Our Future
Aboriginal Arts Worker Training Program
The Our Future: Aboriginal Arts Worker Training Program aims to support Aboriginal arts workers in regional and remote Western Australia by providing practical training and real-world on-the-job experience. This training program broadens participants’ perspectives in the arts and helps them develop new skills, which they can apply when they return to an art centre context. It supports emerging arts professionals to develop their knowledge and skills across a broad spectrum of arts and cultural specialisations.
![Ruby Alderton making glass message sticks at Dandjoo Darbalung (UWA), March 2024. Photograph by Balthazaar Media.](https://aachwa.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Our-Future-UWA-32.jpg)
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![Ruby Alderton, Sylvia Wilson, Rekeshia Goodwin, Monica Henry, Julieanne Farmer and Beverly Thomson at Dandjoo Darbalung (UWA), March 2024. Photograph by Balthazaar Media.](https://aachwa.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Our-Future-UWA-59-copy.jpg)
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![Our Future participants at Gallery Central learning about curating and planning art exhibitions, March 2024. Photograph by Balthazaar Media.](https://aachwa.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Our-Future-Tafe-Gallery-2-copy-1920x1280.jpg)
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![Rekeshia Goodwin with her print at North Metropolitan TAFE studio, March 2024. Photograph by Balthazaar Media.](https://aachwa.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Our-Future-Print-Making-49-1920x1280.jpg)
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Program Updates
Meet the 2024 Our Future Participants
Our Future Program Reach
The Our Future program began in 2019, and since its inception, more than 25 Aboriginal arts workers from over 15 WA Aboriginal art centres have successfully completed the program. Explore the map below to visualise the program’s wide-reaching impact.
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