The Blake Education Kit
What the Education Kit Contains
The Blake Education Kit comprises two key parts, plus additional modules specific for each year of the prize since 2011.
A key text for exploring this material is The Blake Book: Art, Religion and Spirituality in Australia, by Rosemary Crumlin. Further details and an online order form are available on The Blake Book page.
Education Kit Part 1
An introduction to the Blake Prize and and observations of its history since the first prize in 1951, including a summary of the challenges and issues faced each decade, the changing nature of debate around spiritual art, and the goals of the Blake prizes in the 21st century.
Education Kit Part 2
The second part of the kit looks at themes and a number of artists who have featured as finalists in the Blake Prize, with classroom discussion material and art-making activities shaped around four key areas. Sample questions and a worksheet that can be used when discussing specific works from the Blake Prize, as well as references and a bibliography for further research.
Education Kit Add-ons
For each subsequent year of the Education Kit we produce an 'Add-on' module. This contains specific information for that year's exhibition, including: the focus and milestones of the prize that year, discussions around the winning artworks and poems, an insight to the judges' decisions, and essays on topics emerging from the exhibition.
Related Files
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Blake-EducationKit-Part1.pdf [1.27MB] (added 91 days ago)
An introduction to the Blake Prize and and observations of its history since the first prize in 1951.
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Blake-EducationKit-Part2.pdf [870.70KB] (added 91 days ago)
The second part of the kit looks at themes and a number of artists and their artworks who have featured as finalists in the Blake Prize.
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Blake-EducationKit-AddOn2011.pdf [780.73KB] (added 91 days ago)
Information specific to the 60th Blake Prize exhibition in 2011.
