supporting artists' professional development
As well as asserting your professional status, as a NAVA member you are making a valuable contribution to NAVA’s advocacy and lobbying work. In doing so, you are actively promoting the importance of the visual arts and craft sector to the wider community.
Organisation Membership entitles your company to a range of services and benefits in addition to standard membership benefits.
• Multiple membership cards for staff, as determined by the fee level paid.
• Multiple copies of the NAVA Quarterly. You can request up to 10 copies per quarter.
• Retailing NAVA publications. If your organisation has a bookshop or similar outlet you may be able to buy NAVA publications at the wholesale price to on-sell at the RRP.
• Workshop Templates. NAVA has workshop templates which organisational members can use for free. NAVA will help you to run a successful workshop by providing:
- powerpoint templates with associated speakers' notes
- templates for participants' packs
- a draft budget to help you assess the costs involved.
Workshop templates available include:
Indigenous Protocols Workshop template Introduces protocols for engagements between
Australian Indigenous visual artists, their communities and those with whom they dealprofessionally.The template includes a visual and audio case study to run as part of the workshop.
Art Business Basics Workshop template Outlines relevant business skills for artists. The topics currently available include:
-Grants and funding-Negotiation-Operating as a sole trader
-Tax
-The artist/gallery relationship
-The market for work exhibited in publicly funded galleries
-Awards and prizes
