Da Vinci Project

Peeking through the glass at Robert Klippel's Eighty-seven small polychromed tin sculptures 1995 (detail)
© Robert Klippel Estate

• Children with an Intellectual Disability
   
• Gifted and Talented Children

The Da Vinci Project consists of two specially designed programs which provide rich and challenging learning experiences for children who are in years K-8.

Children who have an intellectual disability have something in common with those who are intellectually gifted. They both have special qualities and needs and both often suffer from a lack of appropriate learning experiences.

The Art Gallery of New South Wales has established the Da Vinci Project as part of an ongoing commitment to helping these children to reach their full potential.

Both groups of children often have a heightened aesthetic and sensory awareness and the Art Gallery is uniquely equipped to respond to their needs.

Children with an Intellectual Disability:
Starting with Art

For students with mild to moderate intellectual disabilities, this program provides the opportunity to experience art through stimulating and fun filled workshops at the Gallery.

Gifted and talented children
HOT art

Designed to meet the needs of intellectually gifted and underachieving gifted children, offering stimulating and creative opportunities to develop Higher Order Thinking (HOT) skills at the Gallery.

Manioo workshop*

Manioo is an Eora word meaning "to pick up anything".
- Troy, Jakelin The Sydney Language Australian Dictionaries Project AIATSIS, Canberra 1994

This free workshop has been designed by the Gallery to specifically support and encourage underachieving, gifted K-6 students in an effort to meet their intellectual, artistic, social and emotional needs through using the Gallery's permanent collection as a key resource within this "special environment".

 
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