Maitland Regional Art Gallery has taken home a major National Museums and Galleries Award for Interpretation, Learning and Audience Engagement for their 2019 project, 'Stories from Wonnarua Country'.
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The award category recognises highly successful community engagement and education projects by art galleries, museums and art centres right across Australia.
Stories from Wonnarua Country was an 18-month project led by the Junior Aboriginal Education Consultative Group student committee members, supporting teachers and communities from seven local schools: Francis Greenway High, Hunter Valley Grammar, Maitland High, Metford Public, Tarro Public, Telarah Public and Woodberry Public.
The project included workshops on Wonnarua Country at Baiame's Cave, Mindaribba Local Aboriginal Land Council and MRAG where students explored ideas and experiences of country, language, art and stories.
Students were then encouraged to develop their own school artworks about what it means to them to be on Wonnarua Country today.
The exhibition was held at MRAG from June to October in 2019 which included an opening ceremony. It had more than 20,000 visitors over its duration.
