Artist in Residence 2012
The Artist in Residence Initiative offers up to $25 000 per project to create opportunities for artists and teachers to work together. Initiatives will give artists an opportunity to broaden their experiences and share their skills, while providing NT Schools with greater exposure to the benefits of creative practice. The program will also create opportunities for artists and teachers to work together on developing effective teaching methods and practices for the arts. Projects can take place in Term 3 and 4 in 2012 and/or Term 1 and 2 in 2013.
The Australian Government has committed $5.2M over four years for the Creative Education Partnerships: Artist in Residence initiative (AIR). This initiative is informed by the National Education and the Arts Statement. Resulting of this commitment Arts NT, within the Department of Natural Resources, Environment, the Arts and Sport (NRETAS) is offering this opportunity in the Northern Territory in partnership with the Department of Education and Training (DET) and the Australia Council for the Arts. For more information on the national initiative visit the Australia Council for the Arts www.australiacouncil.gov.au/grants/artists_in_residence
Proposals for this initiative should focus on:
· a medium to long-term residency (minimum of one month);
· artistic collaborations between schools and arts organisations with shared priorities, such as at-risk youth, regional location/isolation, or creative facilities and resources;
· be staggered over two or more periods of engagement;
· incorporating where possible visits to local artists’ studios, art centres, galleries, museums, theatres and performances; and
· acting as a catalyst for school engagement in wider community-based activities e.g. festivals and events, site-specific works, performances, publications and exhibitions of children’s work, creative classes and workshops for parents and families.
Funding Limit: up to $25 000 per project
Apply Online: http://nretasgrants.nt.gov.au
Closing Date: 18 June 2012
Notification Date: 25 July 2012
For details on eligibility, program objectives and assessment criteria download the Artist in Residence Factsheet (pdf 308Kb).
Performing Arts Skills Development
Residency with Ba-Boom artists to teach students ensemble percussion with a view to expand, develop, enhance and raise their levels of performance; and with a focus on the giving public performances.
Digital Media Skills Development
Support is offered for a residency with a multi disciplinary artist to explore and define how beauty is perceived by the community. Initially through digital art making processes using cameras with discussion and excursions followed by an emphasis on production, filming and editing of the film component using computers.
Circus in Residence with Psycus Circus
Support is offered for performers to engage students from Barkly College middle school (grades 7-9) in a social activity which promotes learning, leadership and health; utilising circus/performing arts as a tool of empowerment and to build capacity for students and educators.
Ceramics Design and Fine Arts Production
The residency is delivering a series of workshops by Hermannsburg Potters to students at Ntaria middle school (9-12 years) to assist in the development of the arts curriculum with an emphasis on ceramics design and production for commercial application.
InCite/Acacia Disability Performing Arts Project (Phase 2)
Students and teachers of Acacia Hill School and local artists will work with guest artist, dance practitioner and mentor Kat Worth (Restless Dance Theatre) to facilitate an innovative performing arts program during 2011. The program will provide opportunities for engagement, social inclusion, skills and performing arts development for about 50 students with a disability attending the school.
Media Design, Production, Analysis & Community Presentation
Millner Primary School’s ‘Family Group’ class and two year 5/6 classes will work with animator Al Oldfield (Mary and Max) and digital artist, print maker and multimedia developer Michael Roseth in the process of media design, production and analysis and community presentation. Students will use Photoshop Elements to create mixed media images, Stop Motion Pro to capture and create animations, and Premier to put images and animations together in the form of a short film.
Partnerships to Strengthen and Maintain Traditional Artistic Practices
Students, teachers and the communities of Angurugu, Umbakumba, Milyakburra (Bickerton Island) and Alyangula Area schools will work with recognised traditional Groote Eylandt archipelago artists/owners Alfred Lalara, Murabuda Wurramarrba, Jabani Lalara, Joaz Wurramara, Hilda Wurrawilya and others in traditional artistic practices including depictions of different family totems, culminating a showcase at the community festival held at the Anindilyakwa Arts and Cultural Centre.
Dizzy Doolan in Residence at Jilkminggan Community School
Students and teachers of Jilkminggan Primary School situated in Mangarrayi country on Elsey Station south of Katherine will work with Indigenous hip hop writer and performer from Queensland Dizzy Doolan and hip hop artist Geoffrey Grand. Dizzy will work with students and teachers on writing and performing hip hop, poetry and songs.
The Keep Our Culture Strong
The project will give Indigenous students a greater understanding of their Tiwi culture and language through teachings and intergenerational knowledge transmission by senior Tiwi artists, and provide professional development for artists, teachers and the art centre managers.
Ceramic Tile Mural Project
The residency will see the development of a ceramic tile mural as a public art feature with reference to Arrernte motifs and designs for plants and landscape features. Indigenous students will learn skills and intergenerational knowledge from senior artists in research, botanical observations, drawing and pottery techniques and access to public art sites in Central Australia.
Phillip Gwyne in Residence
Published Victorian writer for young adults provided creative writing and screen/script writing workshops for Indigenous and non Indigenous students in East Arnhem schools and strengthened educational relationships with the NT Writers Centre in the East Arnhem region.
The following projects funded under Stream 1 were aligned with the Artists in Schools Program in 2009/2010, which was supported by the Australia COuncil for the Arts. For more information on the current Artists in Schools Program visit www.det.nt.gov.au/grants/funding/general/artists-in-schools
Performing Arts Scoping Project
This residency will develop a model for teaching skills in choreography and performance with public performance outcomes for students and artists, working with middle school students.
Angurugu Mural Residency
Indigenous (Anindilyakwan) artists will engage with students referencing their symbolic totemic culture and designing with the students new murals with arts, cultural and language including a narrated video.
The Path to Learning at Belyuen School
A residency developing skills in storytelling and illustration with young Indigenous students, creating mosaics for a new path to the central play area of the Early Childhood and Preschool areas.
My Story My Song: Gateways Girls' Song Writing Workshops
This residency with middle year female Indigenous students will develop team work, literacy and engagement and experience in the professional music industry and to create and record original recording and showcase performance documented in CD's and booklets.
Turning the Tables
Empowering teens through Hip Hop will offer middle year male Indigenous students to develop team work, literacy and engagement and experience in the professional music industry and to create and record original music documented in CD's and booklets.
Japanese Woodblock and Calligraphy
Support is offered for a residency with senior students to gain professional interaction, confidence with new media and develop new skills in woodblock printing and understandings of traditional art using digital technology.
Smells Like Impulse
A residency for senior drama students learning theatrical/production/performance skills in producing and presenting playwright Stephen Carlton's original play at public performances including at the Darwin Entertainment Centre.
Front Entrance Mural (Part 2) Residency
Artists are going to teach new craft, design and collaborative skills to students with disabilities resulting in showcasing Henbury Avenue Special School and the creation of a new mural.
Nativity Scene Book Illustration
This residency will give students design and creative skills, and to build team work.
Celebrating Sustainability: Patterns and Pathways to the Future
A residency with artists to impart to students understandings of excellence in design, pattern and colour; research skills and knowledge of Indigenous art and the natural environment and to develop new techniques in clay hand building, surface decoration techniques, clay glazing and firing principles.
Group schools project with Darwin, Tamimin, Katherine and Tennant Creek High Schools, Casuarina Secondary College and Centralian Senior Secondary College
Past and Present: Polymer Etching and Print Making is a residency to revitalise etching processes in Schools and to give skills in hybridisation of digital techniques using photo based techniques that utilise the natural environmental subject matter from capture to print for teachers and students.
Movement and Dance
Support is offered for a residency to give new movement and dance skills for teachers and parents to teach and support special needs students.
Sculpture with a Point
Students will develop skills in management, processes, design, visual arts and documentation in developing a public sculpture project involving students and teachers.