Autumn Oriwa Skuthorpe headshot_Photo credit_ Leah Mclean Photography_300DPI

Autumn is an experienced inclusive arts practitioner driven by inclusive arts engagement and development, ZINES, cultural events coordination, youth arts leadership, mentoring, visual arts and performance.

Since 2006 Autumn has worked with Crossroad Arts periodically as a performer, artist, arts worker, administrator and as a member of the Management Committee. During this time, Autumn has closely worked and collaborated with artists from the community to tell their own stories. Autumn has also founded several artist collectives, coordinated festivals, exhibited works and performed as a musician outside of her work with Crossroad Arts.

Autumn was awarded a scholarship through the Foundation for Rural and Regional Renewal and completed a Diploma of Business (Governance) and is a recent graduate of the 2019 Australia Council for the Arts’ Future Leaders Program that assists with the development of emerging and high potential arts leaders. In 2020 Autumn was also selected for the Kirk Robson Award for Community Arts and Cultural Development. 

With the commitment by the new federal government to renew and reinstate the Creative Australia National cultural policy by the end of 2022, there is a perfect opportunity to complete the Arts Front 2030 work, and promote the ideas and visions for the future that people have contributed over the last five years.

Jul 01 2022 To Jun 30 2023

Unpacking the Canada Council's $85m Digital Strategy Fund. What worked and what can the arts sector in Australia learn from it? 

Whitehorse - Yukon Canada
Feb 18 2021 To Feb 18 2021

Little Lunch Online (LLOL) was a daily online meetup and creative exchange to support the Australian arts sector during the Corona Virus pandemic in 2020.

Mar 23 2020 To Sep 30 2020

Arts Ablaze was a conference and celebration of regional arts in Queensland taking place at Ramada Resort Kooralbyn Valley on Wednesday 2 to Sunday 6 October 2019.

Ramada Resort Kooralbyn Valley
Oct 02 2019 To Oct 04 2019