Page 43 - Annual Review 2008

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In 2008 the Children’s Art Centre presented interactive
displays and artist projects, artist-run workshops,
publications, touring activities and a dedicated festival.
This year also commemorated ten years of innovative
children's programs by the Gallery.
Several artists in ‘Contemporary Australia: Optimism’
collaborated with Gallery staff to create new activities
for kids, specifically related to the ideas behind the
exhibition and their practices.
Also during 2008, the Centre developed major
programs for the exhibitions ‘Andy Warhol’ and
‘Picasso & his collection’. Tours for Kids and Toddler
Tuesday focused on the Collection all through the year.
The Gallery worked with local artists to create monthly
workshops for the Sunday at the Gallery program, and
to present special winter and spring holiday workshops.
The Centre also contributed tours and workshops to
the 2008 Out of the Box Festival.
A Summer Festival is staged each year, with a special
day of festival activities presented simultaneously in
regional Queensland communities.
The Children’s Art Centre is sponsored by Santos Ltd.
Left: Children try out the DJ booths in the Contemporary Media Lounge as part of the
Children’s Art Centre during ‘Picasso & his collection’. Photograph: Ray Fulton
Top: Specially designed interactive tours for kids engage children and families. This group
visited ‘Sidney Nolan: A New Retrospective’, an exhibition organised by the Art Gallery of New
South Wales and shown at the Queensland Art Gallery. Photograph: Ray Fulton
HighlightsDuring ‘Andy Warhol’, the Centre became the
Silver Factory: Andy Warhol for Kids. The Factory
showed some of Warhol’s art works with special
appeal for kids, including a large-scale
installation of Silver Clouds 1966. Visitors could
create their own screen test or a Warhol-style
photobooth portrait.
More than 71 000 people attended the 11-day
Andy Warhol Summer Festival in January 2008;
there were 60 workshops, 44 performances, 22
cinema screenings, 16 artist talks, 11 storytelling
sessions and 12 quiz shows.
More than 2700 people attended the Summer
Festival – Queensland, a one-day Andy Warhol
event for children and families at 24 regional
Queensland venues.
During ‘Picasso & his collection’, art-making
activities introduced kids to Picasso, his ideas
and his passion for collecting.
2426 students, including 702 regional students,
attended I Art History talks during ‘Picasso
& his collection’; local academics, artists, arts
professionals and Gallery staff contextualised
Picasso’s work for secondary school students.