This programme is written especially for juniors. It uses play-based activities to help children creatively and critically make meaning of their own and others' art through knowledge from the Arts, English and beyond. Involves art making in the studio.
Consider how some artists use narrative techniques we are familiar with to tell stories. Then think about something completely new! How does a Gallery tell stories with many artworks at once? Tell your own stories in the studio through art making.
By looking at and making art, this programme explores the use of symbolic objects within artworks, as well as ways in which artists can use symbols in unusual ways to inspire our curiosity and stretch our thinking.
This is officially a secondary programme, but could work well for some intermediate students. Students get to practice visual analysis skills focusing on one artwork. Then they either extend that analysis to other works, or take part in small debates.
IMAGE CREDITS
From top: He Iwi Rangitira (installation view), Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 2015; John Pule The Pulenoa Triptych 1995 (installation detail), Chartwell Collection, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, 1998; Hole of Yellow Archipelago (installation view) 2016, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki.
Come face to face with more than 150 of Lindauer's historical portraits of Māori and Pākehā. This exhibition is a rare opportunity to see at close hand ancestral figures painted in razor-sharp detail.
Themes of voyaging, migration and arrival have been explored by artists from the beginning of New Zealand's art history. To All New Arrivals presents many examples of this kind of art making.
Explore, experiment, create and share! The Creative Learning Centre is a favourite of many families with its interactive and exciting installations designed especially for kids, to help them discover art and how engaging it can be.
