Only Three Days to GO until IMAGinE night

With only three days to go until the fourth annual IMAGinE awards things are certainly hotting up. The delicacies are ordered, the wine is cooling, everyone has figured out what frock they're wearing, and, most importantly, the nominees are awaiting breathlessly for the judges' results.

As well as the awards night we are also running a day of workshops, presentations and seminars on marketing and tourism at the Australian Museum. Called Talk the Talk, this is an unmissable event if you want to hone that digital strategy or get more punters through the door.

This Friday will certainly be a day and night to remember!

If you wish to register for the IMAGinE awards night or attend Talk the Talk during the day then click here.

But without further ado we know why you're here. And the nominees for Education and Audience Development in alphabetical order are . . .

Albury Art Gallery

Meet the Maker is a monthly program profiling regional established and emerging artists in retail. It offers the public the opportunity to understand the total creative process. The program presents unique opportunity for artists to communicate their craft to the public, to generate income from their art practice and fulfill the public’s curiosity about the professional expertise required in producing handmade objects. This program has initially fostered relationships between regional artists, the community and the Albury Art Gallery. Over the longer term, the retail products will become synonymous with the Gallery shop and support strong relationships between the Gallery and the artist.

Art Gallery of NSW

Open Weekend: art+soul. For the past three years, the AGNSW has hosted an annual Open Weekend that celebrates a particular collection area. The 2010 Open Weekend (held over the 2010 October long weekend) focused on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and was one of the Gallery's most intensive and rewarding programs. The weekend celebrated art + soul, which is the title of a major exhibition of Indigenous art at the Gallery, the corresponding comprehensive catalogue, and the ground-breaking three-part ABC documentary series written and presented by Hetti Perkins, Senior Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, and directed by award winning filmmaker Warwick Thornton. This landmark Open Weekend brought together 60 Indigenous artists, writers, musicians, performers and academics from all around Australia, many who featured in the exhibition and TV series.

Campbelltown Arts Centre

Edge of Elsewhere engages communities across Sydney to develop and produce a series of contemporary art projects in partnership with artists. Developed through an open-ended curatorial structure, the project is conceived not only within the framework of geography—that being greater Sydney, with a particular focus on suburban Western Sydney and Sydney’s Chinatown district—but also through the cultural demographic of these particular places. Edge of Elsewhere has emerged from a strong history of community engaged practice that Campbelltown Arts Centre has developed through continuing to test new models of engagement between contemporary artists and communities. Through this experience and ongoing commitment, Campbelltown Arts Centre has identified that if long-term relationships between communities and artists can be sustained, the significance of the outcomes and level of innovation in the work produced in such contexts extends exponentially.

MINTO:LIVE was a large-scale site-specific performance event presented as part of 2011 Sydney Festival in Minto. The event brought together national and international artists to work in collaboration with the residents of Minto to create eight new performance works that reflected and celebrated the stories and experiences of Minto residents. The event ran for three-days and was presented in the form of a walking tour, with local volunteer ushers who accompanied the audience through public and private housing estates to experience contemporary theatre, dance, song and film.

Chifley Home

The Chifley Home Education Centre has been purposely designed and constructed in the house adjoining Chifley Home which was purchased by Bathurst Regional Council in 2008 with the intention of developing an Education / Interpretative Centre to support the Chifley Home museum and its significant collection. The development of the new Centre has been assisted by grant money from the Commonwealth and NSW State Governments together with continued financial support by Bathurst Regional Council. Its aim was to enhance and engage a broader visitor audience to Chifley Home whilst not comprising the integrity and intactness of the house museum and its original collection.

Goulburn Regional Art Gallery

As part of the exhibition GW Bot: the long paddock A 30 YEAR SURVEY an education kit was designed to enhance student engagement with the exhibition and provide vital ideas for teachers in developing theoretical understanding and practical artmaking experiences. The education kit is a comprehensive resource for preschool, primary school and high school students and contains information about the artist that is informative to the general public or anyone interested in learning more about GW Bot and printmaking.

Grafton Regional Gallery

The Postcard Station project was produced by Grafton Regional Gallery in conjunction with the Friends of Grafton Gallery FOGG to celebrate International Museum Day 2011. The Postcard Station project was a community out reach arts project completed at multiple venues across the Clarence Valley. Each Postcard Station was equipped with blank postcards and a selection of materials to create a unique postcard. Finished postcards were ‘posted’ in the Postcard Station mailbox. At the completion of the project every participant was mailed a randomly selected postcard created by another participant. If you made a postcard you received another in the mail! 

Powerhouse Museum

Reveal is a Museum trail where visitors uncovered small, fictional yet empathetic stories about museum objects by children’s author, Morris Gleitzman. The trail is a series of texts, written in invisible ink in dimly lit places adjacent to a featured object and can only be revealed by a black light torch. Reveal was the basis of a successful holiday program, an associated Sydney Writers Festival Event – Writer Overnighter and now part of the Museum's regular offer. Reveal incorporated hand-made puppets in the vicinity of each object, an illustrated print trail, three writing stations for visitor responses and a journey throughout the museum. As a children’s program it hit the intergenerational sweet spot proving popular with all the family members.

Tocal Homestead

"Tales of Tocal - The Mystery in The Creek" built on the success of "Tales of Tocal" dinner theatre at Tocal Homestead in 2008 and 2009. The true story of the discovery of a headless body in a creek on the Tocal property in November 1874 was retold through audience encounters with characters around the farm. The audience made their way around the buildings and grounds at twilight before enjoying dinner in the re-used hayshed. This project was to build a new audience for this site and in that regard well exceeded expectations.

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