Deborah Murphy discusses the building of a new cultural event at Brisbane’s South Bank….. Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) is built on the land of traditional owners, who for many thousands of years used this site for cultural and spiritual purposes. So how can a large arts institution like QPAC acknowledge the continued presence of ...
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Arts Queensland’s Grants Support Officer Linda Dreghorn offers tips for making a quality proposal to the Queensland Government’s new Super Star Fund….. The opening of the Super Star Fund on 7 December 2012 presents a great opportunity for the arts sector in Queensland. The $3 million Fund over four years is new money to Arts Queensland ...
Richard Butler has lived on Badu Island for a year and manages the Badu Art Centre. He writes about the challenges and opportunities facing the centre and the artists who practice there…. Unlike some arts centres in the Pilbara that have operated for more than a generation, Badu Art Centre was incorporated in 2009. This ...
Arnold Aprill of Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE) describes the foundations of quality partnerships between artists and school communities….. If we want to get serious about the quality of work produced by arts education partnerships, we must first consider what pre-conditions are necessary for the production of quality work. We must become clear about what makes for quality relationships ...
Ruth Hodgman discusses the roles and outcomes of a creative development program for artists……. The Judith Wright Centre’s Fresh Ground program supports the development of new ideas and creative directions in contemporary arts practice. It gives artists space to imagine, explore and create, challenging them to develop work that connects with contemporary audiences. Those selected for ...
Kent Gration’s design/art philosophy highlights the need for renewable resources through an approach to process that carries the sentiment of ‘good design should last forever, but needn’t last forever in the environment’. Here he blogs about his definition of quality design and how it manifests in his Wambamboo furniture range. The instrumental value of my ...
Initially housed in the old Kissing Point Fort, the Army Museum of North Queensland (AMNQ) now occupies newly refurbished buildings at the centre of Jezzine Barracks in Townsville. Amanda Ponitfex was employed as the Museum’s curator in November 2009 and has been responsible for designing the museum from scratch. Here she shares her thoughts on ...
Sally Johnston talks about developing facilities in regional Queensland with the help of the community… Community participation and quality engagement can make or break a cultural facility in regional Queensland. Along with collaboration it is the key to ensuring a facility reaches its potential. I have been fortunate to experience a regional Queensland community that ...
Kate Eltham takes inspiration from JFK’s vision to put the first human on the moon. On September 12 1962, US President John F. Kennedy delivered a speech at Rice University, Texas, that defined the course of a decade of progress in space exploration.It’s a great speech. You should read it. The part of that speech ...
The 1990 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child highlighted children’s right to a cultural and social life. While we know the quantum of arts and cultural experiences for children may have increased, we know little about the quality of those experiences. Barbara Piscitelli defines some hallmarks of quality in children’s arts programming…… Australian ...
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