2. Bella Program Pre-Visit Resource for secondary students

3. Welcome to the MCA

4. What happens at Bella? Meet our friendly MCA Artist Educators in the National Centre for Creative Leaning.

5. Help us keep the artworks safe! Ask your staff or MCA staff if you’re not sure

6. What’s great about the galleries? Check with your teacher if you’re not sure

7. Explore the MCA galleries Discover artworks and engage with fun creative strategies and discussions with Artist Educators.

8. Find out more about Brown Council’s work here or visit the artist’s websitehere website Visit the Bella Room! Brown Council, Performance Art (installation view) 2014Brown Council, Performance Art: Group Action (production still) 2014

9. Make art in the Creative Studios Bella participants create artworks in the Creative Studios.

10. Bella participants create artworks in the Digital Studio and present their digital artworks in the Multimedia Studios. Digital and Multimedia Studios

11. Nicholas Folland, The door was open... 2006 Lynette Burida, Pandanus palm coil weave basket, date unknown What is contemporary art?

12. Robert Owen, Sunrise #3 2005 This is a painting made by an Australian artist called Robert Owen. It is painted on the wall of the gallery! Wall painting

13. Woven Water hangs from the ceiling. We can look at it from different angles as we move around the space. We call this kind of artwork an installation because the sculpture responds to the space it is in. See more of Maria Fernanda Cardoso’s ‘animal’ sculptures here.here Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Woven Water, Submarine Landscape 2003, Museum of Contemporary Art, purchased with the assistance of Geoff and Vicki Ainsworth and donors at the 2005 Bella Dinner, 2006 Installation

14. Video The artist, Shaun Gladwell filmed himself on his skateboard. You may see this video artwork during your Bella visit to Volume One: MCA Collection. Shaun Gladwell, Storm Sequence (still) 2000

15. What did you see at the MCA? Stephen Birch, Untitled (detail) 2005 Brown Council, The One Hour Laugh (still) 2009 Nicholas Folland, The door was open... 2006

16. Thanks for joining our Bella Program! Brown Council, Performance Art (Still) 2014Take home your artwork from Bella at the MCA!