State and Federal Governments have provided $600,000 for a new cultural centre in Hope Vale that will breathe new energy into the area's arts and cultural life.

The centre will help to nurture artists within their own community and create opportunities for training, employment, empowerment and reconciliation. It will foster creativity and bring opportunities for training, employment, empowerment and reconciliation.

The new Hope Vale Cultural Centre replaces the existing 1950s building and provide a gallery, studio, administration, sales areas and outdoor performance space.

The project was initiated under the Queensland State Government's Millennium Arts Regional Program. The State Government is providing $200,000 for the design and construction of the new Cultural Centre. The Federal Government capital funding consists of $200,000.

The Hope Vale Art Centre is also one of the arts centres receiving financial assistance from the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland's Backing Indigenous Arts program.

Successful artists from Hope Vale include Ben McGreen, John Allens, Godfrey Gordon, Ken Walsh, Sid McIvor, Walter Jack and Tulo Gordon, whose bark paintings were in the Story Place exhibition at the Queensland Art Gallery in 2003 and used to illustrate his children's book Milbi: Aboriginal Tales from Queensland's Endeavour River.