NAVA News #7 2022

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Gwenneth Blitner at work (untitled work), acrylic on linen 2021. Image courtesy of Ngukurr Arts. © Gwenneth Blitner/Copyright Agency, 2022.

Why and how to add your voice to National Cultural Policy

We currently have a momentous opportunity to influence policy change and improve the fundamental conditions of work and practice in the arts. This cultural policy will be Australia’s first in a decade. Let’s ensure the voices and needs of the visual arts, craft and design sector are both loud and highly visible in the national conversation about the future of arts and culture.

What would you like to see in arts policy? An industrial award rate for the visual arts and craft? Legislation on the payment of artists’ fees and superannuation contributions? Support for First Nations-led education, training, employment and representation in leadership roles and middle-tier jobs?

NAVA urges everyone to make a submission before the 22 August deadline. So soon. We have received advice that the government is looking for ‘neat’ recommendations to include in their new National Cultural Policy. The word ‘neat’ suggests they are looking to copy and paste recommendations straight into the policy.

Scroll through NAVA’s policy recommendations and discussion notes from our recent sector workshops to help inform your own submission. It is up to us to ensure that the whole of the visual arts ecology is well represented and that our needs are heard.

Photo by Jacquie Manning, 2022.

NAVA's new Code of Practice ... almost there

Next month, NAVA will release its new Code of Practice. Since it's revision was announced in 2018, almost 2,000 people have been involved in consultations and more than 40 artists and arts workers were commissioned to first write a set of discussion papers and then develop the new Code in full.

NAVA opposes cut to arts degree at Victoria’s only regional university

NAVA is deeply concerned over last week’s announcement that Federation University, Victoria’s only regionally-based tertiary institution, would cut its Bachelor of Arts degree from 2023.

Photo by Jamie James, 2017.

Govt report confirms Fake Indigenous Art Harms Culture but fails to ban them

NAVA encourages artists, arts workers, organisations, audiences and friends to make a submission responding to the draft report and supporting the call for the removal of inauthentic Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts, crafts and consumer products from the market.

EJ Son. Photo by Anna Kucera.

NAVA Artist File: EJ Son

EJ Son is a Sydney-based multi-disciplinary artist, working across new media, sculptural installations, video and ceramics. In this video, EJ chats to NAVA about overcoming self-doubt, and always seeking joy in the physicality of their art-making process.

Watch Artist File

Windmill Trust Scholarship for Regional NSW Artists

The $10, 000 Windmill Trust Scholarship supports professional regional NSW artists to develop and or present their work. To apply, read NAVA Grants.

Image: 2021 Windmill Trust Scholarship recipient Judith Nangala Crispin, After red brake lights and the highway, Dean and Esther, lifted from the hunt and hurled spinning into star silvered black, forge a new friendship in the unutterable vastness of space. Lumachrome glass print, cliche-verre, chemigram, drawing and acid wash. Road-killed fox and muscovy duck, sand, turmeric, mineral salts, developers, graphite and chinese ink on fibre paper. Exposed 41 hours in a portable geodesic dome. Murray River near Yarrawonga.

Media, Meetings, Talks & Submissions

To find out what NAVA has been doing day-to-day for our Members and the sector, read NAVA in action.

Some of the current NAVA team: Penelope Benton, Georgie Cyrillo, Holly Morrison, Leya Reid, Donnalyn Xu, Rhianna Pezzaniti, Emma Pham. Photo by Jacquie Manning.

List your funding or job opportunity on our Opportunities page on the NAVA website for free.

Illustration by Emily Johnson.

Public Art Commission Contracts

This checklist takes you through the suggested inclusions of a public art commission agreement.

Illustration by Emily Johnson.

Managing your ARI

Top 5 considerations for managing your ARI.

NAVA Membership

We are inviting you to join us as part of a bold national voice for the Australian arts community. The more of us there are, the more ambitious we can be.

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