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Tipping point - ACDC strategy for the future

1 April 2011

Abstract

This publication outlines the many programs delivered by the network of Australian Craft and Design Centres (ACDC) as a direct result of Visual Arts and Craft Strategy (VACS). The report includes case studies which demonstrate ways the ACDC network invests in support for artists, innovation and design, innovation and new technologies, Indigenous craft and design as a growth industry, and growing audiences for Australian craft and design.

Tipping point: ACDC strategy for the future

Tipping point: ACDC strategy for the future

by Australian Craft and Design Centres (ACDC) network, 2011

Table of contents

  • Overview
  • Context
  • Statistics
  • Recommendations
    • 1 Core infrastructure
      • Supporting organisational sustainability
      • Engaging with digital technologies
    • 2 Creating the tipping point for artists
      • Fees for artists
      • Investing in new modes of operation
      • Indigenous craft and design
    • 3 Audience engagement: new generations
    • 4 Going global: growing international markets
    • 5 Environmental challenge
  • Addressing equity
  • Case Studies
    • Supporting artists
    • JamFactory, South Australia
    • Artisan, Queensland
    • Craftsouth, South Australia
    • Design Forum, Tasmania
    • Selling Yarns: Indigenous craft and design conferences
  • Innovation and design
    • Midland Atelier
    • F!NK: Fostering design
    • Craft Cubed
  • Innovation and new technologies
    • National online forums
    • Craft and design research
    • Online retail
  • Indigenous craft and design: a growth industry
    • Koskela and Indigenous weavers
    • Menagerie: the exhibition and its financial outcomes
    • Ngurra Kuju Walyja: the Canning Stock Route Project
    • Mamana Mamanta Gradual Friendship
  • Audience engagement: new generations
    • Cultivate
    • Trades
    • Living Treasures: Masters of Australian Craft
    • Artists in Place: Gudgenby Ready-Cut Cottage Residency
    • Australian Contemporary Initiative
    • White Hot: contemporary Australian glass
  • Australian Craft and Design Centres
 
 

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