School Excursions
We love schools visiting us at Wagga Wagga Art Gallery. We have over 30 new exhibitions every year. School groups participating in tours is a great way for students to expand skills in teamwork and communication, share points of view, and understand the creative processes in visual arts practices. We'll even help your teachers plan visits to meet a specific theme or curriculum outcome, or your group can self-guide.
Email us to book your tour.
Venue and Safety Information for School Excursions to the Gallery 44.9 KB Download
Planning a visit in 2025?
Here is our highlight exhibitions to see for schools:
Mei Zhao: Remapping Erased Landscapes
Exhibition dates:
15 February 2025 - 25 May 2025
Image courtesy of WWAG.
Curriculum Connections:
Visual Arts: Use of mixed art making techniques painting, drawing, textiles and site installation.
History: Explores the history of early Chinese migration in this Riverina region.
Environment: Explores local areas and environments.
Lisa Sammut: Radial Sign
15 February 2025 - 27 April 2025
Image courtesy of WWAG.
Curriculum Connections:
Visual Arts: This exhibition explores a range of sculpture and site installation techniques.
Science: Glass making is a science where there are different methods that an artist may use to create their desired outcome.
Astronomy: Exploration of celestial and cosmic themes.
Fantastic Forms
Exhibition dates:
15 February 2025 - 27 April 2025
Image: Andy Pye, Gariwerd Doline
Curriculum Connections:
Visual Arts: Variety of art forms and practices - including sculpture, sketching and ceramics.
Australian Art History: Features the work of notable Australian artist Merric Boyd - depicting Australian animals, plants, people and landscapes.
First Nations: Features contemporary First Nations Artist.
Bleak House - Dark Visions
Exhibition dates:
10 March 2025 - September 2025
Image: Kate Baker, Within Matter #6. 2007
Curriculum Connections:
Visual Arts: Variety of glass making practices and visual arts processes.
English/Literature: This exhibition takes its title from Charles Dickens’ 1853 work of Gothic fiction, Bleak House. Set in grim, poverty-stricken London, like all of Dicken’s work, it is a morality tale of tragic proportions.
Science: Glass making is a science where there are different methods that an artist may use to create their desired outcome.
Wagga Wagga Art Gallery Collection Resources
The Good: Education Resource
The Good: Mediation Handbook
The Good: Making Activity
The Good: Making Activity
When Our Eyes Adjust: Catalogue
The Wynne Prize 2023: Learning Resource
Exhibition: Louise Zhang and Jessica Bradford See You in Hell
16 December 2023 - 25 February 2024
See You in Hell presents a collection of playful and subversive works by artists Louise Zhang and Jess Bradford exploring Chinese concepts of the Afterlife. Diyu, the Chinese Buddhist concept of Hell, is both a starting point and a meeting place for the artists to explore personal experiences and complex relationships to their shared Chinese cultural heritage as ‘third culture kids’.
Exhibition: Dennis Golding POWER - The Future is Here
16 December 2023 - 10 March 2024
POWER
Exhibition: Emma Varga Fire - Water - Life
9 December 2023 - 17 March 2024
This current body of work reflects the past twelve years of Varga’s research into environmental issues, where she seeks to communicate the beauty and fragility of our natural environment. In this exhibition Varga’s considers major global warming events; such as bushfire, coral reef bleaching and polar ice melts as a means to heighten our awareness on their devastating impact.
Exhibition: Windowless Worlds
31 July - 5 December 2021
This exhibition is centred on shards of shattered window glass collected from the streets of Beirut, Windowless Worlds offers an unconventional lens to reflect on trauma, resilience, recovery and accountability. Bringing together glass objects from Lebanon, Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Turkey along with Australian works from the National Art Glass collection, Windowless Worlds critiques a world that is broken, but also a world where hope survives.(external site)(external site)(external site)(external site)(external site)
Exhibition : Void
13 November 2021 - 20 January 2022
Void explores the multiple ways in which artists visually articulate the unknown as space, time and landscape. The work of the included artists does not simply define the void as presence and comparative absence, but rather they utilise form to represent the formless.
The void is a multifaceted concept that brings together contemporary Aboriginal artistic practice from across the country. Curated by Emily McDaniel, the exhibition will feature existing works across the mediums of drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, textiles and photography by eminent artists such as Pepai Jangala Carroll, Mr R Peters, Jonathan Jones, Mabel Juli, Mick Namarari Tjapaltjarri, Dr. Thancoupie Gloria Fletcher AO, James Tylor, Andy Snelgar, Hayley Millar-Baker, Freddie Timms, Doreen Reid Nakamarra, John Mawurndjul AM, Jennifer Wurrkidj and Josephine Wurrkidj.
Educational and public programming is a key feature of the exhibition and tour drawing on resources and research produced through the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research at UTS, in conjunction with the exhibition’s curator.
READ & LISTEN MORE:
- Void - Art Almanac(external site)(external site)(external site)(external site)(external site)(external site)
- Void - Art Guide(external site)(external site)(external site)(external site)(external site)(external site)
- Void - Politicised Space - ABC Radio(external site)(external site)(external site)(external site)(external site)(external site)