Are you an Aboriginal creative person from this region, with skills in painting or drawing or craftwork or design?
Here are two great options. We’d love you to register your interest. Both are currently in planning stage…
Working with youth – the YarnSmart program from Upper Hunter Community Services runs on Wednesday evenings in Muswellbrook. The creative bit is young people making art, while having a yarn and building life skills. We are looking for creative people to lead a couple of workshops each. The work is paid (through our Blak Arts Collective fund). Emerging artists are welcome – so are established creatives.
What you need to do: email your details to rado@artsupperhunter.com.au.
- name, contact details, address.
- artform, a little about yourself.
- Working With Children Check and date of birth (if you don’t have one, please contact us anyway)
Selling at markets – Blak Arts Collective is organising a market stall for local markets (one a month), aiming to sell artwork or merch on behalf of Aboriginal artists from the region. We’d love you to get back to us if you think you might be producing work that could sell. Think: gifts and souvenirs, birthday pressies, jewellery or paperweights, something for mother’s day, something authentic, traditional, wild, modern, manufactured, hand-crafted. There will be a process to getting your work to us for sale, but we want to make it as easy as possible.
What you need to do: Email rado@artsupperhunter.com.au to register your interest.
Blak Arts Collective is funded by the Indigenous Visual Arts Industry Support scheme, and is a project of Arts Upper Hunter in partnership with Wanaruah Local Aboriginal Land Council. Logo by Kerri-Ann Taggart.
