Both are very much hands on, and as a part of their learning experience, students create their own issue of Artwrite, a publication of the College of Fine Arts. This widely respected magazine is distributed nationally to those working in the arts, and more recently to NSW high schools. In Genres of Art Writing, undergraduate students range across the different approaches to critical writing, but also learn important skills such as writing to word limit and writing to dead line. They also learn Pagemaker as they lay-out their magazine, and they learn how to arrange advertising. In the postgraduate Writing for Different Audiences and Cultures students also create an issue of Artwrite, but as this subject is taught as a part of the Master of Art Administration, the emphasis is on refining writing skills and on understanding the difference between institutional writing and critical writing.
Many artists develop writing practices in parallel with their visual art.
Students in the Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bachelor of Art Theory and Bachelor of Art Education are offered an elective in Creative Writing for Visual Artists. BFA students who take the Honours year prepare a written Research Paper. Many students explore innovative and imaginative ways of documenting their work, including autobiography, short stories and other narrative forms, as well as the more scholarly modes of research-based writing.