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AAANZ ARTS WRITING AND PUBLISHING AWARDS FOR 2024 – ENTRIES CLOSE 21 JUNE

June 17, 2024AWAPA, Prizes

The AWAPAs highlight the vitality of arts publishing in the region and acknowledges the contribution of both emerging and established scholars, curators and artists. The Awards play a pivotal role in promoting the importance of writing and publishing in disseminating knowledge and understanding of the visual arts, craft and design. They are the only prizes in the Australasia region to celebrate the publishing achievements writers make to the field. Categories for the AWAPAs include prizes for books, exhibition catalogues, artist led publications, Indigenous Australian, Māori and Pasifika art writing. AWAPAs recognise: Originality and rigour of scholarship Contribution to knowledge in the area […]

Expression of Interest: SHAPE Futures EMCR Network Executive Committee Positions

June 17, 2024News

The SHAPE Futures EMCR Network aims to support, connect and advocate for early and mid-career researchers (EMCRs) working in the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Arts for People and Environment (SHAPE) disciplines across Australia. The SHAPE Futures Executive Committee is recruiting EMCRs interested in these objectives to take on a role within the Network Executive. All members of the executive are expected to attend the monthly meetings (held via Zoom), with other tasks allocated that are aligned to the position description. The time commitment will vary each month and depending on the role held by an individual. On average, it is […]

Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 25.2: Open Issue

June 17, 2024ANZJA, Call for Papers

Call for Papers | Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 25.2: Open Issue Submissions of essays DUE: December 20, 2024. Editor in Chief: Dr Verónica Tello Managing Editor: Dr Anastasia Murney Editorial Committee: Dr Diana Baker Smith, Professor Jennifer Biddle, Dr Bianca Hester, Dr Astrid Lorange, Dr Kasia Jezowska, Dr Shuxia Chen, Dr Jaye Early The editors of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art (ANZJA) are calling for submissions for the Journal’s next open issue, published in December 2025. We seek original essays, dialogues, visual essays, and other texts that engage with artists, visual culture, exhibitions, critical […]

International Artist Residencies | Arquetopia Decolonial Scholarship

June 17, 2024Opportunity

Are you passionate about exploring a decolonial framework and expanding your artistic practice while driving social change? We have exciting subsidized scholarships available for the Fall of 2024 and Winter/Spring of 2025 in Cusco, Oaxaca, or Puebla! Arquetopia invites visual artists, designers, writers, and students aged 22 and over to apply for our special artist-in-residence scholarships. Our residencies offer a unique space where resistance, knowledge, and ethics intersect. We are dedicated to imagining a collective present, past, and future that prioritizes the well-being of all participants. Residents are encouraged to challenge dominant forms of knowledge, including tourism, art history, and […]

AAANZ ARTS WRITING AND PUBLISHING AWARDS FOR 2024 – ENTRIES CLOSE 21 JUNE

June 3, 2024AWAPA, Prizes

ANNOUCEMENT | Sir William Dobell Chair and Fellows for 2024 | Applications open for 2025 (deadline 31 July)

May 27, 2024Research Fellowship

ANNOUCEMENT Sir William Dobell Chair and Fellows for 2024 20 May 2024 BACKGROUND The Sir William Dobell Art Foundation was formed in 1971 in memory of the Archibald prize-winning Australian artist Sir William Dobell (1899-1970), who was known for his landscapes and portrait paintings. The Foundation established the Sir William Dobell Chair of Art History at ANU, which it has continued to support for 30 years. This position has helped the College of Arts and Social Sciences support a teacher and researcher and strengthened the university’s position as a leader in art history and curatorial studies. In 2023 the Centre […]

Job | Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Fine Art | Monash University

May 27, 2024Jobs

Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Fine Art Job No: 665734 Location: Caulfield campus Employment Type: Lecturer – Part-time, fraction (0.6); Senior Lecturer – Part-time, fraction (0.8) Duration: Continuing appointment Remuneration: Pro-rata of $111,603 – $132,529 pa Level B / $136,711 – $157,637 pa Level C (plus 17% employer superannuation) Amplify your impact at a world top 50 University Join our inclusive, collaborative community Be surrounded by extraordinary ideas – and the people who discover them The Opportunity The Department of Fine Art is seeking a highly motivated Lecturer and Senior Lecturer to develop excellence in teaching and research in the area of Fine Art. We […]

TIAMSA Conference Melbourne | University of Melbourne | 10 – 13 July

May 27, 2024Conference

From 10th–13th July 2024, the University of Melbourne will host the 7th annual conference of The International Art Market Studies Association (TIAMSA). As the first iteration of TIAMSA to be staged outside Europe, the TIAMSA Conference Melbourne 2024 aims to engage with current and emerging perspectives on the art market with a particular focus on the implications and challenges created by the evolving and expanding diversified world art markets of the 21st century. Free and open to the public, TIAMSA Melbourne Conference will highlight the research of local and international scholars and specialists. To register for this free international conference and for […]

CALL FOR SESSIONS | AAANZ 2024 CONFERENCE | DEADLINE EXTENEDED TO SUNDAY 26 MAY

May 20, 2024AAANZ Conference, Call for Panels

AAANZ 2024 Conference Wednesday 4 to Friday 6 December 2024, Australian National University, Canberra Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of AAANZ, this year’s conference will encourage participants to explore the past, present, and possible futures of art history and arts practice in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. The call for sessions for the 2024 AAANZ Conference ‘Past, Present, Possible Futures’ is now open. Proposal due date: Sunday 12 May 2024 Sunday 26 May Submit a Proposal Enquiries and questions to the conference committee conf@aaanz.info Conference Theme | Past, Present, Possible Futures Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of AAANZ, this year’s conference will encourage participants to explore the […]

Call for Papers | Perspective | INHA | Deadline 17 June

May 20, 2024Call for Papers

COM_Perspective_Anachronismes_CFP_AN Perspective will explore, in its 2025 – 2 issue, co-edited by Thomas Golsenne (INHA), Hélène Leroy (Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris) and Hélène Valance (université Bourgogne-Franche-Comté/InVisu), to the question of anachronisms in art history. Since at least the 1960s, a number of critical approaches have emerged with regard to sweeping Western approaches that classified artworks and artists in successive stylistic periods, and even based the discipline on these temporal and formal categories. They made it possible to call into question the 19th-century “historism” that confused the scholars’ temporal categories with the historical phenomena themselves, juste as they have redefined periods as designations of time, objects of history. In […]