Projects
Current Projects
Art on Bundjalung Market
Art On Bundjalung Market celebrates the creative cultural heritage of the Bundjalung region. The event features handmade arts and crafts by established and emerging artists and collectives, employing traditional and contemporary materials.
2021 Micro Grants
VAMP – Volunteer Museums Project Artist in Residence 2021
Arts Northern Rivers is working with volunteer run museums in the Clarence Valley to participate in the Volunteer Museums Project (VAMP) artist in residence program.
My Place Is Your Place – Cultural Artwork at the Lismore Base Hospital
In partnership with the Aboriginal Maternal Infant Health Service and Northern New South Wales Local Health District, Arts Northern Rivers are working to deliver cultural artworks to the Women’s Care Unit at the Lismore Base Hospital.
Weavers of the Bundjalung Nation
Arts Northern Rivers, with funding from the Indigenous Languages and Arts Program, will work with Bundjalung elders and artists in delivering a book project to ensure weaving techniques and stories will be available for future generations.
Rappville Creative
Arts Northern Rivers will be delivering the Rappville Creative Recovery Project over three days from 29 – 31 October 2021.
Northern Rivers Creative
In 2019 Arts Northern Rivers launched a premier online directory, Northern Rivers Creative. The platform is built to increase professional opportunities for creatives by connecting them to local and global markets.
Auslan Creative
Working with the Northern Rivers Deaf community and multi-artform partners, Auslan Creative will deliver a creative development program aimed at exploring models for collaboration and practice development between artists of mixed abilities.
Past Projects
First Nations Visual Arts Scholarship
The inaugural First Nations Visual Arts Scholarship is delivered in partnership with the Byron School of Art. The scholarship will sponsor a First Nations artist to participate in a year-long Visual Arts Foundation Course.
Your Big Idea
Your Big Idea called for proposals for ambitious ideas ready to be developed into contemporary arts projects. The winning idea will receive $5,000 seed funding in addition to a tailored project development package.
Micro Grants
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Arts Northern Rivers initiated a Micro Grants project offering grants of up to $1,000 for independent practicing artists or organisations working across all art forms to support their creative endeavours.
