Story Hubs Artist/Maker Call Out
Carlton P.S Story Hub Artist Abbey Rich with the student co-design team. Image by Gianna Rizzo.
Co-design a Story Hub with children and young people in their schools!
We invite expressions of interest from artists and makers to co-design and co-create a Story Hub with students and teachers in our 2025 Story Hub Schools.
In the co-design, artists contribute conceptual and practice-based understandings of form and materials to inspire and transform learning and teaching in schools. This is a unique opportunity to use your artistic practice to work alongside school communities, to support creativity, imagination and agency in learning.
Making the Story Hub
Over 8 sessions, 100 Story Building facilitates a small group of 20 students to co-design their Story Hub with their school and an artist/designer. The artist will attend 3 x 2hr sessions of the program, starting from when students have consulted with the school and have refined the themes/ideas for their Story Hub. The students and artists then work together to shape these ideas into a final concept.
Once the concept has been approved by students, teachers, leadership and 100 Story Building, then it is up to the artist to bring the concept to life within budget and a 6-7 week timeframe.
For more information on the Story Hubs program, including a prospectus and videos of past hubs, visit our Story Hubs page.
Where
In 2025, we are recruiting for an artist or artist team to collaborate with Glengala Primary School, Sunshine West and another artist or artist team to collaborate with Broadmeadows Valley Primary School.
Key Dates
Artists will attend 3 co-design sessions with students, facilitated by 100 Story Building. There will then be 6-7 weeks for the making/building of the Story Hub, to be negotiated depending on what the final form is and the access required on each site.
Expressions of interest: Open Thursday 3 April - Closing on Wednesday 23 April
Artist selection period: 23 April - 8 May
Making/building time: 25 June - 6 Aug 2025 (tbc)
Story Hub Launch: Sep/Oct 2025
Skills/experience/qualifications
Essential:
Portfolio of previous work
Experience with collaborative and co-design practices
Working alongside children and young people
Highly regarded:
Links to the school and surrounding communities (Sunshine West and Broadmeadows)
Community and cultural development practice
Participatory arts practice
Experience in artistic collaborations with children and young people
Required:
Artists must provide a valid Working With Children Check and evidence of appropriate insurance.
Project details
This project is focused on supporting student ideas and imagination to become seeable, material and agentic in their schools, and a successful Story Hub centres these in ways that are site-specific, potential, plausible and practical. Artist responsibilities include:
Participate in 3 x co-design workshops with students (facilitated by 100 Story Building)
Working alongside students to create initial and final concept designs for the Story Hub
Building/making the Story Hub
Working alongside schools/community members to realise the building/making
Working with the 100 Story Building team throughout the process
Managing budget, timeline and appropriate documentation
Artist teams are welcome to apply.
Funding
Story Hubs is funded by our philanthropic partners to enable this project to be realised in schools that wouldn’t otherwise have that opportunity. This amount is split between the materials and the artist fee, so that the Story Hub is fully resourced to continue in the school beyond the project.
Materials: $5000
Artist fee: $3000
How to apply
Fill out this short EOI form, and email a one-page cover letter about yourself and your previous work and include links to your portfolio of work to:
Simon Conlon, Story Hubs Manager: simon(at)100storybuilding.org.au
Please do this by Wednesday 23 April.
During the selection period, we will contact shortlisted artists for further discussions about the opportunity, the work and interest in the project, as well as the specifics of the student ideas coming out of the Story Hub sessions. We will make final decisions and contract artists by Thursday 8 May.
