Operation Art student workshops

Kindergarten to Year 6

Students spend a whole day making, creating and learning new visual arts skills. Workshops cover a variety of different topic areas, including drawing, painting, printing, mixed media and sculpture.

Delivered by specialist visual arts teachers, these full-day workshops are designed to extend participants' skills and artmaking experiences beyond the classroom. Students who display a higher level of engagement in visual arts will benefit from these challenging opportunities.

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Workshop dates for 2026 will be advertised in January. Locations are listed below.

Please be sure to register as a contact teacher before advertising the workshops to your students.

2026 workshops

Ngununggula Regional Art Gallery
1 Art Gallery Lane, Bowral NSW 2756
9 am – 2:30 pm

Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2)
Stage 2 (Years 3 and 4)
Stage 3 (Years 5 and 6)

Art Space Gallery – The Concourse
409 Victoria Ave, Chatswood NSW 2067
9 am – 2:30 pm

Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2)
Stage 2 (Years 3 and 4)
Stage 3 (Years 5 and 6)

Glasshouse Regional Gallery
32 Clarence St, Port Macquarie NSW 2444
9 am – 2:30 pm

Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2)
Stage 2 (Years 3 and 4)
Stage 3 (Years 5 and 6)

Maitland Regional Art Gallery
230 High St, Maitland NSW 2320
9 am – 2:30 pm

Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2)
Stage 2 (Years 3 and 4)
Stage 3 (Years 5 and 6)

Leeton Museum and Art Gallery
27–33 Chelmsford Pl, Leeton NSW 2705
9 am – 2:30 pm

Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2)
Stage 2 (Years 3 and 4)
Stage 3 (Years 5 and 6)

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Workshop outcomes

Workshops will address the following visual arts outcomes for each relevant stage:

Stage 1 outcomes

VAS1.1 – Makes artworks in a particular way about experiences of real and imaginary things.
VAES1.2 – Experiments with a range of media in selected forms.
VAS1.3 – Realises what artists do, who they are and what they make.

Stage 2 outcomes

VAS2.2 – Uses the forms to suggest the qualities of subject matter.
VAS2.4 – Identifies connections between subject matter in artworks and what they refer to and appreciates the use of particular techniques.

Stage 3 outcomes

VAS3.1 – Investigates subject matter in an attempt to represent likenesses of things in the world.
VAS3.2 – Makes artworks for different audiences assembling materials in a variety of ways.
VAS3.4 – Communicates about the ways in which subject matter is represented in artworks.

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