Art is a Real Job

Image: Emma Pham, 2023.
ID: Graphic featuring a purple blue gradient background and text in black font with pink and green shadow that reads, ‘Art is a Real Job’. Around the text are four graphic images of hands in pink and green.

Art is a Real Job is a free national program throughout March 2023. Dissect and champion NAVA’s new Code of Practice via four artist-led online events, including workshops, studio tours and panel conversations targeted at secondary school students, educators and pre-service educators.

Each session will explore what it means to have a sustainable, ethical and successful career in the visual arts, craft and design sector. A variety of themes will be explored across the four events, including Exhibiting Your Work, Ethics & Environmental Responsibility, Working with Galleries and Money Matters.

Participants will engage with twelve contemporary Australian artists to learn about how good industry practice has helped shape their careers and navigate the art world with confidence. You are invited to join as many of the following sessions as you like. 

Register your class, or as an individual educator or pre-service educator using the links below.

Certificates of attendance linked to AITSL standards will be provided via email following the session. Please complete a new registration for each educator or pre-service educator attending to ensure you receive your certificate. Educators are to provide materials and equipment for their students or self. A materials list, suggested webcam and Zoom instructions are available at each event webpage.

These online events via Zoom will be closed captioned and Auslan interpreted.

Exhibiting Your Work - Thursday 9 March 2023

8:00 am - 12:30 pm AWST Perth
9:30 am - 2:00 pm  ACST Darwin
10:00 am - 2:30 AEST Brisbane
10:30 am - 3:00 pm ACDT Adelaide 
11:00 am - 3:30 AEDT Canberra, Hobart, Melbourne, Sydney

Artists

Tim Meakins (WA)
April Phillips (NSW)
Thomas Readett (SA)

Ethics & Environmental Responsibility - Thursday 16 March 2023

8:00 am - 12:30 pm AWST Perth
9:30 am - 2:00 pm  ACST Darwin
10:00 am - 2:30 AEST Brisbane
10:30 am - 3:00 pm ACDT Adelaide 
11:00 am - 3:30 AEDT Canberra, Hobart, Melbourne, Sydney

Artists

Carly Tarkari Dodd (SA)
Sally Craven (SA)
Annika Romeyn (ACT)

Working with Galleries - Thursday 23 March 2023

8:00 am - 12:30 pm AWST Perth
9:30 am - 2:00 pm  ACST Darwin
10:00 am - 2:30 AEST Brisbane
10:30 am - 3:00 pm ACDT Adelaide 
11:00 am - 3:30 AEDT Canberra, Hobart, Melbourne, Sydney

Artists

Sam Gold (SA)
Nikki Lam (Vic)
Lisa Sammut (ACT)

Money Matters - Thursday 30 March 2023

8:00 am - 12:30 pm AWST Perth
9:30 am - 2:00 pm  ACST Darwin
10:00 am - 2:30 AEST Brisbane
10:30 am - 3:00 pm ACDT Adelaide 
11:00 am - 3:30 AEDT Canberra, Hobart, Melbourne, Sydney

Artists

Kay Abude (Vic)
Rachel Burke (Qld)
Ryan Presley (Qld)

NAVA acknowledges and pays respects to the rightful custodians of the many First Nations Lands upon which this online event will be streamed and received. We recognise all Custodians of Country throughout all lands, waters and territories, and pay respect to First Nations communities' Ancestors and Elders. Sovereignty was never ceded.