Public Programs and Education at UQ Art Museum aim to stimulate debate and dialogue on new thinking and ideas in visual art, encourage participation by diverse audiences, and enhance the campus experience of UQ students.
Exhibitions are supported by a range of public programs and associated events, which are designed to engage a wide range of audiences including UQ staff and students, UQ alumni, high schools, and external community groups.
These free events, which include floor talks by curators and exhibiting artists, are held during the week, after hours on selected Wednesday evenings, and at weekends. During university semesters, programs that support the teaching and learning activities of students enrolled in courses at UQ, and other tertiary institutions, are available.
Public lectures and symposia, which explore critical developments and new scholarship in visual culture and ideas by leading academics and industry professionals are held in association with the exhibition program, and/or with partners throughout the year. CLICK HERE for details on upcoming Public Lectures.
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Education
Interpretive guides are available for a number of exhibitions in 2009, and include downloadable pod and vodcasts of interviews with artists and curators. CLICK HERE to access pod and vodcasts.
The information and activities in the UQ Art Museum Interpretive Guides are intended to support the inquiry learning model of the Queensland Visual Art senior curriculum and align with the general objectives of making and appraising. The guides provides opportunities for Year 11 and 12 senior students to:
- extend their knowledge and experience of contemporary visual arts practice and career paths;
- develop their capacity to research, develop, resolve and reflect on their own and others’ art works in the specific context of audiences and purposes; and
- explore how the visual arts reinforce and challenge their own individual experiences.
These free resources can be used to enhance interpretation and understanding of the exhibitions prior to, during or following a visit to the UQ Art Museum, or as part of independent senior secondary classroom activities.
Supervised school groups are welcome to visit the UQ Art Museum, with advance bookings required. There is no charge. Introductory talks on exhibitions can be organised by prior arrangement, and with at least one week’s notice.
In partnership with Queensland Art Teachers Association (QATA), the UQ Art Museum runs regular professional development seminars for senior high school visual art teachers, which include discussions with curators and exhibiting artists.
For more information please contact Gillian Ridsdale, Curator Public Programs on 3346 7793 or email g.ridsdale@uq.edu.au
2009 EXHIBITION PROGRAM
Judy Watson: Heron Island
9 October - 22 November
Click
HERE to download a vodcast of Judy Watson during her residency on Heron Island Research Station and making work for this exhibition.
prostrate your horses: weather and then some - Rosemary Laing at The University of Queensland Art Museum
26 September - 15 November
Click
HERE to download the Education Kit developed and published by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney for the exhibition
the unquiet landscapes of Rosemary Laing in 2005. Reproduced here with permission of the publisher strictly for educational purposes, and in relation to the exhibition prostrate your horses: weather and then some - Rosemary Laing at The University of Queensland Art Museum.
RICKY SWALLOW: WATERCOLOURS
24 July – 27 September
An interpretive guide for the exhibition
Ricky Swallow: Watercolours is available
HERE. A vodcast of exhibition curator Steven Alderton talking with artist Ricky Swallow about his drawing practice is available
HERE.
MISTY MODERNS: Australian Tonalists 1915-1950
18 July – 13 September
Misty Moderns: Australian Tonalists 1915-1950 is the first major exhibition to tell the story of Australian Tonalism; a movement championed by the influential and often controversial Melbourne painter Max Meldrum (1875-1955), which took place during the inter-war period. Around 80 works by Max Meldrum and 17 of his followers have been brought together from public and private collections around Australia. Included in the exhibition are works by Clarice Beckett, Roy de Maistre, Roland Wakelin and Lloyd Rees.
Misty Moderns: Australian Tonalists 1915 -1950 is an Art Gallery of South Australia travelling exhibition
Click HERE to download the Education Kit developed for primary and secondary students by the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.
BEN QUILTY LIVE!
9 May - 19 July
An interpretive guide for the exhibition BEN QUILTY LIVE! is available HERE. Pod and vodcasts of interviews with the artist and the curator are available HERE.
To complement the BEN QUILTY LIVE! Interpretive Guide, masterclasses will be held for Queensland senior secondary visual arts students for the first time. These structured two hour workshops will enable participants to interact with the artist Ben Quilty, gain insight into his practice, and learn about approaches to contemporary curatorship and exhibition development. Find out more and register.