Connections: Teaching, Art, Life

‘Connections: Teaching, Art, Life’ is the third annual Teacher Artmaker Project (TAP) exhibition. The artworks featured are created by professional artist-teachers who strive to balance teaching, art creation, and personal lives. In this research exhibition, 30 early-career teachers explore the connections between these aspects of their daily lives rather than conflicts.

This exhibition is significant, addressing the challenge of finding time to create and exhibit art, particularly for newly graduated art teachers. It’s a key part of a broader research project administered by The Melbourne Graduate School of Education. Consequently, this full-colour catalogue consists of two sections.

The first includes reflective statements by the artists, each articulating how they balance art production and teaching, two seemingly distinct worlds. The second section contains a research report discussing trends in the Teacher Artmaker Project’s research data to date. This is a research catalogue celebrating participants’ art and reflections while situating them in a broader research context relevant to the ‘artist-teacher’ phenomenon.