Galnyatj! Inspire, Learn, Create Art draws upon the Eight Ways of Learning, an Aboriginal-based pedagogy to deliver culturally appropriate and accessible learning outcomes for students to gain deeper understanding of south east Australian Aboriginal culture and heritage through art.
As part of our triennial funding (2018-2020) from the Department of Education, Kaiela Arts will continue to roll out activities to regional primary schools throughout 2021. Available for all year levels, our visual arts incursion programs promote cultural understanding of south-east and local Australian Aboriginal history, Country and culture.
School subsidies for regional schools are available on application.
Short videos and visual presentations based upon the living stories of Yorta Yorta people and artwork by local artists form the basis of each session. Aboriginal artists together with experienced educators offer flexibility in program delivery to suit curriculum needs. Activities that can be livestreamed with video links are listed below and others will become available during the year.
Students listen to the creation story read by Aunty Cynthia Hardie and learn Yorta Yorta words which form the basis of drawing activities, language and the Rainbow Serpent jigsaw activity.
On listening to the story of Badja Bayaderra by Heidi Knowles, students will learn Aboriginal themes and language and create their own 2D artwork using Aboriginal designs and templates.
Aunty Francis Nicholson talks about her artwork and why she makes art. Students will love painting their own artwork using expressive techniques as shown by this local Aboriginal artist.
Please note: All early years sessions are one hour.
This session looks at the importance of totems and relationships to Country for Aboriginal people. They learn about signs and symbols and make their own clay turtles.
Turtles will be fired at Kaiela Arts and returned to students to take home for take part in our annual Turtle Muster.
Please note: This activity can be delivered as one or two hour sessions for early and middle years students, or a two hour session for senior students.
Kaiela Arts curator Eric Brown talks about his own cultural connections to Country and ways of learning and maintaining traditional knowledge through symbology in art. Students will use key themes to paint their own story or journey.
Emerging artist, Dylan Charles, talks about the totems and clans associated with Yorta Yorta Country and how he expresses identity through Aboriginal art and iconography. Students will draw upon their understanding of totemic icons to explore their own connection to Country.
A school booking fee of $40 and some additional travel costs may apply.
School subsidies are available for schools on application.
For further information please contact us at education@kaielaarts.org.au or call on (03) 5821 9842.
Our program supports learning across the humanities curriculum, general capabilities and in particular the Visual arts.
In Levels 5 and 6, students explore how and why artists, craftspeople and designers realise their ideas through different visual forms, practices and processes. They develop conceptual and expressive skills.
As they make and respond to visual artworks, students explore a diversity of ideas, concepts and viewpoints. They draw ideas from other artists, artworks, symbolic systems, beliefs and visual arts practices in other cultures, societies and times.
Students extend their understanding of safe visual arts practices and choose to use sustainable materials, techniques and technologies.
Explore ideas and artworks from different cultures and times as inspiration to create visual artworks (VCAVAE025)
Explore visual arts practices as inspiration to create artworks that express different ideas and beliefs (VCAVAE029)
Explore visual conventions and use materials, techniques, technologies and processes specific to particular art forms, and to make artworks (VCAVAV026)
Select and apply visual conventions, materials, techniques, technologies and processes specific to different art forms when making artworks (VCAVAV030)
Identify and discuss how ideas are expressed in artworks from a range of places, times and cultures, including artworks by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples (VCAVAR028)
Identify and describe patterns of continuity and change in daily life for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, ‘native born’ and migrants in the Australian colonies (VCHHC085)
Significant contributions of individuals and groups, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and migrants, to changing Australian society (VCHHK096)
Analyse how aspects of their own and others lifestyle, behaviour, attitudes and beliefs can be culturally influenced (VCICCB009)
Influence of people, including the influence of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, on the environmental characteristics of Australian places (VCGGK094)
Describe what it means to be confident, adaptable and persistent and why these attributes are important in dealing with new or challenging situations (VCPSCSE027)
Your donation ensures that Kaiela Arts can continue to support and nurture artists in the Kaiela Dungala region.
All donations over $2 are tax-deductible.
Kaiela Arts is a member of the Indigenous Art Code which relays all transparent, fair and ethical dealing between art centres and artists.
Kaiela Arts Shepparton acknowledges and pays respect to the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we are located in Shepparton which forms part of the Yorta Yorta Nation.