Cowra Teacher Engagement, Wiradjuri Country, NSW

Next date: Friday, 01 May 2026 | 10:00 AM to 04:00 PM

Join National Gallery artist educators for a full-day professional learning program at Cowra Regional Gallery, NSW.

The program includes creative learning strategies to use when engaging with works from the national collection, with a special focus on the touring exhibition Olive Cotton and Her Contemporaries.

This session is open to early learning, primary, secondary and tertiary educators, and other youth and arts professionals.

National Gallery artist educators will outline the Gallery's Creative Learning Approach to engaging with works of art, using open ended creative learning strategies that centre the artist’s voice. We will invite participants to share stories and ideas through an inquiry-led approach. This approach is designed to support learners to make personal connections with works of art and reflect on our own lived experiences of the world.

This program focuses on works by photographer Olive Cotton, considering themes of light and the female gaze. Experimenting in the gallery and studio, participants will workshop a range of learning strategies using sound, movement and tactile responses.

Educators can continue these strategies in their classrooms, supported by the Olive Cotton: Drawing with Light learning resource and through the Ideas: the Photographic Artist online workshop program.

A verifiable digital certificate will be delivered to each attendee with 6 continuing professional development (CPD) hours.

This program includes:
     • Full day teacher engagement
     • Verified certificate
     • Olive Cotton Learning Resource

For information on accessing the venue, contact Cowra Regional Art Gallery at cowraartgallery@cowra.nsw.gov.au or on 6340 219.

For all other enquiries about the workshop contact the National Gallery of Australia at outreach@nga.gov.au

ADMISSION FREE
AGES: Adults (early learning, primary, secondary and tertiary educators, and other youth and arts professionals)

BOOK NOW through the National Gallery of Australia website

This event is part of the National Gallery of Australia’s touring exhibition Olive Cotton and her contemporaries, presented at Cowra Regional Art Gallery. These programs are generously funded by the Bowness Family Foundation.

Find out more about Olive Cotton and her contemporaries.

Olive Cotton and her contemporaries is a National Gallery Touring Exhibition presented as part of The Bowness Family Foundation Photography Touring Program.

IMAGE ABOVE Olive Cotton, Orchestration in light, 1937, National Gallery of Australia, Kamberri/Canberra, purchased with assistance from the Helen Ennis Fund

 

 

  

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Nguluway Room, Cowra Regional Art Gallery, 77 Darling Street Cowra, 2794, View Map