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Unit of Study AAD73304 - Professional Practice (2019)

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  • Enrolment information

    This unit offers professional development as the catalyst for the end of year Graduate Exhibition for Bachelor of Art & Design students. Students must be enrolled in this unit to participate in the Graduate Exhibition. A minimum 80% attendance record for all scheduled classes is required to qualify for a passing grade.

Unit description

Equips art and design students with some of the key competencies necessary to make the successful transition from art school to professional artistic practice. The unit comprises primarily of talks by a wide spectrum of art industry professionals on issues including: the art market; the gallery circuit; artist-run spaces; entrepreneurship opportunities and public commissions.

Unit content

  • Management of a project, both financial and legal, as it relates to fine artists.
  • Graduate Exhibition and other exhibitions.
  • Developing general business skills and knowledge to thrive as a contemporary artist.
  • Proposal writing in order to exhibit the skills necessary to conceive, plan and carry out an exhibiting practice.
  • Importance of peer groups, networking and social media.
  • How to continue to research and develop your practice away from the support of an art school.
  • Identify issues that relate to a Fine Art professional practice in the art industry, both from a local and global perspective.
  • Develop a language and models with which to approach your emerging arts practice professionally and as an arts business.

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Lismore Session 2 Session 2

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 identify issues that relate to a Fine Art professional practice in the art industry, both from a local and global perspective.
2 develop a language and models with which to approach your emerging arts practice professionally and as an arts business.
3 understand exhibition practices and implementation
4 place their practice within an understanding of the Australian and international art and cultural economy
5 understand the forms of professional practice in fine arts and arts related industry, including development of a professional CV, the ability to write and budget for grant applications and deal with galleries and professional organisations.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. identify issues that relate to a Fine Art professional practice in the art industry, both from a local and global perspective.
    • GA3:
    • GA7:
  2. develop a language and models with which to approach your emerging arts practice professionally and as an arts business.
    • GA5:
    • GA6:
  3. understand exhibition practices and implementation
    • GA6:
  4. place their practice within an understanding of the Australian and international art and cultural economy
    • GA5:
    • GA7:
  5. understand the forms of professional practice in fine arts and arts related industry, including development of a professional CV, the ability to write and budget for grant applications and deal with galleries and professional organisations.
    • GA3:

Prescribed learning resources

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Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.