Term 2 2022 Booking dates now available - and back-up plans if it all goes to custard !
ARTS EDUCATION FOR SCHOOLS
ANNOUNCING NEW CREATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR HOW WE CAN SUPPORT YOUR INQUIRY TOPICS THROUGH AN ARTS LENS DURING THESE COVID TIMES
The Corban Estate Arts Education Team has created a number of new ways to engage with you and your students during this challenging time. Take a look at how we can continue to support your learning outcomes whether onsite, off-site or online.
ON-SITE WORKSHOPS
Our usual delivery of 3 hour long hands-on arts activities onsite at Corban Estate Arts Centre.
OFF-SITE AT YOUR SCHOOL
Our team will arrive with all materials to deliver a creative learning activity.
Length and activity determined in consultation with school needs.
Can include syndicate / school-wide collaborative outcomes.
ONLINE REAL-TIME CLASSES
Real-time online learning on your School's preferred meeting platform (Zoom, Microsoft Team, Google Meet etc), reaching in-school and at-home learners.
VIDEO WORKSHOP CLASSES: Introducing 'Creative Kete', our exciting new pilot. A series of pre-recorded video learning modules packaged with all materials delivered to your door for a teacher-led supported creative workshop.
Please contact us to discuss your specific school requirements. We can meet by Zoom or in person, and design a solution that works for your needs and budget.
Email: education@ceac.org.nz or call Megan on (09) 8384455 x214 / 027 277 1367
ALL CEAC WORKSHOPS ARE DELIVERED ACCORDING TO THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND MINISTRY OF EDUCATION GUIDELINES.
WORKSHOPS FOR TERM 2 2022
MANU AUTE Age Range: YNE + Time: 3 hours (including 20 min break ) Capacity: Min. 23 - Max. 60 students Fee: $8.50 plus GST per student
To celebrate Matariki this year we will be making contemporary Manu Aute, to send our thanks, hopes and dreams for the Māori New Year up to Hiwa i te Rangi. The workshop will include traditional binding techniques such as the tukutuku stitch, and incorporate contemporary materials and colours. This will give each student the skills and opportunity to make their own version of a Manu aute. Patterns inspired by the Ngahere, and nature will adorn ō ātaahua Manu Aute, acknowledging the entwined connection between Māori cultural patterns and ngā whenua o Aotearoa.
RUAMOKO and the volcanic landscape of Tāmaki Makaurau Age Range: YNE + Time: 3 hours (including 20 min break ) Capacity: Min. 23 - Max. 60 students Fee: $8.50 plus GST per student
A creative response to story and science through the formation of our local landscape, a land of lava and strata. Starting in the darkness beneath Papatūānuku in the realm of Rūaumoko we will grind our own clay pigments. Each new art process will be revealed as part of the story interwoven with the geological formation of a volcanic landscape. Students will then create their own 3d collage landscape using a variety of paper art techniques. Young students will focus on the play and practicalities of making while older ones will be encouraged to develop skills with composition and balance. This workshop can be delivered site-specific at your school.
SOFT SCULPTURES Age Range: YNE + Time: 3 hours (including 20 min break ) Capacity: Min. 23 - Max. 60 students Fee: $8.50 plus GST per student
This workshop uses classical craft techniques in the construction of contemporary soft sculpture. Experimentation will be encouraged, and students will use their imagination to design and construct their own creature.
Sewing techniques including threading a needle, stitching a button and moulding fabric into shape. Students will also get practice with scissors, drawing, stuffing and moulding.
The skills in this workshop can be translated into different avenues of learning such as art, design and construction.
NATURE DETECTIVES Age Range: YNE+ Time: 3 hours (including 20 min break ) Capacity: Min. 23 - Max. 60 students Fee: $8.50 plus GST per student
This is a drawing workshop centred on the local natural environment. Students will learn about observational drawing as well as creative ways to utilise the senses to best experience and document nature. Searching for interesting things to draw will help students think about the plants in their own local places and better connect with the natural world around them. Knowing more about what flora grows around their own backyard shows how science, botany and the outdoors can overlap into art.
Each student will come away with their own nature journal booklet.
SURREALIST SKIES Age Range: YNE + Time: 3 hours (including 20 min break ) Capacity: Min. 23 - Max. 60 students Fee: $8.50 plus GST per student
In this workshop, students will learn about the surrealist art movement. They will create two unique images using watercolour techniques for a day and night sky. They will then make exquisite, collaged creatures to float within their skies. Lastly, they will collage a poetic title on their work using a technique created by the surrealist movement.
Surrealism unlocks creative imagination and encourages students to see that our unique brains can create the most magnificent outcomes out of very ordinary things.
CERAMIC STUDIO Age Range: YNE+ Time: 3 hours Capacity: Min. 23 students - Max. 60 Students Fee: $14.50 plus GST per student
In this hands-on clay class, students will design and shape their very own box, tile, or bowl. Pieces will be glazed and fired, making their vessels fully functional for everyday use.
Students will learn hand-building techniques and will decorate their ceramic project using two different clay colours.
Your term curriculum topic can easily be integrated into this workshop upon request.
FEATURE ARTIST WORKSHOPS
PRINCIPLES OF ABSTRACTION A MASTERCLASS WITH ARTIST MOLLY TIMMINS
Age Range: Y7- Y13 Time: 10am - 2pm (4 hours - including a 30 min lunch break) Capacity: Min. 20 - Max. 50 students Fee: $14.50 plus GST per student (tote bag included) Students will explore the process of abstract painting from the first mark on a canvas, to deciding when a painting is finished. Skills such as colour mixing and using composition to achieve balance and depth will be taught.
There will also be discussions around concept and personalisation in order to find their own unique voice when painting. Examples of contemporary painters will be used to start this discussion, as a way to showcase the different uses of abstraction across an array of art practices, and encourage the students to start thinking outside of ‘artist models’ and more towards how they can fit amongst the framework of contemporary New Zealand painting.
LET'S GET REAL A MASTERCLASS WITH ARTIST PENNY HOWARD
Age Range: Y7 - Y13 Time: 4 hours (including a 30 min break) Capacity: Min. 30 - Max. 50 students Fee: $14.50 plus GST per student A good overview of observational drawing in graphite. We will look at techniques for light, shade, rendering, and how to draw the different surfaces/textures in your chosen subject.
More than anything we will be learning to see!
Students will choose from an array of different images to create their own realistic graphite work on good quality drawing paper. The skills learnt in this class can be easily transferred into their own art practice.
PACIFICA EXPERIENCE WORKSHOPS
PACIFICA EXPERIENCE Age Range: Y NE -Y13 Time: 2 hours Capacity: Min. 23 - Max.50 students Fee: $8.50 plus GST per student
In this workshop, students learn how Pacifica music, songs and movements convey stories and pass on lessons of cultural identity and Pacifica protocols. Held at the Pacifica Arts Centre at Corban Estate and run by the Pacific Mamas, students will be introduced to musical instruments of the Pacific and learn drum patterns and dance movements. The Mamas will also teach students how to transform environmental or recycled resources into a colourful lei.
Please note: In-school delivery for this workshop is unavailable at this time.
Photo credit: Frank Sin
PACIFICA EXPERIENCE 2.0 Age Range: Y NE - 13 Time: 2 hours Capacity: Min. 23 - Max. 50 students Fee: $8.50 plus GST per student
If you have enjoyed Pacifica Experience - come to our Pacifica Experience 2.0!
Learn about Pacific migration, communication, oral traditions, geography, and social constructs, and how traditions have changed and adapted over time. The focus is around Pacific sound and movement. Elements include drum, chant and story-telling, dance and ukulele.
Please note: In-school delivery for this workshop is unavailable at this time.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
At Corban Estate Arts Centre we are serious about the arts and the role it plays in education. We believe in passing on knowledge and skills to anyone who is interested and that means adults as well as children and young people.
In our Professional Development capacity, we develop workshops to suit your team's needs - covering a wide range of skills from Māori visual arts to oil painting, printmaking, ceramics and mixed media.
We can deliver individual masterclasses, a series of sessions over the term, or once-a-month all year long. Our professional development programme is diverse and multi-dimensional, and will offer teachers the opportunity to explore and experiment with techniques, materials and a broad range of outcomes.
Contact us today to learn more and we can help design a programme around your team's professional development needs.
SECONDARY SCHOOL PROGRAMMES
In addition to our Primary School offerings, did you know we also provide customised programmes for Intermediate and High schools?
From a one-hour Gallery Tour to a full-day programme, we even can organise workshops with artists to match your curriculum needs. Extend technical knowledge with specialist artist workshops, or tour studios and talk with on-site practising artists.
Recent specialist workshops have included life-drawing classes, graffiti workshops, textile design and print, oil painting techniques, sculpture tours, and curator talks.
Let us knowhow we can help your students reach their goals today.
MORE INFO
SCHOOL VISITS AND CUSTOMISED BOOKINGS
If you are interested in finding out more about our Arts Education for Schools programme and would also like to share the information with all your fellow teachers please contact us to arrange a meeting at your school. We are happy to come to you to discuss what you are interested in and what we can offer to support you and your classroom topics.
To avoid mistakes, bookings can only be processed upon receipt of this completed booking form.
TEACHER'S PACKS
A Teacher Pack will be sent with your booking confirmation, including RAMS, information for accompanying adults, invoicing info and a map as required.
If you are organising a booking for several teachers at your school, please make sure to pass it on. It contains important information about your visit to Corban Estate Arts Centre.
MEET THE TEAM
MEGAN CARTER
Arts Education Manager
Megan has over 18 years experience across across the Arts sector as a producer, manager, and writer.
JEAN STEWART
Senior Arts Educator
Whaea Jean has maintained a painting practice for more than 15 years and recently exhibited at Corban Estate Art Centre's Homestead Galleries in the Shifting Landscapes exhibition.
MOLLY TIMMINS
Arts Educator
Whaea Molly is a practising artist specialising in painting and embroidery. She loves all types of art and is especially passionate about bringing creativity to the community.
PENNY HOWARD
Arts Educator
Whaea Penny is a practising artist with works in several private and public collections. Her primary arts focus lies in identity.
