2013 Arts and arts@work funding and development opportunities

Department of Economic Development, Tourism and the Arts Key dates Program Opens Closes Notification For artists Individual artists 1 May 2013 1 Aug 2013 Nov 2013 Guarantees against loss 1 May 2013 1 Aug 2013 Nov 2013 Residencies 1 May 2013 1 Aug 2013 Nov 2013 Start-up grants 1 May 2013 1 Aug 2013 Nov 2013 146 WallSpace Year round Any time 30 working days Artsbridge National and International Year round 1 Apr 2013 30 working days (If an opportunity arises after 1 June, 1 Jun 2013 30 working days consider applying to the individual 1 Oct 2013 30 working days artists round.) 1 Dec 2013 30 working days For arts businesses and arts organisations Arts organisations 15 Feb 2013 30 Apr 2013 Aug 2013 Guarantees against loss 15 Feb 2013 30 Apr 2013 Aug 2013 Start-up grants 15 Feb 2013 30 Apr 2013 Aug 2013 COLLECT Art Purchase Scheme Year round Any time 20 working days For small museums and collections Small Museums and Collections/ Roving Curators 4 Mar 2013 9 Jul 2013 Nov 2013 Lynne Stacpoole Caring for Your Collection 12 Aug 2013 14 Oct 2013 Dec 2013 For artists, arts businesses and arts organisations 146 ArtSpace 19 Jun 2013 22 Jul 2013 Aug 2013 146 ArtStudios 19 Jun 2013 22 Jul 2013 Aug 2013 Artist in Residence - AIR 2014 1 July 2013 16 Aug 2013 Nov 2013 Arts and Disability 2 Jul 2013 2 Sep 2013 Nov 2013 Artsbridge Connect Year round 1 Apr 2013 30 working days 1 Jun 2013 30 working days 1 Oct 2013 30 working days 1 Dec 2013 30 working days Low-interest loans Year round Any time 30 working days Premier’s Arts Partnership Fund Year round Any time 40 working days Public art program Year round Per project 40 working days smart map tasmania Year round Any time 30 working days For more information on any of these programs go to www.arts.tas.gov.au Details are correct at time of printing, but are subject to change. Always check the website for current information. For artists, arts businesses, arts organisations and small museums and collections

MONEY AND SUPPORT Small Museums and Collections/ TO CREATE, PRESENT, ENGAGE AND GROW Roving Curators We invest in the preservation, conservation a One of our goals at Arts Tasmania is to build and interpretation of moveable cultural Tasmania’s arts industry. In 2013 we’re once heritage. Small museums and collections can again providing opportunities to support apply for support in the form of a grant or professional artists, arts businesses and arts loan, or the time of one of Arts Tasmania’s organisations across all artforms. So if you’re Roving Curators, who will assist with hoping to realise an artistic vision, develop curatorial and collection management. The your skills or business, create and present your Lynne Stacpoole Caring for Your Collection work, then check out our programs. They may grant program also offers up to $1 000 for provide you with the assistance you need to capital items. make things happen. www.arts.tas.gov.au/smallmuseums

Arts organisations Artsbridge We invest in arts organisations that employ We offer up to $3 000 in travel assistance emerging and professional arts practitioners, to artists to take up significant creative or create work, engage the community or build professional development opportunities audiences for the arts. Organisations can occurring interstate or overseas. apply for project, program or multi-year funding. Artists and arts organisations can also access www.arts.tas.gov.au/organisations up to $3 000 through Artsbridge Connect to invite leading national or international arts Individual artists professionals to Tasmania, for the benefit of a We invest in the skills and career development group of Tasmanian artists. of emerging and professional arts practitioners, www.arts.tas.gov.au/artsbridge partnerships and collaborations, and support the creation and presentation of their work. Start-up grants www.arts.tas.gov.au/individuals We offer up to $3 000 for young artists (16-26 years of age) or arts organisations Arts and Disability working with young artists, to undertake an We invest in emerging and professional artists arts project or purchase essential equipment with a disability, and organisations who work normally excluded from grant assistance. with people with disability, to support their arts To be eligible, you must not have previously practice and address barriers to participation. received an Arts Tasmania grant. www.arts.tas.gov.au/aad www.arts.tas.gov.au/startup

FINANCIAL SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT FOR ARTS BUSINESS CREATIVE AND PROFESSIONAL

Our investment opportunities are not limited We fund local, national and international only to grants, Arts Tasmania also offers the residencies and offer a professional development following forms of financial support to program and resources. So if you’re seeking encourage the development and growth of opportunities to develop your skills and inspire your arts business. your practice, or are looking to build new relationships and networks, check these out. Guarantees against loss If you’re an artist or arts organisation Aboriginal arts planning to undertake a professional arts In 2013, we’re offering a statewide workshop event that may involve a financial risk relating program on developing a project and writing to ticket income, then a guarantee against a successful grant application. Attendance at a loss provides security by underwriting a workshop is a pre-requisite for submitting an reasonable shortfall. application to the Aboriginal Arts Fund in 2013 (for projects to be delivered in 2014). Details www.arts.tas.gov.au/gal of the fund will be announced by mid-2013.

Low-interest loans www.arts.tas.gov.au/aaf Available to both artists and arts organisations, low-interest loans provides you with assistance Professional development program for project activities, capital improvement, Our annual workshop program focuses working capital and the purchase of equipment on the development of your business with an arts-related outcome. and marketing skills. It also looks at digital engagement strategies for the arts and how www.arts.tas.gov.au/loans these may be of benefit to you. Premier’s Arts Partnership Fund www.artsatwork.com.au/pd Encouraging the development of new business-arts partnerships, this fund can match Arts business and artform resources dollar for dollar any new cash partnerships This online directory of resources contains of up to $10 000 between you and a business. hundreds of links to third-party websites that This fund is administered by the offer great tools and information to enable Business Arts Foundation (AbaF) with the you to develop a sustainable arts practice. support of Arts Tasmania and corporate So if you’re an artist looking for awards and partner Nekon Pty Ltd. fellowships or a business looking to develop a marketing plan, check it out. www.abaf.org.au www.artsatwork.com.au/artsresources Artist in Residence – AIR 2014 Rosamond McCulloch Studio Residency AIR offers seven Tasmanian artists $9 000 This $10 000 four-month residency at the each to undertake a 30-day residency during Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris is offered 2014 in selected Tasmanian colleges. AIR annually to a University of Tasmania (UTAS) will enable you to explore and develop your visual arts graduate, with the support of practice in an educational setting with the Arts Tasmania. support of a funded mentor. www.arts.tas.gov.au/residencies www.artsatwork.com.au/air The Vitra Fellowship 2013 Residencies This $5 000 fellowship offers a Tasmanian Tasmanian artists can apply to undertake designer the exceptional opportunity to a residency within a Tasmanian community attend a design workshop led by renowned or at one of 13 wilderness and heritage-listed international designers, architects and artists sites. Financial assistance may also be available at Domaine de Boisbuchet in France. It is for you to undertake a local, national or presented by Arts Tasmania in partnership international self-initiated residency. with the Vitra Design Museum and the Centre International de Recherche et d’Education www.arts.tas.gov.au/residencies Culturelle et Agricole. Arts Tasmania will call for expressions of interest for this opportunity Asialink Arts Residency in early 2013. Asialink offers two Tasmanian artists or arts professionals (working in the areas of arts www.arts.tas.gov.au/vitra management, literature, performing arts or visual arts) up to $12 000 each to undertake a residency in Asia. It’s operated by the University of Melbourne with the support of Arts Tasmania. www.arts.tas.gov.au/residencies

Alcorso Foundation Italian Arts Residency This $12 000 self-directed Italian residency is open to Tasmanian-based artists working in any artform and is awarded annually by the Alcorso Foundation, with the support of Arts Tasmania. www.arts.tas.gov.au/residencies SPACES MONEY TO CREATE AND EXHIBIT TO CREATE PUBLIC ART

When Arts Tasmania moved into the old Through our public art program, which Bridges Brothers building at 146 Elizabeth umbrellas the Art Street in 2008, we wanted to ensure that this Site Scheme and the Corporate Art Scheme, landmark included a public space that we work on behalf of government and supported and promoted Tasmanian art and corporate clients to commission and artists. The heritage footprint of the building purchase artworks for public spaces around made it ideal for the creation of an arts the state. The program presents numerous space and it now houses five artist studios, employment opportunities to contemporary plus a high profile exhibition space artists and arts businesses working across in the foyer. artforms. In any given year, the program has around $1.5 million worth of public art 146 ArtStudios commissions underway. Available for a 12-month lease by application, As an artist or arts business, the public art these five studios are ideal for writers, curators, program is a great way to extend your producers, designers, digital artists, visual artistic practice. You’ll be asked to work to a artists, sculptors and more. They are offered brief to deliver an artistic solution that not at the subsidised rate of $132 per month. only represents you as an artist, but adds www.artsatwork.com.au/146artstudios value and richness to the space in which it is presented. Your work will be propelled 146 ArtSpace into the public sphere and become a part Artists and arts organisations are invited to a significant public collection that reaffirms apply for a non-commercial exhibition of the enriching and empowering presence of contemporary work to be presented as part creativity at all levels of public life. of the annual 146 ArtSpace program. New public art commissions are advertised www.artsatwork.com.au/146artspace on our website and in our fortnightly arts-e newsbyte, which you can sign up 146 WallSpace for on the home page of our website. If you’re an individual artist or curator who is www.artsatwork.com.au/publicart not yet represented by a gallery, or who has limited exhibition experience, 146 WallSpace offers you the opportunity to hang and showcase your work to employees and visitors within our office. www.artsatwork.com.au/146WallSpace For everyone arts minded

WAYS TO smart map tasmania BUY, SEE AND EXPERIENCE THE ARTS smart map tasmania is your online portal to around 100 quality arts experiences on offer As there are many great artistic ventures around Tasmania. You can search based on around Tasmania, we’ve created some tools region and/or artform, get comprehensive to help art lovers to discover and enjoy them. information on each arts experience and add your favourites to a wish list. So if you’re looking to buy Tasmanian art, attend a Tasmanian arts event, gallery or So if you’re planning a week of arts fun, or run show, then check out the following. an arts experience and want to get involved, visit the smart map tasmania website. COLLECT Art Purchase Scheme www.smartmaptas.com.au Designed to help you start or grow your art collection, COLLECT offers 12-month 146 ArtSpace interest-free loans of up to $7 875 to buy 146 ArtSpace is Arts Tasmania’s gallery artworks by Tasmanian living artists through space and presents a diverse and innovative selected galleries around the state. annual exhibition program of Tasmanian If you’d like to find out more about getting a artists, designers and curators working loan, or own a gallery and wish to participate across artforms. in the scheme, visit the COLLECT website. You’re invited to drop in to take a look. You www.collect-art.com.au may even like to sign up to the 146 ArtSpace mailing list to receive opening night invites. ARTBIKES www.arts.tas.gov.au/146artspace This free bike-borrowing service lets you cruise around Hobart’s dynamic art precincts Tasmanian Literary Prizes and galleries in a fun and environmentally The Tasmanian Literary Prizes recognise that sound way. Each ARTBIKE comes complete great writing enriches our culture and our with a helmet, bike lock and specially designed lives. They celebrate the richness of the arts map to help you pedal your way around Tasmanian literary sector and acknowledge the Hobart’s cultural hotspots. influence that Tasmania has on written work. ARTBIKES can be borrowed from Arts Tasmania The 2013 prize winners will be announced at 146 Elizabeth Street Hobart (available now) on 22 March at a free special event during and the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery 10 Days on the Island 2013, so come along. at Dunn Place Hobart (from March 2013). www.arts.tas.gov.au/tlp www.artbikes.com.au The lowdown

STAYING ABOUT IN THE LOOP US

We have several ways that you can stay in Arts Tasmania is responsible for policy, planning, the loop and be kept informed about what strategic development and funding of the we’re doing here at Arts Tasmania. arts in Tasmania. We strive for a progressive, supportive and flexible partnership with the Arts-e newsbyte arts industry by facilitating, advocating and For reminders of closing dates, public art enabling creativity, innovation, cultural excellence commissions, arts job vacancies as well as and quality arts practice in the state. We also other opportunities and events sign up to seek to encourage and support the highest our fortnightly newsletter, arts-e newsbyte, standard of collections management to ensure on the home page of our website. that our heritage is available and accessible by all, and remains in good condition for www.arts.tas.gov.au future generations. Social media Most widely known is our annual grants and Whether you’re a tweeter, poster or pinner, loans program, which we deliver with the we have a social media channel for you to assistance of the Tasmanian Arts Advisory plug into. Stay informed about what’s going Board (TAAB). The TAAB provides policy and on at Arts Tasmania, get the low-down on funding advice to the State Government arts opportunities as they arise and see the and is comprised of members from various outcomes of some great public art, residency, sectors of the arts and the wider community, or funded client projects. appointed by the Minister for the Arts. Find us on: Arts Tasmania also has an industry development

arm, arts@work, whose brief is to increase Facebook the capacity of the arts sector and the facebook.com/ArtsTasmania viability of a career in the arts. arts@work Twitter does this through strategic initiatives and twitter.com/arts_tasmania a range of programs including the public art program, the COLLECT Art Purchase Pinterest Scheme, smart map tasmania, ARTBIKES, pinterest.com/ArtsTasmania the 146 Arts program and the professional YouTube development program. youtube.com/user/artsatwork Images

CONTACT IMAGE US CREDITSThe images We have staff located in both the north and Flip side: south of the state and we can be contacted Left to right via the following details. 1. Keeping up appearances (detail), 2011, David Hawley Hobart office 2. Human Calculation, 2012, from Arts Tasmania Voltage, Tasdance. Photo: Jen Brown 146 Elizabeth Street, Tasmania 7000 3. The Horizon, 2012, Julian Thompson

4. Maraichers, 2011, Jamin Tel: (03) 6237 6323 5. The Oyster’s Locale, installation at Fax: (03) 6233 8424 Sawtooth, 2010, Justy Phillips and Margaret Woodward (foreground), Pat Launceston Office Hoffie (background). Level 1, Cornwall Square Photo: Fernando do Campo 12-16 St John Street, Launceston 6. Musician Jane McArthur, 2012 7. Broccoli eucalypt trees at Picanninny PO Box 1186 Point: East Coast Tasmania (detail), Launceston TAS 7250 2011, Megan Walch Tel: 1800 247 308 8. AIR 2013 – Kingston High School, 2012, Fax: (03) 6334 1131 Julie Waddington and Kelly Cawthorn-Drummond 9. Processing process (detail), 2012, Email Jacob Leary Arts Tasmania: 10. ARTBIKES, 2012. Photo: Nic Goodwolf [email protected] arts@work: This side: [email protected] Images under text, left to right 1. Moments and N/T, 2012, Christine Hannan Web 2. Bloom (detail), 2012, Andy Vagg. From Arts Tasmania the Works Festival. Photo: Lucia Rossi www.arts.tas.gov.au 3. Putting out the fire (with gasoline) (detail), 2012, Neil Haddon arts@work 4. The war machine (detail), 2012, www.artsatwork.com.au Jacob Leary 5. Ethno in Transit, Cygnet Folk Festival, 2012 6. Up Beat (detail), 2012, Alan Young 7. Nest (detail), 2012, Anne Morrison

This side: Image montage, top to bottom, left to right 1. West Coast Pillars (detail), 2011, Doug Thost and Rebecca Coote 2. Ben Wells and the Middle Names, 2012. Photo: Kishka Jensen 3. Groundcover (detail), 2012, Peta Heffernan and Greer Honeywill. Photo: Justin Bernhaut 4. Portrait; Doll (detail), 2012, Matt Coyle 5. Remote Control (detail), 2011, David Hawley 6. Finding Centre, 2012, Trisha Dunn. Design: brownbread and butter studio. Photo: Jason Lam 7. Variations on monotony (detail), 2007, Greer Honeywill. Photo: John Best 8. Sleeping Horses Lie, 2012, Terrapin Puppet Theatre. Photo: Peter Mathew 9. CEAL CREDENZA (detail), 2011, Matt Prince. Photo: Peter Whyte 10. Supernature, 2012, Liz Woods. From the Works Festival. Photo: Lucia Rossi 11. Exploding Moth, 2012, Nicholas Blowers. Photo: Jack Bett 12. The Chester Suite, 2011, Ellen Pittman 13. tintinnid lamp (surface detail), 2012, Karin Beaumont 14. The Physical Impossibility of Choice in the Mind of the Consumer (detail), 2012, Andy Vagg