Applications are now invited for the Arts Leadership Front and Centre program for women with disability.
This unique 10-month program supported by Accessible Arts, offers career coaching and professional development opportunities for up to 12 selected participants. The aim is to increase the representation of women with disability into arts and leadership positions such as artistic directors, board members and senior roles in programming and management.
Women with disability who are d/Deaf, have a chronic illness or mental health condition, and live in New South Wales, the ACT, Victoria, South Australia or Tasmania are invited to apply.
First Nations women, women from culturally linguistic backgrounds, older women, and women in regional locations are encouraged to apply.
Selection criteria includes:
- Commitment to your development as an artist, creative, arts or cultural worker
- Community engagement through an involvement in activities outside your own creative practise or organisation
- Awareness of issues affecting the arts sector in New South Wales, the ACT, Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania
- Willingness to take on feedback and reflect, and openness to external challenges
- An understanding of the importance of diversity in sustainability of arts culture, the barriers to representation and one’s own place within the arts and cultural sector.
Eight private career and leadership coaching sessions will be held online with accredited specialist arts and creative leadership coach Judith Bowtell of Albany Lane Consulting, with access to Albany Lane’s Learning Lab, including the online career development program’s self-assessment tools, values and skills matrix. There will also be access to the Front and Centre private Facebook group and alumni, support from the Accessible Arts team and introduction to potential mentors, women leaders, and arts and creative professionals as part of the Next Steps element of the program.
Online group sessions will be held throughout 2023, from February to November, with onboarding information sessions, workshops and webinars on topics including self-expression, service, community, self-care and financial literacy.
The graduation event will be held in Sydney in November 2023, with travel and accommodation covered.
Accessible Arts will be hosting an online information session and a Q&A on October 27, 2022 at 10am that will be captioned and Auslan interpreted. Click here to register.
Applications close on November 28, 2022.