Michelle Evans is a PHD Scholar at the Melbourne Business School researching the area of Indigenous Leadership inb the Arts. Michelle holds a Bachelor in Communications (Theatre/Media), a Graduate Diploma in Arts Management and a Master of Creative Arts (Research) – with her thesis concentrating on long term investment and evaluation in community cultural development – Community Cultural Development: A Policy for Social Change? Michelle is an internationally accredited Partnership Broker by the Overseas Development Institute/International Business Leader Forum. Michelle is the founding Head of the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development, managing the Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts and Music’s commitment to Indigenous artists, curriculum change and Indigenous communities and culture. Michelle teaches in the Faculty of the VCA and Music’s Post Graduate area specializing in Community Cultural Development and Indigenous Arts Management. Michelle comes from the Hunter Valley in New South Wales. Over the past fifteen years, she has worked across the arts and cultural sector, being instrumental in the establishment of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Student Network, Ngorekah Aboriginal Theatre, 3KND and the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development.
Indigenous Leadership in the Arts
Bibididen Wilin: 'sparking' a fire, World Indigenous Peoples Conference: Education (2008)
The Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development at the Faculty of the Victorian...
Fan their flames: a collaborative model for information delivery to Indigenous students at the Victorian College of the Arts Library, University of Melbourne (with Georgina Binns) (2008)
In 2006, a new postgraduate course in Indigenous Arts Management was offered by the Wilin...
Growing Indigenous Arts Leadership (2008)
The arts inspire and express the many cultures and societies of the world. They reflect...