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An arts guide to philanthropic gifts and tax: the dry stuff
This guide will help not-for-profit cultural organisations and individual artists understand the formalities associated with receiving philanthropic gifts. This is your one-stop-shop for tax and legal information about philanthropic fundraising. more >
Artist Careers
Artist Careers, two research projects released today by the Australia Council for the Arts, paints a comprehensive picture of the working lives of Australia’s 44,000 professional artists. more >
Contemporary Inuit Art in Canada
This 12-page fact sheet highlights some key statistical findings from a combination of research reports and statistical information. more >
Making adaptive resilience real
This publication focuses on developing understanding and debate about adaptive resilience, and increasing sectoral understanding of its importance through experimentation and sharing of best practice. more >
Picture This: Increasing the cultural participation of people with a disability in Victoria
These reports provide a unique snapshot of a dynamic and burgeoning Victorian arts and disability sector, and identify some of the barriers that we need to continue to work to remove. more >
International Journal of Cultural Policy: Volume 16 Issue 3
International Journal of Cultural Policy: Volume 16 Issue 3 is now available online at informaworld. more >
Why should Government support the arts?
State governments today face monumental challenges: record-breaking budget shortfalls, rising unemployment, widespread home foreclosures and escalating needs for public assistance. Designed for public arts leaders and advocates to excerpt and adapt, this material can be used to support your state’s case for the arts. more >
An arts guide to philanthropic gifts and tax: the dry stuff
This guide will help not-for-profit cultural organisations and individual artists understand the formalities associated with receiving philanthropic gifts. This is your one-stop-shop for tax and legal information about philanthropic fundraising. more >
The Living and Working Conditions of Artists in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
The average professional artist living in the Republic of Ireland earns just €14,500 a year from his or her art, despite having a higher level of formal education than the wider labour force, new research shows. more >
Createquity Arts Policy Library
An online hub for next-generation ideas about the role of the arts in a creative society. This virtual library of blogs and opinions on diverse resources aims to bring greater attention to important ongoing work in the field of arts research, as well as synthesising some of the resources for a general audience. more >
Arts Council Study reveals poor living and working conditions of artists
New research published today by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon, reveals how many artists are now working on the island, the level of state support provided to artists in other countries, and the challenges they face as they pursue their chosen professions. more >
The International Symposium on Cultural Diplomacy 2010 - Participant Papers
The International Symposium on Cultural Diplomacy 2010: Culture, Globalization, and International Relations over the next Two Decades - participant papers and interviews. more >
Arts, access, excellence 2010 - conference papers
The second Arts Activated National Conference bought together leading thinkers, artists, advocates, practitioners and producers from across Australia and overseas, to create dialogue about and showcase examples of excellence in arts and disability. more >
Raw Law booklet & DVD
Barrister and human rights advocate Julian Burnside AO QC launched Raw Law, an essential guide for artists with disabilities. The Raw Law booklet and DVD package can be ordered from the Arts Access Victoria website. more >
Arts indicators for local government
This paper presents a set of arts indicators for local government, developed particularly for Australia. It includes a brief overview of the emerging international literature around arts and ‘cultural’ indicators, focussing particularly on work that has informed the current project, especially that of Maria Jackson and colleagues from the USA. This framework has been developed primarily to measure the contribution of the arts to the cultural vitality of local communities. It takes as a starting point the values explicated in Hawkes (2001), that cultural vitality is as important a dimension of sustainable communities as the other dimensions of economic viability, social equity and environmental sustainability. The framework has four major categories of indicators; presence of opportunities to participate in the arts, rates of participation, support arts activity and outcomes of arts activity. The first such initiative in Australia, this framework is undergoing extensive discussion and redevelopment throughout 2010. more >
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