Visual Arts Year 8 Extension Program August 2020 to May 2021

The Visual Arts Department is offering an Extension Program for Gifted and Talented Year 8 students who have displayed exceptional practical ability in this subject.  

The aim of this program is to further develop student’s skills in a variety of media and styles of artmaking and develop artworks to enter external competitions such as the Blacktown City: Young Artists Prize, AGNSW: Young Archie and Westmead Hospital: Operation Art.

These classes will take place after school on Wednesdays from 3.00 – 4.30pm in the Junior Art Room G10 starting from Week 6, Wednesday 26th August.

Students will have the opportunity to choose from the following according to interest and skill levels.

Media:

Lead pencils

Coloured pencils

Watercolour pencils

Watercolour blocks

Acrylic paint

Acrylic mediums

Fineline markers

Inks:

Collage/mixed media

Photography

Photoshop

Styles:

Realism

Fantasy

Abstraction
 

Subjects:

People

Animals

Objects

Places

Competitions:

Blacktown City: Young Artists Prize 

Entry in October 2020

Theme announced each year

Exhibition finalists displayed at Blacktown Arts Centre

AGNSW: Young Archie

Entry in March 2021

In the spirit of the iconic Archibald Prize, the Young Archie competition invites children and teenagers aged five to 18 to unleash their creativity and submit a portrait of someone who is special to them and plays a significant role in their life. Age categories: 5-8, 9-12, 13-15, 16-18.

Exhibition finalists displayed at AGNSW

Westmead Children's Hospital: Operation Art

Entry in May 2021

“Creating art to help children in hospital.”

Every year schools across New South Wales are invited to participate in Operation Art, an initiative of The Children’s Hospital Westmead in association with the New South Wales Department of Education. The Operation Art program provides a forum for schools and students to demonstrate their Visual Arts achievements through exhibitions at the Armory Gallery, Sydney Olympic Park and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Students will be selected by the Visual Arts teachers and offered a place in this program. The parents and students have the opportunity to accept the offer until the limited places are full. A maximum class of 24 students will take part in the program. There will be no cost to take part in the program.

I look forward to working with the students.

Pauline Ryan
Leader of Learning CAPA