On the move: latest arts sector appointments

In this week's arts sector appointments, chairs come and go, and an artistic director's tenure is extended for another year.
A barefoot youth is caught mid-summersault, silhouetted against the setting sun; other people walk past him and behind him. arts sector appointments

This week’s round-up of arts sector departures and appointments includes new board and executive committee members at the Australian String Quartet and the Victorian Association of Performing Arts Centres, as well as the extension of a current artistic director’s tenure.

The Australian String Quartet, the Quartet-in-Residence at Adelaide University, has announced the appointment of three new national board members. Christobel Botten, Felicity McKenzie and Jayne Taylor are the latest recruits to join the organisation’s governing team.

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Richard Watts OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the 2019 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in early 2020. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association in 2021, and a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Photo: Fiona Hamilton. Follow Richard on Bluesky @richardthewatts.bsky.social and Instagram @richard.l.watts