Education

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art in the Classroom #18

Fri 8 May, 2026

9am - 3pm
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Radford Auditorium

$210 Pre-service and Department for Education teachers, $220 member and TRT, $230 non-member and all other educators

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Led by Aboriginal artists and curators, this professional development workshop provides educators with suggestions on incorporating Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists into the classroom in a meaningful and culturally appropriate way. Learn about the way relationships between people, culture and country for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples can be conveyed through works of art.

This workshop includes:

  • Talk and workshop with a Gumbaynggirr artist Aretha Brown
  • A set of Decolonise Your Self Cards valued at $71.50.
  • Presentation and workshop led by Education Manager, Kylie Neagle
  • Gallery tour with a curator
  • Lunch and morning tea

Please note

Presenters may be subject to change.

Registrations will close two days prior to the event to allow for catering preparations.

Photo: Image supplied by the artist.

About Aretha Brown

Aretha Brown is a Gumbaynggirr artist, screenwriter, and cultural advocate whose multidisciplinary practice reclaims Aboriginal historiography through a visually striking, politically driven, and culturally future-facing lens. Moving fluidly across mural painting, drawing, screenwriting, performance, and graphic design, Brown explores the pressures placed on First Nations storytellers while insisting on joy, humour, and experimentation as forms of resistance.

In 2019, Aretha founded the **Kiss My Art Collective, a femme, youth collective with a mission to take art beyond traditional gallery walls and into the public eye, where it can’t be ignored. The collective has created over 70+ murals across Australia, the UK, India, East Timor, Indonesia, the U.S., Canada, and Japan, transforming public spaces into powerful platforms for social change.

Brown is currently one of the youngest ever artists to exhibit at the National Gallery of Australia as a leading figure of the 5th National Indigenous Art Triennial, After the Rain, curated by Tony Albert. Her milestone work, ‘The Birth of a Nation: The True History of Australia’ is an extension of her ongoing ‘Teach Blak History’ project, which she carries worldwide.

Tarnanthi is presented by the Art Gallery of South Australia with Principal Partner BHP and support from the Government of South Australia.

AGSA Education programs and resources are supported by the Department for Education.

Selected programs may be further subsidised for Department for Education teachers/schools utilising funding provided by the Department for Education.