Faculty of ArtThis truly is the busiest time of the year, I say, every month. But really, with many of our flagship events and opportunities opening up in Term 2, a lot has happened here at the Arts Amplifier! So, let’s take this opportunity to recap ✨ what we have been up to (and to showcase a bit of what’s coming soon)…
Entrepreneurship for Arts Graduate Students
Co-facilitated with Innovation UBC, our fourth annual workshop series, “Entrepreneurship for Arts Graduate Students,” will be wrapping up soon with our final showcase in April! Over the course of 3 biweekly sessions, our sessions introduced 16 Arts graduate students to the basics of starting a business, venture, or nonprofit.
Networking Week
On February 18-19, we had 20 students from 10 different departments in the Faculty Arts, and 11 hosts participate in Networking Week, for a total of 55 informational interviews! Overall, students found this opportunity to conduct informational interviews with professionals in non-academic careers to be useful in thinking about what transferable skills an Arts graduate student can bring to different industries. Hosts also enjoyed discussing students’ career aspirations and sharing their own professional journeys. See who has participated in previous years as hosts and bookmark this page for next year’s Networking Week!
Collaborative Cohort Projects
We have been hard at work setting up our 2025 Collaborative Cohort Summer Projects! In this innovative program, we pair interdisciplinary teams of Arts graduate students with community partners to work on a short-term paid project. We will be announcing our 2025 community partners and projects soon! In the meantime, check out past projects here.
Career Design Studio
It’s about to be hot girl summer – and by hot we mean forward thinking, and by girl we mean multifaceted hardworking grad student, and by summer we mean specifically 2024 Summer Term 1. Come join us in thinking about strategies for career and professional development after graduation. We’ll be running our next two-day Career Design Studio June 2-3. Stay tuned!
Custom talks and workshops
Over the winter term, we’ve facilitated and co-facilitated three talks on how to navigate questions around career professional development as an Arts graduate student, and one on non-research and creative grant opportunities for Arts grad students. Would you like to start a conversation around career diversity in your department? Whether you’re a grad student considering different career paths or a grad chair looking to offer wide-ranging professional development support to your grad students, feel free to reach out!
Written by Ying Han, Master’s student in Asian Studies, Curriculum Development and Communications Assistant at the Arts Amplifier.
Published 19 March 2025.