OPEN SPACE: Professional Development Online Workshop Series 2026

May 18

Join our free online workshops for production in socially engaged art making, and learn how to connect better with communities and artists.

SPACED is very excited to share a fantastic opportunity with emerging producers, artists, and partner organisations. We are presenting a new 2026 series of the OPEN SPACE professional development program, courtesy of a partnership with UWA School of Design.

There are 6 online workshops, beginning 29 May 2026, weekly on Fridays 3-4pm. Each workshop will include 30-45 minutes of instruction on the topics below, followed by 15 minutes of group discussion facilitated by SPACED Director Elizabeth Pedler to allow participants time to reflect on the topic, and connect with their own experiences.

Friday May 29 - Susanne Meurer (UWA): Conservation and collections management.

Friday June 5 - Jacky Cheng (SPACED Rural Utopias artist): Collaborating with regional communities.

Friday June 12 - Faraday Boydell (UWA): Working with Aboriginal artists and organisations, ICIP.

Friday June 19 - Darren Jorgensen (UWA): Exhibition making, and mining the ad-hoc archive.

Friday June 26 - Elizabeth Pedler (SPACED Director): Artist residencies - timelines and project management.

Friday July 3 - Rebecca McCauley (UWA): Lessons from socially engaged practice: APHIDS, Field Theory and Gathaagudu.

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Note: Attendees do not need to register for separate sessions individually. Only one registration per person is necessary to receive access information and event updates for all of the sessions.

Although these workshops have been designed for emerging producers attached to the Circular Economies program, we are open to independent creatives, and arts workers from other organisations including local government are also very welcome to attend.

OPEN SPACE is a professional development program run in partnership with UWA School of Design. The professional development sessions for our current cohort of emerging producers assisting SPACED 5: Circular Economies artists included community engagement, documentation, creative production and more. It targeted the skills needed by producers working in community and socially engaged arts.

Image: HONF Narrogin Showcase, Irene & Haryo, by Danielle Halford.

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SPACED is supported by West Australian Government, through the Department of Creative Industries, Tourism and Sport, and the Commonwealth Government through Creative Australia.