17 June 2013

Hutt City Council Appoints Community Arts Advisor

Pippa Sanderson will take up the role of Hutt City’s Community Arts Advisor, the city’s primary advocate for the community arts, from Tuesday 25 June. Pippa is an experienced project manager and advocate for social change who most recently was the Community Development Advisor at Arts Access Aotearoa.

“I am very excited about my new role,” Pippa says, “It brings together all the different threads of my career so far - arts and community development, working with diverse groups of people, managing events, thinking up projects, developing relationships and connecting people.”

Pippa will work across the breadth of the community arts sector to contribute to the creative life of the Hutt Valley and offer support to creative people, projects and events that encourage community participation.

No stranger to the Hutt, Pippa says she feels like she has come full circle, “My community arts experience actually began in Lower Hutt many years ago working with one of the first community arts officer in Hutt Valley Community Arts. More recently, I have been working with creative spaces in the Hutt, involving them in the local creative spaces network, a mentoring programme, and a national exhibition of creative space artwork at Pataka.” Pippa says she is looking forward to reconnecting with the many contacts she has built up over the years and building new ones.

An experienced fundraiser, Pippa is also a visual artist, arts educator, curator and writer and has exhibited and published her work nationally and overseas. She is passionate about the power of community arts and cultural development to effect social change in fun and innovative ways.

Pippa Sanderson’s office will be based at The Dowse Art Museum.

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