Current education programme at Te Tuhi
TOP ART | Term 2, 19-23 April 2010
This is the first Auckland venue to view the Level 3 secondary visual art folios which achieved the highest grades 2009!
Top art is an annual exhibition of 25 Visual Art folios produced by senior secondary students. The aim of the exhibition is to show this year's secondary school students and their teachers what it takes to gain achievement with excellence in art at level 3. it is also a great chance for members of the public to see the best of art that is being created in schools.
Students create their folios throughout the year with the guidance of their teachers. The folios on display here were all externally assessed.
The young artists whose work has been selected for this display were among the most creative of a vibrant senior school cohort from around the country. Their works an outstanding representation of excellence at level 3.
Visual Art at level 3 is comprised of five practical subjects: photography, Design, painting, Sculpture and printmaking. Our Educator Lorraine Higgins will have a short programme on Interpretation of Art for all level 2-3 students to participate in if they wish on attending the exhibition.
To book in please contact: lorraine@tetuhi.org.nz
Ph 09 5770138 ex 7703
Term Two 2010
LEOTC Education Programme
LEOTC PROGRAMMES AT TE TUHI
All schools are welcome to visit the gallery to participate in a pre booked education programme with our schools educators.
Te Tuhi's education workshops, which are derived from our exhibition programme, are inter-curricula and may be adapted to suit students from Yr1- 13. Each workshop specifically relates to the New Zealand Arts Curriculum. These workshops involve the students viewing and discussing the artwork in a particular exhibition and then participating in a practical art activity which relates to what they have seen. However programmes are flexible to meet your needs, please discuss this with our educator.
The Key Competencies of the New Zealand Curriculum developed in the LEOTC programmes at Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts are:
Thinking
Using language, symbols and texts
Managing self
Relating to others, participating and contributing
All students attending our workshops will have the opportunity to develop the core values of:
Excellence
Innovation
Inquiry and Curiously
Diversity
Equity
Community participation
Integrity and respect
All Students who participate will:
Understand the visual arts in context
Share ideas about how and why their own and others' works are made and their purpose, value, and context
Developing practical knowledge
Explore a variety of materials and tools and discover elements and selected principles.
Developing ideas
Investigate visual ideas in response to a variety of motivations, observation, and imagination.
Communicating and interpreting
Share the ideas, feelings, and stories communicated by their own and others' objects and images.
Children's Quote' ...Thank you for bringing our school to Te tuhi. That was the best day of my life."
Workshops 2010 | Term Two
Exhibition: 'Wall of Sound
Date: 25 April - 20 June 2010
View exhibition details here
Workshop: Sound Art
Learning Outcomes: Visual Arts
Learning Outcomes: The Arts: L1, 2, 3. UC, PK, DI, CI
Music: L1, 2, 3. DI, CI
Science: LI, 2, 3 Students will investigate Science through exploration and play asking questions and discussing simple models of sound.
Students will share music making with others, and respond to live and recorded music.
Art can take us beyond the visual experience; you will learn how to hear art.
Students will attend the exhibition gaining an understanding of art in context, and then produce a piece of art work in the studio. In the studio they will create two instruments. At the completion of the lesson they will be able to follow a rhythm and beat, plus perform a musical piece as a group by following the instructions of a conductor. This production of music and art will be digitally recorded and burned onto a CD.
PRE-VIST ACTIVITIES
Activity 1
Students can explore a variety of everyday objects that can generate sounds.
Wood/wood.
Steel/ steel
Activity 2
Discuss the following:
What is sound?
Do sounds have a colour?
Listen to some music and draw what you think the sounds look like.
POST-VIST ACTIVITIES
Using the instruments created at the Gallery
Students can continue their music skills by developing a musical performance for children and adults
Ongoing Workshop
'TALKART ' Interpretation of Art.
Learning Outcomes: UC, PK, DI CI
Yr 9-13 students practice and expand their art vocabulary within gallery contexts by completing group activities and presenting ideas and opinions appropriate to the students subject and level. The diversity of art approaches in Te Tuhi's Exhibitions are ideal for students to: Level 2/3
Identify an issue and discuss in relation to selected artworks
Examine approaches to art making
Examine media and processes of art making -discuss how these inform the meaning of selected artworks.
Term Three 2010
LEOTC Education Programme
Exhibition: (Yr 1-8)
19 July -24 Sept.
Primary/ Intermediate class activities
Tour the exhibition to see how the artist uses miniatures in a landscaped environment and paints worlds within worlds.
The sculptural installations and paintings of Brendon Wilkinson's exhibition
are an exciting motivation for students to discover an understanding of SCALE, FORM and COLOUR.
Workshop1: Boxed City
In the studio each student will construct an individual miniaturized part of a city made of construction card and used objects.
Example: Library, Houses, Trees and Signs.
PRE-VISIT:
Brainstorm all the public places in the community as a class you can think of e.g. Library, Doctors surgery, supermarket.
Discuss what and why we have all these public places.
Discuss the differences between city and country life.
Google some areas in your community, and tour in 3D form.
Google Tetuhi Centre for the Arts and the Pakuranga Youth Centre.
POST-VISIT:
Make your own City by combining all the minitures your class has made at the gallery.
Design a world with all the things you would imagine it to have in it.
Plan the landscape as well as all the buildings in this world.
Write a story about the people who are living in this utopian world explaining what they would all be doing.
Workshop 2: Mythological Paintings
In the studio students will each draw a part from a mythological story they have read at school and paint it with watercolour.
POST VISIT:
Make up a collaborative book with all the individual parts of the story completed at Tetuhi.
Swap all these books with one another, read them and then write a book review.
