Like many universities nationally, Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is facing pressure to deliver cost-cutting measures. Also, as with other institutions, the first place to look for those cuts is the arts and humanities.
On 6 November, Vice-Chancellor Professor Margaret Sheil AO presented to a forum of over 900 QUT staff what that may look like. She used the Queensland University Art Museum (QUTAM) as an example of the type of engagement activities that would be terminated by the University, saying, “It’s looking at some of the nice-to-do things that had more benefits for the community than QUT. So we [have] paused the exhibitions into the QUT Art Museum. A number of them have supported artists from the community rather than QUT.”
