BALLARAT and District Aboriginal Cooperative has received State grants to boost creative offerings.<\/p>\n
From the Living Local Fund, $200,000 will support a new BADAC Aboriginal community art gallery on Mair Street, and a Creative Neighbourhoods Infrastructure Support grant of $144,000 will cover the activation of indoor and outdoor arts spaces at their Main Road site.<\/p>\n
BADAC CEO Karen Heap said artists will not only showcase work in the gallery, but sell it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re delighted that the wider community will now have the opportunity to buy genuine, unique local Aboriginal art and cultural crafts created by our Western Victorian artists,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur Aboriginal Art Gallery is such a welcome and much-needed project. This will enable them to purchase paints and canvases for new works, and to pay bills and meet living expenses.<\/p>\n
\u201cArt is a connection to, and expression of, Aboriginal culture… A way the whole community can connect to Aboriginal stories and our ways of seeing the world, in all its richness and variety.\u201d<\/p>\n
Member for Wendouree Juliana Addison said a BADAC gallery in the heart of Ballarat will be a celebration of Aboriginal culture.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will provide opportunities for local artists to thrive, and encourage Indigenous tourism experiences for locals and visitors,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Art is all about identity, culture, and relationship to place, for Member for Buninyong Michaela Settle.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am so pleased the gallery will bring stories of ceremony and creation to life for everybody to learn from and enjoy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
BALLARAT and District Aboriginal Cooperative has received State grants to boost creative offerings. From the Living Local Fund, $200,000 will support a new BADAC Aboriginal community art gallery on Mair Street, and a Creative Neighbourhoods Infrastructure Support grant of $144,000 will cover the activation of indoor and outdoor arts spaces at their Main Road site. […]<\/p>\n