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  • ATTENTION STAR ARTS PARENTS! Please click on the star arts logo (right) to register your child online for TERM 1 2010 STAR ARTS classes, these classes are very popular and fill fast so register today! My name is Anna Evans. I am a Freelance artist based in Whangaparaoa, New Zealand. I attended Elam school of fine arts finishing in 2004 specializing in painting, and obtaining my degree in fine arts. I have since illustrated seventeen books and primary aged readers. I teach primary school aged children art in my weekly after-school art class. In may 2008 I was selected as Artist in residence for Term 3 at Whangaparaoa primary school in response to my application to be part of the Ministry of Education's excellent project "Artists in schools".

    To see the Ministry of education digi story about the 2008 A.I.S whangaparaoa primary project please click Here. here to open the story in another window.

    This year I was again selected by the ministry to be Artist in residence to Dairy Flat school. You can view the ongoing works in progress currently at http://sites.google.com/site/artistinschool/ a website collaboration between myself, the Students and the teachers of Dairy Flat

    This site serves as a visual diary documenting week by week our progress through the 10 week project, you can also view walk-through PDF guides that outline step by step the processes we go through to end up with our end products.

  • To view my online portfolio of illustration work please click here

    To download my CV please click here

    To contact me about my services and how I could assist your school with the visual arts or to learn more about the Artist in Schools project email me at anna@artistinschool.co.nz

     
     

    Welcome to my Site

    In 2007 the ministry of education opened up an amazing opportunity for artists, schools and communities by launching a ground breaking project called "Artists in schools". To find out more about the Artist in schools project please visit here

    The ministry of education paired me up with Whangaparaoa primary school, to work as artist in residence for Term 3 2008. I devised a ten week programme, meeting with each syndicate to create a time-table that suited the entire school. I worked with each year level, across the whole school, integrating the art projects and specifically designing these projects to coincide with their other curriculum based requirements while cultivating and encouraging the key competencies identified by the NZ curriculum as thinking, using language, symbols and texts, managing self, relating to others, participating and contributing. I worked across the whole school spending three hours in each of the 26 classes.

    I then selected 20 yr 5 and 6 students showing exceptional ability within the field of visual art to create a mural based on the Maori legend of "paikea and the whale" to beautify the public facing wall of one of their classrooms. These children showed amazing ability, with incredible focus and attention to detail. They began to merge and work as a successful cooperative unit and team, achieving consistent exceptional results. The children completed this mural in week 8 of term 4, having spent each Wednesday working throughout the day in three groups split into seven. The mural end product was designed by a merging of two Yr 6 Students designs. Once the mural was completed we had a ceremonial blessing in front of the whole school. To download a PDF outlining our process please click here.

    To view the mural team gallery please click here

    I believe the Artists in schools programe provides an important arena for arts and cultural development in New Zealand. It not only encourages our children to think creatively, but it enables them to actively partake and engage in creative practice with professional creative practitioners such as myself. I found my ten week experience to be one of the most important and positive experiences of my life. I learned a great deal from the teachers, I learned a great deal from the children and I learned a great deal about myself.

    Later this year artistinschool.co.nz will launch a section of the site dedicated to global research into the importance of art practice in contemporary and future education. Here you will be able to have access to links across the web that discuss in detail the importance of arts education. You will be able to watch videos, listen to lectures, download papers on the subject as well as online resource guides and project outlines.

    Please click on the links above to see samples of each Whangaparaoa primary schools year groups work in progress

     

    My Portfolio