Positions Vacant

Invitation For Expression of Interests

From Ipswich Artists and Art Teachers

Dates: 15^th to 19^th September 2014 (Disability Action Week)

Times: 10 am to 2pm daily

Venues in Ipswich City Council Region

We are giving artists with a disability an opportunity to experience what ArtISability may look like if they were to attend. We will be offering on free art workshop each day, from 10am to 12 noon.  These workshops will be part of an art exhibition produced by ArtISability including an art competition for artists with a disability and mental illness. I am applying for funding to host this activity during Disability Action Week. As part of your role you will be asked to assist with judging our art competition.  In return you may exhibition your own work and no commissions on sales will be charged.

Expressions of Interest must include:

·       Dates  you are available

·       A 2 hour workshop for up to 5 people proposal. Please outline discipline, mediums and techniques together with any foreseeable out come.  For example two hour jewellery making workshop using beading, at the completion of the workshop participants will have made a necklace.  

·       Fee 4 service, including travel costs

·       List of supplies or costs of supplies

·       Equipment you need us to supply

·       If access to power and water is needed

·       A copy of CV; photos for your work; ABN and copy of you public liability insurance certificate (If you don’t have an ABN or Insurance that’s ok.)

Applications close Friday 13^th June at 5pm.  (Post mark by Friday 13^th 5pm, however electronic copies are preferred.)   

Successful Application advised by July 1^st 2014.

Tips For Entering Art Competitions

Tips For Enhancing Your Chances in Competitions

1.       Do your research – find competitions that best suit your current skills. For example if your work is an oil painting – find a competition with a oil painting section.

2.      Present your best work, rather than lots of entries.

3.      Before completing the entry form read careful all the competition rules. Often there are rules around the time frame in which the work was completed.

4.      Check you diary, can you delivery your work on time to the right place. Write these dates in your diary or on your calendar. If you need others to deliver you work and collect it ask the person first.

5.      The work you deliver to the exhibition must be the work listed on the enter form.  Tip: Label your work when completed.  With your name, date completed and what you will call the work. Keep a copy of the entry form and when it’s time to deliver the work you deliver the correct work.

6.       Make sure all work on canvas or paper is sealed with the correct sealant.

7.      Check to see if your work needs to be framed.

8.      Check for any size limits.

9.      Check that your work is ready to hand. Correct hooks are connected in the right place and string is attached.

10.  Ensure your work is pack for the best protection especially when sending work by courier.      .

Introducing the multi talented Nick!

Artist Profile

Artist Name: Nick Darby

Ipswich Indigenous Artists

Contact via Debbie on 0421 401 788 or email 

Nick's art works will be on display from the 16th to 18th May 2014.  Nick has entered both the painting and ceramics sections and ArtISabilty would like to wish him the best of luck during the judging sessions this week and we look forward to seeing your work on display next weekend. 

Nick joined the ArtISability Program in March. During March Nick choose to further develop his skills in sculpture and ceramics. Nick is also skilled in acrylic painting and producing work form recycle materials.  

We love having Nick in the program and he is certainly entertaining to have around we are discovering the many creative sides to Nick . . . Just check out these moves. . . 

Nick entertained us at the Well Being Fair  

  

 Nick is currently reconnecting to his indigenous culture and been experimenting with aboriginal art as part of his continuing professional development program with artists ability.  Nick would really benefit from some mentoring from and indigenous elder from the Ipswich community. 

One of the works Nick has on display at the Ipswich Show

At ArtISability we focus on the abilities of our artists not the barriers their disabilities may create.

Nick is highly motivated and keen to learn new skills to allow him to develop his art. Here's a sample of what he has to offer.

The small pictures on Nick's right he sells for $15 each

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The artISability team enjoy having Nick’s fun loving nature around and look forward to see Nick develop and explore other mediums as his creative journey continues.

If you like to see more of Nick’s portfolio you can email chiltion1968@bigpond.com.    

Access All Areas

Accessing All Areas

The human rights of people living with a disabilities are the same as anybody else living on the plant. The UN Commission has increasingly become concern with the human rights of people living in Australia with disabilities in regards of their ability to access all areas of society. All members of the human race have the right to access all buildings, places of public interest, employment, education, transport, sport and recreation, governments, legal representation, information, technology etc.

As such all governments, businesses, organisations, clubs, venues and groups are required to develop disability access plans to enable Australians with disabilities to fully participate. As we develop our Disability Action Plan at ArtISability, we are committed to enabling artists to achieve the goals and ambitions, rather than deliver programs designed for them. As such it is hoped each program can be designed to meet the needs of those wanting to participate. Where possible we promote choice.

However everything has boundaries and for us it is our ability to fund of programs and attract professional staff to fun them.  We would love to have an unlimited budget to create fully accessible venues in every way but we can’t. At best we provide bridges over some of the barriers artists with disabilities face. In the main this is through paying support costs associated with an artist attendance.  For example during our pilot program we were able to provide 3 artists with one on one support to attend our workshops.  If we have a deaf artists participating we might employ a ausland interrupter.

Access for artists with disabilities is no longer about access to buildings and appropriate amenities, in encompasses a whole range of needs as described above. For more information you can read our Disability Action Plan.

Our Disability Action Plan seeks visual arts industry, whether they are contracted to work for us or participating in the program. This includes physical access to buildings, access to printed information, access to digital information, access to audio information, access to learning, both formal and informal, behavioural support where appropriate,  support to interact with others, access to arts funding and to be assisted by art workers, and access to transport.

Even where appropriate accessible venues can be secured, many venues remain inaccessible to artists living with disability. Particularly where artists are severely restricted mobility, neurological conditions such as epilepsy and visual impairments.   Often people living with these disabilities require a taxi to enable them to individually access the community. Traditional arts funding does not enable us to assist our artists in this area. However our Disability Action Plan identities this one of the most difficult barriers for our artists to overcome.

Currently ArtISability is sell pens to raise money to assist our artists to access all areas they need to established their careers. ArtISability is currently assisting six artists with a range of disabilities to connect to the Ipswich arts community.  By buy one of our pens you can assist our artists to sign their names on their completed artworks.

Writing our Artist’s Name

Into art history books of the world!

ArtISability Pens $ 6

Help assist our talented artists to access all. Areas.

Email orders to Debbie chilton@bigpond.com

Payment By PayPal Welcomed

Introducing . . .

Until now our artists have remained anonymous. I now have consent to tell you a little more about each of them over the coming weeks. As you  know a few of our artists are keen to work towards an art exhibition and Claire Shelley has nominated for the position of sectary on our art exhibition committee team.  

Artist’s Profile

Artists Name: 

Claire Shelley

Originally from Boonah, Claire now calls Ipswich home.  This fun-loving adventurous   chick from the country in no stranger to creativity or the arts industry.  Before arriving in Ipswich Claire was involve in the writer’s community in Boonah and is currently on the editorial team of the ALARA client newsletter and our newly discovered artist at ArtISability.  Not every art group has a journalist in their mist.

During the ArtISability workshops Claire refined her skills with the paint brush and the textures provided by the mediums of oils and acrylics.

“Our artists not only amazed us but amazed themselves.”

Under the mentorship of Judith Baker, Claire applied herself to developing skills and experimenting with different tools to enable her to achieve the finish results demanded of a professional artist.  ArtISability also provide Claire with a opportunity to network with other Ipswich Artists and learn more about what the Ipswich community has to offer Ipswich.

Claire is excited to unite with other artists in developing her professional networks and portfolio as they work towards hosting an art exhibition. I know Claire and I know she’s not afraid of hard work.

Claire was also keen to show off her latest work to a previous artist who told her to pack up her paint brushes and find a new hobby. We at ArtISability are so glad she didn’t list and came to join us.  

You can view Claire’s work for yourself at the Ipswich Show May 16th to 18th.

If you are interested in meeting Claire and seeing more of the amazing talents she has to offer email chilton1968@bigpond.com.   

Our next art exhibition committee meeting is Friday 16th May, 2014. If you are interested in supporting our artists to host their own art exhibition your welcome to attend our meetings.  Please note all executive decisions will be  made by the artists themselves through a secret ballet process, to ensure each artist is heard.