Leadership in tertiary art eduction.
Innovations in tertiary Art Education include:
21st Century Curriculum Design & Innovation
Artist Careers Expo
Art School Portal
Work Integrated Learning & Kaldor Arts
Building Resilience for Artists
March for Art
From 2010 -2020 in the School of Art at RMIT University I provided expert curriculum leadership, and strategic advice to ensure RMIT Fine Art programs were current, relevant and robust enough to engage positively with the fast-evolving world.
I initiated, designed and implemented a range of digital and work-integrated-learning (WIL) resources in Fine Art; led and developed program-wide benchmarking standards for assessment in Fine Art; and worked collaboratively with the RMIT Counselling Service to design, implement and lead a school-based resilience program for Fine Art students. I collaborated with Associate Professor Peter Ellis in the School of Art to host several Careers Expo events about Developing your career in Fine Art: being enterprise ready to ensure students in creative disciplines were graduating ready for life and work. These initiatives are forward thinking and progressive and culminated in an innovative, online resources for the field of Fine Art Education (see https://artschoolportal.com/).
publications related to art education include:
Hussey-Smith, K. and A. Clarke. (In press). ‘The future of photography and collaboration education: towards pedagogies of becoming’. In M. Bertrand & K. Chambefort (Eds.), Photography and collaboration. Paris: Bordeaux-Montaigne Press.
Clarke, A.; Hulbert, S.; and Summers, F. 2018. “Towards a Fair, Rigorous and Transparent Fine Art Curriculumand Assessment Framework”. Arts, 7, 81. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts7040081
Clarke, A., K. Sharp, and M. Tai, 2017. “Technology-Enabled Curriculum for Transnational Education in Art History and Theory”, International Journal of Education & the Arts, 18 (40): 1 – 21. http://www.ijea.org/v18n40/
Clarke, A. and S. Hulbert. 2016. “Envisioning the future: Working toward sustainability in fine art education.” International Journal of Art and Design Education 35: 36 – 50. https://doi.org/10.1111/jade.12047
Summers, F., and A. Clarke. 2015. “In-betweenness: being mother, academic and artist.” Journal of Family Studies 21: 235 – 247. https://doi.org/10.1080/13229400.2015.1058846
Clarke, A. and P. Cripps. 2012. “Fostering creativity: a multiple intelligences approach to designing learning in undergraduate fine art.” International Journal of Art & Design Education 31: 113 – 126. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1476-8070.2012.01736.x
Budge, K. and A. Clarke. 2012. “Academic development is a creative act.” International Journal for Academic Development 17: 59 – 70. https://doi.org/10.1080/1360144X.2011.587192
Clarke, A. and K. Budge. 2010. “Listening for Creative Voices amid the Cacophony of Fiscal Complaint about Art and Design Education.” International Journal of Art and Design Education 29 (2). https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1476-8070.2010.01641.x.
