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Arts Residencies to foster artistic innovation

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
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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