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

By combining the roles of both teacher and community artist Jeanette Jennings, students learn beyond the usual boundaries. She has worked closely with community groups and local authorities over the past decade to produce many public works of art, often involving as many as 1,200 participants. Two of these projects are included in this documentary: A History Pathway along the Yarra River, which tells the history of the gold rush period, and the creation of a public art space in a busy shopping centre, involving local schools, community and business groups.

This rich resource offers 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 communal areas.

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.

Other titles in the series:

Creative communities: environment
Creative communities: classroom – in production
Creative communities: an overview – in production

Creative communities: series of 4

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