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RESOURCES
Enhance your educational experience of the MCA with a range of resource materials.
MCA LIBRARY
The MCA Library provides access to information of art specialists and researchers, students and MCA members.
Secondary Programs (Years 7 – 12)
The MCA is the ideal learning destination, with theoretical and practical exhibition-linked programs connecting to the NSW Visual Arts syllabus. The program details and exhibition focus can be tailored to the suit class requirements and other subject areas.
ART AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Explore how artists engage with the environment and act as agents for social change. View In the Balance: Art for a Changing World and investigate contemporary art concerned with sustainability, community engagement, urban regeneration and fossil fuels and their alternatives.
LEVEL: Years 9 – 12
YEAR 12 EXAM REVISION MORNINGS
Join an Art Educator for a morning of revision in preparation for the HSC Visual Arts Exam. Refine your Section 1 exam techniques by responding to artworks in the current exhibition program. Bring a pencil and your VAPD.
DATES: Earlybird session Sunday 24 October (BOOKED OUT), Cram session Saturday 30 October (BOOKED OUT)
TIME: 10.30am-12.30pm
COST: $15/$12 members
BOOKED OUT
Ongoing Secondary Programs
90-minute programs with exhibition viewings and syllabus-linked discussion to engage students. Programs can be combined or tailored to suit class needs and year level.
Explore contemporary art through art making and discussion. An ideal introduction for students beginning their art studies or from a non-art background.
LEVEL: Years 7 – 12
POSTMODERNISM
Investigate artists’ use of appropriation, irony and the way they challenge patterns of authority
and call into question art world systems.
LEVEL: Year 11 & 12
THE ROLE Of THE CONTEMPORARY MUSEUM – ARTIST/ARTWORK/AUDIENCE/WORLD
Use the MCA as a case study to examine the place of museums in contemporary culture, looking at the role of collections, exhibitions, artists, curators, critics and audiences.
LEVEL: Year 10 - 12
ARTIST’S PRACTICE
Examine the diversity of artists’ practices, methods, techniques and thematic perspectives across the current season of exhibitions.
LEVEL: Year 7 - 12
ANALYSING VISUAL TEXTS – (ENGLISH AND VISUAL ARTS)
A challenging and revealing program introducing methods to ‘unpack’ and interpret visual texts in the spring season of exhibitions.
LEVEL: Year 11 & 12
60 minute program: $100 per 15 students or less (GST-free)
90 minute program: $130 per 15 students or less (GST-free)
120 minute program: $180 per 15 students or less (GST-free)
Member and Sydney Morning Herald subscriber schools: 10% discount
PSFP and CAP schools: 20% discount
Cost includes all art materials for practical programs unless otherwise stated. Teachers, carers and aides are free.
WANT TO TAILOR YOUR PROGRAM?
Contact MCA Learning to create your own unique visit to the MCA.
MCA LEARNING BOOKING AND CANCELLATION POLICY
Please confirm your booking at least one (1) week prior to your visit.
MCA Learning advises that cancellations received less than three (3) working days before your intended MCA Educator-led visit will still be charged for in full.
For Educator-led sessions, MCA will invoice you after your visit.
For pre-paid bookings, the MCA does not offer refunds if fewer attend on the day.
generationext
Supported by the Balnaves Foundation
Connect your students with contemporary art and culture through FREE after-hours events for
teenagers, linked to MCA exhibitions. generationext is supervised by MCA Learning staff and designed with input from the generationext Youth Committee, with a unique, ‘no teachers. no parents’ tagline.
The Spring edition of generationext includes four floors of contemporary art, live music by school-aged peers, art-based competitions, food and mocktails.
generationext. talk art. eat food. listen to live music. no teachers. no parents.
Sunday 5 September, 6.00 - 8.00pm
FREE EVENT
RSVP essential by Saturday 4 September to 02 9241 7196 or generationext@mca.com.au
The MCA is the ideal learning destination, with theoretical and practical exhibition-linked programs connecting to the NSW Visual Arts syllabus. The program details and exhibition focus can be tailored to the suit class requirements and other subject areas.
ART AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Explore how artists engage with the environment and act as agents for social change. View In the Balance: Art for a Changing World and investigate contemporary art concerned with sustainability, community engagement, urban regeneration and fossil fuels and their alternatives.
LEVEL: Years 9 – 12
YEAR 12 EXAM REVISION MORNINGS
Join an Art Educator for a morning of revision in preparation for the HSC Visual Arts Exam. Refine your Section 1 exam techniques by responding to artworks in the current exhibition program. Bring a pencil and your VAPD.
DATES: Earlybird session Sunday 24 October (BOOKED OUT), Cram session Saturday 30 October (BOOKED OUT)
TIME: 10.30am-12.30pm
COST: $15/$12 members
BOOKED OUT
Ongoing Secondary Programs
90-minute programs with exhibition viewings and syllabus-linked discussion to engage students. Programs can be combined or tailored to suit class needs and year level.
BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO CONTEMPORARY ART
Explore contemporary art through art making and discussion. An ideal introduction for students beginning their art studies or from a non-art background.
LEVEL: Years 7 – 12
POSTMODERNISM
Investigate artists’ use of appropriation, irony and the way they challenge patterns of authority
and call into question art world systems.
LEVEL: Year 11 & 12
THE ROLE Of THE CONTEMPORARY MUSEUM – ARTIST/ARTWORK/AUDIENCE/WORLD
Use the MCA as a case study to examine the place of museums in contemporary culture, looking at the role of collections, exhibitions, artists, curators, critics and audiences.
LEVEL: Year 10 - 12
ARTIST’S PRACTICE
Examine the diversity of artists’ practices, methods, techniques and thematic perspectives across the current season of exhibitions.
LEVEL: Year 7 - 12
ANALYSING VISUAL TEXTS – (ENGLISH AND VISUAL ARTS)
A challenging and revealing program introducing methods to ‘unpack’ and interpret visual texts in the spring season of exhibitions.
LEVEL: Year 11 & 12
Costs
60 minute program: $100 per 15 students or less (GST-free)
90 minute program: $130 per 15 students or less (GST-free)
120 minute program: $180 per 15 students or less (GST-free)
Member and Sydney Morning Herald subscriber schools: 10% discount
PSFP and CAP schools: 20% discount
Cost includes all art materials for practical programs unless otherwise stated. Teachers, carers and aides are free.
WANT TO TAILOR YOUR PROGRAM?
Contact MCA Learning to create your own unique visit to the MCA.
MCA LEARNING BOOKING AND CANCELLATION POLICY
Please confirm your booking at least one (1) week prior to your visit.
MCA Learning advises that cancellations received less than three (3) working days before your intended MCA Educator-led visit will still be charged for in full.
For Educator-led sessions, MCA will invoice you after your visit.
For pre-paid bookings, the MCA does not offer refunds if fewer attend on the day.
generationext
Supported by the Balnaves Foundation
Connect your students with contemporary art and culture through FREE after-hours events for
teenagers, linked to MCA exhibitions. generationext is supervised by MCA Learning staff and designed with input from the generationext Youth Committee, with a unique, ‘no teachers. no parents’ tagline.
The Spring edition of generationext includes four floors of contemporary art, live music by school-aged peers, art-based competitions, food and mocktails.
generationext. talk art. eat food. listen to live music. no teachers. no parents.
Sunday 5 September, 6.00 - 8.00pm
FREE EVENT
RSVP essential by Saturday 4 September to 02 9241 7196 or generationext@mca.com.au
