Big changes to federal government arts funding disrupted the sector. At the same time, the National Disability Insurance Scheme was beginning.
Arts Access Victoria worked hard to include arts in the NDIS. We developed handbooks and tools to help people advocate for art.
The ARTfinder Victoria directory was funded to go national. Choose Art is Australia’s accessible arts directory.
WOWWalk, 2019. Way Out West. Photography by Raphael Recht.
Several Arts Access program flyers spread out on a table, including ARTfinder, 2016.
Executive Director Veronica Pardo announced her decision to leave. This was to transition to a Deaf or Disabled person to lead Arts Access Victoria. Caroline Bowditch began in 2017. Arts Access Victoria was now proudly Disability-led.
Since 2014, Arts Access Victoria presented the Lesley Hall Arts and Disability Scholarship. This award honored AAV’s former Chair.
In 2016 We joined forces with Maribyrnong City Council and Music Victoria to produce Bandmates Victoria. This program linked Deaf and Disabled people with music punters to attend live shows. This was the beginning of a relationship aimed at supporting Deaf and Disabled music makers and lovers into the future.
In 2018 the Stella Young Award launches in memory of Stella Young. Stella’s impact continues to this day.
In 2019, Capturing the City began in partnership with SIGNAL – a youth arts space in Melbourne’s CBD. Young people developed art in public spaces for audiences of passers-by.
The Other Film Festival began to shift to a new model. Not just a bi-annual festival, TOFF now ran year-round programming.
Capturing the City, 2019. Photo supplied by The City of Melbourne.
Bandmates at Loop Bar, 2017.
Patrick Francis, Illustration of Nebula outside Bundoora Homestead Arts Centre, 2017.
Nexus, Chain Reaction, The Channel at Arts Centre Melbourne, 2019.
Nebula inside Cultural Banner Workshop Dandenong, 2019. Photo by Thomas Barne, supplied by The City of Greater Dandenong.
Capturing the City, 2019. Photo supplied by The City of Melbourne.
Cultural Threads, Nebula, 2019. Photo by Thomas Barne, supplied by The City of Greater Dandenong.
Art Form and Leasing Catalogue, publications for artists, 2018.
The Other Film Festival, 2018. Photo by Paul Dunn.
Nebula at The Other Film Festival, 2018. Photography by Paul Dunn.
Disability Pride Mural, 2017.
The Madonna of the Immaculate pastry, by Trish. Art About program, 2018.
Art Day South artists at the opening of the Go Have a Look exhibition, 2018. Photograpy by Shuttermain Photograph.
Art About, Collaborative artwork on fabric (detail 1), 2018.
Illustration by Eloise, 2017.
Kate Niddrie from Way Out West, Fortune, Perfomance, 2017.
Melbourne Art Tram covered in work by Mathew Clark, 2017.
Bandmates at Loop Bar, 2017
Robert Brown, pastel drawing, 2017.
Get Out Artist work in Homage To... exhibition, 2017.
Karim Sarakbi, 2017.
Under My Skin, Delta Project, 2016. Photo by Sarah Walker.
