15th January

Painting the Future - Educator Professional Development

Name: Painting the Future - Educator Professional Development
Start: 2024-01-15T10:30:00+1030
End: 2024-01-15T12:30:00+1030
Location: Port Environment Centre

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Ever wondered how students can still use the classroom art supplies they've come to know and love - the ones you know can be relied upon for your instruction and their exploration - but more sustainably?  Then this Professional Development opportunity is for you!  

Join Sustainable Artist and Primary School Teacher Angela Stephenson - a.k.a Mona Litta Art - as she guides you through a series of tasks that you can use with your students that not only teaches content knowledge from the Australian Visual Arts Curriculum but also investigates sustainable practices geared to make painting in your sustainable Visual Arts program easy and fun!  Integrating the Visual Arts, Biological and Chemical Sciences, Media as well as the Environment, this workshop is a dive in to the future you shouldn't miss.  No one has all the answers, and there is no "best practice" yet but come and journey with me at Mona Litta Art for "better practice" content and pedagogy.

Materials will be supplied in this curriculum-aligned workshop. As are the Professional Standards to gain your PD points. Just bring your curiosity for all things artistic and sustainable.  Limited places - don't miss out!

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Mona Litta Art

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Hi I'm Ange Stephenson and I have established Mona Litta Art to assist education sites to use the materials-intensive Visual Arts Learning Area to progress the Cross-Curricular Priority that is Sustainability. What better to support education sites' sustainability journeys (often just by example) than the subject using the most materials!

My early iterations of art practice centred on mosaics and other cement work which included both commissions and product sales. But as a litter-picker since parenthood commenced way back, I've since found a place in the established genre of plastic art in both portraiture and sculpture. In this realm I have participated and been a finalist in exhibitions, been a finalist internationally, and have enjoyed sales and commissions. I grow ever more curious about the all the materials we use in the arts discipline and how we use them, targeting my professional study to each branch of the Visual Arts. Playing more with painting in the last 2 years has seen me learn much about the potential for "better practice" and the gentle, enjoyable, structured, purposeful teaching of it.

As a teacher for nearly a decade, my classroom practice has centred Sustainability - with marine conservation and pollution often in focus. With a love of teaching and being both a Coastal Ambassador and AUSMAP micro-plastics Ambassador, I hope to create curiosity whilst together we become conscious of our processes, continue our Art learning, create wonderful artworks, and have some awesome fun!

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