Arts Tasmania and Arts@Work Funding and Development Opportunities
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2013 Arts Tasmania 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 Australia 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 Tasmanian Government Art Street in 2008, we wanted to ensure that this Site Scheme and the Corporate Art Scheme, Hobart 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.