ANU School of Art is running three workshops as part of the National Visual Art Education Conference held at the National Gallery of Australia.

The theme of the conference, 'New directions: practice + innovation + learning', will focus on a broad range of current issues in visual art education that are relevant to teachers of all levels of schooling as well as artists and educators from the museum and public gallery sectors.

Participants in Experimenting with Inkjet Printing, run by Dr Rowan Conroy, will work together creatively with practicing visual artists in the ANU's state of the art Inkjet Research Facility. Using their fundamental knowledge of digital printing, they will explore recent developments in digital photography and inkjet printing technologies at both small and large scale in UV cured printing. They will make their own artwork by collaboratively exploring different hard and soft substrates, such as glass, wood and textiles, and different creative printing techniques, on the IRFs large-format UV cured flatbed printer, as well as its conventional wide-format inkjet printer.