Education in Brief: symposium for art teachers, NIDA productions start with Poppea, and more

News and events from Australian arts education. Reflections from the national reading symposium and a call for children to design the Big Issue Christmas cover.
Education for arts teachers. image shows woman in black with hands held in front of her and shoulder length dark hair smiling and standing next to yellow soft sculpture of interwoven bales and strands of faux fur.

Designed especially for secondary school visual art educators, and presented in partnership with Monash University Fine Art, this one-day event covers recent developments in art education, including new VCE Art study designs and curriculum reviews, as well as a keynote speech from Kathy Temin, an internationally renowned artist whose sculptural practice explores memory, history and loss, with her signature choice of medium, synthetic fur.

Lena Cirillo, Executive Officer and Creative Producer of Art Education Victoria, tells ArtsHub:

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Rochelle Siemienowicz is a Melbourne writer and editor. Her first book Fallen, a memoir was published in 2014 and her second, Double Happiness, a novel, in 2024. She has a PhD in Australian cinema and was previously a journalist at ScreenHub and ArtsHub. ou can find her on Instagram: @Rochelle_Rochelle or at Substack where she writes a fortnightly newsletter, The Fool and the Queen.