JOY Burch has announced the six successful organisations that will each receive $10,000 to support their artists-in-residence programs, aimed at attracting national and international artists to Canberra in 2015.
Minister Burch at the Glassworks this morning with artist Jenni Martiniello
The successful applicants are as follows:
- The ACT Writers Centre and the Museum of Australian Democracy – to host an Australian writer to access the museum’s collection and engage with Canberra writers.
- Craft ACT – to place an international visual artist at the Gudgenby Ready-Cut Cottage in the Namadgi National Park to explore environment, identity and place.
- The Canberra Potters Society – to engage international ceramic artists in conjunction with the 14th Australian Ceramics Triennale in July next year.
- The Belconnen Arts Centre – to host two community cultural development artists to further develop and implement their collaborative facilitation practice in the ACT.
- The Canberra Glassworks – to provide a residency for two Maori weavers to work with local Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander textile and glass artists.
- The Young Music Society – to support the Anyone Musical International Residency, an exchange between professional musicians in Poland and Canberra.
“The Arts Residencies program is a great opportunity for artists to experiment, create new work and engage with our local arts community, and I look forward to hearing and seeing the wonderful outcomes from these residences,” Ms Burch said, adding that they were a key element of the ACT Arts Policy Framework to foster artistic innovation and creative thinking.
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