Museum Season | The Polyphonic Sea
8 July – 8 October 2023
These learning experiences are informed by the 2023 Museum season, The Polyphonic Sea, and are connected to the ideas, themes and material practices of the artists and artworks.
Connections to languages spoken and unspoken are explored through the learning experiences. Communication in artmaking also connects the three learning experiences which build from a single word through sounds and phrases to a collective conversation.
Activities for Museum Season: The Polyphonic Sea
Spark Ideas (1 hour)
Learners explore and analyse artworks on display in the Art Museum. Consideration is given to the variety of artmaking practices, techniques utilised and colour, form and material themes evident. This art analysis will inform learners about their own artmaking in the connected suite of learning experiences.
Listen (2 hours)
Learning Intention: Listening (in the broadest sense of the word, as paying non-judgmental attention to worlds internal & external, real & imaginary, from the heart, etc.,) is fundamental to responding to and making art.
Activity: Learners will access the language(s) they know & use, responding directly to artworks in the museum space. Using drawing and painting techniques, learners will create a text -or symbol-based artwork that explores how meaning & messaging can be obscured, highlighted, revealed, or hidden.
Speak (3 hours)
Learning Intention: Art is an invitation to think about how we listen and what we listen to before we speak.
Activity: Learners will consider the sounds, shapes & forms around them to explore, describe & reinvent Bundanon in new ways. Using simple printmaking, stencilling, collage processes and recycled materials, learners interpret Bundanon’s landscape creating large format works. These works may include varied, personal symbolic representations of sound, language, writing and gesture. Learners can choose to resolve their works beyond the frame, transforming towards three dimensional possibilities.
Entwine (3 hours)
Learning Intention: Artists listen to their unspoken thoughts and feelings, creating diverse artworks.
Activity: Can air, earth, fire & water be considered as art elements? What can the natural world tell us? How do we communicate in response to, or collaborate with, the natural world as artists?
The ideas of the forest with its unseen mycelium networks inspires this art-making experience. This mixed-media workshop considers ecology as a model for art making. Students create their own woven interpretation of their individual thoughts and feelings of this place. The final piece is a collaborative installation of these works, interweaving the collective experience of being at Bundanon.
Two-night program includes:
9 hours of connected learning activities led by Bundanon’s specialist team
- Spark Ideas (1hr)
- Listen (2 hrs)
- Speak (3 hrs)
- Entwine (3 hrs)
All art materials for each of the above activities.
All activities tailored to the stage required.
Activities take place on the Art Museum site.
Time for students to connect and undertake continuous learning.
Learning in spaces designed to connect with the natural world.
Contemporary accommodation with linen and towel provided.
Healthy and fresh onsite catering from afternoon tea on day one through to lunch on day three.
Two nights provides opportunities to undertake:
- Bundanon’s optional extension activities, see below.
- Time for a deep dive into your own constructed learning.
Cost from $400 per person
One-night program includes:
6 hours of connected learning activities led by Bundanon’s specialist team
- Spark Ideas (1hr)
- Listen (2 hrs)
- Speak (3 hrs) OR Entwine (3 hrs)
All art materials for each of the above activities.
All activities tailored to the stage required.
Activities take place on the Art Museum site.
Time for students to connect and undertake continuous learning.
Learning in spaces designed to connect with the natural world.
Contemporary accommodation with linen and towel provided.
Healthy and fresh onsite catering from afternoon tea on day one through to lunch on day two.
One night provides opportunities to undertake:
- Bundanon’s optional extension activities, see below.
Cost from $210 per person
Day visit program includes:
3 hours of connected learning activities led by Bundanon’s specialist team
- Spark Ideas (1hr)
- Listen (2 hrs)
All art materials for each of the above activities.
All activities tailored to the stage required.
Activities take place on the Art Museum site.
Time for students to connect and undertake a day of continuous learning.
Cost from $25 per person
