This 5 week exhibition showcases childrens artwork purchased by the Northern Children's Network with commentary from childrens art expert Professor Susan Wright.
Where: NEW Gallery, Newnham Campus, Launceston
Exhibition opening: 6.00pm
Free Public Lecture: 6.30pm
Professor Susan Wright - Chair of Arts Education
Susan Wright is Chair of Arts Education in the Melbourne Graduate School of Education at the University of Melbourne. Prior to this appointment, she was Professor and Head of Early Childhood and Special Needs Education at the National Institute of Education (NIE) in Singapore. Professor Susan Wright has an extensive arts education background, with particular expertise in early childhood education.
Susan’s teaching and research foci are on young children’s learning, with a particular interest in the mediating tools of the arts, children’s meaning-making and voice using artistic symbol systems and arts pedagogy and developmental semiotics. Professor Wright has been an active researcher throughout her academic career, attracting 33 competitive research grants. She collaborated through NIE on the development of an arts-based experiential kindergarten, which opened in 2010.
She has published six books selling more than 25,000 copies worldwide. Several of her publications are prescribed reading in arts education courses internationally.