Professional development grants for NSW artists with disability

Grants will be awarded for amounts between $5,000 and $10,000 to individual artists for the costs associated with developing artists’ professional practice in any art form.

Amplify your art is a professional development grant program for NSW artists with disability. The Amplify your art program is designed to assist individual artists in all art forms to further their practice through undertaking professional development. Previous recipients have undertaken a range of skills development projects in artforms including sculpture, poetry, dance, ceramics, music, print-making and digital media.

This $150,000 funding program has been made available through a two-year NSW Government partnership between Arts NSW and Ageing, Disability and Home Care, to promote a culture of inclusion in the arts and cultural sector for people with disability.

Grants will be awarded for amounts of between $5,000 and $10,000 for the costs associated with developing an artist’s professional practice. Costs can include training, mentoring, travel and skills development.

Applicants from regional and remote NSW are particularly encouraged to apply.

Eligibility

To apply you need to:
Identify as an artist with a disability
Be an Australian citizen or Australian permanent resident
Be a NSW resident (defined as being a resident for at least 12 months prior to making an application)
Demonstrate a minimum 3-year professional arts practice
Be able to undertake your professional development between March and December 2014

Assessment Criteria

Applications will be ranked against the following criteria:
Artistic quality of the applicant’s proposed program
Demonstrated benefit of the professional development program to the applicant's career development/professional practice
Appropriateness of the program partners
Good planning and effective use of resources

Applications Close Wednesday 18 December 2013

Apply Online
Applications are submitted via Smartygrants aarts.smartygrants.com.au/amplify2013

Further Information
For more information and guidelines go to aarts.net.au/amplify

Accessible Arts calls for submissions

Accessible Arts calls for submissions

Critical opportunity to take part in the NSW Arts Funding Program Review

A review of the NSW Arts Funding Program is being undertaken by Arts NSW. Support for Accessibility is a component of the review. Accessible Arts CEO Sancha Donald calls for your participation in the process, ‘Please add your voice to the debate by attending an information session, making a submission or sending us your comments focusing on specific opportunities for people with disability.’

The Review is seeking feedback around the following questions:
Who and what should be supported under the Arts Funding Program (Including eligibility, individual arts career pathways and the value added by peak organisations like Accessible Arts)
How the program could be structured to support vibrant arts and culture in NSW (Does the AFP achieve appropriate access for artists and audiences with disability?)
Administration of the program (Are the assessment criteria appropriate, transparent and accessible for you and your organisation and for artists with disability?)
Addressing the future (What has worked well for artists and audiences with disability in the past and where you would like to see more funding in the future?)

The AFP Review Discussion Paper can be downloaded from the Arts NSW website. Consultation sessions will be held at several locations in NSW (see Arts NSW website). You can make a formal response and/or participate in a consultation session. Please download the Discussion Paper Submission Form to guide your feedback. Submissions should be emailed to afpreview@arts.nsw.gov.au by 5pm on Friday, 26 July 2013.