Gathering: Building Confident Teachers and Students
Project Summary
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery’s Gathering: Building Confident Teachers & Students workshops provided K-6 students and visual arts teachers with access to a free high quality professional development and workshop program. It targeted disadvantaged and/or remote schools, with an enrolment of less than 25 and within a 100km radius.
The project was funded under the Arts NSW ConnectEd strategy which subsidises student travel costs.
The program was conducted by artist, Christine McMillan and BRAG’s Education and Public Programs Manager, Brad Hammond and focused on two exhibitions, Twined Together: Kunmadj Njalehnjaleken (a Museum Victoria Travelling exhibition) and Christine McMillan: Gathering (a Bathurst Regional Art Gallery local artist project exhibition).
Twined Together showcased woven baskets and mats from the women artists of Gunbalanya in western Arnhem Land and Christine McMillan: Gathering exhibited recent works by the artist made from gauze, echidna spines and grass seeds and included objects, photographs and videos.
Photos
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A young art enthusiast admires the work of Christine McMillan, photograph: Peter Gumpert
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Christine McMillan and students during the practical workshops
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Brad Hammond, BRAG's Education & Public Programs Manager with Wattle Flat School
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Joyette Swane, Visual Art teacher at West Bathurst School takes part in the Professional Development Workshops
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