NAVA at FutureReady 2025
Come visit NAVA's stall at USyd's FutureReady event, a showcase and networking event celebrating student employability, 5-7 PM AEST, Tuesday 21 October 2025.
Cross-Hatchings: Perth–New Delhi Residency
PICA invites WA-based visual artists to apply for an international residency in 2026 in New Delhi, India with Khoj.
Multichannel Commission EOI
The Multichannel Commission (MC) is ACE's contemporary art award worth $10,000 that supports South Australian artists to develop a new multichannel moving image commission.
Telstra NATSIAA 2026
The Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT), and principal partner Telstra, are proud to announce the opening of the call for entries for the 2026 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards.
Enter Now! Small Works Art Prize 2026
Entries are now open for the Small Works Art Prize 2026, one of Australia’s longest-running and most beloved open-entry art awards. Celebrating creativity on an intimate scale, the prize welcomes both emerging and established artists from across Australia and beyond, showcasing hundreds of original works, each no larger than 35x35x35cm.
Applications open for Creative in Residence 2026
We are absolutely ecstatic to announce that applications are now open for UTS Library’s Creative in Residence 2026. The program is now running for its 15th year, and we are calling all creatives to come play with us!
CS Gallery Window Commission: Artist EOI
Melton City Council invites skilled artists to create a graphic artwork that will be reproduced as a digital print for a large-scale gallery window at CS Gallery in Caroline Springs.
Wama Art Prize, 2025
Wama’s biennial art prize is one of Australia’s leading awards dedicated to environmental art, recognising artists deeply engaged with the natural world. Whether you are emerging or established, experimental or traditional, they welcome all artists who create under the theme of environmental art.
Exhibition Coordinator
If you are a creative and proactive team player with strong project coordination, writing, interpersonal, administrative, and organisational skills and a genuine passion for art, craft, and design, we would love to hear from you.
2026 Mandorla Art Award entries open
Now in its 40th year, Mandorla Art Award accepts artwork submissions from all professional and emerging Australian artists, working in any medium. $63,000 total prize pool.
Darebin Art Prize 2026
The Darebin Art Prize is back in 2026 celebrating the outstanding work of contemporary Australian artists. The Darebin Art Prize is a national multi-medium acquisitive art prize awarding excellence in contemporary visual art.
2026 Exhibition Callout
We are calling for applications from artists, artist collectives and curators to exhibit with us in 2026. Applications are welcome from artists, collectives, collaborators, writers and curators working in all mediums.
Executive Producer
The Substation Executive Producer is an experienced arts administrator who leads a management team to inform, plan and deliver the year-round multi-artform and experimental cultural program.
YIRRAMBOI 2027 Commissions EOI
Since 2017, YIRRAMBOI has been a platform for the future of First Nations arts. Now in its fifth iteration, YIRRAMBOI Commissions return to uncover and world premiere bold new works for YIRRAMBOI Festival 2027.
Arts and Culture- NXT Gen ARTS (NGA)
The NXT Gen ARTS category supports structured career development for early career artists aged 18-25 through a work placement with a host NT arts organisation.
Brisbane 2026 Creative Grants NOW OPEN!
Brisbane based creatives or not-for-profit community organisations may be eligible to apply for funding of up to $15,000 through one of Brisbane City Council’s creative grants.
Hurstville Library Entrance Artwork EOI
Seeking artists to design and install an artwork inside the entrance of Hurstville Library.
Cairns Indigenous Art Fair (CIAF) 2026 Art Fair Showcase - EOI
Expressions of Interest (EOIs) are now open for Queensland's First Nations artists to respond to the curatorial theme 'Reclamation & Regeneration'
Independent Artists and Groups Grant
This grant supports the development, production and presentation of new works by independent artists and groups across all art forms.
The Ian Potter Cultural Trust
The Ian Potter Cultural Trust runs funding rounds through which individual artists can apply for grants of up to $15,000.
Creative Futures Fund 2025
The Creative Futures Fund is an initiative of the National Cultural Policy – Revive: a place for every story, a story for every place referenced in the Policy as “Works of Scale”.
Young People: First Nations Arts & Culture Project Fund
Open to Australian First Nations artists or arts workers between the ages of 18 and 35 to support their creative practice and career development, nationally and internationally across all art forms.
NAVA at UNSW Art & Design Paddington Community Day
Come find NAVA's stall at UNSW Art and Design's Paddington Community Day on campus, Wednesday 17 September 2025, 12-3pm.
Area Coded: Established Artist
In the fourth and final session of Area Coded, Jason Wing will join us for the Established Artist session, speaking on nourishing an arts practice long-term through the highs and lows of an established career, and what can be learnt from NAVA's Code of Practice in this process, 1-2:30 pm AEST, Friday 23 May 2025.
Know Your Worth: Artist Fees and Wages
Hosted by Arts Mid North Coast and NAVA, this workshop will explore NAVA's Payment Standards for artists and arts workers in the Mid North Coast region, with insights from local artist and educator, Jeremy Sheehan. Bellingen Memorial Hall, 11:00am-2pm AEST, Sunday 4 May 2025.
Artist Rights: Protecting and Respecting Copyright
Join Arts Mid North Coast and NAVA for a workshop on creative rights and good practice, presented in collaboration with Port Macquarie-based artist Vivianne Hazenveld at Charles Stuart University, Port Macquarie campus, 11am-2pm AEST, Saturday 3 May 2025.
Area Coded: Mid-Career Artist
Marikit Santiago joins NAVA and Utp to co-facilitate Area Coded's Mid-Career Artist session, delving into the realities of sustaining a full-time arts practice and how the Code of Practice remains a guide during this stage, 1-2:30pm AEST, Thursday 24 April 2025.
Area Coded: Emerging Artist
Gillian Kayrooz, joins NAVA and Utp to co-facilitate Area Coded's Emerging Artist session, exploring how pre-emerging and emerging artists may use the Code of Practice to professionally and practically build up an arts career, 1-2:30pm AEDT, Friday 21 March 2025.
NAVA at NAS Undergraduate Orientation Day 2025
Come visit NAVA's stall at NAS' Undergraduate Orientation Day, Friday 28 February 2025, 12:30-2pm
Untangling Insurance
With the launch of NAVA's new insurance, this webinar brings together industry experts, Cover for Creatives, and artist, Nadia Odlum, to help untangle the world of insurance for arts practice. The webinar will also unpack what NAVA's new package has to offer, Wednesday 26 February, 1-2 pm AEDT.
Area Coded: Pre-Emerging Artist
Utp rising student and artist, Grace Almansour, joins NAVA and Utp in co-facilitating Area Coded's Pre-Emerging Artist session, offering an introduction to the arts world via NAVA's Code of Practice, 1-2:30 pm AEDT, Friday 21 February 2025.
Area Coded: Online Sessions
NAVA and Utp present ‘Area Coded’, an online knowledge sharing program spanning lessons and learnings from Pre-Emerging, Emerging, Mid-Career and Established Western Sydney artists, using the Code of Practice as a key reference.
Working Carefully: Trauma-informed Arts Practices
In certain creative practices, care for the audience is a particularly important consideration. This guide by Tom Isaacs explores some of the different ways artists may approach audience care.
NAVA at UNSW Art and Design Community Day
UNSW Art and Design students, come find NAVA's stall at T3 Community Day on campus, 11 September 2024, 12-4pm AEST.
City of Sydney Creative Studios
Brand X are excited to be onsite at Sydney’s new home for multidisciplinary practice – City of Sydney Creative Studios. Discover very affordable short term opportunities for recording and rehearsal studios for musicians, dancers and actors as well as production and editing suites for filmmakers, media and visual arts studios.
NAVA Talks AI in Arts Practice
Artist Kailum Graves joined NAVA to discuss his approach to incorporating AI in creative expression, 1-2 pm AEST, Wednesday 29 May 2024.
NAVA Talks AI and Copyright
Katherine Giles from Arts Law joins NAVA to shed light on the current application of copyright law to AI, 1-2 pm AEST, Wednesday 22 May 2024.
NAVA Talks AI and ICIP
Co-facilitated by NAVA and Shevaun Wright, artist and solicitor at Terri Janke and Company, this webinar delves into the intersection of AI and Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP), 1-2 pm AEST online, Monday 13 May 2024.
NAVA Talks AI: Online sessions
Join NAVA in May for a collaborative series of good practice conversations on the use and impacts of AI on work and practice in visual arts, craft and design.
Exploring NAVA's Payment Standards
Join us for third instalment of NAVA's three-part online series with Arts North West, 'Exploring NAVA's Payment Standards', 5:30-6:30 pm AEDT online, Thursday 28 March 2024.
Understanding Good Practice around Artists’ Copyright and IP
Artist and arts worker Sandra McMahon joins us for the second of three online sessions held in collaboration with Arts North West, to chat copyright and Intellectual Property, 5:30-6:30 PM AEDT online, Thursday 21 March 2024.
Ethical Practices for Working with First Nations Artists
Hosted in partnership with Arts North West, explore NAVA's Code of Practice principles for working with First Nations artists and communities with Dr Lorina L. Barker and Dr Eliza Kent, 5:30-6:30pm AEDT online, Thursday 14 March 2024.
NSW Professional Development Program: Update and Upcoming
With funding from Create NSW, NAVA is currently delivering a series of workshops, talks and new access tools focused on boosting awareness and application of the Code.
Understanding Artists Fees and Wages - a NAVA presentation in Port Macquarie
Fees and Wages workshop hosted by NAVA and Arts Mid North Coast at Glasshouse - Art Lab, Port Macquarie, 3pm-4:30pm AEDT, Saturday 20 January 2024.
Understanding Artists Fees and Wages - a NAVA presentation in Coffs Harbour
Fees and Wages workshop hosted by NAVA and Arts Mid North Coast in Coffs Harbour, 10am-11:30am AEDT, Saturday 20 January 2024.
NAVA News 9 2023
This month's news: Modern Award Review; Strengthening data on the arts; Risk aversion impacting artists' insurance; Ellen Ferrier receives 2023 Windmill Trust Scholarship; NAVA Artist File: Nicole Foreshare; and more.
Inclusive Workplace Toolkit
An anti-oppressive guide grounded in lived experience that provides an introduction about different kinds of discrimination. A resource by HUE. Colour the Conversation.
Wills & Copyright
This Australian Copyright Council fact sheet gives an overview of copyright law and wills and estates law (the laws relating to inheritance or succession). It outlines how copyright is dealt with after a creator's death. This fact sheet may also be useful if you want to get permission to use copyright material when a copyright owner has died.
Copyright Q&As for Teachers: Copying, adapting and sharing text and images
This Q&A sheet from Australian Copyright Council outlines what teachers can do with text and images in support of their classroom work and preparation.
Artificial Intelligence & Copyright
This Australian Copyright Council fact sheet considers copyright in relation to artificial intelligence (AI) and computer-generated works.
Aboriginal Flag & Copyright
This Australian Copyright Council fact sheet discusses copyright in the context of the specific artwork/design that is embodied in the Australian Aboriginal Flag.
Cultivate & Create - Intro to the NAVA Code of Practice
Introductory workshop to NAVA's new Code of Practice at Gosford Regional Gallery, 5:30-7:30pm AEST 11 May 2023.
Visit NAVA at CUT N POLISH: Artist Car Boot Sale
Come find NAVA's stall at CUT N POLISH, a high energy, one-day event centred on artists from Greater Sydney, 11-5pm, May 1 2022.
