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25.01.2022 New - Teaching Artist - Professional Certificate - UniSA beginning 2021!! This online certificate is for artists, teachers, educators and school leaders who want to develop their role as an arts educator. The time commitment is 3 hours x 12 weeks and the entry requirement is a 3 year Bachelor degree or equivalent in any discipline from a recognised higher education institution. For further information and to apply please see: https://study.unisa.edu.au/short-courses/teaching-artist/

25.01.2022 ACARA is embarking on a website update and is seeking feedback to gather your views on the website. Suggested improvements are welcome. If you would like to provide feedback please complete the survey at the following link: https://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/

24.01.2022 Register now for National Gallery Learning’s #knowmyname conference!

24.01.2022 "Australian arts educators responded quickly to meet the need for creative, collaborative and critical engagement opportunities for students visual art learning at home; catering for online, offline and off device needs...In attending to how uncertainty can be explored through intersections of curriculum, pedagogy, practice, circumstance and context; artists, teachers and students are reimagining how they make and respond. This is where art teachers have been able to cultivate and adopt empathetic, curious and inquiry-oriented mindsets that enable personally distinctive approaches to practice in response to the COVID-19 restrictions." Great to see art teachers practice (making art and teaching art) in response to COVID19 restrictions being highlighted in ACERs Teacher Magazine

23.01.2022 Exploring the membrane of memory during our practical mark making workshop at University of Tasmania School of Creative Art and Media with Jan Hogan Photo credit: Daimen Stephens

23.01.2022 Art and Sustainability - Sweet Water Education Kit + Mad Hatters Bush Party (School Holiday Workshops - 2 & 9 Oct, 2020)- Hadleys Orient Hotel Hobart Tasmanian multidisciplinary installation artist Caitlin Fargher has her artwork featured in the exhibition Sweetwater currently being shown at Hadleys Orient Hotel, Hobart. Her work explores sustainability using materials such as toffee, meringue, clay and ice to create sculptural art installations. The curator Dr Amy Jacket...t has created an inspiring art education resource for Kinder Year 6 titled Sweet Sustainable Sculpture. Terms such as biodegradability, installation art, multidisciplinary art and ephemeral art are discussed through guided questions and activities with links to the work of artists including Andy Goldsworthy and Thomas Gainsborough, who used broccoli, twigs and stones to create his landscapes. Links are also made to the Australian Curriculum including the Cross Curriculum Priority of Sustainability. This is a delightful education kit with content that is easily transferable to your own context and is now available in the Members section on the AEA website under Education Resource for Members. Many thanks to Dr Amy Jackett for her generosity in sharing this education resource with AEA. For our Tasmanian AEA members Hadleys Orient Hotel have organised school holiday workshops on the theme Mad Hatters Bush Party. Children (aged 6 12) will be able to make clay treats for a bush party in a ball room and will also be able to view the Sweet Water exhibition. The two dates available are Friday 2 October and Friday 9 October from 11.00 12.30pm at Hadleys Orient Hotel, 34 Murray Street, Hobart. To book online please go to: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/mad-hatters-bush-party-tick

22.01.2022 POSTPONED - 2021 National Visual Arts Education Conference - As we know COVID-19 has resulted in the postponement of a number of important events and initiatives this year. Unfortunately, the National Visual Art Education Conference (NVAEC) which was to be held from 18 - 20 January next year at the National Gallery of Australia has also been postponed, with new dates still to be confirmed. There was a wonderful response to the initial announcement so we know that there are lots of artists and art educators looking forward to meeting each other again at the National Gallery of Australia. Thank you to the NGA for the wonderful support you are providing arts educators, both virtually and onsite, during this challenging time.

22.01.2022 CALL FOR EXAMPLES OF GREAT ART EDUCATION ... READ ON...

22.01.2022 Fantastic news! Creative Workers in Schools (CWS) is a new program for schools to collaborate with skilled creative workers, who will undertake a six-month residency in Victorian government schools, including special schools. Expressions of Interest open now

21.01.2022 Congratulations to Wongutha-Yamatji artist Meyne Wyatt who has been awarded the 2020 Archibald Packing Room Prize for his self-portrait. Wyatts work was selected from the 55 finalist works from a record number of entries received for the Archibald prize this year. It is the first time he has entered and hopes it will open the door for many more Indigenous artists. https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au//2020-packing-room-prize/

21.01.2022 A fantastic webinar opportunity from Flying Arts coming up - a virtual tour with award-winning Gunditjmara and Torres Strait Islander artist Lisa Waup https://www.facebook.com/FlyingArtsAlliance/posts/3256870097677594

19.01.2022 A Level C Senior Lecturer / Level D Associate Professor in Fine Art position has opened at the University of Tasmania. Applications close Sunday, 10 January 2021, 11.55pm Further details in the post below - Please share this opportunity across your networks

19.01.2022 Registrations close 1pm this coming Thursday (13th August) for ArtEdVic's Creative Currency Conference. Don't miss out!

18.01.2022 New regional youth film education rolling out Australia-wide in 2021 - Launch of Nextwave Online service + the Nextwave Youth Film Festival for young regional filmmakers aged between 10 - 25 years. (Submission date extended to Oct 26, 2020) Please see below for information about these exciting opportunities: As technology becomes ever more accessible, filmmaking has changed from a fringe arts skill into an everyday communications skill YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, document...ing school projects, making video presentations. The technology is there in our pockets. Filmmaking is here as a new skill of the 21st century but how do we teach it? Nextwave Online launches Since 2014, our Nextwave team have taught over 5000 young regional students the fundamentals of filmmaking at hundreds of in-school workshops and now, we’re taking it Australia-wide for the first time via a dedicated Learning Management System portal called NEXTWAVE ONLINE. Subscription to Nextwave Online: Provides comprehensive filmmaking instruction, delivered remotely & COVID-safe Includes individual user access for every teacher and student Season 1 (out now) includes over 3 hours (10x 20-minutes) of fun and educational learning modules Episodes include companion guides, activity sheets, extra resources Includes access to full streaming archive of Nextwave’s previous winning short films Designed for classroom learning or individual learning (including distance education) Dedicated teachers’ monthly e-newsletter and support service Cost $500+GST subscription per school for the 2021 season. Save 10% on four or more schools before Dec 31, 2020. Bookings Now available for the 2021 intake. Contact Dave Horsley [email protected] 0430 511 644 Giordan Pakes [email protected] 0450 570 593 Website: https://nextwavefilm.com.au/ Nextwave short film competition - Regional Australia's Biggest Youth Film Festival - Submission date extended to October 26 Students can put their new skills into practice by entering the Nextwave youth short film competition, regional Australia’s largest youth film competition, with tens of thousands of dollars up for grabs each year. Youth Week Film Festival Screenings The best and brightest films from the competition are screened across Australia for Youth Week. Regional Councils can purchase Youth Week screening kits to host Nextwave in your community in April 2021.

17.01.2022 Planning to visit the Gallery with your students in Term 4 or in 2021? We have published a set of Pre-Visit Prep Packs and a Social Story to help teachers and s...tudents prepare. . The Pre-Visit Prep Pack is a PowerPoint presentation and accompanying PDF guide that outlines what to expect on a visit to the Gallery. . The Social Story supports students on the autism spectrum, and was created in consultation with Marymead Autism Centre ACT. . Head to our 'Plan your school visit' webpage to view and download. Link in bio. . [#JanetDawson, 'The origin of the Milky Way', (detail), 1964, Gift of Ann Lewis AO 2011 Janet Dawson/Copyright Agency] See more

17.01.2022 Thank you Hadley's Art Prize for the opportunity to collaborate on education initiatives emanating from this very special exhibition. We look forward to working together on future offerings

17.01.2022 A new 3D online exhibition and five-part guided video tour, hosted by a senior gallery curator, are part of a colourful, intriguing show about milestones and breakthroughs that changed Indigenous art in this country forever

17.01.2022 << CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS >> During #COVID19 physical distancing restrictions, the home was digitally recalibrated into a site for everything work, school and l...ife. In this domestic compression, the role of walking as a process of sensemaking became key. Walking curates our everyday rhythms into a different type of narration a story of wayfaring. Feetings (walking meetings), sanity walks and other types of wayfaring helped us make sense of what at times appears to be a senseless world. This project is an ode to the art of #feetings and #wayfaring that are ephemeral monuments to our individual and collective sensemaking during COVID19. Do you have a map of your wayfaring? Or a feeting? Sanity Walk? Can you share it with us via Instagram tagging @feetings_as_actions and @52artists52actions using the hashtags #feetingsasactions #wayfaring #52actions Your drawings, sketches, photos etc will help curate collective sensemaking cartographies and form part of Artspace Sydneys 52 Actions project. Find out more at: https://www.instagram.com/feetings_as_actions/

16.01.2022 If youre not prepared to be wrong, youll never come up with anything original Vale Sir Ken Robinson- his legacy of advocating for the Arts, as well as nurturing and celebrating the creativity of young people and teachers will continue shaping generations to come

16.01.2022 Art Education in the Time of Coronavirus, Reflecting on Today, Anticipating Tomorrow will be held from 12 - 15 October, 2020 on the following platform: https://www.inseaconference.com/ The conference will be free of charge for all active and passive participants and will be held in cooperation with colleagues from InSEA, USSEA and the Canterbury Christ Church University.

16.01.2022 As we glide towards the end of International Arts Education Week for 2020 in Australia gracefully but with our feet paddling furiously underneath - AEA rounds out our participation in InSea " International society for education through art"s #beradical initiative with Australian Art Education journal editor Martin Kerbys response Life is busy. Indeed, it is accepted wisdom, at least in the West, that life is busier than it has ever been. It is not just economic consi...derations that compels us, like sharks, to always be on the move. It is a primal fear that drives our movement. The darkness does not hide the real terrors, nor are there monsters under our beds. The real terror is an existential one. Silence. Unendurable. Threatening. Oddly compelling. We do not meet God, as Saul did on the road to Damascus, with a flash of light and a commanding voice from the heavens. We meet him or her not in darkness, but in silence. It is then that we converse with the Universe, or more correctly, a part of the Universe. We converse with ourselves and that terrifies us. It terrifies me, and it certainly terrifies the lone commuter who waits outside my house for his bus each morning. Head phones on, warning the rest of humanity that he does not wish to engage, but also to ward off the silence. William Wordsworth understood this. He did not fear silence, but welcomed it. For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils. I do not dance with the daffodils. I sometimes forget to even notice them when I walk past. My heart does not with pleasure fill for I am trying to fill the crowded hour to ensure I do not meet with myself on the path. This picture is therefore aspirational Grace. Serenity. Pleasure and silence. #beradical #moreartnotless #inseadrawcloser

15.01.2022 Thank you Hadleys Art Prize for the opportunity to collaborate on education initiatives emanating from this very special exhibition. We look forward to working together on future offerings

15.01.2022 An exciting opportunity for art teachers on Wednesday July 22 from 4.00 - 5.30pm to engage in a free virtual professional learning program offered by the Asia Education Foundation and developed in collaboration with the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV). This program will explore resources for developing students intercultural understanding and connection to Asian cultures. The learning objectives are to: Develop practical teaching strategies for engaging students in cri...tical thinking about global perspectives through art and embedding intercultural understanding across curriculum areas Discuss works from the NGV Asian collection in the context of tradition, history, politics and spirituality Compare and contrast values, beliefs and perspectives expressed in both traditional and contemporary art forms and practices Use works of art and design as a pathway to empathy and acceptance of diversity For further information and to register please go to: https://www.asiaeducation.edu.au//intercultural-understand

15.01.2022 Updated protocols for working with First Nations Cultural and Intellectual Property in the Arts have been published by the Australia Council for the Arts

15.01.2022 Reminder... Call for Book Chapters The Art of Decolonizing: Methods and Strategies from Art, Craft, and Visual Culture Education... Editors: Dr. Amanda Alexander, Associate Professor, University of Texas Arlington Dr. Manisha Sharma, Associate Professor, University of Arizona Chapter Proposals Due (Submission Deadline): August 31, 2020 Full Chapters Due: February 15th, 2021 Review Policy: Double Blind Peer Reviewed Introduction/Overview: Artists and educators in the contemporary world are crossing disciplinary boundaries to collaboratively address socio-political and socio-cultural shifts from global to nationalist and race-biased policies regarding issues like immigration, health-care, policing etc. They are also addressing economic factors of neoliberalism affecting public education policy and funding; legal ramifications of undermined labor forces; ownership of artifacts and rituals in cultural industries in national and international contexts; identity politics of how bodiesof women, LGBTQ+, and persons of colorare controlled by institutional structures; and the urgency of challenging human exploitation of the natural environment for political and economic profit. Our book will present such topics from the perspective of art, craft, and visual culture education to highlight the leadership of the arts in addressing these urgent issues. In short, this edited volume evokes discussion of what forms of decolonizing engagement can be recognized as art, craft, and visual culture education. Moreover, were seeking deeper examinations of: -How decolonization has been and is still being defined and discussed in the contemporary world in connection with the arts? -What are the conversations happening in international, border-crossing spaces rather than each specific region (North America, Europe, Asia, Oceania, Africa, and South and Central America)? -What are the conversations around conceptual frameworks and practical acts of decolonization beyond the specificities of Indigeneity and postcolonial/decolonial contexts to better understand their confluences and differences? Included chapters will demonstrate how art, craft, and visual culture education activate social imagination and action that is equity and justice driven. Specifically, this book will provide arts-engaged, intersectional understandings of decolonization in the contemporary world. It will combine current scholarship with pragmatic strategies and insights grounded in the reality of socio-cultural, political, and economic communities across the globe. We seek chapter submissions from diverse geographies and demographics that speak to significant decolonizing discourses in contemporary art, craft, and visual culture education. The book will have four sections that address the colonization of (1) histories, (2) space and land, (3) mind and body, and (4) digital and virtual realms. We seek submissions for each of these sections that will present conceptual and pragmatic frameworks of decolonization work being done through the arts in connection to various disciplines and sites. The themes of histories, space and land, mind and body, and the digital will highlight and illustrate how artists, educators, and researchers exemplify the use of decolonial methods, theories, and strategiesin research, artmaking, and pedagogical practice (rather than present work in disciplinary silos). This is reflective of decolonization ideals in contemporary contexts. A key aspect of this book is that it will present to its readers practical, enactable strategies and actions that demonstrate what decolonization looks like in practice within art, craft, and visual culture education. Thus, we are looking for chapters from across several locations of practice such as K-16, museum education, community-based art education, and studio settings. This is to encourage collaboration on more equitable terms where people work with each other as opposed to one segment working for the other. We are seeking narratives of work being done in the broader arena of art, craft, and visual culture education, which intersects with other disciplines in Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences. The pre-pandemic world was already witnessing shifts from global thinking back to more insular, nationalistic visions. The pandemic not only united the world in a shared concern, it also highlighted and underscored the exacerbation of existing socio-economic-political-cultural-technical inequalities of race, class, caste, gender, and the skewed economics of socio-political and cultural institutions that maintain them. It therefore becomes more important than ever to revisit what decolonization looks like in current and future contexts, which is what this book examines. The book is under review for contract with Routledge Press: Taylor and Francis. Call for Chapters: For this edited volume, please submit chapter proposals in APA format and with no more than 150 words (not including references). As you describe your proposed submission, please indicate: 1) the proposed content, 2) who you consider to be your primary audience (artists, teaching artists, teachers, students, researchers, general public, administrators, etc.), 3) which of the four themes you are addressing (histories, space and land, mind and body, or the digital), and 4) what format you choose (creative shorts, enacted encounters, or ruminative research). Ensure that your proposal clarifies how art, craft, and visual culture education is centrally engaged with decolonization work. Thematic options to consider for your proposal are: Section 1: Decolonizing Histories: This section includes chapters that demonstrate how artists, researchers, and teachers address various histories to shape their decolonizing work. Histories might refer to personal, cultural, political, or disciplinary. Section 2: Decolonizing Space and Land: This section includes chapters that demonstrate how artists, researchers, and teachers activate space and land, physically and conceptually, to shape their decolonizing work. Section 3: Decolonizing Mind and Body: This section includes chapters that demonstrate how artists, researchers, and teachers consider presence and/or absence of mind, intellect, emotion, and body to shape their decolonizing work. Section 4: Decolonizing the Digital: This section includes chapters that demonstrate how artists, researchers, and teachers imagine digital and virtual spheres to shape and disseminate their decolonizing work. Choose from one of the three following formats: Creative Shorts: Creative shorts are visual formats that may be illustrations, graphics, diagrams, tables, poems, manifestos, etc. with a maximum limit of 1,000 words and a maximum of six separate TIFF images. Enacted Encounters: Enacted encounters are short chapters describing process and focus on the efficacy or failure of enacted curriculum and/or pedagogical strategies. This type of chapter speaks to personal encounters in professional practice and the challenges and triumphs of decolonizing work rooted in arts education. This type of submission has a limit of 3,000 words including references. Ruminative Research: Ruminative research consists of more traditional academic essays that present research, studies, or theoretical stances in decolonizing work in art, craft, and visual culture education. This format has a 5,000 word limit including references. Submission Notes & Questions: -We will review submissions and reply by November 1st, 2020. -Please send submissions to [email protected].

14.01.2022 Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Art Write Now: Focus on Creative Writing (17 or 23 September 4.00 6.00pm) Unfortunately, the Primary Visual Arts Education Conference at the MCA this year has been tentatively moved to next year. However the MCA is offering their first online teacher professional development program which will be available nationally. The program is called Art Write Now: Focus on Creative Writing. You can opt to attend the same 2 hour session on either nominated date. Zoom will be used to share creative writing strategies with primary and secondary teachers to boost student confidence in creative writing, and writing about art. Please go to the following link to obtain further information about this exciting PD opportunity: https://www.facebook.com/1040659549330524/posts/3527417223988065/?d=n

14.01.2022 "Coupled with dynamic resources that have been developed by the Australian artist and art teaching community to support art making in, through and beyond COVID-19, we have been gifted a masterclass in how crisis can be a catalyst for innovation, resilience and artistry in education. It is with these attributes and resources that art teachers will continue to engage in pedagogical transformation and provide means for students to meaningfully engage in art beyond the complexities of circumstance"

14.01.2022 What motivated me to create this work was my interest in looking at female characters, and their opportunities and abilities to survive - Lisa Reihana, 2020. Lisa Reihana is one of seven female visual artists whose work surrounding the dynamics of transformation and empowerment is featured in AEAs Education Kit for the exhibition Dark Rituals, Magical Relics: from the little art spell book. The kit is available in the Education Resources for members section of our website.

13.01.2022 Art and Sustainability - Sweet Water Education Kit + Mad Hatter's Bush Party (School Holiday Workshops - 2 & 9 Oct, 2020)- Hadley's Orient Hotel Hobart Tasmanian multidisciplinary installation artist Caitlin Fargher has her artwork featured in the exhibition Sweetwater currently being shown at Hadleys Orient Hotel, Hobart. Her work explores sustainability using materials such as toffee, meringue, clay and ice to create sculptural art installations. The curator Dr Amy Jacket...t has created an inspiring art education resource for Kinder Year 6 titled Sweet Sustainable Sculpture. Terms such as biodegradability, installation art, multidisciplinary art and ephemeral art are discussed through guided questions and activities with links to the work of artists including Andy Goldsworthy and Thomas Gainsborough, who used broccoli, twigs and stones to create his landscapes. Links are also made to the Australian Curriculum including the Cross Curriculum Priority of Sustainability. This is a delightful education kit with content that is easily transferable to your own context and is now available in the Members section on the AEA website under Education Resource for Members. Many thanks to Dr Amy Jackett for her generosity in sharing this education resource with AEA. For our Tasmanian AEA members Hadleys Orient Hotel have organised school holiday workshops on the theme Mad Hatters Bush Party. Children (aged 6 12) will be able to make clay treats for a bush party in a ball room and will also be able to view the Sweet Water exhibition. The two dates available are Friday 2 October and Friday 9 October from 11.00 12.30pm at Hadleys Orient Hotel, 34 Murray Street, Hobart. To book online please go to: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/mad-hatters-bush-party-tick

13.01.2022 https://facebook.com/events/s/mass-isolation-education-progr/883585228796528/?ti=icl

13.01.2022 Can you help Regional Arts Australia connect with more people in regional and remote Australia?

11.01.2022 It gives me tremendous please to launch the InSEA 2019 Congress Proceedings and InSEA 2019 Booklet of Abstracts. Combined, they offer more than 1000 pages of extraordinary work presented at the InSEA World Congress a year ago [July 9-13, 2020]. On this anniversary, lets celebrate all that InSEA means and does for so many, and all that we can yet do!

10.01.2022 The Memory Project is a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) founded in 2004 in the USA that is "creating a kinder world through art" by organizing advanced art students to create portraits as special gifts for youth around the world. They need more art students to participate because so many American schools are closed, so they have asked Art Education Australia to help promote this unique intercultural opportunity. . If your advanced students would like to help create portra...its, the Memory Project will waive their usual participation fees (normally $15) which is their only source of funding for coordinating the delivery of the portraits to the children.. Check out https://www.memoryproject.org/ and email Ben Schumaker at [email protected] if you are interested. https://www.memoryproject.org/portraits

10.01.2022 This is the second webinar in a trilogy on Place, Kin and Language, designed to address how to connect the Arts with the cross curriculum priority of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Histories and Cultures. More fantastic webinars for artists and art educators coming up with Flying Arts

08.01.2022 Date Claimer: 2021 National Visual Art Education Conference (NVAEC) 18 - 20 January 2021!!! The exciting and engaging NVAEC will be going ahead in 2021!! The National Gallery of Australia will host this wonderful event over three days from 18 - 20 January. The first two days will be the conference which will include keynotes, papers, artist panels, and exhibition experiences. The third day will be a creativity summit that is entirely hands-on and will include visits to extern...al sites such as other galleries, studios and the ANU School of Art and Design. Participants will have the option of attending the: 3 days (Conference & Creativity Summit), 2 days (Conference only) or 1 day (Creativity Summit only). At this stage it is hoped NVAEC will be on site, if not however participants will be able to engage online. Information regarding registration will be available soon but in the interim to register your interest please email: [email protected] A link to the 2019 NVAEC is below to show the amazing breadth and depth of this event: https://nga.gov.au/nvaec/

08.01.2022 Know My Name Conference highlight || Artist and Professor Sally Smart is joined in conversation by feminist art historian Professor Griselda Pollock. Their conv...ersation will help to set the scene for the conference discussing art histories, contemporary feminism and perspectives on gender. Tuesday 10 Friday 13 November 2020 Book now: nga.gov.au/knowmyname/conference.cfm All Know My Name Conference sessions will be live captioned, audio described and Auslan interpreted. #KnowMyName #5WomenArtists #NationalGalleryAus #MuseumFromHome Australia Council for the Arts UNSW Art & Design The University of Melbourne ANU School of Art & Design

07.01.2022 A Review of the Australian Curriculum was announced yesterday. For further information including the Terms of Reference please see:https://www.acara.edu.au/curriculum/curriculum-review

06.01.2022 Vol 41, No 1 of our journal 'Australian Art Education' is now published in the members section of our website! This issue features exciting new work from Paul Duncum, Kath Grushka, Miranda Lawry, Ari Chand, Susan Kerrigan, Rebecca Heaton, Pam Burnard, Afrodita Nikolova, Pamela See, David N. Aspin, Mervyn Moriarty and Prue Acton Collectively, this issue showcases fresh scholarship in articles on artography pedagogy, drawing, curriculum, community partnerships, and colour the...ory, rounding out with a beautiful school student reflection from Brisbane Girls Grammar School student Elise Butler, which has been beautifully entwined to converse with Paul Duncum's opening article This new 'Student Contribution' section builds on our 'Practice based article' section. We hope you love it, and encourage your students to submit their writing practice to be published in our journal In other exciting news, with the launch of Vol 41, No 1, we also celebrate Scopus recognising the accomplishments of our journal editor Martin Kerby and the 2017 instated Executive for the journal being accepted for indexing, meaning our journal will be ranked internationally! Thank you to all of our national and international contributors, readers, reviewers, citers and supporters for helping bring this achievement to fruition! lhttps://arteducation.org.au/current-issue

05.01.2022 #CallForPapers AEA is calling for articles & artist essays for our journal Australian Art Education. The journal publishes high quality, double blind peer-reviewed articles in the field of art and art education. It serves the community of artists and art educators nationally and internationally, by publishing significant opinion and research into historical, theoretical, and philosophical issues in art and art education across all sectors. ... Manuscripts that deal with significant art education topics from the early childhood, primary, secondary and tertiary sectors are welcome, as are contributions from people working in art forms such as but not limited to: ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, photography, video, filmmaking, and architecture. Submissions are welcome at any time, with the next publication due out at the end of this year. Articles are up to 5000 words and artist essays are usually 1000 words, though exceptions can be made in discussion with the editor. Editorial Policy and author guidelines can be found at https://www.arteducation.org.au/editorial-policy-and-author Please help spread the word

04.01.2022 We wanted to share an exciting opportunity for secondary school teachers to engage their students to explore and express themselves through photography and creatively document their own experience of isolation and COVID-19. The Ballarat International Foto Biennale presents their first online Education Program: MASS ISOLATION - a photography unit developed by renowned street photographer Jesse Marlow for secondary aged students to be delivered at home. With the generous help of the Besen Family Foundation, this program is FREE for schools to access and includes six sequential video lessons taught by Marlow. All students need for this unit is access to a camera (a Smart Phone is fine) and a computer.

04.01.2022 Registrations close 1pm this coming Thursday (13th August) for ArtEdVics Creative Currency Conference. Dont miss out!

04.01.2022 Congratulations to all who have contributed to developing this most recent InSea " International society for education through art" edited book publication - Learning through Art: International Perspectives From the website: "This is the second book in the Learning through Art series. The book is divided into four sections: social justice and wellbeing; teaching and pedagogy; visual literacy, dialogue and learning through art; alternative approaches. Each of the sections ...contains diverse essays from selected international authors that reflect on the multifaceted nature of learning through art." https://www.insea.org/docs/inseapublications/LTA2.pdf

04.01.2022 The arts create conditions for mindfulness by accessing and engaging different parts of the brain through conscious shifting of mental states. For those of us who practise regularly in the arts, we are aware of those states, able to shift in and out and reap the physiological benefits through a neurological system that delights in and rewards cognitive challenges. Neuroesthetic findings suggest this is not an experience exclusive to artists: it is simply untapped by those who do not practise in the arts. A great Conversation piece from Canada packed with connective links to seminal and new evidence supporting prioritisation of the arts in our own lives and our education systems

03.01.2022 Thank you for rounding up these great resources Tasmanian Art Teachers - TATA "Did you know June 19th 2020 is the inaugural World Albatross Day? Did you also know there is a bounty of amazing Tasmanian art, science and education resources available for you to learn all about albatrosses, petrels and shearwaters. Weve rounded some up for you!... Rummin Productions made their beautiful full 15 minute documentary namanu rruni | Albatross Island available during COVID19 lockdowns. This is a wonderful resource to share and watch with you students. During this time, TATA and Art Education Australias On Albatross Island grade 5-10 Australian Curriculum aligned education resource is freely available for the art teaching community via our COVID19 resources. This week, the The Peter Underwood Centre for Educational Attainment.s Wonder Weekly also features content and activities about albatrosses, with details about an art competition your students might like to participate in. Links to above mentioned resources in comments below "

03.01.2022 On world Albatross day... namanu rruni - Albatross Island The island was not always here... And then it was They called it namanu rruni, the ones who came, on rare calm days, to hunt They called it Albatross Island, the ones who came, in all weathers, to take all that they could Thank you Rummin and all the collaborative and converging perspectives that entwine to render these important stories. Today is the perfect day to acquaint yourself with the On Albatross Island education kit; co-developed by Art Education Australia and The Tasmanian Art Teachers - TATA, the education kit is Australian Curriculum aligned and freely available to all for a limited time as we collectively navigate art teaching and learning during COVID-19. Find it and other related content in AEAs education resources, and in TATAs COVID-19 resources. #WorldAlbatrossDay https://vimeo.com/ondemand/albatrossisland

03.01.2022 Fantastic to see pre-service art teachers sharing their experiences of becoming art teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic Congratulations Melbourne Graduate School of Education pre-service art teachers and artist, teacher and teacher-educator Kate Coleman

02.01.2022 Reminder: Closing date has been extended due to COVID-19. Entries now close on Friday 19 June, 2020. There are three more weeks for students and schools to submit entries based on the question Why do you love your brain? All Australian primary schools are encouraged to participate. Artworks should fit on A4 size paper and students can use pens, pencils, crayons, textas or paint.

02.01.2022 #2 Artlands Conversation Series Transformative Experiences: How art and creativity can create pathways to recovery "Creativity, particularly creative practice ...that has its origins and development within a community, is a potent catalyst for social connection, compassion and ultimately, resilience." Amanda Grant Evidence overwhelmingly suggests that art and creativity develop strength and connectedness, and can often lead a path out of trauma towards recovery and renewal. Join facilitator Amanda Grant as she speaks with Vanessa Keenan, Christopher Cowles and Mahony Maia Kiely about the impact catastrophic bushfires have on artists; and the social and psychological recovery that accompanies arts projects undertaken in communities that have experienced these unexpected events. Bookings here: https://conversationseries.artlands.com.au//2-transformati Image: Hope Leaf. Artist Doug Tarrant. Photo: Amanda Grant

02.01.2022 There is a fabulous opportunity this Thursday 20 August from 6 - 7.30pm during National Science Week which will bring together scientific and artistic perspectives on fire-affected Tasmanian landscapes. The Science in the Pub session is titled Beauty from the Ashes and will include a short film and panel discussion about fire affected landscapes. Key presenters are Professor David Bowman, Professor of Pyrogeography, UTAS, Rowena Hamer, Conservation Scientist, Tasmanian Land Conservancy, and Megan Walch, Tasmanian artist. To register and join please go to: https://scipubtas.org.au/upcoming-events/

02.01.2022 Call for Book Chapter Proposals - 'Artful Xchanges: Propositions for Museum Education' edited by Anita Sinner, Concordia University, Boyd White, McGill University and Trish Osler, Concordia University. Enquiries to: Anita Sinner - [email protected] * Submission date: January 15, 2021 * Authors will be notified of proposal acceptance by March 1, ... 2021. * Chapters due: July 1, 20221 * Length of chapters; 3000 - 4000 words, inclusive of references. * Visual Essay and other art forms: 1000 words plus images (high resolution 300 dpi) Overview of book: This edited collection focuses on a wide range of topics that explore museum education, with the potential to imagine new propositions and initiate conversations concerning theory-practice, sustainability of educational partnerships, and communities of practice with, in and through artwork scholarship (arts-based, practice-based, a/r/tography, artistic, research-creation and related approaches). Developments in the curatorial turn to pedagogy and art-as-research expand the roles and social potential of museums in innovative ways. As informal learning sites, museums offer the broad communities they serve distinct opportunities for experiential and educational exchange. We invite submissions that investigate museum futures, as well as how new materiality and more-than-human perspectives contribute to museum education as a site of inclusive, dynamic teaching and learning. Contributions from artists, researchers and teachers examining current trends in professional practice are welcome. Submissions include traditional essays, visual essays and other art forms. Authors may consider, but are not limited to the following: Possible Themes Decolonising Museums: Topics relating to social and cultural justice; equity, diversity and inclusivity; and movements, such as The Exhibitionist, https://www.theexhibitionist.org/ Pedagogic Sensibilities: Mediating knowledge and response-ability; public exchange in museums; public pedagogies Object Itineraries: Meaningful engagement with works of art; stories of matter and mattering Museums of Purpose: Peace; heritage; history; memory; participatory museums Sites of Affective Intensities: Body traces in museums; sensory awareness; vitality and aliveness; health and well-being Events and Encounters: Geographies of self-in-relation; personal histories, values and beliefs Virtual Museums: Sustaining museums; digital delivery; immersive virtual reality technologies Critical Tensionalities: Whose art matters? Whose art is missing? Who is a learner? Engaging in cultural discourses of empowerment and temporalities

02.01.2022 UNESCO is calling for your input as they develop the Futures of Education plan for 2050. This strategy will have a real impact on the education agenda and we strongly encourage all Arts Educators to complete the 1-minute survey and the optional follow-up question which asks "in your opinion, what is the major, key issue for the futures of education?" We need to ensure that The Arts and the knowledge, skills and dispositions that are developed through The Arts are included in UNESCOs plans. https://en.unesco.org//top-3-challenges-and-purposes-educa.