The Future is Art
Saturday 3 September 2022 10am–4pm
All Day
Plan Your Day
CELL BLOCK THEATRE
10.30 – 11.15AM
Course Enquiry Desk: Meet the Student Services team and ask any questions you might have about NAS courses, admission and student life on campus.
CELL BLOCK THEATRE
One on One Advice Sessions: Meet with our faculty to talk through your portfolio and how to make your work stand out.
NAS ARTBAR & KITCHEN
Food: Kick back in our cafe and take in the historic charm of the campus.
NAS GALLERY
Exhibition: NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship. This exhibition presented with Artspace profiles the dynamism and breadth of emerging contemporary artistic practice in NSW. Valued at $30,000, the Fellowship is offered by the NSW Government through Create NSW. The exhibition features finalists; Eddie Abd, Chun Yin Rainbow Chan, Cindy Yuen-Zhe Chen, Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier, Emily Parsons-Lord and Genevieve Felix Reynolds.
ACROSS CAMPUS
Open Studios: Go behind the scenes and see our students at work in their studios.
LIBRARY
NATIONAL ART SCHOOL
OPEN DAY
National Art School Library: Visit our specialist research library dedicated to the visual arts, an amazing resource for our students and check out the Library Stairwell Gallery located at the rear of the library where Paper Moon featuring the work of BFA3 Printmaking students is on view.
WORKSHOP BUILDING 11
NAS Workshop: Drop into the workshop, a hive of activity for students working across artistic disciplines. Check out the tools and equipment, explore different techniques, and find out about support for students.
PRINT LAB BUILDING 11
NAS Print Lab: Visit our professional print lab, the school’s high-quality commercial grade facility.
ARCHIVE AND COLLECTION BUILDING 11
Historic Collection: The NAS Archives contain an extraordinary collection of artefacts from the site’s history and artworks from alumni.
RAYNER HOFF PROJECT SPACE
Painting Workshop: NAS is bringing Painting alive with its longest collaborative painting ever. Participate by painting a part of this 12-meter canvas and leave your mark whilst enjoying the experience of painting.
THE DRAWING GALLERY
The National Art School is Australia’s leading fine art school, with a progressive and holistic outlook and a successful studio-based teaching model that has delivered a rich tradition of artistic practice and generations of world-renowned alumni. Whether you’re interested in our degree programs, short courses or simply exploring our amazing heritage-listed campus, we look forward to welcoming you to Open Day.
Exhibition: The Drawing Exchange is an artist-led program focusing on innovative drawing practices. Drop by and connect with artists Aude Parichot (10am – 1pm) and Margaret Seymour (1pm – 4pm) who will be in the gallery talking about their works, the exhibition, and NAS’s commitment to contemporary drawing practice.
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Photomedia: Explore the Photomedia studios and watch a showreel of current students’ films.
CHAPEL GROUND FLOOR
Hands-on Life Drawing: Draw from a life model in the Chapel, one of the School’s most beautiful historic buildings, and our new dedicated drawing studio.
BUILDING 24
Ceramics: Watch students wheel throwing and participate in hand-building your own clay artwork with NAS ceramics teachers.
BUILDING 2
Black Theatre Bachelor of Fine Art Info Session: NAS lecturers talk through undergraduate study options and the admissions process.
10.30 – 11.00AM
Red Theatre Short Courses Info Session: Hear all about our extensive public short course program and find the right one for you.
10.30AM – 12.30PM
Printmaking workshop: Using everyday packaging of milk cartons and chocolate packets, make your very own dry-point etching. An environmentally friendly way to engage with image making, create a drawing from a cardboard matrix, ink it up, and print it using one of NAS’s rolling print presses to take home with you.
10.30AM - 2PM
Sculpture Courtyard Limestone Carving: Join our Sculpture department as they demonstrate limestone carving and join in!
11.30AM – 12.15PM
Red Theatre Master of Fine Art Info Session: NAS lecturers discuss postgraduate study options.
11.30 – 12.15PM
Black Theatre Bachelor of Fine Art Info Session: NAS lecturers talk through undergraduate study options and the admissions process.
1–1.30PM
Red Theatre Short Courses Info Session: Hear all about our extensive public short course program and find the right one for you.
1–1.45PM
Black Theatre Bachelor of Fine Art Info Session: NAS lecturers talk through undergraduate study options and the admissions process.
2–3PM
NAS Gallery Artist Talks: Fellowship finalists Eddie Abd, Chun Yin Rainbow Chan, Cindy Yuen-Zhe Chen, Chanelle Collier, Joe Wilson, Emily Parsons-Lord and Genevieve Felix Reynolds will speak with curators Alexie Glass-Kantor and Elyse Goldfinch about their works for the 2022 NSW VAEF exhibition in the main NAS Gallery.
2.30 – 3.15PM
Black Theatre Bachelor of Fine Art Info Session: NAS lecturers talk through undergraduate study options and the admissions process.
3–3.30PM
Red Theatre Doctor of Fine Art Info Session: NAS lecturers discuss postgraduate study options.