The VADEA 2020 Conference program offers primary teachers, secondary visual arts teachers and tertiary educators an opportunity to reinvigorate their pedagogy in relation to Visual Arts syllabus content, drawing from art practices that represent different voices, alternate approaches and possible futures.
‘Peripheral Visions’ interrogates art educational practice in relation to artists and agencies of the artworld who investigate the dynamic between diverse and resounding voices, instigate provocative action and make visible critical points of intersection, debate and exchange in our contemporary world. We are delighted to announce that our keynote presenters include artists Abdul Abdullah and Julie Gough, with masterclass workshops by Alice Couttoupes and Abdul Abdullah. The visions and actions of these practitioners represent critical junctures that provide open spaces for powerful voices to emerge and challenge us as visual arts and design educators to reconfigure our thinking about accepted realities. Voices and visions from the artworld, inspired by the social and political agency of artists, manifest ways of perceiving meaning and relationships in our broader world outside our direct line of vision. As primary,secondary visual arts and tertiary educators we are offered the opportunity to engage students in understanding how art generates points of divergence, disrupts orthodoxy, questions traditional assumptions by challenging prevailing views and how to interpret diverse viewpoints through a critical lens.
With the most significant curriculum review undertaken in the last 30 years currently underway, primary, secondary visual arts and tertiary educators are also at a critical juncture. Now is the time to collectively decide what should be the focus of visual arts and design education and to advocate for a quality curriculum that builds on our strong record of supporting the academic foundation of the subject and excellence in student achievement in NSW.
We invite primary, secondary visual arts and tertiary educators to share your peripheral visions at the VADEA 2020 Conference and submit a proposal for a paper, presentation or workshop developed from one of the four provocations outlined.
Call for Papers closes Friday 27 March 8:00pm
