Karen Profilio

Karen Profilio has a distinguished record as a Visual Arts teacher and teaches at North Sydney Girls High School, where she is Head Teacher, Creative Arts. She has been teaching since 1977 and has had experience in a wide variety of schools. Karen has been involved in many aspects of art teaching practice in and beyond the classroom including serving as HSC Visual Arts Supervisor of Marking, member of the HSC Examination Committee, and Critical Friend at the AGNSW. She has been an ongoing mentor and cooperating teacher for practicum students from COFA, UNSW and other universities over many years. Karen is currently Co-President (Advocacy, Support and Membership), of the Visual Arts and Design Educator’s Association, NSW (VADEA). She continues to advocate against the Australian Curriculum and Assessment Authority’s (ACARA) current proposals for the Arts, identifying how they diminish expectations for learning and teaching in the Visual Arts and in the other artforms.