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Visarts summary to the 2nd February 2020   Mauriora, It has been sweltering in Canterbury so I hope others are faring well in rooms with a bit of ventilation or air-conditioning.  A summary of threads from the past week is...

The artist who wants to provoke pupils' creativity

The Answer for Schools Is Not More Technology. It’s Teachers and Human Connection.

Visarts summary to the 19th December 2019   Mauriora, talofa lava and kiorana Visartsnet community. For many of you school is out now. For others a bit of annual leave is on the horizon. Please take some time to be present, connect...

Visarts summary to the 9th December 2019   Kia ora tātou Visartsnet community, I hope that you are all anticipating some time with friends and whanau over the summer break and that members in the west and southern regions are managing to...

Visarts summary to the 25th November 2019   Kia ora tātou Visartsnet community, where is the year going? I am now in the process of deciding what is actually realistically achievable in the time remaining before school closes for the...

Visarts summary to the 18th November 2019   Kia ora tātou Visartsnet community, well the summer school holidays are fast approaching  - next year I need some strategies to slow the year down...this one has rushed by! I have had the...

Visarts summary to the 10th November 2019   Kia ora tātou Visartsnet community, it is a pleasure working alongside such a wonderful collective of colleagues. Responding to various requests and sharing ideas with members both online and in...

Visarts summary to the 21st October 2019   Mauriora Visartsnet, Currently days are wizzing by as if seen from a bullet train! For many of you in the secondary sector this is a big few weeks as all of our NCEA students submit their...

Visarts summary to the 14th October 2019   Welcome back to Term 4 Visartnet members. It is the busiest time of the year for many of us as we support akonga across NCEA levels to complete their portfolios. The most empathetic comment...

Visarts summary to the 7th October 2019   Ata mārie lovely Visartsnet community,   Well the quiet forum is a good sign that people are switching off and having a break and a bit of a holiday during what a colleague termed our...

re-purposing stock photography in a design context

This would be great background research for any students appropriating cultural icons, I’m going to be saving the links under ‘Dream catchers’ and encouraging my students to do a similar investigation into cultural icons when they arise.

Arts Month is also here - take part or be square!

The list has reached 1200 subscribers for the first time this week!

wonderful threads over the past weeks and I just want to thank all those who contribute and support each other via our online community by sharing resources and ideas.

The timeline for writing revised achievement standards was posted by the ANZAAE and in the gazette panel members are being sought after.

Many of you may not know of his provision of rent-free space/lodging to support emerging artists alongside his own career.

discussing the NCEA review results in your community you might want to read the results of last years Education Conversation.

Some great accompanying articles detail the colour design of the exhibition and multilingual labels over dozens of languages.