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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Applications for the school workshops are now open.

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

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Enquiries

Operation Art
The Arts Unit
[email protected]
Heidi Windeisen
Operation Art Project Officer
The Arts Unit
[email protected]
02 8512 1195

2025 workshops

Please use the links below to apply for the school workshops.

Cowra Public School – CLOSED
82 Brisbane Street, Cowra NSW 2794
9 am – 2:30 pm

  • Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2) Tuesday 6 May 2025 FULL
  • Stage 2 (Years 3 and 4) Wednesday 7 May 2025 FULL
  • Stage 3 (Years 5 and 6) Thursday 8 May 2025 FULL

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

Fairfield City Museum and Gallery – OPEN
634 The Horsley Dr, Smithfield NSW 2164
9 am – 2:30 pm

Singleton Arts and Culture Centre – OPEN
23 Maitland Road, Singleton NSW 2330
9 am – 2:30 pm

Tamworth Regional Gallery – OPEN
466 Peel St, Tamworth NSW 2340
9 am – 2:30 pm

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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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Workshop promo

Operation Art painting workshop

Duration: 16:53

Operation Art offers a series of practical workshops presented by specialist visual arts tutors. These 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. Schools are not required to send a teacher to supervise their students.

Video transcript – Operation Art painting workshop
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Related digital resources

Ways to explore art in your classroom

Creative Resource Visual arts
Teachers
This series of lessons include recommendations for artist studies and step by step instructions on how to create artworks in your classroom. 

Operation Art artmaking

Art Bites Visual arts
Years 3 to 8
A series of artmaking video workshops using mixed media and everyday objects.
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All Arts Unit programs are inclusive. If support is required to participate in the Operation Art student workshops, please email [email protected] so that we can assist.