Abstract Campus
2014
Artist in Residency, Aitken College, Greenvale
Art Education and Collaborative Art Project
Materials: Acrylic on Recycled Board
The aim and objective of the program was to work with student groups over two terms, and produce a permanent work for the school environment. The project was included in the curriculum for student assessment.
The inspiration and idea for this project was to generate a response to the schools built environment, and to encourage viewing from abstracted perspective.
Students learnt new art-making skills and experienced the arts in a different learning environment directed by the artist in residence, and were able to learn valuable lessons about the design process.
Student outcomes
- Learning in the arts: knowledge (aesthetic, historic, cultural), skills (techniques and processes), materials (medium, instruments and media), genre & styles (abstraction, geometric abstraction, public art, ephemeral art), design (elements & principals), critical evaluation.
- Learning through the arts: questioning, experiential learning, synthesising ideas.
- Links to other learning areas & cross-curriculum: design (architecture), geography (urban environment), English (literacy), mathematics (numeracy & geometry), sustainability (national curriculum).
