Budget activities targeted

The art budget activities that i will be covering within this forum will be targeted within the following subject areas:  Art, Studio Arts and Photography.

From my experience in the Visual Arts particularly in the areas of Printmaking, Photography and Painting i have decided to target the budget activities around these areas. the following activities will be covered by myself -

Printmaking

• Dry point etching
• Collographs
• Lino cuts
• Mono prints using spray paints and stencils

Painting

• Painting without using expensive canvas alternative methods
• Acrylic and water colours
• Oil painting the cost effective way
• Mixed media painting using found objects

Photography

• Pin hole cameras a great way to experience manual photograph for the first time.
• Photo grams a great inexpensive way to cut down on expensive photography equipment
• Photographic collage

These are just a few examples that will be covered and add to the forum by myself. Feel free to add your own cost effective art activities using other mediums.

Collograph - "Dusk Shower"

Using a variety of mediums to develop knowledge and skills

It is essential for our students to develop the use of knowledge and skills through a variety of mediums and materials, techniques and processes. It may be very challenging and a costly task for some schools art budgets to face but hopefully through the activities and resources available on this forum we can help each other and our students succeed in the arts.



Monoprint "Tropical Rainforest"

Budget constraints

As schools face budget constraints and the pressure to perform well on core-content standardized tests, art programs are often cut from schools' curriculum. When schools face budget cuts, the art department is usually one of the first programs to be eliminated. Often parents, who know first hand the benefits the arts provide for their children, will protest the proposed cuts. Art teachers commonly feel anxious when it comes to job security. 

As having been placed in a low class school for my first teacher candidate placement i understand the difficulties teachers undergo to construct activities and units of work with limited resources available. This blog will run as a forum, which will allow access for teachers in Victoria to share and post information about their schools budgets and activities that will help schools with limited resources and a low budget.