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 Artist in Residence
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What is Artist in Residence?
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Program Details
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About the Artist
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Funding
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Contact
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What is Artist in Residence?
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CMY will engage an artist during 2011 to strategically explore CMY’s role in the arts, creatively build relationships with young people from emerging communities, research best practice arts models for culturally and linguistically diverse young people, and disseminate findings to the wider arts community.
The drive behind this Artist in Residency program will be young people as community arts participants and the issues they feel as artists, community members and Australians. These issues will be explored, expanded on and expressed to the wider arts community for a richer process of engagement in the arts and the public realm as a whole.
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Program Details
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With the findings of the CMY pARTticipation Forum of 2010 as a guide, the main issues that will be explored will involve stereotyping and essentialism, pathways into the arts field and to the public, and the risk of exploitation of participants’ experiences and stories.
The program will involve a range of formats:
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- Critical discussion with young members on past and future arts participation projects on what measures can be taken to improve and enrich community arts process and outcomes;
- Creative workshops where labels, terminology and references can be explored;
- Engagements with members of the arts industry;
- Devising future projects and workshops that could be proposed for funding or partnership possibilities.
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About the Artist
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|  | Reeham Hakem began her Arts career as a Graphic Designer and Illustrator. Her practice involves working with painting, mixed media, printmaking, photography and digital work. Her artwork has been showcased at a number of temporary exhibits, with her content focused on addressing socio-cultural issues, mainly those pertaining to women.
Upon receiving her Public Arts Masters Degree in 2008 from RMIT, Reeham has been involved in a number of installation exhibits including at the Flemmington Housing Estate, Ceres Environmental Park, Russell Street and Dandenong.
Reeham’s main interest lies in observing the role of the public artist in creating instances of social engagement, using the interactive process to produce her artwork. As a workshop facilitator, public speaker and community worker, Reeham aims at incorporating arts practices with an understanding and encouraging of social dialogue.
She is currently a Director of Crooked Rib Art, an all-Muslim women arts collective established in 2008, and is an advisory panel member of the City of Melbourne ’s Arts and Participation Program. |
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Funding
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The Artist in Residence position is funded by a research and development grant from the City of Melbourne’s Arts Participation grant category.
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Contact
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For more information on the project, contact:
Bree McKilligan
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Coordinator – Arts and Culture
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Tel (03) 9340 3726
Email bmckilligan@cmy.net.au
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