About Academy

Arts - Enrichment Program

We offer an art enrichment program that is aimed at all year levels. It involves offering a range of co curricula arts related opportunities to interested students. It is geared toward making meaningful links with the broader community and focuses on either off campus activities or bringing specialists onto our campus for specific events. A comprehensive life drawing unit is offered to VCE students and it continues to be a popular with our students. Other examples of enrichment in the Visual Arts include, en plein air drawing in Carlton Gardens, participating in exhibitions and educational lectures at the NGV and meeting with other schools for joint activities. The enrichment program is structured in paired year levels as follows:

  • Yr 7 & 8

  • Yr 9 & 10

  • Yr 11 &12

Core week

The core week program aims to enhance our students understanding of who we are as Australians, by tracing our story through art. Utilising the Australian permanent collection at the National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square, we have looked at the Indigenous gallery, where issues such as cultural distinctiveness, sacred sites, traditional stories and more contemporary issues like the stolen generation, land rights and Terra Nullius were explored. This leads us onto colonial period and subsequent key phases including, immigration, settlement, exploration, Federation, urbanisation and contemporary Australia.

This year, our focus is going to be examining the impact of European settlement on the Australian landscape.

Competitions and exhibitions

We are regularly involved in a range of art competitions and exhibitions such as Top Arts and Top Designs, the Age School photography Award, the Catholic Education Office Annual Art Exhibition and the Silk Cut Award for Printmaking. Our students have regularly had work selected for these events and have been finalists in all of them. We see this as en essential aspect of celebrating the achievements of our students and promoting the good reputation of school in the public arena. Displaying art work in the broader community not only contributes positively to student's sense of self worth and confidence, but helps to establish links between classroom practice and the role of the Visual Arts in the local community.

Special Events

Our annual Visual Arts Exhibition, held on campus each November, showcases the talents of our students across years 7 -12 in all aspects of the Visual Arts.

Student Work

Visit our gallery of student work.

 

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