Bianca Acimovic believes that it takes a team to deliver a successful arts project and everyone contributes to success. Explore the possibilities for collaborating and connecting with local government on arts projects, consider opportunities for artists, professional arts workers and regional galleries to work together, and determine how to engage broadly with these stakeholders. 

The strength of your proposal is integral to a successful grant application. In this workshop, arts workers, artists and organisations can explore grant options, learn how to write to criteria, put together a strong project or proposal, and develop an appropriate budget. Make your grant application stand out from the crowd and get that proposal done.  

Participants to Bring: 

• Questions about arts grants, a draft grant application, or a proposed project plan or budget, or other items to work on during the workshop.  
• A laptop or iPad to work on, or notepad and pens.  
• Own water bottle and lunch. There are food outlets within a short walk of the venue if preferred.  
• Light snacks will be provided by Flying Arts.  

Discuss your career or practice one-on-one with a respected arts industry professional. John Stafford is a Director of CREATIVEMOVE, a company specialising in public art commissions, artist services and curatorial projects. John is also co-director of Onespace, a commercial gallery presenting contemporary artists with valuable ideas. 

Use these 45 minute sessions to discuss matters most relevant to you. Topics of discussion may include:

– Mapping your career goals, strategies and direction 
–  Discussing project or exhibition ideas 
– Gaining feedback on your portfolio 

Participants will attend via our online meeting platform. 

Participants to Bring: 

– Questions, CVs or resumes, resources, artwork, portfolios or other items to discuss during your consultation. 

Artist and long-term arts educator Leigh Schoenheimer will lead you through a process of navigating abstraction through a philosophy of modernism and abstraction.

Reference to and appropriation of the work of Modern and Post-Modern artists provides a contemporary context for exploring lenses and the material world. This workshop is relevant to artists and arts workers who want to develop their skills in contemporary abstract art. It also includes direct links to the Visual Arts Senior Syllabus, providing teachers with ideas and scaffolding for delivering Unit 1, Art as Lens. 

This workshop connects with the Queensland Visual Art General Senior Syllabus. The poetics of process presents a collection of process driven visual arts workshops that allow the medium and the choice of materials to inform the conceptual intentions of each outcome. The outcomes for each workshop focus on enabling visual art students to recognise that their personal connection to a specific process and medium are intrinsically connected to their conceptual considerations. The poetic as opposed to the conceptual platform that underpins each workshop is a means of maintaining skill-based studio practices that allow students to develop their conceptual concerns through process driven outcomes.  

Artwork credit: Edna Ambrym, Untitled 1 (detail), 2017, Etching on paper, 40 x 40 cm.

Discuss your career or practice one-on-one with a respected arts industry professional.  Joolie Gibbs was Director of Gympie Art Gallery and she has worked with regional artists for over 23 years. She helped the gallery grow from infancy into a successful, vibrant venue with a strong focus on involving young people in artistic projects. She is also a visual artist who works solo and within communities to respond to social impacts and the environment. 

Use these 45 minute sessions to discuss matters most relevant to you. Topics of discussion may include: 

– Mapping your career goals, strategies and direction 
– Discussing project or exhibition ideas 
– Gaining feedback on your portfolio 

Participants will attend via our online meeting platform. 

Participants to Bring: 

– Questions, CVs or resumes, resources, artwork, portfolios or other items to discuss during your consultation.

This webinar connects with the Queensland Visual Art General Senior Syllabus. Unpack strategies of how to get students to move into uncertainty and alternate approaches. Try out different approaches such as moving image and exploring scale through case studies and experiential learning. Work on ways to embed contemporary practices into your students’ landscape and understand how to organically expose students to contemporary practice. 

Professional development day program for educators. Connect with contemporary approaches to art making and digital media and experiment with the latest technologies at The Edge, such as laser cutting, 3D printing, CNC router, Vacuum forma and moulding, and digital mapping. Dive into a creative process that is playful, collaborative and hands on. There is also an opportunity for your work to be included in a public installation at State Library Queensland. 

Registrations close Monday 29 March. 
Cost is inclusive of lunch, workshops and materials. 

Please note: Innovation will not be offered as a residential program in 2021. Day program ONLY. All students must travel with a parent/guardian or teacher to participate in this program. Participants are responsible for their own travel and accommodation.  

This day program is for young people aged 14 – 18. Experiment with the latest technologies at The Edge using contemporary approaches to art making and digital media such as laser cutting, 3D printing, CNC router, vacuum forming and digital mapping. Get hands on experience with the latest technologies and work with experts to develop your art. There is also an opportunity for your work to be included in a public installation at State Library Queensland. 

Registrations close Monday 29 March.
Cost is inclusive of lunch, workshops and materials.

Please note: Innovation will not be offered as a residential program in 2021. Day program ONLY. All students must travel with a parent/guardian or teacher to participate in this program. Participants are responsible for their own travel and accommodation. 

In order to pursue a career as a professional artist it is important to document your artwork professionally. The quality of the presentation of your artistic output can determine the future of your career and is essential to secure exhibitions, grants and other professional opportunities. Educators will find this workshop useful for guiding students in professional photography skills and for documenting student work for assessment, reporting, digital delivery, or exhibition purposes.  

This course will introduce the basic skills required to successfully photograph artwork for print and promotion. It will cover: 

• Digital capture: basic camera skills (aperture shutter speed control, ISO rating and white balance), basic lighting techniques. 
• Basic editing of photographs in Photoshop, import and export of digital images and file handling. 

Workshop Requirements: Basic familiarity with camera equipment and Photoshop (or similar) 

Participants to Bring: 

• Camera and tripod (can be shared amongst participants if equipment cleaned between each use)  
• And/or a smart phone camera 

• Small artworks to photograph 2D or 3D 
• Laptop with Photoshop (suggestion: bring school laptop with access) 

Please note: Flying Arts cannot provide lunch or snacks at this time. 

Do you need some inspiration for your career? Or ideas to help you develop your market and audience engagement? This webinar will discuss opportunities for artists and makers to broaden their reach, expand their business and products, and renew their income streams.  

This workshop is suitable for people new to social media and those needing assistance in adapting to digital changes, and participants will be provided with techniques to communicate their creative work following the recent rise in digital marketing content and social media. 

At the end of this workshop you will walk away with: 

• An understanding of the online platforms Facebook and Instagram.
• Some basic skills in using online platforms including social media and “starter” websites. 
• An understanding of the key differences between branding and marketing. 

• How to “invite” audience engagement. 
• Resources to help you understand how branding looks and marketing works online, specifically using social media. 

• And you will understand your ideal audience, the perceived value they get from being your consumer, and tools best suited for your practice to reach them. 

Participants to bring:  

• A laptop or iPad to work on, and own notepad and pens.  
• Own water bottle and lunch. There are food outlets within a short walk of the venue if preferred. 

Please note: Flying Arts cannot provide lunch or snacks at this time.