How COVID allows educators to creatively connect to the arts

See: https://www.monash.edu/education/teachspace/articles/how-covid-allows-educators-to-creatively-connect-to-the-arts

This article, featured in Monash University's TeachSpace archive, explores how pre-service teachers worked with artworks from the McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery to create activities for families, children and teachers. The activities were designed for use during lockdown and beyond.

Every child has the right to express through art and take part in creative and cultural activities. Art education activities – like our art@home project – enable participants, no matter their age or role, to have the opportunity to connect to local cultural institutions and our shared cultural history. Even in lock-down or during COVID restrictions, we can create links to our shared culture, even though we are apart. In turn, these new forms of shared learning, across universities, galleries, schools and families forge innovative ways for art education to flex with contemporary times.

Image (with permission)::The Winding Path Labyrinth by Simon Maddock [Minecraft animation] The artwork is Inspired by Labyrinth by Andrew Rogers, a sculpture at McClelland Sculpture Park and Gallery and material investigations from @ home art contexts.