Creative communities: environment
Teaching a contemporary curriculum
available online at http://www.artfilms.com.au

By combining the roles of teacher and community artist Jeanette Jennings, students learn beyond the usual boundaries. These rich resources offer teachers and art educators in the broadest sense of the word the opportunity to take their students' work to another level; from curriculum-based examples to public works that can be installed on school grounds or wider community places. The film documentation and supplementary CD-ROM provide teaching programs for individual drawing projects, printmaking and painting units, ceramic projects and other collaborative works.

Jeanette Jennings is a passionate advocate for public and community art, especially with regard to its integration into school arts education. She has a degree in fine arts, majoring in sculpture and ceramics, and a teaching degree teaching and working with children and adults at all levels and community groups. Jeanette has made her mark in teacher education by lecturing at the University of Melbourne, conducting workshops for teachers through Art Education Victoria and presenting at international conferences.

This film offers three examples of art projects that draw inspiration from different areas of the curriculum, such as literature, history and science.
DVD and CD ROM

Other titles in the series:

Creative communities: public spaces
Creative communities: classroom – in production
Creative communities: an overview – in production

Creative communities: series of 4

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