Teachers
Professional Development
Early Years Educators Professional Development art-making workshop
Tuesday 25 June, 12pm-3pm
Join Jill Anderson, MPRG artist/educator for an inspiring workshop looking at nurturing young children’s creativity. Jill has run Young at Art, a successful weekly under 5’s program at MPRG for many years, using diverse artworks as starting points for open-ended creative play with simple materials. Bring along your favourite picture books and learn to use the illustrations to fire your students' imaginations!
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Visual Literacy teaching tool kit
Monday 29 July, 9am-3.30pm
Working with facilitator Carly Grace, this interactive workshop will include guided visual literacy activities exploring contemporary artworks by Brendan Huntley and Lisa Walker. The day will include tools for unpacking the Ethical Capability of the Victorian Curriculum through the use of Visual Thinking Strategies. VTS helps our students to explore works of art in a way that allows them to connect their own experiences and knowledge. The ensuing discussions are meaningful because students participate directly in the process of interpretation and feel connected with works of art and the ideas that they embody.
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MPRG Education welcomes the opportunity to design programs to cater to your specific curriculum needs both here at the Gallery and in your classroom.
Bookings via email: jill.anderson@mornpen.vic.gov.au
These programs are available during all exhibitions:
Sketching in the Gallery F - 12 Students experience deep engagement with the artworks as they observe and record different artists’ styles and explore diverse ways of using aesthetic principles to communicate meaning.
Peek Ponder and Play F - 10 Students engage in playful activities as they explore the current exhibition. Working in teams they use lateral thinking and problem-solving to resolve challenges and respond creatively to the artworks. This fun program is designed to foster familiarity with looking at art and being in a gallery. Workshop: Responding to the works on display, students create their own expressive artwork.
What’s the Story? F - 8 Students explore artworks that tell stories as they develop skills observing, thinking and sharing ideas. Workshop: Students develop their visual expressive skills as they make aesthetic decisions to tell their own story in their artwork.
Fancy Feelings! F - 4 Students develop emotional literacy as they identify and talk about feelings expressed in art. Workshop: Students explore the use of art elements to communicate emotions in their own Passion Portrait.
Creative Writing 4 - 12 Students respond to artworks with creative word play and paint colourful pictures with wonderful words!
Explore & Express 7 - 12 Students explore artworks to interpret, identify and describe key features from a variety of times, places and cultures. They use art language to describe, discuss and compare the communication of ideas, meanings and messages. Workshop: Responding to the works on display, students create their own expressive artwork.
Students develop their use of appropriate terminology as they compare and discuss artworks using the analytical frameworks.
Costs
Learning in the Gallery with the MPRG Educator: $5/student (1 hour)
Learning in the Gallery and workshop with the MPRG Educator: $7.50/student (2 hours)
Learning in schools with the MPRG Educator: $5/student (minimum numbers apply)
Special programs and sessions costed on an individual basis
Independent Gallery learning: free
Disadvantaged schools negotiated on an individual basis
Educator Previews: free
Professional Learning: free, unless indicated otherwise
School holiday programs
Visit the events section of the website to find out about upcoming school holiday programs for primary and secondary school students, including VCE Art & Studio Arts folio development workshops: MPRG EVENTS
Enjoy your visit
You can add to your visit by enjoying these well-maintained facilities within easy walking distance of MPRG:
Playground
Skatepark
Public toilets and picnic facilities
Mornington Botanical Rose Garden with a large covered rotunda
Community-run Oak Hill Gallery
Visit https://www.mornpen.vic.gov.au/Activities/Parks-Reserves/Parks-Recreation/Civic-Reserve for information on the range of recreation and sporting facilities at Civic Reserve.