An important Visual Arts Teacher professional development day celebrating the annual exhibition, ARTEXPRESS at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and investigating it as a nexus between visual arts education and professional practice. This diverse program is designed to stimulate ideas, classroom strategies and resources for the development of the body of work through presentations by students, teachers, artists and gallery professionals.

Cost: $77, AGS members $70, tertiary students $38.50 (includes morning tea/lunch and resources)

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Program

8.30am	Registration and coffee
9am	Welcome and Opening Address
	Tristan Sharp Senior Coordinator, Education Programs
9.10am	InsideARTEXPRESS 2007 Tristan Sharp Senior Coordinator, Education Programs, AGNSW
9.40am	ARTEXPRESS: multiple perspectives Consider the experience and value of ARTEXPRESS through the multiple perspectives of Visual Arts Teacher, HSC marker, mother of an exhibiting student, and Museum Studies intern. Annette Mauer, Head Teacher, Visual Arts Epping Boys High School
10am	ARTEXPRESS 07 Snapshot Alison Wu, MLC Burwood, presents insights into her digital media body of work, Saga.
10.10am	MORNING TEA: Restaurant Function Space Ground Level and Yiribana Foyer, Lower Level 3
10.30am	Classroom collaborators: student and teacher Behishta Joya, ARTEXPRESS 2007 exhibiting student and Belinda Boyd, Visual Arts Teacher, Erskine Park High School
11.10am	ARTIST PRESENTATION Questioning the boundary between sculpture and painting. Jasper Knight, Archibald Prize Finalist 2007 www.jasperknight.com. Supported by Chroma Australia and S & S Wholesalers
11.50am	ARTEXPRESS 07 Snapshot Jarrod Harrison, St Paul's College, Sutherland, presents insights into his documented form body of work, I take photographs and do small adventures.
12 noon	LUNCH: Restaurant Function Space, Ground Level and Yiribana Foyer, Lower Level 3
1pm	Balancing the body of work(s) Examine approaches to the programming and classroom practice for the BOW, through three diverse works selected for ARTEXPRESS 2007. Andrew Thompson, Visual Arts Teacher, International Grammar School
1.40pm	ARTIST PRESENTATION TBC. Supported by Chroma Australia and S & S Wholesalers
2.30pm	Closing Remarks Tristan Sharp, Senior Coordinator, Education Programs
2.45pm	CLOSE

Please note:
8.30am early entry through front entrance.
Registration will take place in the Ground Level Vestibule.
Coffee / tea served in the Yiribana Foyer, Lower Level 3.

Persistent URL:
http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/?p=9815