AHC Visual Arts Residency 2007

Australian High Commission Visual Arts Residency at Gunnery Studios, Sydney open to visual artists in Malaysia -Under the Cultural Program of the Australian Hign Comission in Malaysia, a Malaysian artist will be selected to be based in Sydney for 2-3 months to hone their skills and create new artworks.

It's a good exposure for budding artist and the residency will be at Gunnery Studios. The studios are part of the Gunnery Visual Arts Centre which was refurbished by the Ministry for the Arts and opened in September 1992. The Gunnery currently houses Artspace, the National Association for the Visual Arts, the Museum and Galleries Foundation of NSW and Biennale of Sydney. The studios are managed by Artspace Visual Arts Centre.

Past years’ Resident Artists include Yee I-Lann, Abdul Multhalib Musa, Noor Mahnun Mohamed and Roslisham Ismail.

For more info, please view Australia High Commission's website.
Deadline for application is 23 February 2007. Decisions will be announced by mid April 2007.
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M.I.T. Degrees For Free

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology ("MIT"), through the OpenCourseWare ("OCW")movement, will by the end of this year will offer the contents of all 1,800 courses taught at one of the world's most prestigious universities online to anyone in the world, anywhere in the world. Learners won't have to register for the classes, and everyone is accepted.

For more info, check out MIT OCW's website.

This MIT OCW is part of a OCW Consortium which includes Tufts University in Medford, Mass and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in the United States. Amongst its consortium members are the Michigan State, Michigan, Notre Dame and Utah State. Internationally, members include groups of universities in China, Japan and Spain.

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