Community arts

With community arts, everyone benefits.

It’s where professional artists and local communities join forces in every imaginable art form, to create new bridges of understanding, regeneration and opportunities. It’s art that goes anywhere and everywhere - into schools, local halls, hospitals and prisons, outback dots on the map, playgrounds and city streets. It’s about access and engagement, and sustained outcomes.

In Australia, community arts have a long and inspiring record. They’ve helped recovery efforts after natural disasters, moved young people off the treadmill of boredom to exciting challenges, guided communities forward in the face of social and economic change, and turned the aging years into a celebration of life, self-discovery and growth. For many Australians, they’re pathways to local pride.

Mix artists and communities, and watch what happens.

Indigenous artist honoured for lifetime achievements Renaissance man, Richard Frankland, has been recognised with the Australia Council for the Arts’ 2007 Ros Bower award for his innovative leadership and significant artistic contributions, which have focused on reconciliation and social justice.