Perspectives on creative arts in higher education
Here in Australian higher arts education, we are presiding over some ‘interesting’ times ourselves. With a divided polity, seemingly, but not only, separated along education and value and belief system lines, we are finding an astonishing and baffling suspicion of ‘expertise’ and what has been called ‘wilful ignorance’ or the
Event Dates: 4 – 7 June 2018Event Location: Meat Market, North Melbourne, VictoriaWebsite: MGA 2018 Museums Galleries Australia brings together current and future leaders and decision-makers in museums, galleries and governments from across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. The MGA2018 conference will include a full program of speakers, workshops, masterclasses, social
The Department of Arts and Communication are calling for authors and creators who have released a book in the last five years to use the online portal to register to receive lending rights. The Department’s media release explains: ‘‘The public and educational lending right schemes compensate Australian creators and publishers
Conference Dates: 21 – 24 March 2018Event Location: Margaret River, WAWebsite: Emergence Creative Festival 3 days of inspiring keynotes, hands-on workshops, out-of-the-box colabs and incredible satellite events. Each year the festival attracts professionals and emerging creatives from music, film, photography, advertising, digital and the visual arts to one of the world’s
Victorian College of the Arts graduate and Adjunct Professor at Queensland College of Art Jenny Watson has been awarded the Mordant Family/Australia Council Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. The Fellowship provides a two-month residency in Rome which will allow Jenny, one of Australia’s leading artists, the opportunity to
Conference Dates: 26-29 June 2018Event Location: RMIT, MelbourneWebsite: ACEI 2018 ACEI2018 aims to provide a forum for discussion on a range of issues impacting the arts and culture, and for the first time the conference will also address issues related to sport. The conference brings together a range of academics from
Each year brings new faces to Australia’s tertiary arts institutions and sadly farewells familiar colleagues who move on to new pastures. These are just a small selection sent by our institutions: Alex Martinis Roe has relocated from Berlin to join ANU as Head of Sculpture, School of Art & Design
Event Date: 12 April 2018Event Location: The Wheeler Centre, 176 Little Lonsdale St Melbourne VIC 3000Website: Talking with Literature Award Winners Three of the country’s most talented writers, recognised at the 2017 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, will share their thoughts about where Australia’s literary culture is heading at the PM’s Literary Awards
Soon, Southern Cross University will have a very tangible example of alumni engagement. Artist and SCU graduate Guido van Helten has been commissioned to create a photorealist mural on a 43-meter-high building as a centrepiece to the university’s Gold Coast campus. Acknowledged globally for his giant spray paint murals, Guido
Event Dates: 23 – 30 June 2018Event Location: Durban University of Technology, KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaWebsite: ISEA The ISEA2018 theme of Intersections positions creative technological innovation as an activist engagement into public space and public practice. Creative collaboration between artists, artisans, designers, technologists, entrepreneurs, engineers, scientists and inventors will take place in
In the spirit of reconciliation, the DDCA acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.