Invasion Day/Survival Day Statement of Solidarity 2025
NAVA supports the boycott of “Australia Day” on 26 January 2025 and stands in solidarity with First Nations peoples' rights to justice, sovereignty and self-determination.
Statement from the Chair of NAVA
A call for representation, allyship, and agency in the wake of the referendum.
Omicron Struggle for Visual Arts - Pulse Survey data
Recent research by NAVA reinforces need for crisis funding for independent visual artists, a federally-backed insurance scheme and a new artwork fund.
Pulse Survey - Impacts of the Omicron wave on the Australian visual arts and craft
Illustration by Emily Johnson
A national insurance scheme is key to boosting visual arts sector confidence
NAVA continues to advocate for the creation of a national insurance scheme for visual artists, organisations and touring agencies impacted by exhibition cancellations.
Reopening Resources for Galleries and Museums
Is your gallery or museum planning to reopen? Access NAVA's free resources for a COVID-safe reopening.
Reading the roadmaps: the visual arts sector prepares
NAVA is listening to network leaders to better understand industry perspectives and processes as Vic and NSW prepare to reopen.
NAVA strongly encourages visual arts applicants for RISE Funding
Applications for the remaining $40 million in RISE Funding close 24 October 2021 at 23:59 AEDT.
Update from NAVA's Co-Directors
NAVA continues to raise the profile of the impacts of lockdowns and restrictions on the visual arts and craft.
Visual Arts in Australia - Pulse Survey
To best support you and your work, we need data. Please share your experiences of 2021 in this sector pulse survey.
NAVA again calls for urgent crisis support for the visual arts sector
It’s time for the visual arts and craft sector voices to be heard alongside live performing arts and music.
Visual arts sector urgently requires crisis funding
Urgent measures are needed to ensure hard-hit artists and arts workers have access to vital financial support.
NAVA Members asked to join national survey
Image: ONE & ALL arranged on a smartphone by Ceri Hann.
COVID-19 Support Package – what we know so far
The government recently announced more support and thankfully sole traders and small businesses received a mention.
RISE Funding: NAVA info session recording and transcript
Recording and transcript of NAVA's RISE Fund info session by the Office for the Arts.
Fletcher’s “significant re-imagining of the Commonwealth’s approach to the arts” falls short
Image: Minister for the Arts Paul Fletcher, (background) Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Photo by Matt Blyth/Getty.
Visual arts sector far from recovery, NAVA survey reveals
Illustration by Emily Johnson.
Call on the government to #SupportArt through COVID-19
Be heard. Talk to your MP. Together we can make so much more noise.
Public Memory: The role and curation of commemorative monuments and public art
Image: Luke Currie-Richardson. Photo by Jamie Morris.
More than enough: Balancing art and motherhood
Aseel Tayah is a mother, an artist and an activist. In this article, Aseel discusses the challenges of balancing all of these roles before and during social isolation.
Finding a new equilibrium in an increasingly precarious world
Image: Kay Abude, WORK WORTH DOING, Castlemaine State Festival 2019, hand silkscreen on linen, dimensions variable. Project supported by a 2018 Arts Vic Grant from Creative Victoria, LaTrobe Art Institute, Shedshaker Brewery and Taproom and The Mill Castlemaine. Photo by Kay Abude.
COVID-19 Action: What have we achieved so far?
Image: Artists in conversation at a NAVA roundtable. Photo by Document Photography, 2019.
Why arts and culture should be the policy leader, not the afterthought, in economic crisis recovery
Photo by Tanja Bruckner, 2017.
Sacred Data
Poet, film maker and digital producer of Wiradjuri heritage, Jazz Money, examines the potential benefits and threats to Indigenous data sovereignty in increasingly digitised spaces.
'If our government wants cultural life to return, it must act now': an open letter from Australia's arts industry
Over 130 arts groups call on minister Paul Fletcher for urgent action over coronavirus hit to industry.
It’s ghostlights, not spotlights, for the industry hardest hit by COVID19
Image: Dean Cross, I LOVE YOU, I'M SORRY, 2020. Installation view, Firstdraft. Photo by Zan Wimberley
Change the Conversation From Surviving to Thriving
Bronwyn Bancroft, Time marches on, 2010 (cropped), mixed media. Courtesy of the artist and the Australian War Memorial.
Cultural Authority and Consultation
When seeking to engage with First Nations cultural heritage on any project, it should be expected that you consult with the appropriate cultural authority at each stage of research, development and production.
Tips to Making a Genuine Commitment to First Nations and People of Colour in the Arts
Illustration by Emily Johnson.
Q&A Blak Curatorial Exchange
NAVA talks to Blak Curatorial Exchange program mentors, Freja Carmichael, Jo-Anne Driessens and Amanda Hayman about some of the highlights of the program.
Aleshia Lonsdale
NAVA recently talked with artist, Aboriginal Arts Development Officer of Arts OutWest and speaker at Artstate Bathurst, Aleshia Lonsdale.
