News and events in the School of Art

Bachelor of Fine Art orientation day
All Bachelor of Fine Art students are requested to attend the BA Fine Art Orientation Day. It is very important that you attend.

Master of Fine Art program information session
All MFA students are requested to attend a program information session. We hold this session only once so it is very important that you attend this session. Please bring a pen & note book.

Shanghai Residency Opportunity for RMIT Staff, Students and Alumni
A new annual residency exchange partnership will commence in 2012 between the RMIT School of Art and East China Normal University (ECNU) in Shanghai, PR China.

Canadian Indigenous Arts Residency Opportunity
In 2011, an annual Indigenous arts residency exchange partnership commenced between the RMIT School of Art and the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. Applications for the Canadian residency are being sought from Indigenous artists (with or without a pre-existing affiliation to RMIT University).

Austrian Residency Opportunity for RMIT Staff, Students, and Alumni
In 2007 an annual residency exchange partnership began between the RMIT School of Art and the Krems International Studio Residency Program. The Krems residency is located in a town located directly on the Danube river in the Wachau region of Lower Austria.

15/05/2012 Midyear expo: Architecture, Art and Design
You weren’t born to wait.

24/05/2012 Art graduates work for sale
In 2012 RMIT School of Art graduates will again be attending the Affordable Art Fair to sell their work. Below are just some of the amazing pieces that will be available for sale.

01/06/2012 School of Art Graduate Research Conference
A series of workshops, speakers, confirmation and completions seminars by higher degrees by research candidates.

06/06/2012 Accumulated experience
This exhibition, inspired by Elkhonon Goldberg’s book The Wisdom Paradox , considers how our everyday experiences are constantly accumulated and affect the formation of our ‘selfhood’.

14/06/2012 Indigenous arts residency exchange
The School of Art’s international Artist in Residence Program—iAIR—in collaboration with the University of Lethbridge’s Gushul Studios hosts an annual Indigenous residency exchange between Canada and Australia. These reciprocal residencies have been established to foster an increased mobility for artists and promote cross-cultural exchange and dialogue.

Drawing interest in London 18/05/2012
Three RMIT University staff curated exhibitions at the Drawing Out 2012 conference in London recently.

Artist-in-Residence in Iceland to pursue research interest in art and climate change 16/05/2012
Following her presentation at the Art in Translation conference at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik, Professor Lesley Duxbury who is Deputy Head, Research and Innovation in the School of Art, will travel to north-east Iceland to take up a month long artist-in-residence at the Listhus in the small, remote community of Olafsfjordur.

Handshake of trust 14/05/2012
Initiated by the Design Research Institute at RMIT University, "Trust: Intervention through art" aims to tackle issues surrounding trust in the public arena through the medium of visual art.

School of Art Graduate Research Conference 10/05/2012
A series of workshops, speakers, confirmation and completions seminars by higher degrees by research candidates.

Art student shines light on TAFE 12/04/2012
Diploma of Visual Art graduate Sara Crotty, who has just started in the Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) degree has been awarded RMIT’s most Outstanding TAFE Student of the Year for 2011.