Perspectives on creative arts in higher education

Edition 8

By Jenny Wilson — The first edition of NiTRO went live on 30 June 2016 with a focus on the future for creative arts amidst the flurry of government research and higher education reports.

The University of Canberra is gearing up for a new intake of Army, Navy and Air Force participants as the Australian Defence Force launches the next round of its AARTS program.  The ADF Arts for Recovery, Resilience, Teamwork and Skills (AARTS) program is a four week intensive designed to support

RMIT PhD student Mohsen Meysami has won the tertiary Footscray Art Prize for his work ‘Their Pain, Our Gain’ an embroidered work informed by traditional Persian art and the current Middle East conflict. The Footscray Art Prize is a collaboration between Victoria University, Maribyrnong City Council, Footscray Community Arts Centre

The recent round of successful Future Fellowships announced by the ARC recently feature several projects that may be of interest to the creative arts, including one which resonates closely with this topic addressed in this edition of NiTRO:  A/Prof Elizabeth Stephens (University of Queensland) will ‘undertake a detailed examination of

By Professor Robyn Sloggett AM — Art practice and scientific enquiry have the same fundamental epistemological requirements; a broad and deep knowledge of the context in which they operate, the ability to contest and extend existing ontologies, and through this to be able to verify propositions in order to expand

The report on the third National Arts Participation Survey released by the Australia Council this month that shows that 98% of Australians engage with the arts and 73% believe that the arts ‘are an important way to get a different perspective on a topic or issue’. The survey, which canvassed

By Professor Frank Millward — Living the dream immersed in data...

A new report ‘Recalibrating culture: production, consumption, policy’ from the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University sheds new light on the nature of artistic and cultural practice in Western Sydney. Supported by ARC Linkage Projects funding, Professor Deborah Stevenson and her team investigated the needs and practices

By Professor Patricia Aufderheide — Australia has one of the most restrictive copyright regimes in the world. Australian creators have fewer ways to access unlicensed copyright material than almost anywhere else.

The Victorian Government has announced a new ‘Creators Fund’ specifically focused on the R & D stage of practice and which will provide between $20 – 50k to support Victorian creators to find time for the early intensive stages of their work.  The call for Expressions of Interest is expected