NAVA provides opportunities for the Australian visual arts sector to meet as a community, have a national conversation, learn from and be inspired by some of the best ideas from overseas and around the country, form partnerships and networks and devise common positions from which to take action.
Future/Forward 2018 shaped the future of the arts by championing the artist in the nation’s capital.
Over two days in Canberra, NAVA facilitated visual artists’ thinking on how best to advance rights, sustain incomes and develop practice in Australia.
Our first day at the NGA focused on institutional aspects of professional practice. The second day at Parliament House focused on the politics of policy change.
Presented in partnership with the National Craft Initiative (NCI) and the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) in 2015, Parallels - Journeys into Contemporary Making was curated by Ewan McEoin and Simone LeAmon of the new Department of Contemporary Design and Architecture at the NGV. The two-day conference offered an optimistic platform to interpret how local/global forces are reshaping the convergent worlds of craft and design.
Future/Forward 2014 was a two-day national summit that brought together arts practitioners, academics and industry professionals to engage in discussions about the current state of the visual arts in Australia and to imagine new possibilities for developing contemporary practice.
In September 2011, NAVA and Firstdraft presented a national symposium dedicated to Artist Run Initiatives (ARIs) with talks, workshops, events, an exhibition and a live art performance program, across seven venues in Sydney.
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