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.
Sculptor Kathy Temin is the keynote speaker at the Secondary Symposium for visual arts teachers. Photo: Tim Grey.
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:
Rochelle Siemienowicz is the ArtsHub Group's Education and Career Editor. She is a journalist for Screenhub and is a writer, film critic and cultural commentator with a PhD in Australian cinema. She was the co-host of Australia's longest-running film podcast 'Hell is for Hyphenates' and has written a memoir, Fallen, published by Affirm Press. Her second book, Double Happiness, a novel, will be published by Midnight Sun in 2024. Instagram: @Rochelle_Rochelle Twitter: @Milan2Pinsk
