
Beyond The Bell
Program: Education
Building capacity for an ongoing complex systems change initative in South West Victoria
ProjectThe Next Wave School of Artist Led Learning (ALL School)
Amount$30,000
Date2020
ProgramArts and Culture
TRUST OBJECTIVES | PROJECT OBJECTIVES |
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Enabling financial sustainability | Develop a self-sustaining model, where Next Wave’s costs are covered, and artists are paid for their time spent teaching |
Building organisational capacity | Over 10 years, Next Wave has delivered the prestigious Kickstart curriculum to Festival artists. ALL School provides an avenue to sustainably expand its offering, nurturing artists beyond the Festival |
Collaboration and partnership | Moreland City Council, Creative Partnerships Australia, artists, industry peers |
Seeding a new school of artist-led creative and professional development
Run by artists, facilitated by Next Wave at Brunswick Mechanics, ALL School is a new project and ongoing space for cross-disciplinary learning and knowledge exchange, experimental pedagogy, practice and theory, and skills sharing for artists. ALL School focuses on interdisciplinary practice and offers an equitable and accessible arts education network.
Image Next Wave Kickstart 2019. Photo by Ella Sowinska.
Since 2001, Next Wave Festival has run Kickstart, a unique and highly acclaimed cross-disciplinary year-long series of artistic and professional development workshops for curators, directors, collectives and individual artists. Building on Next Wave’s rich history delivering comprehensive learning programs, this new initiative will provide artists, peers and members of the public with ongoing, affordable access to experimental art theory, methodology, skills and professional development. Seed funding from HMSTrust will help Next Wave Festival to pilot the year-round ALL School professional development program for artists, and build it into a new, independent and sustainable model.
Snapshot:
“While I think a tertiary education in art is really important, the most valuable lessons I have learned have been from other practicing artists. Mentorships, conversations, arguments and chance meetings have been what has guided my professional practice. …Next Wave is the ideal platform to host a series of artist led workshops that can interrogate some of the nitty gritty you won’t find discussed at art school.” Abdul Abdullah, artist.
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