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.

In Making GIFS, run by Dr Lucien Leon, participants will work creatively with practicing visual artists in the ANU's Animation and Video computer laboratory. Using their fundamental knowledge of digital image editing, they will explore recent developments in digital animation and video technologies. They will make their own creative artwork by sourcing, importing, editing and exporting a series of animated Gifs for publication on a personal blog.