# Actual encounter, creator and audience gates

Original diagrams teach generic crossing/visual-guide choices; they are not photographs of actual making, an artist/community encounter, local place knowledge or an audience response.

## Actual art encounter

Teacher may show their own actual original classroom paper art, with date, creator, process and why **that maker** uses it. Child may describe their own experience/observation/idea/feeling, including uncertainty or dislike, without copying or compelled praise. An authorised external work requires artist/title/date, primary source/context, display/reproduction rights and local school review. Do not call a printed illustration a physical woven panel. A generic paper crossing task carries no named cultural tradition claim.

## Private evidence before actual use

Record real source/work/date/maker/process · rights/permission basis · exact content observed or attributed description · child choice/response/support · next move. Record adult cutting/preparation and child-directed action separately. For dated portfolio stages use actual dated child-owned willing samples; fictional substitutions remain labelled fictional and cannot become an actual past record.

If child chooses sharing/display/gift, hold until child agreement, willing audience, agreed private location/duration/attribution, suitable access and school privacy rules are met. Record actual sharing and freely given response if it occurs; otherwise NOT OBSERVED. Imagined recipient, self-review or displayed-without-consent image is not P01 audience evidence. No public showcase is required. No photographs/audio/family accounts need to leave school.

## Cultural authority and outside rights

No copied motif, cultural-object material, basket tradition, local Country/Place, language/story or community-held technique is supplied. Particular cultural material must be reviewed with appropriate Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander knowledge holders and school protocols before any use: authorised context/scope, attribution, restrictions, review and withdrawal arrangements. Public copyright permission alone cannot replace that authority. Preserve a child's question and seek an authorised opportunity rather than inventing an answer.

[Creative Australia protocols](https://www.creative.gov.au/first-nations-arts/protocols-for-using-first-nations-cultural-and-intellectual-property-in-the-arts) support consultation; they do not grant permission for particular community knowledge. Original pack rights do not extend to outside artworks, museum images, children’s later art or community-held knowledge.