Arts Access Victoria will be opening applications for the Stella Young Award on the 30th April. This award is open to any young artist with disability, 16-30 years, working in comedy, performing arts and/or screen, who have used their art to challenge the social narrative about disability. The award is $3000. For all the details…
Local artist and Teachers Aide, Leanne Ward, has been working with the students at the Muswellbrook High School as part of the school’s visual art program. Leanne said, “The large seascape mural was created from a workshop I conducted with Yr 7 students from a 2018 class. I asked them to draw anything related to…
Since 2007, in the small town of Doisaket – – just 30 minutes outside of Chiang Mai city, ComPeung has hosted over 100 artists in all disciplines from every corner of the world. They offer warm, engaging hospitality with fresh home-cooked meals daily and provides all the basic necessities for living in a semi-rural, tropical…
The Singleton Mechanics Institute will be a headline in Singleton’s Australian Heritage Festival program for this year as the subject of an exhibition of photographs and artefacts as well as a topic at a special High Tea & History event. Singleton Public Library has joined forces with Family History Society Singleton Inc to celebrate the…
The $10,000 acquisitive Newcastle Foundation Art Prize is open to all artists living in the Hunter Valley. This year’s theme and dimensions of works for the prize have been announced. This year’s theme is Cornucopia: “When first settled by Europeans, Newcastle and the Hunter was recognised for its abundance of flora and fauna. Images of…
The Murrurundi and District Historical Society’s is proud to present this exhibition of models from regional taxidermists Kevin and Leanne Bowman, and Steve Miller. The exhibition features birds, animals and fish. Venue: God’s Waiting Room (next door to the Murrurundi Museum) Mayne St, Murrurundi. Open: Weekends 10am to 1pm, Other times by appointment. Exhibition closes:…
Scone Arts & Crafts will be holding their 23rd Annual Members Exhibition alongside the Annual Scone Horse Festival in May 2019. This will be a ‘Members’ Exhibition’ (joining fee $25.00 annually). open to anyone who is a current financial member. Entry is free and if your work is sold we take 20% of the sale…
She has been likened to Evelyn Waugh and Agatha Christie, and now award –winning author Sulari Gentill is heading to Singleton Public Library in March for a free author talk, and everyone is welcome. Sulari Gentill is the mastermind behind the critically-acclaimed Rowland Sinclair mysteries, with a list of impressive awards to her name including…
Create NSW has announced that a new round of Arts and Cultural Projects 2018/19 funding that opened on Monday 25 February, following the distribution of $1.7m for 39 projects including $500,000 for 13 across Western Sydney through earlier rounds. Open to individual artists, arts and cultural workers, partnerships and organisations, the Arts and Cultural Projects…
Arts Upper Hunter is hosting an exhibition by Jess Dugan, a local photographer, from the 11 March to the 18 April in our office foyer at 142 Bridge St, Muswellbrook. ‘Happiness is different for everyone. One thing that might make one person happy, another doesn’t give thought to. During some recent training I did…