All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 December New creative fellowships to support arts sector New creative fellowships to support arts sector 16/12/2021 | 3 MINS Two of Western Australia’s leading arts practitioners have been awarded creative research fellowships as part of a new program to encourage arts and humanities professionals to pursue further study in their areas of interest. Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson and Dr Jo Pollitt have been named inaugural recipients of Forrest Research Foundation’s Creative and Performance Leadership Fellowships. A Fine Arts graduate from Lombok Institute of Technology, as well as award-winning Iranian-Australian Bahai video artist, research director and researcher, Ms Eshraghian-Haakansson has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. Working in community arts and collaborative social practice, she examines empathy in film-poems, uncovering ways to build identity in first and second generation Iranian-Australians and the Bahá'í community. For her fellowship Ms Eshraghian-Haakansson will explore new ground in digital media,
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 December New creative fellowships to support arts sector New creative fellowships to support arts sector 16/12/2021 | 3 MINS Two of Western AustraliaΓÇÖs leading arts practitioners have been awarded creative research fellowships as part of a new program to encourage arts and humanities professionals to pursue further study in their areas of interest.
Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson and Dr Jo Pollitt have been named inaugural recipients of Forrest Research FoundationΓÇÖs Creative and Performance Leadership Fellowships.
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A Fine Arts graduate from Lombok Institute of Technology, as well as award-winning Iranian-Australian Bahai video artist, research director and researcher, Ms Eshraghian-Haakansson has exhibited her work nationally and internationally.
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Working in community arts and collaborative social practice, she examines empathy in film-poems, uncovering ways to build identity in first and second generation Iranian-Australians and the Bahá'í community.
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For her fellowship Ms Eshraghian-Haakansson will explore new ground in digital media,
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