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"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows." Sydney J. Harris

CREATIVE MINDS: EMBRACING THE ARTS IN LEARNING

The Creative Minds forum, held at the National Portrait Gallery on 8 October 2010 explored the concepts of empathy, imagination, cultural citizenship, aesthetic education, educational theory and practice, and the value of high quality arts learning and encourage discussion on positioning creativity and the arts as a national education and research priority.  Creative Minds highlighted the key role arts education plays in the museum, school and lifelong learning environments.

The National Portrait Gallery is committed to arts rich inter-disciplinary learning and offers a unique perspective through portraiture and cultural narratives.

Recordings of the forum are available for free download from the iTunes store or you can download them here

Speakers:

Eileen Adams, Director, Power Drawing UK
Darren Brady, Field Officer Community Relations, Stronger Smarter Institute, Queensland University Of Technology, QLD
Richard Gill OAM, Music Director, Victorian Opera, VIC
Elizabeth Ann Macgregor, Director, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, NSW
Professor John O'Toole
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Chair of Arts Education, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, Melbourne University, VIC
Dr Barbara Piscitelli AM, Consultant and Research, Education and the Arts, QLD
Simon Spain, Creative Producer, Signal and ArtPlay, Melbourne, VIC

Panel:

Kim Carpenter, Artistic Director, Theatre of Image, Sydney, NSW
Pamela Clelland Gray, Manager Education and Visitor Services, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, ACT
Dr Jolanta Kalandyk-Gallagher, Convenor, Early Childhood Music Program, Australian National University, ACT
Ruth Osborne, Artistic Director, QL2 Centre for Youth Dance, Canberra, ACT
Hossein Valamanesh AM, Visual Artist, Adelaide, SA
Dr Margaret White, Director, Drawing Australia, Sydney, NSW

Dr John Yu AC 2003-4
by Ah Xian
Commissioned with funds provided by Marilyn Darling 2004

 This project has been made possible with funds donated by Tim Fairfax AM

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