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.
Amid rising costs of living, it is essential that artists are equipped with the practical tools to price and value their time appropriately. With insights from NAVA’s Code of Practice and Mid North Coast artist, Jeremy Sheehan, this session will focus on knowing your worth as an artist for audiences within the Mid North Coast region.
In this workshop, NAVA will unpack minimum standard fees and wages outlined within the Code of Practice for Visual Arts, Craft and Design. This resource, endorsed by the Australian Government as part of the National Cultural Policy - Revive: a place for every story, a story for every place, sets out equitable, ethical and self-reflective standards for the professional Australian contemporary arts sector.
Participants will walk away with an understanding on how to get paid fairly and advocate for their worth; important learnings for sustaining professional practice in the current climate.
This is a free workshop presented by NAVA’s NSW Professional Development Coordinator, Emma Pham and Coffs Harbour artist and educator, Jeremy Sheehan.
Light lunch and networking/ socialising time provided.
Attendance is free however registration is required. Limited spots available.
11:00 am - 2:00 pm AEST, Sunday, 4 May 2025.
Bellingen Memorial Hall, 32 Hyde St, Bellingen NSW.
Light lunch and socialising time provided.
Attendance is free however registration is required. Limited spots available.
This event will be auslan interpreted.
If you have any other access requirements, please contact emma@visualarts.net.au
The National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) is a Membership organisation that brings together the many voices of the contemporary arts sector to improve fundamental conditions of work and practice. We do this through advocacy, education and the Code of Practice. For further information on NAVA visit www.visualarts.net.au
Arts Mid North Coast is the peak body for the arts, culture and creative industries for the Mid North Coast region of New South Wales. We service the five local government areas of Port Macquarie-Hastings, Kempsey, Nambucca Valley, Bellingen and Coffs Harbour on the traditional lands of the Biripi, Dunghutti and Gumbaynggirr Nations.
We are an independent not for profit organisation and registered charity governed by a Board made up of Local Government members, and community representatives.
Emma Pham
NSW Professional Development Coordinator
emma@visualarts.net.au
Image Credit: Illustration by Claudia Chinyere Akole © 2022
ID: A graphic illustration in shades of orange of a person grasping money, to the side there are four bubbles with drawings of a clock, paint supplies, a van and calculator in them. The illustration sits against a pink background.
This project is supported by the NSW Government through Create NSW.
NAVA acknowledges and pays respects to the rightful custodians of the many First Nations Lands upon which this online event will be streamed and received. We recognise all Custodians of Country throughout all lands, waters and territories, and pay respect to First Nations communities' Ancestors and Elders. Sovereignty was never ceded.
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