWIN
Internationally celebrated sculptor and architect
ISOBEL KNOWLES
Animator and new media artist
CRAIG JUDD
Curator, critic and gallery director
CHRIS BOSSE
Contemporary architect & designer of Water Cube, Beijing
BOOK NOW
visit www.vadea.org.au for details
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Vol. 15
K- 6 VISUAL ART
This year’s VADEA conference will also include a
range of opportunities targeted at K-6 teachers
teaching Visual Arts. This will be a great chance for
K-6 teachers with an interest in the Visual Arts to to get
involved, make contacts with primary and secondary
colleagues and to participate in some excellent
professional development in an area of learning that is
so important to students' understanding of the
contemporary world but which is sometimes overlooked
in schools because of the pressures of NAPLAN etc.
The workshops will focus on;
• Best Practice in Visual Arts curriculum and
teaching
• Studio workshops with practising artists and
visual arts teachers
Download a conference registration form;
http://vadea.org.au/wordpress/wp-
content/uploads/downloads/2011/05/VADEA2011_R
egoForm-May-12.pdf
Keep a look out for the release
of the BOS CONSULTATION ON
THE DRAFT SHAPE PAPER FOR
THE ARTS
HAVE YOUR QUESTIONS
ANSWERED
FINDINGS FROM THE CONSULTATION ON THE
DRAFT SHAPE PAPER FOR THE ARTS
Rob Randall, Deputy CEO and General Manager,
Curriculum (ACARA) and Jay McPherson, Inspector
Creative Arts (BOS) will present on the draft Shape
Paper for the Arts with a focus on the findings of
ACARAs and the Board of Studies’ consultations. Dr
Karen Maras with Sally Hogan will chair the session,
which includes time for discussion and the raising
of key questions regarding the direction of the Arts
in the Australian curriculum from state and national
perspectives.
ONLY AT THE VADEA CONFERENCE
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HOT OFF THE PRESS - DRAFT CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS

The focus of these sessions will be on making links between the artworld and the classroom. Ideas and issues
identified by keynote speakers will be re-articulated into possible approaches teachers can adopt in artmaking, art
criticism and art historical practices in the classroom.

More detail about the seminars and workshops will be announced on the VADEA website.
Check for updates: www.VADEA.org.au
FRIDAY June 17
Byron Hurst & Reg Lark: Corrugated Spaces – Sydney Architecture
Annette Mauer & Brian Kirkby: Framing Art through Architecture
Steve Lewis: Environmental Inventors- A focus on structural & cultural explorations of the built environment
Nick Philipson: Metropolis- A Futurist manifesto for a modernist world
Kristen Murray: Environmental sculpture PRIMARY FOCUSED WORKSHOP
Marilyn McAlpine: Affordable Quality Digital Printing in your Art Department
The 2011 conference is
Craig Judd: Peak Museum Experience - MONA Hobart shaping up to be
Nancy Incoll: Tackling the Teaching of Animation: the dos and don’ts amazing.
Leon Loreaux: Tricks of the Trade – online teaching
Don’t miss it!
Alma Loreaux: Twitter Literacy – Art criticism and history
Rhonda Burgess: In Focus- Photography PRIMARY FOCUSED WORKSHOP

SATURDAY June 18
Georgie Gammans: Light Up- Ever used edible jelly or fanciful headbands to create light fittings?
Jane Naylor: Wunderkammer- Science, Aesthetics, History and Politics with Examples Of Stage 5 Visual Arts
Sueanne Matthews: Teaching in a VADEA Hub District- Ever taught beyond the latte line?
Natalie O’Connor: Exploring Art Mediums- Eckersley demonstration
Vince Papa: Stage 6 Visual Arts in Three Dimensions
Amy Yongsiri: The Flesh And Bones Of Contemporary Design, Architecture And Stop Motion Animation
Janet Rentz: The Crossroads of Practice: Pathways that Guide Students through Creative Practice.
Annette Mauer & Alex Gilmore: Design Emergency- design thinking PRIMARY FOCUSED WORKSHOP
Wendy Ramsay & Karen King: Establishing VADEA Hubs- Teaching Beyond Metropolitan Sydney
Sean O’Keeffe: Bringing Culliton In & Out of the Classroom
Rachael Bor & Rebecca Goldsmith: Beyond Language with Basquiat
Luise Guest: Critical Junctures in Contemporary Chinese Art: Tradition and Transformation
Rhonda Burgess: Wrapped and Unwrapped - Christo & Jeanne Claude PRIMARY FOCUSED WORKSHOP
Jennifer Minogue: Misnoralanious: No ordinary Surrealism unit

Yet another reason to register for the VADEA 2011 conference

BOOK NOW visit www.vadea.org.au for details

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THE PIXEL PRIZE SCENARIO AT iCINEMA

WHAT DO YOU SEE? A WORLD FIRST 360-DEGREE 3D AI CINEMATIC
INSTALLATION
The Pixel Prize is a competition open to all high school
students who have a passion for photography. The
competition aims to engage young people in visual arts and
use it as a powerful tool to communicate valuable
messages to society.

The theme of the competition

is Enter a fractured fairy-tale that propels viewers into
Community Spirit the interactive, immersive future of entertainment!

Entries are via the web.
Win prizes for First, Second and Third place.
Go to www.thepixelprize.com.au for further details about
the competition and to submit your entry.
Entries close 31 August 2011
Scenario is a free Sydney Film Festival event
which allows five participants per session to lose
themselves in the brave new world of 360-degree 3D
Artificially Intelligent (AI) cinema at the University of
New South Wales' iCinema Research Centre.
Scenario foreshadows a dramatic shift in what
cinema can be. Instead of cinematic storytelling being
about what the audience thinks and believes, it can
also be about what the characters on screen believe
and think as they interact with the audience.
Scenario runs from 8 - 19 June 2011

FOR MORE INFO AND REGISTRATION VISIT

http://www.sff.org.au/public/events/scenario-at-
icinema/

A perfect way to precede or conclude the

VADEA conference (the venue is a 5 minute walk
from the Law Building at UNSW, however, you will
The competition is sponsored by the Faculty of Arts and
need to book through the Sydney Film Festival.
Sciences at Australian Catholic University
No tickets available on site.

Would you like to contribute?

This E-Bulletin is aimed at providing up to date information and resources on the proposed changes to Visual
Arts in the Australian Curriculum. If you come across anything of interest in relation to the Australian Curriculum and
The Arts please email me directly and I will add it to the bulletin.
nicholas.phillipson@spc.nsw.edu.au

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