VADEA invites Visual Arts & Design educators to submit a ‘Call for Conference Presentations’ and share your valuable contribution to Visual Arts & Design education. One of the most rewarding aspects of VADEA’s annual conference is learning from our colleagues and having the opportunity to share our practice with others in the form of a presentation or workshop. Submissions are open until 28 March.
The theme of VADEA’s 2022 conference is ‘Confluxus’ and invites presenters to reflect on how they have inscribed new paths and points of inflection in developing teaching and learning programs, case studies, units of work and areas of research. Areas of investigation could reference the following prompts but are not limited to these.
XCHANGE
Systems of knowing – Informing conceptual and material practice through the exchange and sharing of knowledge in Visual Arts & Design education.
XMARKS THE SPOT
Connecting with the physicality of site – Tracing the significance of memories and histories to map meanings through Visual Arts & Design education
CONFLUXUS
Navigating simultaneous currents in Visual Arts & Design education – Embracing change to activate collaborative learning, innovation and/or development of expertise across virtual and/or face-to-face learning environments.
Further prompts are provided at the end of this email.
Presentations can be delivered as an individual or in groups and in various ways and time-slots:
- 30 minute presentations of newly devised units of work that link to the conference theme by being revisionist, inclusive and visionary. They can come in the form of units of work that make explicit links between artmaking and case studies, teaching and learning strategies focusing on critical and historical investigations of artists’ practice, and/or case studies.
- 1 hour artmaking presentation that reflects the presenters own classroom practice.
- 2 hour workshop that builds upon the educators/participants own artmaking practice and skill development in the classroom.
- 15 minute presentation of a research paper or new artist study that explores visual arts syllabus content, teaching and learning strategies focusing on critical and historical investigations of artists’ practice, units of work and/or case studies OR contemporary art education curriculum issue.
We know there is amazing work happening out there and it would be wonderful to have it shared. So, if you are interested in presenting at the VADEA 2022 Conference, complete the 
submission form by 28 March. If you have any questions, please email contact@vadea.org.au
FURTHER PROMPTS
Suspended in time, we paused in isolation to consider our habitual ways of thinking. We have been provoked to develop new routes and modes of communication in response to shared global and local realities that continue to impact our daily lives. We have emerged with greater awareness and understanding that we cannot remain static in our knowledge and experiences within our constantly fluctuating world. Collaboration and adaptability have been key to activating our continued learning, innovation and development of expertise across physical and virtual domains. We come together to embrace change as a collective opportunity to map simultaneously diverging and converging currents, empowered by movement. We can retrace, pivot, zoom in and out, reassess and decide our speed and flow, navigating through and across intersection points to move intentionally in an open Xchange.
