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On the job learning accelerates artistic careers

From coast to coast, early and mid-career artists are benefitting from attaching themselves to festivals and arts organisations.

12 Mar 2018

Richard Watts

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Set rendering for Black Swan’s Endgame (2017) by Tyler Hill.

Artists and arts workers today have access to a wide range of tertiary arts opportunities, such as the VCA’s Master of Writing for Performance, UNSW’s Graduate Diploma of Art Administration, a Master of Fine Arts at NIDA, and WAAPA’s the wide range of hands-on courses. But learning doesn’t stop post graduation.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts