The ANU School of Art & Design (SOA&D) prepares students for professional careers in visual arts, curatorship or design. It has built a reputation as a leading arts educator offering specialist training across a range of visual arts and crafts disciplines, design, art history and curatorship, and art theory.

Tours of the School of Art & Design can visit all or a selection of the following areas: Animation and Video, Ceramics, Furniture, Glass, Gold & Silversmithing, Painting Photography, Printmedia & Drawing, Sculpture and Textiles and the School’s galleries.

An interactive workshop in which students will handle and identify primate, extinct and modern human bones to find out how human evolution, and forensic profiles are reconstructed from fossil and skeletal remains.

The ANU Classics Museum contains over 600 objects from the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Students gain a taste of everyday life in the ancient world through some of its fascinating objects and their stories.

This program includes a hands-on experience in the new Object-Based Learning Room (adjacent to the museum). Workshops provide students with the opportunity to handle ancient objects including ceramics, glass, metals and sculptural fragments.

For Year 11 and 12 students, this program includes a pre-visit consultation with the curator in order to tailor tour content to your class focus area.

Additional short talks for Year 11 and 12 students on specialist subjects by ANU academic staff are available upon request and subject to availability (flat-rate $50 add-on fee). Please get in touch to discuss your preferred topic.

This activity can be further customised upon request and can be made available for other year groups – please get in touch directly to discuss.

Arabic is the mother language of over 250 million people in the Middle East (West Asia and North Africa), and one of the six official languages of the United Nations. It was the language of an ancient civilization, which contributed greatly to human knowledge. Arabic is also the living medium of a contemporary dynamic literature and culture. Its rich and magnificent poetry, classical and modern, is especially captivating. Persian (otherwise known as Farsi) is spoken today primarily in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan and was once widely understood from the Mediterranean to India, and has a rich historical and cultural legacy.

In this interactive calligraphy workshop, students will learn to write their name in Persian, Turkish or Arabic.

Have you dreamed about being a songwriter, producer or audio engineer? Ever wanted to mix and play with sounds and music? We will introduce you to Logic Pro X, an industry standard piece of software, allowing you to compose, record, edit, and mix high-quality music or sound. No previous musical experience necessary!

Tour the School of Music facilities with our technical staff to see the many performance spaces and how technology plays an important role in the constantly evolving delivery of tertiary music education.

"In “Slam! The Power of Poetry” we’ll bring the written word to life by learning about the poetic form, discussing how it operated in the past and where you can find it now (it isn't just in your textbooks!).

We will also practice creating our own works to help you understand the building blocks of the craft and learn a practical method of reading and understanding poetry that will help you in your own studies.

So why not fall for metaphor? Get silly for similes! Join us for “Slam! The Power of Poetry"" in 2022. "