Arts Industry Education & Development

Are you a senior secondary or tertiary art and design educator? Are you looking for arts industry education and/or professional development opportunities to complement your teaching? tbC’s Arts Industry Education and Development Program might be just what you are looking for.

tbC has been operating for thirteen years. It is a youth-led, adult and peer mentored artist-run initiative that supports young artists in building artistic practices and careers via an accessible and ongoing studio space that generates creative opportunities and recognition.

tbC’s Arts Industry Education and Development Program engages creative learners in workshops, site tours, folio support, exam preparation and creative practices that supplement secondary and tertiary art and design curricula. tbC enlists the help of its young members in delivering this program, making it accessible and relevant. Artists share their experiences of co-founding an artist-run space and the building of artistic practices and careers. Key areas of knowledge transfer include collaborative practice, mentoring, studio-based learning, creative production, exhibition development and artist-run governance.

Earlier programs have been very successful, with many schools participating from inner and outer Melbourne. The current program (a re-boot after Covid) is available in a virtual, incursion and/or site-specific format. The sessions are 2-3 hours long, for which tbC charges a small fee. The virtual sessions are intimate, interactive and creative - making the program accessible nationally and internationally.

Should you be interested in discussing how tbC can build a session that suits your students’ learning needs, please contact Tiffaney Bishop on 0414 620637 or via email at tiffaneybishop@gmail.com. 

I just wanted to say a huge thank you for having us yesterday. Our visit was fantastic. I love what you are doing and was so encouraged by your passion for art and artists – especially young artists. Sometimes in school, it’s hard to get across to students that what they are doing is more than just a subject with criteria to fulfil. The girls were inspired by what they saw and heard and now have some great information for themselves and their November exam. We wish you all the best in whatever direction tbC takes and look forward to hearing more great things.