Close Connections - Distant Perspectives
This exhibition is a culmination of a visiting artists program with School of the Air students during the school’s 50th birthday year.
Port Augusta School of the Air opened in 1958 to serve remote and isolated students, and is highly valued as a unique example of education in Australia. In 1992 the school merged with the South Australian Correspondence School and became the Open Access College School of the Air, Port Augusta Campus.
Today radio lessons have been replaced with lessons via satellite connection and e-learning computer based lessons. The majority of R-7 students are geographically remote and isolated, living in the four
footprint areas to the west, north, south and east of Port Augusta.
Four different artists visiting each of the footprint areas of Stuart, Cross- Roads, Flinders and Barrier will bring the arts alive and help students create their own perspective of distance and connections in remote
communities. This exhibition will showcase students’ art from the visiting artists program and be accompanied by a historical exhibition of distance education at Port Augusta School of the Air.
The Exhibition will be presented in the old School of the Air Building, which has generously been made available for this project by the Bulman Family.
Official Opening: Thursday 4 December at 6pm
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