CARDBOARD CHALLENGE ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM
Further information
The artist appointed to the successful four schools will lead the negotiation and ideas for
designing a large scale cardboard creation with the students. This includes taking students and
their teacher, through a design phase. Once a design is decided upon, the artist will lead the
students in its construction, using cardboard and other materials needed to ‘hold’ it together!
How will the four schools be selected?
1. The four DECD schools will be selected by a panel consisting of professional artists,
Come Out Children’s Festival team members and educators.
2. Schools will be selected according to information provided on the application form. The
application needs to demonstrate imagination, input from the students, and how having
an artist in residence for the Cardboard Challenge will be incorporated into the teaching
and learning plan for the students/classes involved. It must include how it will enhance
and add value to student learning using the Australian Curriculum: The Arts and at least
one other Learning area. A web-link to the DECD Learning design template is provided
within the application form. See the Teaching and Learning Resource supporting this
festival for further ideas of how you might present your teaching and learning plan.
3. Preference will be given to schools that have not previously been involved in the Creative
Education Partnerships: Artists in Residence program. 1
4. Successful schools will be notified directly by Come Out Children’s Festival prior
to the commencement of term 1, 2015.
Is there a specific design brief for the Cardboard Challenge?
The Cardboard Challenge may respond to the theme of Come Out Children’s Festival 2015,
Building Bridges. It may be portrayed literally or metaphorically.
Which year levels may enter?
This project is open to all students from Department for Education and Child Development
(DECD) Preschools – Year 12 within the broad metropolitan area.
What is the procedure if our school is selected?
 Your school will be contacted by Come Out Children’s Festival prior to the
commencement of Term 1, 2015.
 Come Out Children’s Festival, the appointed artist, and the DECD Manager Arts
Education will work with your school to negotiate the planning details. This will include
ensuring meeting the contractual arrangements around the number of days the artist
will work with the students, workshop content, sourcing materials (ie, cardboard!)
 When applying, schools are asked to nominate preferred days for the workshops, dates
to avoid, and so on. Each artist will have undergone the Criminal History Screening and
Responding to Abuse and Neglect training.
 The artist will work with no more than one class at a time.
 It is assumed that the teacher/s and students would be the same for all workshops.
 Teachers must be present at all times supporting the artist during the residency.
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The Creative Education Partnerships: Artists in Residence program is funded through the Australia Council for the Arts. It is managed in
collaboration with the Department for Education and Child Development and ArtsSA. It is a national program that teams professional
artists with students and teachers in schools.
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What happens to our cardboard creations?
There will be an exhibition of Cardboard Challenge entries by the Come Out Children’s Festival at
the Adelaide Festival Centre during the festival period (22 – 30 May 2015). Schools will be able to
organise collection of their cardboard creations afterwards.
If selected, what do schools need to provide for the workshops?
 A classroom (preferably uncarpeted) at least 12 metres (long) x 10 metres (wide) x 4 metres
(high), with a suitable wet-area if possible.
 Cardboard will be provided but any extra cardboard/recycled boxes that your school can
provide would be a tremendous help, as well as adhesive tape. A more complete list will be
provided to the winning schools.
Can our school still participate in the Cardboard Challenge if we miss out on an Artist in Residence?
YES! Come Out Children’s Festival invites schools to engage their artistic entrepreneurs in
building a cardboard creation of their own.
Send us photographs or a short video of your school’s cardboard creation/s to be placed on our Over
to You page and shared with the international Cardboard Challenge Community.
Free workshops are also available at the festival, working with two Artists. Creations will be
displayed in the Cardboard Cubby Town exhibition in Lyrics.
To apply for this offer, download and complete this application form and the example teaching
and learning plan summary proforma.
Due date for completed application forms: by 5pm Monday 1 December 2014.
Further information about the Artist-In-Residence program:
Sharyn Schell
DECD Arts Education Manager including Come Out Children’s Festival
Sharyn.schell@sa.gov.au Ph: (08) 8226 2072
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CARDBOARD CHALLENGE - ARTIST IN RESIDENCE - APPLICATION FORM
Name of School
School Address
School Phone No
Name of School Contact
/ Supervising Teacher
Mobile phone
How will your school
and students benefit
from having an artist-inresidence?
Explain how this
partnership with Come
Out Children’s Festival
and the artist will
contribute to student
wellbeing and learning
generally
How many classes would you like the artist to work with?
Yr Level / Classes
Teacher’s first and last name
No. of students
in class
Special Needs students?
How many students in total?
Please check your school
calendar for Term 1,
2015.
Preferred day/s of the
week for an artist to
work at your school?
Which days and date
must be avoided?
Eg, Sports Day,
Swimming Carnival
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Describe the
room/space where
activity is to be held
Eg, Sinks, type of floor, size
Materials
There are no costs to your
school for the artist.
What materials and teacher
support can your school
provide, eg, cardboard
boxes, tape.
Aboriginal Education
Impact
How many Aboriginal
students are involved?
How do you see this project
benefitting these students?
How will you know?
Attach a teaching and learning plan summary for this artist in residence (an example proforma is provided)
 Which Australian Curriculum Arts subject/s and perhaps, one additional Learning area, will the artist in
residence form a part of? How will it include any General Capabilities or Cross-curriculum priorities?
 Use the example provided or one of your own. The summary may be of a unit or over a term. Dot points are
fine. Please give some detail of where and how this project will fit within the Australian Curriculum, Arts and
at least one other Learning area. For ideas, see the Come Out Children’s Festival Teaching and Learning
Resource. Further information about learning design can be found at:
http://www.learningtolearn.sa.edu.au/tfel/pages/tfelresources/lrgettingstarted/
What evaluation will
you provide at the end
of this project?
Eg, photos, video,
stories, student
comments,
documentation of the
process before, during,
after, copy of
assessment tasks.
How you will evaluate
the effectiveness of this
project?
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Professional Learning
How could this artist in
residence enhance your
/ your colleagues own
learning in the arts?
We understand that if our school is selected, we will ensure our students and supervising teacher
are available for the required workshops. Workshops will occur as negotiated between the
professional artists, the school, and the Come Out Children’s Festival.
Name
and
Signature
YES/NO
Contact teacher/ leader
Name
and
Signature
DATE
Principal/Director
Scan, fax or post this last page with Principal’s signature if you email
This application form, along with attachments must be received at the following address by:
5pm Monday 1 December 2014
Attention:
Department for Education and Child Development
Level 5 / 31 Flinders Street,
Sharyn Schell
Manager, Arts Projects (including Come Out)
Adelaide SA 5000
DECD Courier: R11/37a
Email: sharyn.schell@sa.gov.au
Fax: (08) 8226 2401
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