Art Centres

Outstation is currently working closely with 11 Art Centres based in remote communities in the Northern Territory and Western Australia.
“Indigenous Art Centres are generally organisations, whose membership comprise of Indigenous community members and are owned and governed by an elected committee of artists. They are non-profit organisations which facilitate protection of artists’ intellectual and cultural property, provide employment, income earning and training opportunities for Aboriginal people. Art Centres may provide materials, promotion, documentation, dispatch systems and business management for the artists. Art Centres are located in regional and remote communities.
Art Centres’ core business involves the support and facilitation of the production of traditional and contemporary arts and crafts as well as the promotion, exhibition and sale of art work to local, national and international markets.”

(The Association for Northern, Kimberley and Arnhem Aboriginal Artists’ Submission to the Senate Environment, Communications, Information Technoology and the Arts Committee. Inquiry into Australia’s Indigenous Visual Arts and Crafts sector, ANKAAA 2006.)