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15 May 2012

Congratulations to alumni Lee Searle (BDance, 2003) and Gian Slater (BMusPerf, 2003) who are successful applicants of the Creative Australia Fellowships for young and emerging artists, delivered by the Australia Council.

Kate Just, ‘Paradise’ 2006, hand knitted, machine knitted and hand rug-hooked wool, clay, fibreglass, plastic, metal, glue, 150 x 300 x 280cm, courtesy of the artist and Daine Singer.

15 May 2012

Artist Kate Just, Lecturer in Painting at the VCA, is well known for creating tactile sculptures and installations reinterpreting historic, mythic and iconographic objects and figures often linked to women's histories. ‘Kate Just: The Knitted Works 2004-2011’ is an exhibition presented at Ararat Regional Art Gallery from 17 May - 8 July.

7 May 2012

KAGE, founded by VCA alumni Kate Denborough (BDance, 1994) and Gerard van Dyck (BDance, 1995) celebrates its 15th anniversary this year. They talk to The Age about their new production "Sundowner".

Image courtesy of the Guerrilla Girls

2 May 2012

Victorian College of the Arts students will receive a crash course in how art can be used as a tool of protest and as a catalyst for social change, by a group self-styled American ‘masked avengers’.

1 May 2012

Percussionist Alex Pertout, Head of Contemporary Music Performance at the VCA and vocalist Nilusha Dassenaike (BFineArt 1997, BMusPerf 2004) have released a new contemporary jazz album Moments in Time. It has been featured as album of the week on ABC Jazz , on Radio National's The Inside Sleeve and received a four star review in The Age.

27 April 2012

Current Master of Writing for Performance student, Glyn Roberts has been shortlisted for the 2011 Patrick White Playwrights’ Award with his work Triangle. Past winners include alumni Angus Cerini (BCA, 2000), Melissa Bubnic (GradDipFTV, 2005) and current VCA lecturer in Writing for Performance Raimondo Cortese (DipDramArts, 1993). Aussie Theatre reports.

24 April 2012

Join Centre for Cultural Partnerships Research Fellow, James Oliver, on 10 May in a public discussion with other Melbourne academics and designers, hosted by Architects for Peace.

18 April 2012

Read the April issue of the VCA & MCM e-newsletter.

18 April 2012

Associate Professor Susan O’Neill, a psychologist and musician working in arts education at Simon Fraser University in Canada, is a Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. Listen to her talk to Natasha Mitchell on ABC Radio National about performance anxiety.

16 April 2012

Theatre lecturer Robert Walton talks to TheatrePeople about his current work with Fish & Game, Alma Mater,  Spine-tingling iPad Theatre In The Confines Of An Intimate White Room.

6 April 2012

Visions episode Turning 40 celebrates the 40th birthdays of both the Victorian College of the Arts and the Ian Potter Museum of Art. The cameras captured the sights and sounds of the VCA's Street Party, which saw hundreds of students, staff and alumni party the night away.

4 April 2012

Jon Cattapan discusses the ideas and inspiration behind his latest exhibition 'Imagine A Raft', at Dominik Mersch Gallery in Sydney.