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The NGV is yours to discover in this art adventure. Ideal for a first time visit to the NGV, students explore the Gallery and interpret and discuss art and design from different places and times.
Duration: 1 hour Cost: $10 per student
Think adventurously through art and design. Explore and respond to works from different times and cultures using thinking strategies and tools. This educator-led Gallery session draws upon Artful Thinking routines developed by Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
What’s in a portrait? What do portraits tell us about people and the times they lived in? What does the appearance of a sitter reveal about what they might be thinking or feeling? Why is it important that artists make portraits of people? View and discuss historical and contemporary portraits from across the NGV Collection.
How has art changed since the nineteenth century? What are the key characteristics of different movements and styles, and what ideas and events have influenced these? Students explore these questions and more in an educator-led Gallery session.
Creative ways to analyse, interpret and describe art. Following a presentation that introduces strategies for writing about art, students take inspiration from works on display and create rich, descriptive writing during a practical session in the Gallery.
Duration: 2 hours Cost: $20 per student
What can we learn about Hispanic and Spanish culture from art? Discover rich histories and stories in Mesoamerican and Spanish artworks from the NGV Collection.
Journey to Japan through traditional and contemporary artworks. From Buddhist sculptures to ceramics, fashion and textiles, this program provides a rich insight into Japan and its rich cultural history and traditions.
Explore Chinese art from ancient times to the present day. Intricately crafted early funerary and ritual objects, traditional artforms rich in symbolism, and dynamic contemporary works paint a vivid picture of China past and present.
See the sites, meet the people and discover stories of Italian culture and history on this journey through Italian art and design from antiquity to the present day.
Experience the essence of French culture and history. Discover people, stories, art movements and cultural traditions through the art and design spanning the fourteenth to the twenty-first century.
What does it mean to belong to a religious tradition? Explore how artworks reflect and express religious beliefs, symbols, rituals and identity.
Gain insight into the importance of connection to Country through the culture and creativity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and their works.
What does it mean to be Australian? Explore different perspectives on Australian identity and culture through art and design. How have people from different times and backgrounds experienced Australia? What can art and design teach us about contemporary Australia?
Explore Australia’s history, from first contact and colonisation through to Federation. This program includes lively discussion of stories and events from the past and considers multiple perspectives on Australian history.
What is design? What do designers do? Explore how designers solve problems, present possibilities, tell stories, reflect their time and imagine the future. Discover design as a process and a way of thinking that helps to shape the world we live in.
Be the architect. The annual NGV Architecture Commission asks architects to consider innovative ways to activate the NGV’s Grollo Equiset Garden with a thought-provoking work of temporary architecture. In this workshop, students use tools and techniques for idea generation and rapid prototyping to create their own response to the same brief. The program includes a gallery session with a viewing of the competition winning design.
Duration: 2 hours Cost: $22 per student
Draw attention to art! Explore new ways of seeing and making art by sketching in the gallery. Students build on their observational and technical skills, while getting to know the stories and ideas behind art and design in the NGV Collection.
Where do artists and designers get their ideas? How does an idea become a finished work? How do materials and techniques connect to ideas, culture, and meanings? Explore the diverse ideas and materials that have inspired creative minds across time and place.
Analysing literary criticism, or reading a text through a different lens, can be a daunting place to start unpacking literary perspectives. Students are supported to advance their understanding of critical theory through visual analysis of NGV Collection works from a range of historical, cultural and contemporary contexts.
Learn, revise and articulate the principles of visual perception. Use original artworks to identify and describe gestalt principles, pictorial depth cues, constancies and optical illusion. Find out how artists manipulate visual perception to inform our experience and understanding of art.
How does art and design reflects human relationships with the Australian environment? Compare and contrast Indigenous and non-Indigenous views of the landscape. What do representations of the land reveal about how the landscape has been understood throughout history?
Debate problems in value theory with a focus on themes and questions from the VCE Philosophy Study Design.
On aesthetic value: What is art? What is beauty? What is the purpose and value of art? To what extent is a society justified in censoring art? On the interpretation of works of art: What is the relationship between art and philosophy? What is the relationship between the meaning of a work and the intentions of its artist?
How do you know? What is the nature of knowledge in the visual arts? Reflect on the significance of shared and personal knowledge, to both the artist and viewer, when making knowledge claims about visual art. Consider how the senses, imagination, reason, emotion, language, intuition, memory and faith inform the way artists create art, and how viewers respond to and interpret art.
Explore ideas, meanings and messages in artworks through applying the three Interpretive Lenses: Structural, Personal and Cultural. Join an NGV educator to discuss, analyse and interpret original works and objects from the NGV Collection.
NGV Teens offers specially tailored programming that connects young people with art and artists at the Gallery.