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Welcome
to 2022! It’s already February and we know for many of us the year has
not kicked off as planned but Flying Arts are here to assist you to
achieve your creative goals, whatever they may be!
We
are excited to launch the year with the opening of Paint
the Town, a touring exhibition of the 2021 Queensland
Regional Art Awards. Cairns audiences will be treated to an
award-winning selection at the exhibition opening weekend 25 -
27 February, Cairns Court House
Gallery. Over the weekend you can participate in a
suite of public programs, so get ready to paint the town! Learn more
Our
2022 Annual Program is now live, with
an amazing line up of programming. From grants and professional
workshops to grow your creative business to experimenting with new
artforms and engaging with your community, at Flying Arts we aim to
have something for everyone.
This
year sees the commemorations for Flying Arts 50th Anniversary continue
through to October 2022. Stay tuned as we still have more planned as we
celebrate half a century of connecting artists, educators and
communities.
We look forward to engaging creatively with you
soon.
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Paint the Town opening in Cairns
25
Feb - 23 Apr, Cairns Court House Gallery, Cairns
Get
ready to Paint the Town, Cairns! Join
the judges and prize-winning artists of the 2021 Queensland Regional
Art Awards: Paint the Town for at the exhibition opening weekend
at the newly-opened Court House Gallery in Cairns.
QRAA: Paint the Town, Cairns Launch REGISTER
Friday,
25 Feb, 2022, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm, The Court House, 38 Abbott Street,
Cairns.
This
is a registration-only/ticketed event. Anyone entering the Court House
Gallery venue aged 16 years or over must be fully vaccinated, provide
proof of vaccination status or evidence of medical contraindication to
attend. Please assist our staff, be prepared to show this upon request.
Public Programs for young people, educators and
artists (view all)
Saturday,
26 February (various times) The Court House, 38 Abbott Street, Cairns.
Wonderous Watercolour: Our Perfect New World
Project with Libby Derham REGISTER
Re-wilding the Urban Jungle: Our Perfect New World
Project with Bianca Tainish REGISTER
Creative Consultations with Carol McGregor REGISTER
Sunday
27 February (various times) The Court House, 38 Abbott Street, Cairns.
Printmaking with Stamps: Our Perfect New World
Project with Darren Blackman REGISTER
These
are registration-only/ticketed events. Anyone entering the Court House
Gallery venue aged 16 years or over must be fully vaccinated, provide
proof of vaccination status or evidence of medical contraindication to
attend. Please assist our staff and be prepared to show this upon request
Paint the Town, touring exhibition of the 2021
Queensland Regional Art Awards, is an initiative of Flying Arts
Alliance in partnership with Museums & Galleries Queensland. This
project is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts
Queensland; and proudly sponsored by Holding Redlich.
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Program Highlights
We
are starting the year with a great line-up of Professional Development
programs back for 2022! Look ahead and plan your year with many of the
programs complementing each other. Learn more
Our
ever-popular Creative Consultations
are back, firstly with Dr Carol McGregor in Cairns followed on
20th May with a session by Liz Nowell, Director
of the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. This
session will be online so join in from wherever you are located from
your own device. Creative consultations are great to discuss career
advice for artists and arts workers as well as matters most relevant to
you.
More
time to spend? Join us over two days, Saturday
30 April and Sunday 1 May with Dr Louise R Mayhew for our Artist Essentials Program,
a 2-day intensive program, designed for early-career artists and arts
workers. This program aims to connect you with peers to
collaboratively resolve a creative ‘toolkit’. either developing new
professional content, or critically revising your current documents Register here
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Guidelines for Working Collaboratively with First
Nations Creatives
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7
Apr, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, Your computer
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In
this webinar Aunty Nicole Williams will discuss strategies for
collaborating with First Nations creatives, organisations and
businesses. This discussion-based webinar will empower you to build
meaningful and long lasting connections with your local Traditional
Custodians.
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Artist Essentials Program
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30
Apr, 10:00 am - 1 May, 4:00 pm, TAFE QLD Southbank Campus, 66
Ernest Street, South Brisbane, QLD, 4101
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Join
Dr Louise R Mayhew in this 2-day intensive program designed for
early-career artists and arts workers. In this program you will connect
with peers to collaboratively resolve a creative ‘toolkit’, In
addition, talk you through networking, pitching and collaboration
skills.
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5
May, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, Your computer
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Copyright
is a way for artists to protect creativity, though can be a challenge
to navigate. This challenge is complicated further by contracts,
artwork commissions, collaborative art pieces, online material
and for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists.
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Creative Consultations with Liz Nowell
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20
May, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, Your computer
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Liz
Nowell is an arts leader and curator with over ten years’ experience
working in Australian and international contemporary art. Currently she
is Director of the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane. She can provide
career advice for artists and arts workers
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Art as Lens: Using Typography, Narratives and
Nostalgia
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6
Mar, 10:00 am - 4:00 pm, Queensland College of Art, 226 Grey
Street, South Brisbane, QLD, 4101
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Take
a look through the lens of celebrated Brisbane artist Martin Smith as
photography, typography and storytelling are employed to express
and interpret personal experience.
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Our Globalised World Exploring Diaspora Through
Art Practice
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17
Mar, 3:30 am - 4:45 pm, Your Computer
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Hear
Eugenia Lim discuss her video and installation based art practice and
recent projects on globalisation, diaspora and identity. This webinar
links to the Cross-Curriculum priority of ‘Asia and Australia’s
Engagement with Asia’.
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Connecting Art with Communities
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31
Mar, 3:30 am - 4:45 pm, Your computer
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In
this webinar, artist and curator, Nicholas Aloisio-Shearer, will discuss
his work investigating the digital conditions of contemporary life.
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Connecting Art with LGBTQI+ Safe Spaces
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28
Apr, 3:30 am - 4:45 pm, Your Computer
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Celebrated
artist Shannon Novak aims to use his socially engaged and collaborative
practice to build spaces that acknowledge, celebrate, and support
diversity and inclusion.
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RAF Quick Response Grants
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Quick
Response Grants aim to support small arts or cultural projects that
cannot be funded by other means because of their nature or timing.
Applications are closing soon for the February round of the Regional
Arts Fund Quick Response Grant. The last chance to
submit your application for the current round is Monday 28
February 2022. Successful applicants will be notified
of round outcomes on 8 March. This type of grant would also suit
individual professional development. Learn more
Applications
for the March Quick Response Grant round
open on 1 March and closes 31 March 2022. Successful Quick Response
Grant recipients from the November 2021 round can be found here.
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Applications
for Round One of the 2022 Regional
Arts Fund Project Grants close on 14 March 2022.
Project Grants provide major funding for high-quality arts projects
benefiting regional or remote artists, arts workers, audiences, and
communities. Learn more
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The Regional Arts Fund (RAF) is an Australian Government
program designed to benefit regional and remote arts practitioners,
arts workers, audiences and communities. The fund is provided through
Regional Arts Australia and is administered in Queensland by Flying
Arts Alliance.
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For Your Creative Community
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Regional Councils, Galleries and Community Groups
– Do you need help keeping your community connected and engaged with
professional creative skills development? Our By
Request team are ready to work with you to deliver workshops in person
or online that meet the specific needs of your region. Contact our team
at byrequest@flyingarts.org.au to discuss your next
grant writing, business management, marketing, or planning requirements
to build your creative community capacity. Learn more
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Paint the Town: The Touring Exhibition of the
2021 QRAA
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25
Feb - 23 April
The
Court House, 38 Abbott Street, Cairns
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Paint the Town is on the road and first destination is Cairns!
Paint the Town
is the exhibition outcome of the 2021 Queensland Regional Art Awards.
The 2021 QRAA coincides with Flying Arts’ 50th year anniversary, half a
century of connecting artists, educators and communities.
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Decadence: The Touring Exhibition of the 2020
QRAA
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09
Mar - 01 May
Rosalie
Gallery 89 Mocatta Street, Goombungee
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Decadence
may invite notions of luxury and self-indulgence. It may evoke ideas of
wanton excess or wastefulness, perhaps with a casual or deliberate
disregard of consequence.
On show with artworks created as part of Our Perfect New
World Project, supported through Arts Queensland thanks to the Playing
Queensland Fund.
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Join the Flying Arts Family
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Flying Arts Standard Membership round for 2022 is
coming soon.
This membership year runs from 1st April to 31st March.
Our members are a valued and important part of the Flying Arts
community. As a financial member you not only join our creative
community, you receive membership benefits like reduced scheduled
workshop fees, voting rights at our AGM, discounts with our retail partners
and more! Learn more
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Flying
Arts Alliance is listed in the Registration of Cultural Organisations,
and has Deductible Gift Recipient and Tax Charity Concession status.
All
donations above two dollars are tax deductible and will directly
support programs and activities in schools and communities in regional
and remote areas.
Donate Now
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Flying
Arts Alliance Inc acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of the lands
and seas on which we work, live and create. We pay our respects to
Elders, past, present and emerging. We acknowledge the unending
connection of First Nations peoples to this country. We support the
aspirations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to Voice,
Treaty and Truth. We value the contributions of First Nations artists,
creatives, artisans, practitioners and communities to the work we do.
Flying
Arts Alliance is honoured to acknowledge the Governor of Queensland,
Her Excellency the Honourable Dr Jeannette Young PSM as our Patron. We
also acknowledge Mr Tim Fairfax AC and Mrs Gina Fairfax as our Cultural
Patrons.
Flying
Arts is a not-for-profit organisation inspiring the appreciation,
practice and professional development of the visual and media arts as a
lifetime interest or career throughout regional and remote Queensland,
supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, and
corporate partners and benefactors.
Flying
Arts is the administrator in Queensland of the Regional Arts Fund
(RAF), an Australian Government program provided through Regional Arts
Australia.
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