ARTS IN THE OPEN

ARTS IN THE OPEN – Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne

Arts in the Open provides an informal opportunity for all Visual Arts Department staff and students to come together for a day out in the sun to collect visual information. Works will be further developed in consultation with relevant staff once back in the studio. The final works will be shown in an exhibition at the A Space Gallery Preston campus.

Excursion

• Thursday 11^th March 2010 10:00am – 3:00pm.
  

• Please meet at 10:00am outside the Observatory Cafe. Nearest tram stop is opposite the military barracks on St Kilda road. BYO picnic lunch or purchase it from the café on site. Please be advised that if it is raining we will meet inside the Observatory.
  

Things to do on the day…

• Make studies / sketch on location. Collect as much reference material as possible. Use a viewfinder (stiff card with a cut out of the centre) if you like.
  

• You may wish to bring a variety of media to use in your journal including, watercolour, gouache, coloured pencils, pastels, markers, graphite and charcoal, chalk etc.
  
• Take photographs.
  

• Bring collected resources to the following class.
  

Exhibition

• All Visual Arts, Illustration, Cert IV in Design, Photoimaging and Graphic Design students will participate in the show.
  
• Final works are to be submitted for exhibition at A Space Preston no later than Monday 17^th May. It will need to be dry or 'fixed' ready to hang or pin to the wall.
  

• Opening night is Thursday 27^th May at 4pm. The exhibition will run until Friday 16^th July.
  

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