YAM Young Creatives 2025

As a YAM Young Creative, you will meet like-minded creative young people, learn from artists, participate in workshops, contribute to youth programs and gain both personal and professional insights into creative industries and working in a gallery or museum.

As a successful participant, you will have the opportunity to:

• Connect with other local youth creatives
• Experience the studios and working environment of practicing artists
• Gain insights into how artists sustain their practice including conceptual development of work, exhibiting and selling work, marketing and running their own creative businesses
• Experience back-of-house operations at the museum and gallery, including install and de-install of major exhibitions, packing works, maintaining the collection including digitisation of work, gallery marketing, arts and cultural programming, and meeting artists face-to-face.
• Work in a team environment to develop youth-focused programs, create audio tours and help in running events while being paid at the same time

Upon completion of the program, participants will be issued with a personalised certificate for their contribution to the program. YAM Young Creatives meet twice a month (once virtually and once in-person at YAM) from February until December 2025.

Get involved in this incredible opportunity! Help shape the way Coffs Harbour’s youth engage with art and gain real life experience in the artworld at the same time.  

There is no cost to join this program, however, applicants need to formally apply. Enrolments will be open until all places are filled and participants can join throughout the year if places are become available. If you need assistance with this application or have special needs, please contact Toni Southwell (details below).

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Applications are open until all places are filled.

The next meeting will be in February 2025.

For more information and to apply visit the website or contact:

Toni Southwell
Programs Facilitator Gallery and Museum