Vibrant and diverse education programs
All school programs offered are designed by VIT registered art educators and are mapped to the Victorian and Australian curriculums. Our education programs are tailored for foundation through to VCE students.
Download our 2024 school programs overview
How to book a school program
Submit the Art Gallery school group booking request form to book one or more of our education programs.
Programs for VCE students
Creative Practice
Join us for a guided tour of the gallery and explore how artworks can be examined through structural, personal and cultural lenses. Discuss how these concepts apply to the work of contemporary artists. What do they tell us about the artist, the time and environment they are working in?
Unit 1: Interpreting Artworks and Exploring Creative Practice
Unit 2: Interpreting Artworks and Developing the Creative Practice
Unit 4: Interpreting, Resolving and Presenting Artworks and the Creative Practice
Making and Exhibiting
Join us for a guided tour of the gallery to explore how exhibitions are created from proposed themes to presentation and response. Why have the artworks on display been chosen? What are the connections between artworks? How have the curator and artist/s worked together to reflect their own ideas? How has the exhibition been crafted to convey meaning to an audience?
Unit 2: Understand, Develop and Resolve
Unit 3: Resolve – ideas, subject matter and style
Sculpture Walk
Join one of our art educators for a guided tour of the Deakin Burwood Campus Sculpture Walk – Collect, Extend and Connect. Explore artworks in the environment and discuss their inspiration and influences. This is an opportunity to experience outdoor public art and develop art folios.
Unit 3: Resolve – ideas, subject matter and style
Exhibition Practice
Join us for a guided tour of our current exhibition and learn about how the works have been collected, presented, conserved and cared for. Discuss curatorial themes, exhibition design, label writing, plus catalogue and promotional flyer marketing material. Explore how the artwork is collected and stored, and what career opportunities exist in the arts industry.
Unit 4: Consolidate, Present and Conserve
Foundation to Year 10 programs
Exhibition Tours and Workshops
Join us for an exhibition talk and workshop focused around our current exhibition. Groups can choose from a range of practical photography, drawing or iPad activities, or visual and creative thinking exercises. Session run times are 60 or 90 minutes.
Art Expedition! Guided Sculpture Walk
Join us for a guided sculpture walk and workshop focused around the sculptures featured on campus. Groups can choose to include practical drawing activities and/or visual and creative thinking exercises. Session run times are 60 or 90 minutes.
Book a foundation to Year 10 program
Foundation program
Art Safari!
Did you know we have a chimpanzee, a cat and a kangaroo on campus? Join one of our art educators as we go on safari to see what animals might be hiding on campus!
Downloadable education resources
Please find below downloadable education resources for primary, years 7 – 10 and VCE students.
Jumaadi: The Unaccounted Sea
Download the years 7-10 education resource for Jumaadi: The Unaccounted Sea Exhibition (PDF, 1.2MB)
Download the VCE education resource for Jumaadi: The Unaccounted Sea Exhibition (PDF, 1.5MB)
Deakin University Contemporary Small Sculpture Award
Contact us
For general enquiries, contact our Education and Public Programs Officer, Tabitha Davies. Tabitha can help tailor a program to meet your needs or to suit your schools' curriculum.
03 9244 6519
artgallery@deakin.edu.au