Michelle Evans

Michelle holds a Bachelor in Communications (Theatre/Media), a Graduate Diploma in Arts Management and a Master of Creative Arts (Research) and is currently studying towards a PhD with the Melbourne Business School focusing on Indigenous Arts Leadership. Michelle is an internationally accredited Partnership Broker with the Overseas Development Institute/International Business Leader Forum.

Michelle is the Head of the founding Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development, managing The Faculty of the Victorian College of the Art's commitment to Indigenous artists, curriculum change and Indigenous communities and culture. She teaches solely in the faculty's Postgraduate area specialising in Community Cultural Development and Indigenous Arts Management. She has long-standing research and policy/industry development interests in the Indigenous arts industry, community cultural development and multi sector partnership brokering. She has also been involved as a supervisor for Postgraduate students across all artistic disciplines in The Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts.

Michelle comes from the Hunter Valley in New South Wales. Over the past twelve years, she has worked across the arts and cultural sector, being instrumental in the establishment of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Student Network, Ngorekah Aboriginal Theatre, 3KND and the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development.

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