Membership with QATA

The benefits of membership

Member meetings

Regular member meetings hosted at schools to discuss current curriculum issues and ideas, share and network. Our Brisbane meetings are both face-to-face and online for members around the state. Host a meeting in your region and we will help you organise and promote it.

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QATACON - Our annual state conference

This is our biggest event of the year. Two days of curriculum, artists, and hands-on workshops. An opportunity to meet members from all over Queensland.

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QATA social connect

QATA Facebook and Instagram for Queensland Art Teachers and all others who are interested in the teaching of Visual Arts to share ideas, resources, student work and information relevant to the teaching of Visual Arts specifically in Queensland, as well as all of Australia.

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Exclusive content

Our resource bank for the exclusive use of QATA members. A searchable space of shared and downloadable resources and special features created especially for members’ use.

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Member events

Studio tours, gallery visits, artist workshops, social gatherings and more.

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Coming Up

Member Events

In the Studio

Alison McDonald
Wednesday Feb 23 | 2022

Join 3D artist Alison McDonald from her Townsville studio to learn about materials, tools and techniques for working with discarded plastic and metal objects.

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QATACON22 - Starting Points

Annual State Conference
Fri 15- Sat 16 July | 2022

The theme of QATACON 2022 is Starting Points, which speaks to those creative sparks or inspirations that get our students moving in the direction of a resolved artwork. As well as featuring inspiring keynotes, and our usual suite of engaging artist workshops, we will unpack this theme, asking questions about:

  • how we encourage students to stop staring into space and start art-making?
  • how students start with stimulus and move on to art-making?
  • how students respond to First Nations artists in meaningful and appropriate ways?
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