Visual Arts creativity

On Friday Week 9 a group of Year 9 students participated in the pilot HEAD2ART program at Lake Mac Arts the Museum of Art and Culture, yapang.

The aim of HEAD2ART is to provide a creative wellbeing program for school groups, connecting young people with cultural experiences while addressing contemporary issues through art, providing strategies for resilience and community engagement.

Students were involved in a series of three artmaking and wellbeing workshops are being offered at MAC yapang throughout September. These workshops were facilitated by artists Tallulah Cunningham, Indeah Clark and Anna Scobie, supported by an art therapist and a headspace Newcastle Community Development officer, providing a safe space for creation and connection the initiative was to focus on supporting positive mental health through a creative outlet.

Thanks to Mac Gallery, the volunteers (who are all WBHS graduates) and the artists who helped create such a positive experience.

See their photos here.

Term 3 was our HSC Mad Night for 2023 and what a diverse array of artworks exhibited from our Year 12 cohort. Students had the opportunity to curate an exhibition across a variety of expressive forms for their HSC Bodies of Work. This is a significant part of the creative process where our students exhibit their work to an audience in a gallery setting.

Keep an eye out for photos of the works as soon as they become available for public release.