Noticing, curation, cultivation: Academic development leadership in the arts university

The curation of four ‘teaching exhibitions’ pedagogic research outputs in a specialist arts university is presented as case study distributed leadership practice, with the question being positioned feminized mode leading educational or academic development from middle-out position. Scholarship teaching and learning focused upon micro-cultures within universities collided thinking around arts-informed approaches to leadership. Through reflexively evaluating her nascent curatorial author reconsiders what specific organizational culture can look like when modalities are brought into play.