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The HOME project has not just included the community but has provided the opportunity for Community to be part of the planning and delivery. This has an ongoing effect for all students to take home the Wiradjuri Culture. It is not only the Culture plus arts practice and gives the students an opportunity that they would not have had otherwise. It is a credit to the teachers and support staff how much the students have been enriched by the whole experience. This is not just during the program; but I have spoken with participants from past years who still talk about their time. Without the Department’s support and encouragement, this program wouldn’t have happened. Over the four years I have been involved I have learnt so much from the Home Education Kit at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and am looking forward to sharing and learning in the future.
Aunty Lorraine Tye
Wiradjuri Elder
Wagga Wagga
Teacher’s Professional Learning Day
Each year the program begins with a Teacher’s Professional Learning Workshop Day hosted by each of the participating regional galleries. Teachers meet local Aboriginal artists and knowledge holders as well as staff from the Art Gallery of NSW, the Arts Unit, Department of Education and the regional gallery for a full day of learning about local Aboriginal art and culture.
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Virtual lesson with Karla Dickenson
2020 Students participating in the Home program joined artist Karla Dickens who guided them through making an art work as well as talking about her exhibited works 'A Dickensian Circus’ and 'A Dickensian Country Show.’
Murray Art Museum Albury
Since 2017, Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA) has partnered annually with the Art Gallery of New South Wales and The Arts Unit, NSW Department of Education to deliver the arts and language program Home: Aboriginal art from New South Wales. Each year MAMA connects local First Nations artists with nearby schools on Wiradjuri Country to deliver a series of Wiradjuri art and language workshops. Local students build upon their understanding of nationally recognised Wiradjuri artists by engaging with local First Nations community, art, language and culture. A dedicated exhibition is held each year at MAMA presenting the work created by students as part of their involvement in the Home program.
Photo credit: Murray Art Museum Albury (MAMA), Jeremy Weihrauch
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery
2020 is the second year the HOME Program has run at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery. The gallery’s relationship with the Wiradyuri Community has developed through collaboration on recent exhibitions such as Birrunga Wiradyuri, 2020, Backyard Bila, 2019 and Jonathan Jones, 2015. Wiradyuri Community members also presented at the Void Exhibition Education Symposium, 2019.
