An M&G NSW guide to selecting and using media players and projection systems in museum and gallery settings. Covers key considerations such as compatibility, file formats, and reliable playback to ensure seamless digital exhibition delivery.
Thinking about touring an exhibition? This M&G NSW resource addresses the basics to consider before your show goes on the road.
Australian artists and not-for-profit arts organizations can access discounted group and membership-based insurance packages through peak bodies like NAVA and Duck for Cover.
Needing to build a survey to get data from your touring exhibition venues for your funding acquittals or annual reports? This guide provides surveys in a range of accessible formats so participants can choose what works best for them.
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Touring exhibitions require the creation of contracts and agreements between the many parties involved. This non-exhaustive list put together by NETS Australia is designed to provide a general outline for specific circumstances for different agreements and contracts that might be required.
This resource developed by NETS Australia includes cultural safety and inclusion prompts for touring exhibitions. These prompts aim to create opportunities for the experiences, needs, ideas and requirements of people to be purposefully included in all the stages, materials and experiences tied to a touring project.
The Australian Curriculum sets out the essential knowledge, understanding and skills students need to learn, and the quality of learning that is expected of the students as they progress through the first 11 years of schooling.
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This NAVA Toolkit offers ‘How to’ Educator and Classroom Guides for teaching and applying the Code of Practice in the classroom, with content and learning outcomes linked to curriculums and syllabuses for all Australian states and territories.
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The True Tracks® method, developed by Dr Terri Janke and company, is a unique professional development workshop to enhance Indigenous engagement and increase understanding of Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP), or Indigenous cultural heritage.
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An M&G NSW guide to selecting and using media players and projection systems in museum and gallery settings. Covers key considerations such as compatibility, file formats, and reliable playback to ensure seamless digital exhibition delivery.
What can you do to ensure accessibility for your audiences? Digital accessibility is the process of making digital products accessible to all audiences, including people who are blind or have low vision. Guide Dogs ACT/ NSW have put together this info page to get you started.
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Access and EquityCurating the ExhibitionEducation and Learning
The Collections Law & Ethics publication addresses the key legal and ethical issues that arise in public museums, galleries, libraries and archives in Australia and New Zealand, distilling the authors' expertise into a comprehensive, practical text.
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Looking for guidance on how to embed environmental sustainability in your public programmes? From finding language that resonates with local audiences, to thinking about the life cycle of materials and connecting with local partners - this Art Fund toolkit will equip your museum or gallery with useful skills, knowledge and resources so that you are able to initiate and facilitate climate conversations, making this global issue locally tangible.
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Reconciliation Action Plans (RAPs) enable organisations to sustainably and strategically take meaningful action to advance reconciliation. Based around the core pillars of relationships, respect and opportunities, RAPs provide tangible and substantive benefits for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, increasing economic equity and supporting First Nations self-determination.
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Developed by AIATSIS, Core is an innovative online course developed to strengthen your organisation’s cultural capability. It's designed to be informative, interactive and to create a greater awareness of the vast history and cultural heritage of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
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Access free curriculum and teaching resources developed by AIATSIS that are aligned to Version 9 of the Australian Curriculum and are centered around cultural safety.
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The 2022 Countess Report is the third comprehensive report on gender representation in the Australian art sector. The report analyses gallery and museum exhibition data as well as data on artist education, prizes, funding, organisational governance, collection acquisitions, and commercial gallery representation from across Australia in the calendar year of 2022.
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Two cultural mediation resource worksheets for in-gallery use by staff and volunteers to help public facing teams develop their own understanding of exhibitions and build confidence talking to visitors about art.
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The Relationship is the Project is a book of provocations, tools and practical tips for those who are currently working or are interested in working with communities. It is intended to be a solid starting point for organisations, project managers, artists, cultural workers and other community-engaged practitioners who want to bring new perspectives and ideas to their work.
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Creativity is Mistakes is a collaborative project between disabled artists and visual arts organisations in Wales. The project centres the voices, talents and lived experiences of disabled, Deaf and neurodivergent visual artists in developing innovative models for collective access in the visual arts.
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This Renconcilliation Australia RAP Action Plan is a resource that promotes practices around using respectful and inclusive language and terminology as an essential component of reconciliation.
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NETS Victoria collaborated with the Public Galleries Association of Victoria (PGAV) to present the 2020 Curatorial Intensive, a free series of one-hour webinars. The program provided a platform for curators, artists and writers to share their experiences and knowledge with one another through a live Q+A forum.
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The Green Touring Initiative was started in 2020 by Arts on Tour with the aim of providing tools and strategies for Australian artists and arts organisations to help reduce emissions in the making and touring of work, so that the positive impacts of touring activity at a community level don’t cost the planet.
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A non-exhaustive overview of suggested best practice for art spaces, ranging from artist run initiatives to larger institutes, when working with trans, non-binary and gender diverse creatives.
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Access and EquityCurating the ExhibitionEducation and Learning
Public programs are a core way that galleries and museums engage with audiences and attract new visitors. This guide covers all aspects of designing public programs that are meaningful cultural experiences.
Art? Art! Art… An Audience Development Handbook for Public Art Galleries and Museums is a practical guide designed for visual arts professionals in regional Australia providing actionable strategies to expand viewers' experiences and confidence in engaging with contemporary art.