Visit the gallery and learn about both traditional and contemporary art through an engaging tour pitched to the year level of your students. Talk to an Education Officer about addressing a theme your students may be studying such as: identity, landscape, portraiture, colour, environment, Australian history, culture or one of your choices.

This tour is usually 1 hour in length but can be extended to accommodate a worksheet or drawing activity. Feel free to discuss your needs with an Education Officer.

This program introduces students to exhibitions at both Bendigo Art Gallery and La Trobe Art Institute providing ideal stimuli for folio themes, artist study and exhibitions. Resources will be provided giving insight into curatorial considerations related to the display of specific artworks in exhibitions and exhibition viewing. Teachers can value add to their day by planning to visit exhibitions at alternative  art spaces in Bendigo such as Chancery Lane and Pennyweight Walk with its display of commissioned public artworks.

In conjunction with the forthcoming exhibition Josh Muir: What's on your Mind?  Bendigo Art Gallery is partnering with Bendigo Tech School to provide an exciting Augmented Reality Workshop.

Students attend the Bendigo Art Gallery to view the exhibition and work with a gallery educator in creating their own analogue response to Muir's work in the portraiture workshop.

Taking inspiration from Josh Muir: What's on your Mind? students will explore the themes in the exhibition, use the Augmented Reality technology with Ipads and produce a colourful portrait based on their own identity. This can be taken further into finished artworks back at school.

Workshop elements runs for 1.5 - 2 hours - please use the booking form to add your preferred time.

Suitable for Primary Years 3-6 and all secondary levels.

With renowned local photographer Leah Ladson

Students in Years 9 and 10 are invited to the Gallery to view photographs in the Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion exhibition and then participate in a hands-on photography workshop with models in and around the View Street Arts Precinct.

In collaboration with the National Gallery of Victoria, Bendigo Art Gallery is delighted to present Desert Lines: Batik from Central Australia. The exhibition showcases batiks and selection of paintings from five distinct desert communities – Ernabella (Pukatja), Fregon (Kaltjiti), Utopia, Yuendumu and Kintore (Walungurru).

Booking deadline Tuesday 17th September

This program will provide students with revision of Unit 3-4 Studio Arts Outcome 3 content in preparation for the end of year examination. Students will learn about what to expect in a Studio Arts exam such as exam structure, time management, the importance of correct application of terminology and how to use it to get maximum marks.

Highlights of this major international exhibition organised by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London include garments crafted by Balenciaga from the 1950s and 1960s – arguably the most creative period of his career when he dressed some of the most renowned women of the time – through to pieces designed by protégés and contemporary designers working in the same innovative way today.

This program enables a full immersion into three diverse exhibitions at Bendigo Art Gallery and La Trobe Art Institute.  Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion and Desert Lines: Batik from Central Australia at Bendigo Art Gallery will allow students to view a range of display styles and artworks to enrich their understanding of exhibition design and curatorship.

Tudors to Windsors: British Royal Portraits 
16 March to 14 July 2019

Royalty has always used portraiture and imagery to promote and maintain power.