Visual Art

At SASSVI we strive to make the visual arts accessible and meaningful for students with a vision impairment. The visual arts are taught using a range of multi-sensory techniques and hands-on learning experiences. 

Students learn about the elements of visual art including: colour, form, line, shape, space, texture, and value. They explore design principles, composition and style.

Sustainable arts practices are important at SASSVI. Students are encouraged to consider the sustainable properties of materials, techniques, technologies and processes and combine these to create and produce solutions to their artworks.

Students build on their awareness of how and why artists, craftspeople and designers realise their ideas through different visual (and tactile) representations, practices, processes and viewpoints.

Students enjoy regular multi-sensory acessible tours of the Art Gallery of South Australia.

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