Copyright (c) 2009 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/michelle_evans Recent documents in Michelle Evans en-us Sun, 31 May 2009 09:29:08 PDT 3600 http://works.bepress.com/michelle_evans/2 http://works.bepress.com/michelle_evans/2 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:04:02 PDT In 2006, a new postgraduate course in Indigenous Arts Management was offered by the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development, in association with the School of Production at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA), Melbourne. This Graduate Certificate course aims to provide applied education in the area of Indigenous Arts Management and to facilitate empowerment and self-determination amongst Indigenous artists and community leaders who seek to manage, market and protect Indigenous arts product in local, national and international contexts.This paper will examine the collaborative model used to provide library orientation, information literacy training, information services and collection building services to the specific cohort of students enrolled in this course and their teaching staff. Staff of the Lenton Parr Library at the VCA, and the Wilin Centre developed specific programs to assist students in accessing information requirements for their units. Students are sought and drawn from all over Australia, including remote areas, arriving with different educational achievements and information literacy levels as a result. Students generally require individual assistance, as well as encouragement in participative learning, at the same time developing their professional networks. It is this mix of requirements and differences that have inspired a more holistic program for this cohort of students. Issues to be examined include intensive delivery of information literacy using multiple teaching styles, remote resource access requirements, electronic resources, collection development and relationship building. These will be presented alongside an overview of the course and the generic skills students are expected to develop, as well as how these are aligned to their information needs while completing the course and beyond, to assist in life long learning. Michelle Evans Indigenous Leadership in the Arts http://works.bepress.com/michelle_evans/1 http://works.bepress.com/michelle_evans/1 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:00:15 PDT The arts inspire and express the many cultures and societies of the world. They reflect the spectrum of the spirit, from the inspirational to the darkness of humanity. The arts and culture in Indigenous communities function on many levels - as tradition, as expression, as story - song, - dance, and as an economic activity. Through the arts, Indigenous communities link the past, present and future. The Indigenous arts and cultural sector is vibrant, complex and the site for much consideration of the leadership artists and arts managers play in Indigenous cultural and economic development.This paper aims to explore what's known of Indigenous leadership development in Australia through a scoping study of the literature available. This will then be compared with other Indigenous leadership development literature from around the world, I seek to clarify key themes and concepts for the development of Indigenous leaders like the acknowledgement of the diversity of Indigenous approaches and the importance of place and community in leadership work. I will place this body of knowledge into an arts and cultural context through a case study on the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural development. The Wilin Centre is situated in the Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts at the University of Melbourne. It is a unique Indigenous centre in that it is 95% philanthropically funded and based on a strategic purpose of cultural transformation. The paper will explore how the Wilin Centre supports the leadership development of individual Indigenous artists and their communities. Michelle Evans Indigenous Leadership in the Arts