ARTside-in is a three-stage outreach program designed by the Public Programs Department of the Art Gallery of New South Wales to reach Senior Secondary Visual Arts students (Years 10, 11 and 12) in New South Wales who would otherwise have limited opportunity to access the Gallery's collection, exhibitions and services.
ARTside-in is sponsored by The Caledonia Foundation.
For more information, see the Art Gallery of NSW website.
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ARTside-in started as a metropolitain outreach program in 2003 with The Caledonia Foundation's generous support and has been very successful, working with over 1000 students and teachers.
However in 2006 it was noted as a best practice model in Visual Arts Education by Arts NSW and was funded by through their ConnectEd initiative to develop the program furhter to meet the needs of regional NSW teachers and students in so doing connect them togehter with artists and Gallery professionals. Arts NSw selected as the pilot region Moree in North western NSW.
The result was ARTside-in Moree the up-sized version of the metropolitain program, modified and supercharged with all the most exciting and successful experiences Education Programs at the Gallery could offer and packaged together as one total experience.
One year in the planning, the program took place from 7 May to 18 May 2007 with students from Warialda High School, Moree Secondary College, Uralla Central School, Glen Innes High School, Farrer Memorial Agricultural High School and Tamworth High School.
A deliberately relentless, intense and immersive experience followed with the first week taking place in place in Moree based at the Moree Plains Gallery for an indepth Art Camp in three media areas with students working with professional artists to generte a complete body of work and the second week in Sydney at the Art Gallery of New South Wales investigating the professional artworld and meeting its key agents and identities.
There is no doubt the teachers, artists and Gallery staff who participated in ARTside!-In Moree considered it a valuable experience, one they have indicated through interviews and formal evaluatins, will advance their professional practice.
For the students though, it will, and by all signs already has had a much more lasting effect, well beyond helping them do well in the subject of Visual Arts at school.
They have all grown personally. To observe them develop a confidence in their own art making, an interest in interpreting the world and a pride in their opinion of it, a love and pleasure of art in general with a passion to pursue it further and significantly a recognition that they are now leaders in the arts in their local community. It was a pleasure and privilege to be a part of this process.
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