TMAG Twilight Teachers Seminar
Tuesday 19 February &
Wednesday 5 March 2008
A shorter session on Aboriginal Education and the new Tasmanian Aboriginal exhibition

FIRST SESSION FULLY BOOKED
When: Tuesday 19 February 2008
NEW SESSION BY POLULAR DEMAND
When: Wednesday 5 March 2008
Where: TMAG Commissariat Store, 40 Macquarie St, Hobart
(enter via the Courtyard gates)
Duration: 2.5 hours
Workshop times: 4–6.30pm includes refreshments
Suitable for teachers of all levels.
Cost $10 includes refreshments

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Limited spaces bookings are essential
Call TMAG Learning and Discovery booking line on 6211 4189
or email: tmag.bookings@tmag.tas.gov.au
Visit the TMAG website for updates on educational programs and exhibitions

Personal Perspectives : Artists and Their Portraits
23 April 2008 4.00–5.30pm

Portraits provide a fascinating insight into social history both past and present. Extracting historical information, making observations about gender, social standing, emotions, moods and character, and the use of medium and colour are wonderful starting points for discussion, creative writing and drama.
The exhibition has many fine paintings, prints, drawings and photographs from the TMAG collection. Artists include Bea Maddock, Kit Hiller, Mike Parr, Mildred Lovett and George Lambert whose paintings reveal a myriad of unexpected links. Teachers are invited to explore all the wide ranging learning opportunities that this exhibition provides.
A preview of the exhibition with Curator Sue Backhouse will be followed with some of the activities and ideas that can be explored on a visit to the exhibition.
The exhibition runs from 18 April–29 June 2008

Ricky Maynard is an acclaimed Australian photographer, whose work has been exhibited internationally. He is the recipient of a number of prestigious awards, including the Mother Jones International Documentary Award (1994), an Australian Human Rights Award (1997) and the Kate Challis RAKA Award (2003)
This exhibition is a stunning visual record of Tasmania’s physical and social landscapes and indigenous culture. Ricky Maynard considers his work in this exhibition to be ‘the most personal and culturally pertinent work of his career.
Go on a powerful visual journey that reveals much about indigenous people and places, their stories and dreams, and connections to the land.
Teachers are invited to preview the exhibition, talk with Curators and photographers and gather information on how these photographs provide opportunities for research, and the role of artists in contemporary society.
The exhibition runs from 26 April–22 June 2008

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Cost: $10 per seminar
Where: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery 40 Macquarie Street Hobart
Bookings: Call TMAG Learning and Discovery booking line on 6211 4189 or email tmag.bookings@tmag.tas.gov.au
Meet: In the Courtyard prior to Gallery tour
Further information: Contact Roberta Poynter on 6211 4153 (Wed–Fri)

Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
VISUAL ART SEMINARS FOR TEACHERS at TMAG

TERM 1 2008

This Twilight Seminar series, a repeat of the 2007 program, has been designed to give teachers confidence, skills and knowledge in the development of a visual arts program in schools.
Further information on the Arts Curriculum can be found at http://ltag.education.tas.gov.au/focus/primary/visualart.htm and The Tasmanian Curriculum—Arts Curriculum Area K–10 syllabus and support materials (www.education.tas.gov.au/curriculum and follow the links to the Arts Curriculum Area)

All sessions, run by Leigh Roberts, include ideas for lessons and program development; general and specific discussions; hands on activities; advice on art appreciation and appraisal and ‘take home’ notes that include follow-up, extension possibilities and practical advice.

Leigh Roberts, workshop tutor and art educator, has taught visual art in Tasmanian public, private and alternative schools for over 35 years. Her teaching experience includes the early childhood, primary, secondary, senior secondary and tertiary sectors. She has also been involved in professional development programs for teachers.
Since retiring from the Tasmanian Department of Education, Leigh has been working as a consultant for the DOE, working with practicing teachers in the development of the visual art scope and sequence charts for Standards 1–3 and is pursuing her interest in creating kiln formed glass artworks.

Session 1: drawing
Thursday 10 April
Practical exploration of a variety of techniques, materials and art elements (eg line and tone) to gain confidence and basic mastery. This approach can then be applied at all levels in the classroom.

Session 2: painting + drawing + mixed media
Thursday 17 April
Practical experience focusing on using paint and colour expressively and descriptively; tonal colour; composition; paint handling and related drawing.

Session 3: printmaking
Thursday 24 April
Suit individual and group projects.
Involves practical experience in the creation of monoprints; collagraphic prints; vinyl shape and found objects prints. The focus is on discovery; transformation, positive and negative elements, contrast, pattern and texture.

Session 4: printmaking
Thursday 1 May
Suit individual and group projects.
Involves creating a paper block relief and developing a range of prints from that.
Then working with screens and squeegees to produce prints (serigraphs).

Session 5: casting with plaster
Thursday 8 May
Explore simple techniques such as casting from moulds derived from found objects to creating individual moulds from clay.
Focuses on shape; form; transformation and the use of various materials combined with plaster; technique; imagination; problem solving; decorating (eg carving and painting).

Sessions 6 and 7: working with clay
Thursday 15 & 22 May
Access to a kiln is desirable but even without a kiln the tactile experience of working imaginatively with clay is of great significance developmentally and a source of enjoyment for students of all ages.
These two sessions include many lesson ideas and cover the techniques of: free forming; joining; pinching; slabbing; hollowing; coiling; use of moulds; combinations of techniques and technical information about decorating, finishing and firing.

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Registration Information
Where: Commissariat Store, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery 40 Macquarie Street Hobart (entrance from TMAG Courtyard)
Time: 4.00–5.30pm
Bookings: Phone 62 114189 or email: tmag.bookings@tmag.tas.gov.au
Cost: $10.00 pre paid each session or course discount of 7 sessions for $60.00. Invoices can be forwarded to schools on request
All materials, resources and handouts supplied together with refreshments
Bring: A smock, wear suitable clothing

Further information: Contact Roberta Poynter on 62 114153 or
email robbie.poynter@tmag.tas.gov.au