Visual Arts education is future present, it traverses past art traditions and histories, responds to present contexts and looks beyond current horizons, to potential futures. Visual Arts education is well positioned to embrace the challenges facing contemporary educational contexts.
The Visual Arts facilitates authentic critical and creative thinking, and the development of student autonomy in their learning. Visual Arts students develop the ability to reason, through critical evaluation and judgement, concept formation, theory creation, higher order thinking and metacognitive reflection. They discover and identify artworld phenomena to develop beliefs about issues and theories from art history and art criticism, and visually represent often complex and multifaceted ideas to audiences in the diversity of their artmaking.
As a pivotal site for contemporary art, the MCA provides a platform for igniting critical and creative thinking and an excellent opportunity for delegates to engage with contemporary practice, educational research and to contribute to innovations in the field of visual arts education.
The conference program will incorporate a diversity of viewpoints that address the theme of Future Present with artist talks including Alex Seton, Darren Sylvester, Latai Taumoepeau, Janet Laurence and Guido van Helten; art education and curriculum presentations; the work of emerging artists in the National: New Australian Art Exhibition at the MCA; makers marketplace; papers and workshops from visual arts educators in specialist learning spaces including the creative learning studios, seminar room, multimedia room and digital studio.
A programming innovation for this year is an exclusive research opportunity for regional and remote teachers and to continue a program pathway for K-6 teachers.
Watch this space as artists and presenters are announced.
> Call for Papers (Applications Closed)
