Education
QUT offers a range of education programs across its premier visual arts venues - QUT Art Museum, William Robinson Gallery and the Creative Industries Precinct. These programs are designed to expand learning beyond the classroom encouraging cultural literacy and critical thinking through a professional exhibition program, labs and workshops, and the QUT Art Collection.
Students can participate in full day immersive program, Art Beyond the Classroom (ABC), or learn new skills at new-media/digital lab workshops.
Education Program Facilitators
Arts education professionals conduct all education programs across QUT Precincts. Facilitators for 2012 include:
Megan Williams is Curator (Public Programs) at QUT Art Museum and the William Robinson Gallery. She graduated from QUT with a Bachelor of Creative Industries (Interdisciplinary) with distinction in 2005. She joined the QUT Art Museum team soon after and accepted the position of Curator (Public Programs) in 2008 where she develops and delivers education and public programming.
Megan presents the education programming, including guided tours at QUT Art Museum and the William Robinson Gallery.
Olivia Porgand is part of the curatorial team at QUT's Creative Industries Precinct, facilitating the new media exhibition program. Olivia also coordinates the Precinct's extensive public programming, engaging with local schools and creative community hubs. Olivia graduated from QUT in 2010 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Arts) with distinction.
Olivia presents the education programming, including guided tours, at the Creative Industries Precinct.
Pia Robinson is part of the curatorial team at QUT Art Museum and the William Robinson Gallery. She has undertaken study nationally and internationally, including Marketing the Visual Arts and Art as an Alternative Investment at Sotheby's Institute of Art London, Graduate Diploma in Arts Management from QUT and Bachelor of Fine Arts from QCA.
Pia presents the education programming, including guided tours at QUT Art Museum and the William Robinson Gallery.
Iain Anderson is an editor, animator, designer, developer and Apple Certified Trainer based in Brisbane, Australia. He has taught privately and in tertiary institutions, and has freelanced for Microsoft and the Queensland Government.
Comfortable with anything from Quartz Composer to Second Life and Final Cut Studio to Adobe Creative Suite, he has laid out books, booklets, brochures and business cards; retouched magazine covers and product packaging, shot and edited short films and animated for HD broadcast shows, film festivals and for the web.
Iain presents the LABS at the Creative Industries Precinct.
