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ARTS:LIVE lets you explore the world of visual arts! There’s a huge range of in-depth courses exploring portraiture, mask making, sculpture, Indigenous art, and sustainability. The site also has a heap of quick crafternoon activities to engage the whole family in the practise of art-making.

The resources have been created in partnership with some of Australia’s finest artists and galleries, including Callum Morton, Ash Keating, Esme Timbery, and Heide Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Victoria and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.

We’ve previewed all the courses and activities on ARTS:LIVE so you can take a look at what’s on offer. Get exploring today and register for free to access everything you need to unlock the world of visual arts!

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  • 3 × 45 minute lessons

    Making Junk Percussion

    Years 3-8, Secondary
    Learn how to make your own Junk Percussion instruments using everyday objects. Get a great sound using your recycling!
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  • 6 × 45 minute lessons

    Making a Mask

    Years 5-10, Secondary
    Mask-work is an art form that is steeped in cultural expression. There are many different types of masks and mask-work traditions. Making a mask is a fantastic way to begin exploring the history and use of masks in different cultures around the world. This resource will teach you the process for making your own unique papier-mâché face mask or you can use the simple mask template.
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  • 2 × 45 minute lessons

    Decorating a Mask

    Years 5-10, Secondary
    Decorating A Mask is the second component of Mask Making, where you will complete your papier-mâché face mask or decorate our simple mask template. Use inspiration from your own culture and background to decorate your mask and express yourself!
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  • 5 × 45 minute lessons

    Funfair High

    Years 9-10
    How can art inspire us to reflect on our built environment?  Visual Artist Callum Morton introduces the modernist building at Heide Museum of Modern Art that inspired his artwork Ghost Train, Bulleen (2011). Alter the look of your own familiar school buildings to create a school of the imagination - an architectural theme park.
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  • 9 x 45 minute lessons

    Visual Storytelling

    Years 2-6
    Visual storytelling is one of the oldest forms of storytelling, enlisting a range of mediums including song, dance, theatre, mime, craft, sign language and visual arts. Explore a range of ways to bring your story to life with the use of visual mediums such as picture storybooks.
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  • 5 x 45 minute lessons

    Shifting the Scale

    Years 7-10, Secondary
    The work of Aboriginal artist Daniel Boyd interrogates Australia's colonial narrative. Explore the theme of appropriation and use the conventions of social media to shape artworks that offer alternative perspectives. Acknowledge your own presence within a grand narrative.
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  • 6 × 45 minute lessons

    Sustain Your Art

    Years 5-10, Secondary
    Meet Ash Keating, a visual artist interested in environmental problems facing society. Discover how he creates large-scale installations from commercial and industrial waste materials and create your own art to inspire and challenge a wider audience to think about sustainability.
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  • 2 x 45 minute lessons

    Painting the Music

    3-5 Year Olds, Years 1-6
    Combine visual and performing art by using music to inspire what you draw and paint. Listen to a music track and paint how and what you are feeling or what images it evokes. Explore your creativity, sharpen your listening skills and understand the links between feelings, ideas and artwork.
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  • 2 × 45 minute lessons

    Keepsake

    Years 1-6
    How do artists express their feelings and memories through sculpture? Look at and respond to Sweeney's Keepsake (1987) by Les Kossatz, then make your own sculpture based on your feelings and memories. Sculptor Lucy Irvine will show you a method that uses a variety of materials and processes.
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  • 2 x 45 minute lessons

    Hand Drawings

    Years 1-6
    Hands have been used in artworks since humans first began to paint and draw, and remain a powerful symbol found in visual art today. To give you a taste of Visual Arts, this simple activity uses your hands as the subject of the artwork.
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  • 3 x 45 minute lessons

    Family Tides

    Years 7-10, Secondary
    Meet Esme Timbery, an elder of the La Perouse Aboriginal community. Find out how her art-making is both contemporary and a celebration of traditional practice. Use social-media conventions as the context for your own artwork as you make and share a journey of discovery.
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  • 4–5 × 45 minute lessons

    Portray Yourself

    Years 2-8, Secondary
    Explore the relationships between subject, artist and viewer through portraiture. Investigate image, identity and representation by exploring some significant portraits in the National Gallery of Victoria's collection.
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