Enrol in a new Single Course at the School of Art RMIT University.
Working in First Peoples Contexts: creative partnerships and cultural production

This course has been developed by Worimi artist and educator Genevieve Grieves of GARUWA in collaboration with RMIT University.

This course is delivered as an in person intensive at the Melbourne Museum over 4 days in June 13–16 with three online sessions: June 6 (7–9pm), an optional tutorial on June 27 (10am–12noon), and final presentations (tbc).

This First Peoples-led course provides opportunities for you to learn and apply knowledge and skills across a range of cultural and social frameworks, including settler-colonialism and race that inform Australian society. You will begin to evolve a self-reflexivity that positions you in relation to these national issues and application for broader global Indigenous contexts. You will build a transferrable set of skills that encompasses intercultural, collaborative, self-determining approaches to working with communities. Through presentation of historical and contemporary contexts of Australian case studies, the course supports professional learning and career development learning in fields such as art, design, festivals, public art, and arts education industries as well as fields focused on education, community engagement, or local government. 

This course provides career development learning opportunities that may include engaging in real-world projects with community and industry partners, and/or simulated projects based in professional contexts. You will engage in learning that involves a range of activities, both face to face and online, such as seminars, presentations by industry professionals, discussions, group work, independent research and student presentations. Assessment tasks will require you to develop your own project, with activities which will require you to engage with existing partnership projects with First Peoples communities and organisations, and to research, develop and plan your own project. The course will include guest presentations, literature and readings, and various traditional, popular and contemporary art forms will be used to explore, consider and engage with cultural projects partnered with First Peoples communities and organisations.  

Classes are designed to be culturally safe for Indigenous and non-Indigenous students and provide an open forum for the discussion of ideas, dilemmas, challenges and opportunities. Classes cater for all levels of experience and are a place for constructive critique, group and individual learning. Mutual support, sharing of knowledge and full participation is strongly encouraged.

For more information about the course see here or contact Associate Professor Marnie Badham via email.

Single courses are suited to those interested in expanding their knowledge or who are looking to up-skill for personal or professional reasons without enrolling into a full degree program.

How to apply for an RMIT Single Course
https://www.rmit.edu.au/study-with-us/single-courses
*go to the bottom of the page for a link to the online application form

Course Code: OART1103
Course Title: Working in First Peoples Contexts: creative partnerships and cultural production
Semester: Semester 1 2023
Course Fee: $3,360

Image: Still from baban darrang (mother tree), 2021, Genevieve Grieves, Wurundjeri Country