The VCA is committed to providing transformative learning experience in pursuit of artistic excellence, innovation and an absorbing education. Our learning environment has an atmosphere of critical confidence and creative risk taking, as well as high expectations in development of skill and facility.
We welcome you to our community of artists from many backgrounds that are passionate and committed to the production of new artistic work.
WOMINJEKA/Welcome to the traditional lands of the Kulin Nations, where we draw on the strength of more than 1000 generations of arts practice.
We respectfully acknowledge the people of the Boon Wurrung and the Woi Wurrung who have danced their dances, sung their songs and lived their culture on this land for tens of thousand of years.
- Tuesday 2:00pmMusic on the Mind - Why aren’t there ...
- Monday 2:00pmMusic on the Mind - The Paradox of Tr...
- ACUADS Conference 2014
- Wednesday 2:00pmDDCA Inaugural Conference
- Monday 2:00pmMusic on the Mind - 8 Things To Give ...
- Tuesday 6:30pmCrewing for Foundations
- Marvel at the Windsor
- Wednesday 6:00pmMusic on the Mind - Therapeutic effec...
- Moths are Calling - Master of Fine Ar...
- Public to Marvel as VCA artists transform historic Windsor Hotel
Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) students will transform Melbourne’s Windsor Hotel into a public gallery while vying for The Windsor Art Award, a $10 000 scholarship recognising Australia’s best emerging talent. Opening on Melbourn...
- Skywhale creator wins national art prize
Visual artist Patricia Piccinini was recognised by the Melbourne Art Foundation receiving the Artist Prize in its National Awards for the Visual Arts. ‘‘I’ve been working with the same sort of ideas for many years and I think ov...
- re. reading : Pound at the Lenton Par...
- Chaos hits the stage at VCA with next big musical hit
The Victorian College of the Arts will this Friday launch a new music theatre project A Little Touch of Chaos. The musical is a contemporary tale exploring themes of identity, familial bonds, inherited ideologies and smashing the ties that bind. ...
- VCA & MCM June e-newsletter
Read the June edition of the VCA & MCM e-newsletter.
- Alumnus wins 2014 Griffin Award
Performer and playwright Angus Cerini has won the 2014 Griffin Award for his new play The Bleeding Tree. The Griffin Award is a national playwriting prize awarded in recognition of an outstanding play or performance text displaying “an...
- Associate Dean (Indigenous Development) honoured in Queen's Birthday Awards
Deborah Cheetham, Associate Dean (Indigenous Development) and Head of the Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts and Cultural Development, has been made an Officer of the Order of Australia for distinguished service to the performing arts as an...
- VCA FTV Poster Competition
- Graduate Mentorships 2014
The VCA and MCM are proud to announce the Graduate Mentorship recipients for 2014. Mentorships are an increasingly important means by which emerging artists and established professionals can share perspectives, advice and experience. With genero...
- English conductor Gerald Gentry passes away at 86.
The English conductor Gerald Gentry has died in Australia at the age of 86, during his long and celebrated career he conducted the Victorian College of the Arts Orchestra and the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music Orchestra.His biographer David Bar...
- Melbourne welcomes VCA funding
The funds – to be allocated in 2016-17 - are part of a $42 million redevelopment of the area. Vice-Chancellor Professor Glyn Davis said the project would help open up the Southbank precinct to the community, creating public performance, eve...
- Alumni success at the Green Room Awards
Our alumni have shone at this year's Green Room Awards illustrating the depth of talent in our Opera, Theatre, Production and Composition specialisations. Opera Outstanding Conductor, Fabian Russell, Nixon In China, Victorian OperaMost Outstandi...
- Give it up for Margaret: A month of Philanthropic Inspiration in the Arts
The Victorian College of the Arts and the Margaret Lawrence Bequest will celebrate the centenary of philanthropist Margaret Lawrence (1914 – 2004) at the arts festival Give it up for Margaret: A month of Philanthropic Inspiration, May ...
- Student Gallery Exhibitions
- VCA and MCM and State Government of Victoria launch refurbished Grant St Theatre
The VCA and MCM’s Grant St Theatre has been refurbished and the new Lionel Gell Lounge launched, creating one of Melbourne’s premier music theatre performance venues.Announced today by The University of Melbourne and the Victorian Gove...
- Refugee students promoting harmony through film
Refugee students have collaborated with the Faculty of the VCA and MCM to produce three films to be shown on the Federation Square Big Screen on 19 March, as part of Harmony Day celebrations.The Centre for Cultural Partnerships partnered with Debn...
- VCA Research Seminar Series 2014
- Alumnus wins at DocWeek
Alumnus Jakeb Anhvu (Master of Film and Television, 2005) has been awarded the F4 Award for...
- Alumnus awarded the inaugural Fulbright Professional Playwriting Scholarship
Alumnus Lachlan Philpott (Graduate Diploma Dramatic Art, 1999) has been awarded the inaugural Fulbright Professional Playwriting Scholarship. The scholarships support recipients for professional development in the United States, up to the value...
- Alas, arts precincts maybe can make cultural cities
The release last month of a Melbourne Arts Precinct Blueprint by Arts Victoria, that promises further development of the cultural precinct in the city’s Southbank, hasn’t come without its fair share of criticism, including views aired ...
- Master of Fine Arts (Visual Art) alumnus wins inaugural Linden Art Prize
Eric Demetriou (MFA, 2013) has won the first annual Linden Art Prize. The prize is a non-acquisi...
- $42.5 million project set to transform the VCA & MCM
A project worth more than $40 million will redevelop the Dodds Street stables into a visual arts ...
- VCA welcomes new Senior Research Fellow, Natalie King
Melbourne-based curator, writer and former inaugural Director of Utopia@Asialink, Natalie King br...
Research at the Victorian College of the Arts is open-ended, innovative and emergent, producing original creative work. It involves multi-disciplinary experimentation by individuals and research groups, and engages with new forms and critiques that advance our understanding of the arts, national and international cultures, and our place in the world.
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Art, Social and Spatial Practice
The Art, Social and Spatial Practice (ASSP) Cluster seeks to investigate the potential of both the material and social production of art as object, performance, spatial practice or relational experience.
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Moving Image Narrative
The Moving image Narrative (MIN) Cluster is a practice‐based research group, that investigates the power of moving image narratives in contemporary life.
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Matters of the Body
The Matters of the Body (MOB) Cluster engages with culture’s capacity to communicate material conditions of gender, sexuality, feminism, trans and queerness.
Research Office
The VCA&MCM Research Office is a professional unit within the Faculty that provides a range of services and support to research staff and graduate research students.
Centre for Ideas
The Centre for Ideas marks a radical departure from the conventional teaching models in arts education. It embraces the whole Faculty providing a range of perspectives on contemporary culture.
WOMINJEKA/Welcome to the traditional lands of the Kulin Nations, where we draw on the strength of more than 1000 generations of arts practice.
We respectfully acknowledge the people of the Boon Wurrung and the Woi Wurrung who have danced their dances, sung their songs and lived their culture on this land for tens of thousand of years.
The Victorian College of the Arts, within the Faculty of VCA and MCM at the University of Melbourne’s Southbank Campus is situated on the land occupied by 1000 generations of Australia’s first people. The VCA is committed to providing a deep and transformative learning experience in pursuit of artistic excellence, innovation and an absorbing education. We welcome you to a community of artists of all sorts: contemporary artists and writers, choreographers, musicians, designers, performers, actors, filmmakers, dancers and many more, all committed to the production of new artistic work.
We celebrate a depth of study in Visual Arts, Film and Television, Animation, Screenwriting, Dance, Theatre, Production and Design, Contemporary Music and Music Theatre, and all those in between. We encourage our students to explore and experiment with other disciplines as they encounter them. We offer undergraduate, graduate and short-course programs, creating an atmosphere of critical confidence and creative risk taking, as well as high expectations in development of skill and facility. This fusion of immersive training and critical investigation provides our students with the capacity to present inventive collaborations and high individual achievement.
The VCA is located in the arts precinct at Southbank, at the heart of Melbourne's artistic life. This vibrant community of artists and arts professionals, students and staff is committed to pursuing the highest aspirations for contemporary cultural life. We encourage an atmosphere of trust and respect and a curiosity-driven approach to learning; one that values achievement, learns from failure, and builds resilience for the future challenges.
Professor Su Baker, Director
Victorian College of the Arts