Framing Gravity, the 2011 AART.BOXX exhibition presented by Accessible Arts was held at Sydney College of the Arts over two weeks in October 2011. The exhibition was attended by 570 people and a range of public programs were well attended including artist talks and art making workshops.
Auburn based visual artist, Carla Wherby is the first recipient of an innovative new scholarship designed to improve access to arts and cultural funding for artists with disability. Wherby’s uses extraordinary graphic and representational skills in drawing to depict the complexity of war in political and social history alongside the resilience of the human spirit.
As part of the AART.BOXX initiative, Accessible Arts has secured funding from Arts NSW for a $4000 professional development scholarship for an individual artist included in this year’s exhibition.
Nine individuals from a competitive pool of 33 applications have been selected to form the committee for AART.BOXX 2011, Accessible Arts’ bi-annual national survey exhibition. Generating ideas and discussions that propel the committee, will commence in mid September 2010.News
AART.BOXX 09: Emerging artists & creative thinkers with disability
Accessible Arts is presenting its national survey exhibition of works by emerging artists with disability from 30 October to 7 November 2009.
AART.BOXX will be opened by Christine Morrow, on Thursday 29 October 2009. The opening will be Auslan interpreted.
Twenty-one artists and three arts collectives will show over 40 works from a diversity of art forms. An opportunity to meet the artists in the gallery as part of Conversations with Artists will be held from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm on Saturday 31 October and Thursday 5 November 2009.
RSVP is essential by 30 October to Josie Cavallaro, tel: 02 9251 64 99 ext 105 or jcavallaro@aarts.net.au.
Further funding received from the Australia Council for the Arts Community Partnership program has enabled the creation of employment opportunities for people with disability to work on the exhibition.