Ways of Making professional learning programs for teachers offer fresh creative inspiration for the visual arts classroom through artist-led talks and workshops and NGV educator-led gallery sessions. Gain insights into how artists develop ideas and discover how to translate contemporary studio practices into age-appropriate, highly engaging classroom activities.
Ways of Making with Brendan Huntley includes:
- Artist inspiration: Begin the day with Melbourne-based artist Brendan Huntley and an exclusive behind-the-scenes viewing and discussion of his work in the NGV Collection. Discover how the artist’s ideas grow from a spark into a finished artwork.
- Clay masterclass: Get creative in a hands-on clay modelling workshop led by Brendan Huntley in the NGV Studios. Discover how to fire clay in the home oven.
- Interactive gallery tour: Explore the Gallery with NGV educators and discover works in the NGV Collection that resonate and connect with Huntley’s practice. Discuss strategies and ideas for using these works to inspire student creativity, and to build students’ art language and interpretive skills.
- Tactile studio workshop: Continue to build ideas for the classroom in a final studio session inspired by Brendan Huntley’s work and the gallery tour. Experiment with texture and form using easily accessible, tactile materials suitable for any classroom.
Please note: this event is catered. Please indicate any dietary requirements when booking.
- Develop an understanding of how artists generate ideas, make decisions and draw inspiration from artworks, materials and processes
- Explore practical making processes and techniques and consider how these can be adapted for use with students
- Experiment with a range of tactile 3-dimensional materials to incorporate into classroom activities
- 2.1 Apply knowledge of the content and teaching strategies of the teaching area to develop engaging teaching activities.
- 3.3 Select and use relevant teaching strategies to develop knowledge, skills, problem solving and critical and creative thinking.
- 6.2 Participate in learning to update knowledge and practice, targeted to professional needs and school and/or system priorities.
- 7.4 Participate in professional and community networks and forums to broaden knowledge and improve practice.
About the Artist
Brendan Huntley is a Melbourne-based visual artist known for his ceramic sculptures, mixed-media paintings and installations. He is also the frontman of the seminal Melbourne punk band Eddy Current Suppression Ring.
