Applications have closed for 2025 KG Art and Design School of Excellence.
7ADE: Adventures in creative thinking
JumpstART is an excellence program for students passionate about Art and Design that looks at big ideas in a fun, playful creative way. Students get to think creatively about the real challenges of local and global communities, while developing their individual skills and insights and learning to work in creative teams. Each unit explores an aspect of contemporary community and the future problems we face in a changing world. The units explore art and design ideas from significant times and places in a fun and interactive environment to engage the students in critical and creative thinking in collaborative settings.
The program is supported by partnerships with QUT Creative Industries and QUT School of Design, and students will also have the opportunity to learn from local artists and designers, doing hands on work with them in the studio.
Term 1
| Play Space: Students investigate the nature of play as a method of making meaning and forging connections between individuals and greater social ideologies.
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Term 2 | Our City: Students investigate the specific qualities of public artworks, and individually and in pairs design site specific, interactive artworks intended for installation in a Brisbane location.
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Term 3 | Neighbourhood Geo-Graphic: Students investigate digital and traditional methods of graphic design to compile a branding style folio of work that demonstrates knowledge across simple and complex concepts relating to visual communication.For their final assessment, students photograph content, design, and create a brand identity for a specific ‘client’ that makes use of their learnt skills.
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Term 4 | Future Home: Students take on the role of Industrial designers as they work through the Human Centred Design process to propose and pitch furniture and living solutions for a range of future living contexts inspired by current global concerns. |
Artworks in focus: Crowds, communes and the individual in art, design, and media. Surviving and thriving in the global village.
Application deadlines
Applications for 7ADE are due each year early Term 2. All applicants must submit an ADE application form with hand written segments, folio artwork/s with hand written justification on their artwork. Applicants will be shortlisted from these items and invited to attend the workshop. The design challenge will be held during Term 2 as an onsite three-hour workshop at KGSC Art Department.
Any EOI forms must be submitted separately to the enrolment officer and the EOI should indicate the student's interest in the ADE program by ticking the Art+Design Excellence box. We regret that we cannot accept original artworks with the application as these cannot be returned.
Please ensure your application has the following items before sending:
- ADE Application form with HAND WRITTEN section by student on why they would like to be considered for the program
- Artwork/s from folio (students should select their most effective work/s)
- A HAND WRITTEN evaluation by the student explaining why the work is effective, how it was made and why
ADE lessons are part of the student's normal timetable for 210 minutes per week, giving them greater breadth and depth in the Art and Design course, allowing them to be challenged and extended.
- Duration: 1 year, 3 lessons per week (students must reapply for 8ADE using their 7ADE folio)
- Costs: $50 per semester subject
levy
- Application requirements: Application form, folio
work and onsite design challenge
- Pathways: Year 8 ADE, Year 9
& Year 10 Art Electives, Senior ADE in Year 11 and Year 12 (application and
interview required)