SEPTEMBER
SEPTEMBER
The Zart Conference is hosted by proud Yankunyjatjara and Wirangu educator Shelley Ware.
With over 25 years experience as a primary school teacher, reading specialist and art teacher, Shelley works closely with Zart to embed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures and Histories, into our professional learning workshops and events.
The Zart Conference days begins with an Acknowledgment of Country. After this, Shelley will introduce the Keynote Speaker. After the presentation and Q&A, participants will take a short break, then join a live practical Workshop Session for the afternoon.
There are five practical workshop sessions to choose from each day, to be selected when booking. Each session comes with a Materials Kit which allows you to participate in real-time with your artist. Also included are downloadable resources written by Mariah Calman – so you can take the Conference back to the Classroom.
Once the workshop session concludes, sit back and listen to the End of Day Speaker to round off your day.
Join one of Australia’s leading First Nations artists to explore how visual storytelling fosters connection, respect, and cultural understanding in today’s diverse classrooms.
This workshop directs you to take simple objects or toys to make impression moulds from plasticine. These single part moulds will be used to transform these 3D objects into 2D plaster casts.
In this workshop, we will be creating a cardboard polyhedral mask. We will also be decorating these masks using the materials provided plus a mystery medium.
This hands-on session encourages play and reflection, inviting educators to explore how emerging technologies like AI can enhance, not replace, creative practice.
In this workshop you will create your own handmade textures and patterns from which to make collaged, diorama-inspired elements and motifs for your shrine that represent you and your creativity.
This session explores how presence, play, and process can unlock flow states and foster creative risk-taking.
Close your conference day with a burst of future-focused creativity led by internationally acclaimed new-media artist and technologist Jessie Hughes.
Explore how human-AI co-creativity is reshaping the future of art and design, highlighting emerging tools and interactions that expand our creative intelligence and empower new forms of expression in
This workshop delves into contemporary ink drawing and expressive mark-making. Explore washes, layering, scale and unconventional tools while embracing ink’s unruly nature.
Experience how AI can reduce planning time, differentiate instruction, and generate engaging visual resources—all while maintaining artistic integrity.
In this session, participants will explore how traditional collage, storytelling, and mark-making can sit comfortably alongside digital inspiration.
This workshop harnesses experimental mark-making, recycled tools and collective action to explore line, movement, space and tonal variation on an epic scale.
Join celebrated artist, author, and podcast host Tai Snaith in this engaging panel discussion with a selection of Australia’s most inspiring visual artists, educators and cultural leaders.
