Olympics - Beijing

Levels: 1–5
Date: Thursday 17 July 2008
Time: 4.20pm – 7.00pm
Consultant: Deanne Clark
Cost: $55.00
Catering:Tea and Coffee

The Olympic Games is the biggest sporting competition on Earth. The Beijing Olympics is expected to attract four billion T.V. viewers and 10,500 participants, making it one of the most watched events in modern times. The Olympics also provide an opportunity for the host country to exhibit its history and culture. The purpose of this workshop is not to copy what the Olympic artists and designers have created, but to draw upon their creative processes and historical sources to inspire teachers/students to create their own Chinese style of visual designs to celebrate the Beijing Olympics.

Exploring Classroom Themes in Modroc

Levels: 2–4
Date: Saturday 26 July 2008
Time: 9.20am – 3.00pm
Consultant: Ann Bidstrup
Cost: $90.00
Catering: A light lunch will be provided

Modroc is a marvelous construction material that can be used to create great masks, unique creatures and interesting environmental features such as trees, volcanoes and relief maps. Participants will learn wire construction skills and then work with Modroc to clad their construction.They will then extend these skills to create an exotic 3 dimensional bird. This workshop is mostly concerned with construction skills however decorating techniques and materials will be demonstrated and discussed.

The Big Draw 2008 “ Taking Art to Town”

Levels: 1–5
Date: Tuesday 29 July 2008
Time: 9.20am – 3.00pm
Consultant: Di Olsson
Cost: $90.00 Parking: Off-site
Catering: A light lunch will be provided

Taking children out into the community to make Art and encouraging the community to take part is a wonderful thing to do. A variety of Art Making projects will be presented during this workshop that will be easy to organise, very manageable, engaging and visually stunning. We will also explore the process of creating a community mosaic. Together we will create a design which will be divided into sections and worked individually into a mosaic. The technique used will allow the mosaic to be laid upon a wall or around a water tank or along a fence. Art and Art Making is a wonderful way to connect a school with its community and its community with its school. If it is easy and fun then even the most reluctant artist will become involved.

Circus Skills Two

Levels: 1–5
Date: Thursday 31 July 2008
Time: 9.20am – 3.00pm
Consultant: Phil Melgaard
Cost: $100.00 Parking: Off-site
Catering: A light lunch will be provided

Following the success of Circus Skills 1 for teachers, Zart Art is pleased to offer a further workshop in Circus Skills - Level 2, for teachers who would like to extend their skills in the exciting area of Circus Arts.Lead by entertainer and former Visual and Performing Arts teacher, Phil Melgaard, this hands-on workshop is designed to further develop the skills and confidence necessary to extend the Circus Arts in your school.

Circus 2 is designed to:

- build on skills covered in Circus 1: juggling; plate spinning; diabolo; rolla bolla; poi;
- stilt- walking; devil sticks and unicycling
- introduce some new skills as well as some simple balance, tumbling and gymnastic routines
- present ideas for developing these skills into routines for performance
Circus 2 is for teachers who already have some circus skills or who have completed Circus 1 at Zart.

Levels: 1–5
Date: Saturday 2 August 2008
Time: 9.20am – 3.00pm
Consultant: Cheryl McHugh
Cost: $90.00
Catering: A light lunch will be provided

Build up your skills and knowledge of ceramics by exploring in depth pinch pot, coiling, mould and slab construction techniques. Further extend your understanding in methods of clay decoration and gain great ideas for activities.

Levels: 1–4
Date: Friday 8 August 2008
Time: 9.20am – 3.00pm
Consultant: Deanne Clark
Cost: $90.00 Parking: Off-site
Catering: A light lunch will be provided
Combine the skills of collage, printmaking and construction to create 2D and 3D dragons based on Chinese culture and other mystical creatures of the past. Explore texture, line and pattern in developing extraordinary imaginative creatures in a variety of media.

Early Years Colour In My World

Date: Monday 11 August 2008
Time: 9.20am – 3.00pm
Consultant: Di Olsson
Cost: $90.00 Parking: Off-site
Catering: A light lunch will be provided

This workshop will give teachers and carers of young children an opportunity to come together to explore materials, ideas, process and possibilities that will lead young learners in their own exploration of colour. A day to play with beautiful coloured Zart Art making materials and to collaborate with others to inspire future projects. Colour will be our starting point, leading us to represent it in 2D and 3D form and preparing us to be taken by our children in different directions.

Shoes Shoes Shoes

Levels: 3–5
Date: Thursday 14 August 2008
Time: 9.20am – 3.00pm
Consultant: Tania Di Berardino
Cost: $90.00 Parking: Off-site
Catering: A light lunch will be provided
This workshop will explore different media to create exquisite works of art on the theme of shoes. Create wildly exciting 2D and 3D shoes through collage and construction, textiles and printmaking.

Black and White

Levels: 5–6
Date: Tuesday 19 August 2008
Time: 9.20am – 3.00pm
Consultant: Tania Di Berardino
Cost: $90.00 Parking: Off-site
Catering: A light lunch will be provided
This full day workshop will introduce the traditional Japanese Woodblock Printing technique which is suitable for secondary art teachers. Tania will begin the unit of work with black and white drawing which will lead into collage work. This will then be the basis for the printmaking exploration.

Simply Mosaics

Booked Out

Levels: 3–5
Date: Thursday 21 August 2008
Time: 9.20am – 3.00pm
Consultant: Pamela Irving
Cost: $100.00 Parking: Off-site
Catering: A light lunch will be provided

This is a “direct method” mosaics workshop. This technique is suitable for you to make mosaic murals with your students. The workshop will involve the design of and laying of the tiles (tesserae) as well as instruction on grouting, finishing and installation. This is a one day workshop suitable for beginners in mosaics.

Drama Workshop

Levels: 3–5
Date: Saturday 23 August 2008
Time: 9.20am – 3.00pm
Consultants: Helen Sandercoe (Drama Victoria) and Tania Di Berardino
Cost: $100.00
Catering: A light lunch will be provided

Drama Victoria and Zart Art are presenting a workshop suitable for teachers of drama, art and classroom teachers in charge of school performances. Participants will explore the Neutral mask which gives the basic techniques and understandings of mask making and wearing. Mask work is both useful training for actors and a performance form, such as in Greek chorus. Neutral mask is generally for actor training and character/expressive mask for performance training. Many of the exercises could be performed by a wide range of age and abilities.

Out of School Hours

Levels: 1–4
Date: Tuesday 2 September 2008
Time: 10.00am – 2.00pm
Consultants: Mim Kocher
Cost: $70.00 Parking: Off-site
Catering: A light lunch will be provided

This is our annual workshop designed for adults who work with primary aged children in ‘out of school’ situations. Activities will have a 2D and 3D balance. All are easy, creative and great fun to make. They include: sculptures that even the youngest children can make; a silver and gold magic forest; a spectacular colourful clown, inexpensive jewellery and using paint in special ways to create stunning backgrounds. Weaving materials from the environment and textured wools and colourful modelled self portraits.

Screen Printing

Levels: 3–5
Date: Thursday 4 September 2008
Time: 9.20am – 3.00pm
Consultants: Tania Di Berardino
Cost: $100.00 Parking: Off-site
Catering: A light lunch will be provided

Learn the basic techniques of stencil cutting, paper stencils and the Speed Ball technique to produce silk screen designs to print on paper and fabric. Learn about screen printing inks, how to set them and the clean up of them. Print a short length of fabric and paper samplers.

Drawing with Textiles – No Undo Button

Levels: 3–5
Date: Saturday 6 September 2008
Time: 9.20am – 3.00pm
Consultants: Sue Graefe
Cost: $90.00

These days with more and more emphasis being put on technical skills it is really important that students have time to actually create artworks by hand and to discover how magical and satisfying that can be. We will spend the day exploring and playing with materials and processes. Samples will be made by painting, drawing, printing and dyeing. Those samples will be used to make a special artwork – perhaps a wall hanging, memory book or fabric sculpture – there are many possibilities.

Robots

Levels: 3–5
Date: Tuesday 9 September 2008
Time: 9.20am – 3.00pm
Consultants: Sue Innes
Cost: $100.00 Parking: Off-site

Here’s a creative concept that combines I.T and the arts and offers you the opportunity to add another skill to your arsenal in the struggle to keep specialist arts teachers relevant in your school. We’ll use pre-built LEGO robots, decorate (costume and characterise), program, add scenery and props to create a performance to music that’s a perfect integration of art, I.T., music, technology and thinking skills. Bring along a video camera and take this idea back to your school. Under the mentorship of Sue Inness, an experienced art and robotics teacher, you will train your robot to dance in time to music, plan the moves and the floor pattern using LEGO Mindstorms For Schools. By cleverly combining different movement sequences, you can develop an entertaining dance program and learn about robotic movement, mechanical systems and programming, costumes and staging a show in an entertaining and practical manner. By conceptualising the performance in keeping with the music’s theme and decorating the robots and the dance stage, accordingly, the arts are perfectly harmonized.

For more workshops in your area see also... Bookweek , Secondary & Christmas Term 3 workshops

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