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Notice of Annual General Meeting 2018

The Annual General Meeting of the Visual Arts and Design Educators Association will be held at Santa Sabina College, 90 The Boulevarde, Strathfield on Tuesday,  19 June 2018 commencing at 5:45pm. Voting and Participation Nominations for the VADEA...

Call For Papers - 2017 VADEA Conference

K-6 teachers, secondary visual arts teachers and tertiary educators are invited to contribute to the dialogue on New Materialsm and submit abstracts for Research Papers, Workshop Presentations, Poster Presentations and Pecha Kucha short presentations in one...

Poster design to change the world

VADEA NSW past Co-President and current executive member Kathrine Kyriacou developed this education resource for primary and secondary Art, Design and Media teachers with Oxfam Australia. We encourage you to share the link with colleagues that might like...

Teaching FYFS

If you teach senior visual arts in high school, you are taken on an emotional rollercoaster with your students as they make their way to the HSC. You spend countless hours teaching them the skills and content to pass their written Art Historical and Critical...

Ancestry and Identity: Term 3 Art Exhibitions

Exploring the themes of ancestry and identity with your students This article is about exploring themes of ancestry and identity with your students. There are four art exhibitions on during Term 3 that relate well to this area of study: “How we see...

Introducing Dr. Emmi Nevalainen

Hello VADEA members, I am Dr. Emmi Nevalainen and I want to introduce myself as the 2016-2017 Resources, Research, and Publications Project Officer. I have been a casual academic at UNSW Art & Design since 2010, teaching art history and theory. Some...

AGM and Executive Nominations

On behalf of the current VADEA NSW Executive Committee, we are pleased to announce that nominations for the 2016/17 Executive Committee is now open. Nominations close on 10 June at 10:00pm. We also advise you of the upcoming Annual General Meeting at...

Workshop List Now Available for the 2016 VADEA Conference

For the first time ever we asked you to submit papers to run a workshop at this year’s Conference. We are excited to now reveal the full list of workshops available to attendees. These workshops represent a diverse set of schools and practices and the...

Mobile Phone Photography Workshops

Love photography? Recognise the paradigm shift that smart-phone photography represents? Come to the 2016 VADEA Conference In the Public Domain, and work with award-winning photojournalist, documentary photographer and master of mobile-phone...

Guo Jian and Luise Guest at 2016 VADEA Conference

The 2016 VADEA Conference is a month away! Guo Jian is a Chinese-born Australian artist. As a 17 year old, he dreamed of going to art college. Instead, he worked as a propaganda officer after leaving the People’s Liberation Army.  Guo...