Artwork by Geiler Kaila
From artists to community arts workers, educators to administrators, and directors – all of us who work with the arts – hold ​a concept of ‘The Arts’: a plural entity that provides our motivation and raison d’être.
But working in the arts is tough: competitive, poorly paid and insecure. What drives us to choose this sector? That is the question international cultural activist and musician Katherine Zeserson asked and answered in the opening keynote of the Australia Council Arts Learning Forum last week.
​Zeserman believes the driving force for being in the arts is the attraction of facilitating transformation. ‘I witness, facilitate and support people becoming themselves through the experience of being the arts.
