Towards the Light: The story of One New Age Gallery's Quest for Purpose and Relevance in a Changing World

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Risky business: Engaging adolescents at the Art Gallery of South Australia
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Kylie Neagle

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MCAD Manila: Learning, sharing and conversation
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Joselina Cruz and Paula Acuin

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Museum MACAN: Critical conversations through art
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Aaron Seeto

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Falling in love (Or is the curatorial a methodology?)
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Tara McDowell

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Being an artist and an art teacher
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Henry Ward

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Trying to be at home in the world: New parameters for art education
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Gert Biesta

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Choose your own immersion: Art schools as a site of creative becoming
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Una Rey

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Vanishing into action: Art beyond the contemporary
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Alasdair Foster

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On 23 October 2002, yet another Council of Australian Museums Associations (CAMA) ran down. Conferees were already half deep in thought about melting credit cards and distant work site desks stacked high with urgent files. Well Not exactly CAMA...

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