YOUTH ARTS PROGRAMMING
Talking with participants of Kaldor Public Art Projects’ pilot regional youth engagement program, during a site visit to Pier 2/3 in Sydney, 2015.
Since 2011, much of my work has focused on informal learning, youth-led engagement programs and the development of creative opportunities for young people to work with and within cultural organisations, supporting their visibility and agency.
The kinds of youth-led arts programs that I continue to advocate for put the ideas and experiences of young people at the centre of what they do - they demonstrate the enormous value that young people already have - as cultural agenda setters, public programmers, and as young creatives and change makers.
In 2018 I was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to further investigate these models of informal and peer-led learning and from April - June 2019 I visited over 30 cultural institutions in the USA and Canada.
Notable youth engagement programs I have worked on can be found below.
I have also written extensively on youth arts programming and contributed essays to several publications, which you can read more about here.
National Young Writers Program
National Gallery of Australia 2022-2024
A three-year professional development program for early career arts writers aged 19 - 25 from across Australia that focused on skills development, community building and paid opportunities.
Regional Youth Program
Kaldor Public Art Projects 2015
A 10-week pilot regional youth engagement program for local teens delivered in partnership with Western Plains Cultural Centre in Dubbo that ran as part of Project 30 - Marina Abramović: In Residence.
Things I Want To Say
Somerset Regional Art Gallery 2022 - 2023
A 12-month-long youth engagement project for young people in regional Queensland, inspired by the exhibition ‘Things I Want to Say’ at The Condensery - Somerset Regional Art Gallery.
People Like Us - Education Kit
UNSW Galleries 2014 - 2015
An education project with UNSW Galleries, embedding peer-to-peer learning and professional development opportunities in the creation of education resources for touring exhibition, People Like Us.
Young Creatives Program
MCA Australia 2017 - 2021
The Young Creatives program (2005 to 2024) at MCA Australia offered a series of informal, youth-led engagement programs and digital offerings for young people aged 12-21 from across Greater Sydney.
Louis Vuitton Young Arts Project
South London Gallery 2011 - 2013
A three-year youth arts education project led by the South London Gallery in partnership with Tate, Whitechapel Gallery, the Hayward Gallery and the Royal Academy of Arts in London.