Digital Learning Resource
Discover
La Biennale di Venezia (Venice Biennale) is the world’s largest and most prestigious international contemporary art exhibition.
Creative New Zealand has been supporting contemporary New Zealand artists to exhibit at the Biennale since 2011.
Te Papa engaged Wavelength Learning to help ‘put some air under the wings’ of the Biennale to draw national and international attention to New Zealand’s past exhibitions and to herald the 2017 artist Lisa Reihana and her groundbreaking digital artwork, Emissaries.
Design
Wavelength Learning was engaged to conceptualise and create a digital learning resource that would provide students and teachers with the opportunity to explore Lisa Reihana’s Emissaries and delve into the history of past New Zealand artists who have exhibited at this prestigious event.
This involved working closely with staff at Te Papa, the Auckland Art Gallery, Creative New Zealand, and the artist herself.
Other key stakeholders were the art teachers who will use this resource. The workshop that started the development process was critical to creating an engaging and inspiring website that for teachers and students.
Deliver
In partnership with staff at Te Papa, Wavelength Learning created a website aimed at years 9–13 teachers and students.
This resource provides multimedia and curriculum-driven teaching units for the Visual Arts and Social Sciences learning areas.
Students can watch interviews with the artist and the New Zealand team in Venice and investigate New Zealand’s previous exhibitions at the Venice Biennale.