The 2020 Vice Chancellor’s Teaching Awards have recognised Elisa Crossing, a Lecturer in Foundation Studies and Painting in the School of Art & Design, together with Associate Professors Krisztina Valter and Alexandra L Webb from the ANU Medical School for their outstanding contribution to teaching and student learning.

The award recognises their work on a novel interdisciplinary course called The Exquisite Corpse, combining art and anatomy into an innovative curriculum fostering collaboration and creative freedom. The course teaches fundamental knowledge in both disciplines, and then integrates the knowledge from both so that they inform one another. Briefs are designed to encourage individual and create problem solving. The course requires active participation in art making, which as well as developing conceptual awareness, observation and analysis of artworks, provides students with multisensory experiences, to promote a deep and an embodied approach to learning.*

Read more about the recipients here.

The Awards booklet with full citations and links to videos can be downloaded here.

Visit Elisa Crossing’s online profile here.

* Text courtesy CASS news article