Welcome
The National Gallery of Australia and the National Portrait Gallery in collaboration with Art Education Australia present the National Visual Arts Education Conference in Canberra in January 2012.
We look forward to welcoming those interested in visual arts education from around the country and beyond. The program will include national and international keynote speakers reflecting the broad interests and key issues in the visual art education sector. This conference is for pre-school, primary, middle school, secondary and tertiary educators in practice or currently studying, plus artists and educators from the museum and public gallery sectors. The program includes keynote papers, panel sessions, conference papers, studio workshops. There will be opportunities to network, upskill and update academic and professional knowledge.
Program
Now online
The conference program is now available online in draft format. Please check back regularly for updates (updated 17 January).
Publications
Submit your NVAEC paper
Do you wish to publish your National Visual Arts Education Conference paper? There will be two significant publications ensuing from this conference. Both publications are being managed by Art Education Australia, and conference articles which are accepted for publication will appear in the prestigious AEA journal.
Trade exhibitors
Promote your education resources
The National Portrait Gallery and the National Gallery of Australia offer interested traders an exciting opportunity to connect with visual arts educators from around Australia. Based in the national capital at the two premier national arts institutions, this conference will attract a diverse group of those interested in the place of art at the heart of learning in the nation. Trade tables are invited that promote quality resources and materials to support the wide range of needs and interests of visual art educators.
Enquiries
For further information
If you have any questions about the conference please contact the conference organisers via email or call the National Portrait Gallery Bookings Officer on 6102 7070 or email
Exhibitions
During the conference attendees will have the option of a tour with educators, and free access to the exhibitions at the National Gallery of Australia and the National Portrait Gallery.
Sandro Botticelli
The story of Virginia the Roman c.1500
tempera and gold on wood panel, Accademia Carrara, Bergamo
Renaissance
15th & 16th Century Italian Paintings from the Accademia Carrara, Bergamo
This unique exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia offers audiences an unparalleled chance to see Early and High Renaissance paintings by some of the greatest European artists. Raphael, Botticelli, Bellini and Titian are represented among an amazing gamut of talent and creative splendour. More than 70 works on canvas and panel will be on display, made between 1400 and 1600 by painters in northern and central Italy.
Eileen 1892, by Tom Roberts
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Purchased 1892
Impressions: Painting light and life
Impressions: Painting light and life presents portraits by, and of, artists at the heart of Australian impressionism including Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton and Frederick McCubbin. Featuring well-loved icons of late nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century Australian art, as well as rarely-exhibited works drawn from public and private collections, the summer show offers a gorgeous glimpse into the world of a group of people to whom art was life itself.
The conference venues
The National Gallery of Australia and the National Portrait Gallery are located in the Parliamentary triangle in Canberra. This is approximately a 30 minute walk from the City Centre on the shores of Lake Burley Griffin. The National Portrait Gallery and the National Gallery are linked with a footbridge for easy access between the two sites.
