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Financial support
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Major funding bodies
The organisations listed below are major funding bodies for the arts. They
represent only a portion of the funding available to artists and arts organisations.
Arts Tasmania
Arts Tasmania provides funding through a number of programs to assist artists and arts
organisations. Programs include:
Aboriginal Arts Fund
Aims to support Aboriginal artists who are committed to projects that stimulate the practice
of contemporary, traditional and non-traditional Aboriginal artforms.
Arts and Disability
Aims to support arts and disability practice in the state and to address the barriers which
prevent emerging and professional artists and arts/cultural workers with a disability from
realising their ambitions. Applications may be made by individual artists with a disability,
and by organisations who work with people with a disability.
Artsbridge
Provides out-of-round funding for travel or freight to allow Tasmanian artists or arts
workers to take up exceptional creative development, professional development or
showcasing opportunities interstate or overseas that are strategically important to their
career development.
Assistance to Individuals
Aims to support individuals, partnerships and other unincorporated bodies working in
any artform in the process of achieving a higher level of practice. This program accepts
applications for most types of projects proposed by artists to further their careers.
Assistance to Organisations
Aims to support arts activities that employ professional arts practitioners and engage
the community in arts activities. These activities may be as diverse as exhibitions,
plays, festivals, industry development, audience development or community cultural
development projects.
Low-Interest Loans
Provide assistance towards project activity, capital improvements, equipment purchases
and other investments, provided there is an arts-related outcome.
Small Museums and Collections
Provides grants and loans to assist the curatorial and collection management practices
of smaller public and community collections and museums. This program is unique in
that you can apply not only for funding, but also for the time of Arts Tasmania’s roving
curators who can assist with any projects that are concerned with the development,
care and/or use of a collection.
Start-up Grants
Grants of up to $3000 are available for young artists or organisations that predominately
comprise and/or represent young people (16-26 years of age) and who have not previously
received an Arts Tasmania grant
Premier’s Arts Partnership Fund
Delivered in partnership with the Australia Business Arts Foundation (AbaF) and with
support from the private sector, this fund encourages the development of new business
arts partnerships matching dollar for dollar, approved new cash partnerships between
$1 000 and $10 000 for an individual artist or arts organisation.
— www.arts.tas.gov.au
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