ArtsHub‘s friends across the Tasman at The Big Idea have produced a series of learning modules offering advice from experts on core topics and aimed at helping creatives along the road to success in their practice. There are four separate modules, each comprising a series of linked videos. Learning Module 1, Roadmap to Success, has eight videos; Module 2, Selling Yourself, has five videos; Module 3, Media and Publicity, has five videos and Module 4, Networking and Mentoring, has five videos.
Until the end of the year ArtsHub will share these one of these videos every Monday in order that Australian creatives can benefit from their wisdom, practical advice and expertise too.
We’re now sharing the Networking and Mentoring – Learning Module 4, in which we meet and hear from Linda Tyler, a New Zealand curator, writer and seasoned mentor, whose career has developed from being an exhibit herself (!) to teaching art and design history at universities across Aotearoa. In this module she reveals her hacks for growth through networking, social media and mentoring.
In the penultimate video of the fourth Learning Module, Communities of Interest, Tyler explains how her experience of mentoring has helped her find her creative sector tribes, which she dubs ‘communities of interest’. And to ensure those communities develop and thrive she recommends taking some simple steps: keep the connection going, be consistent and always remember your manners, especially when it comes to thanking people for services rendered.
Look out for the very last in this series of videos for the last Module 4, Conclusion, where Tyler sums up the advice of her previous four chapters.
The video Networking and Mentoring – Learning Module 4, Mentoring was originally published on The Big Idea’s Learning Network. You can find it here.
To see all the ArtsHub Learning Module posts in one place.
