How I manage my portfolio career in the arts (part 2)
How do some of the best arts multi-taskers in the business do it? ArtsHub profiles two more portfolio career creatives who share the highs and lows of their multi-role careers.
If you are not familiar with the concept of a portfolio career, it’s a basically a catch-all term for people whose working lives do not unfold as a single-track pursuit in one discipline alone.
Instead, these people most often work in multiple part-time jobs or across freelance projects, and may be seem in different sectors at once. Or, they may work in one role for a period of time before they take up a related, yet fundamentally different, job after that.
ArtsHub's Arts Feature Writer Jo Pickup is based in Perth. An arts writer and manager, she has worked as a journalist and broadcaster for media such as the ABC, RTRFM and The West Australian newspaper, contributing media content and commentary on art, culture and design. She has also worked for arts organisations such as Fremantle Arts Centre, STRUT dance, and the Aboriginal Arts Centre Hub of WA, as well as being a sessional arts lecturer at The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA).
