“Links for Staff about innovative learning, studying or just creative ways to approach assessments or tasks”
A pingback from one of my other sites led to this innovative initiative from Greg Thwaites at Fairvale High School . Greg has used Scoop.it to create a great resource site for staff that’s well worth the visit. What more can be said except drop by right now.
Finalists for the NSW Parliamentary Plein Air Photography Prize and Secondary Schools Competition have been published at the Plein air Photography Prize website.
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Missing form this years list are some of the big names in Australian photography such as Dean Sewell, William Yang, Peter Elliston and Andrew Quilty.
The exhibition at Parliament House runs from 2nd – 25th August.
Massive changes to cultural funding in the Netherlands spark major protests.
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“A recent and new report by the non-profit dealers’ federation, Cinoa finds that fair-led and online business is taking over as the main source of revenue;
The traditional gallery model is in decline, according to a new report by the non-profit dealers’ federation Cinoa (Confédération Internationale des Négociants en Oeuvres d’Art), which found that fair-led and online business is taking over as the main source of revenue.
Gallery visits are declining as the art market expands to new international centres served better by art fairs or electronic media.”
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NSW Parliamentary Plein Air Photography Prize.
Call for entries for ‘NSW Parliamentary Plein Air Photography Secondary Schools Competition’
The Parliamentary Photography Prize is now in its second year and for the first time is now open to secondary school students.
If you have students who would/should be interested direct them to http://www.parliamentaryphotoprize.com.au/
Please read the conditions of entry, as this is the first time digital upload has been incorporated into the submission process.
I had the pleasure of working with Nicole at Cranebrook HIgh School for a number of years. An extraordinary teacher who could get things done before most people could think about it. I moved on from there and Nicole went to Singleton High the following year. She’s now doing great work there, some of which you can read about here.
“In December ABC Open held a workshop with students and community members at Singleton Library, which resulted in a new visual take on history, putting from the old images into a contemporary setting.
Singleton High School visual arts teacher Nicole French said the students found the project challenging and rewarding.
Now and Then is a project that takes old images back to the original location they were originally photographed, and rephotographing the old images lined up against the contemporary background.
The results of Now and Then workshops all over regional Australia can be seen at the project gallery at the ABC Open site, and can be searched by Now or Then dates.”
Image courtesy of http://www.abc.net.au/local/photos/2011/01/17/3114821.htm
“London. The art world has reacted with astonishment to a European ruling which has determined that works by Bill Viola and Dan Flavin, when disassembled, should not be considered works of art for tax purposes. Dealers warn that the decision will inhibit the European art trade.”
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PEEL presents a visual and sonic echo of the present instance: it takes an unexamined moment and gives it life. The transitional motion of going to the fridge to get an ingredient is stretched into the echo of an unforgettable instant, and what emerges is an examination of the subtlety and hidden beauty of that moment.
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JR, a French street artist, uses his camera to show the world its true face. He makes his audacious TED Prize wish: to use art to turn the world inside out. A funny, moving talk about art and who we are. Learn more at insideoutproject.net.
The Inside out project was launched in March this year. The project is a global initiative that allows participants (yes you can participate in this) to upload their photo and story to the project site, they will in turn mail a poster of your photograph for you to put up anywhere that you deem suitable.
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“Following the demolition of Ai Weiwei’s Shanghai studio in the city’s outskirts, other artists in the city are also facing the loss of their spaces. An old factory in downtown Shanghai, which has survived for more than four years as a dissident artist colony, and is only a few hundred meters from Shanghai’s main luxury fashion street Nanjing Road, which hosts the Louis Vuitton China flagship store, Prada and numerous other big-name brands, now faces its final shutdown as the local government has moved in to evict the tenants of its 72 sub-divisions.”……..Art Newspaper
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