Join us for our very first welcome day event exclusively for early childhood teachers and educators. We invite you to engage with contemporary art, exchange ideas with colleagues and join MCA Artist Educators for interactive gallery tours and artmaking experiences in our National Centre for Creative Learning, all while celebrating the voices of young children, families and teachers within cultural organisations and beyond.
What to expect on the day
- Introduction to early learning at the MCA
- Insight into the MCA’s Creative Learning Manifesto and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Learning Framework
- Presentation sharing preliminary findings from the Art & Wonder: Young Children and Contemporary Art research project and introduction of the Art & Wonder publication
- Develop new ideas for responding to contemporary art with young children
- Experiment with artmaking ideas, processes and materials
- Visit MCA exhibitions
- Connect with new people and collaborate with colleagues
Who can attend?
This event is open to all tertiary early childhood education students, early childhood teachers and educators, centre directors, artists, policymakers, researchers and those who advocate for all young children to have access to creative learning experiences.