Author: Carol Walden

Hear the radio interview with ABC Southern’s Belinda Sanders CLICK HERE ARTISTS STORY – JENNIFER WRIGHT (SUMMERS) As Toowoomba feels the pressure of the shift from rural to regional, an artist envisages how development could engage people, build social capital and tell the stories of place in more aesthetic ways. Thanks to ABC Open Southern… Continue reading Video project ABC

Alison Mooney of the GRID reports: I’m very excited to say that Arts QLD has approved our grant for eight artist residencies of three months’ each during 2012 and the first two months of 2013. Thank you very much ACT for supporting our vision by way of your Letter of Support and in your role… Continue reading CONGRATULATIONS ALISON MOONEY – THE GRID

Read interview with Christian Low and much more. Download Summer newsletter here

CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE Arts Council Toowoomba held a successful Strategic Planning Workshop facilitated by Shelley Pissani from Creative Regions dealing with Splashing Back. This proposed project of flood markers commemorating the January 2011 floods has been designed incorporating mosaic panels to be created on flood affected buildings. At the workshop an initial 10… Continue reading CREATIVE REGIONS WORKSHOP

See the inspirational video of Swell 2011. Christian Low our ACT member exhibited there and talks about his work. CLICK ON THE IMAGE BELOW

It is with great pride and pleasure that Women In Harmony announce they were awarded a Highly Commended by the Minister at the Multicultural Awards in Brisbane!              

Our mosaic workshop, held the last weekend of October, was a hugh sucess with 17 participants completing small sample panels. We were amazed and inspired by how the participants told of their experience of the flood and how quickly the energy from this was translated into artwork.  ACT  engaged an experienced public mosaic artist and… Continue reading MOSAIC WORKSHOP

Download the Spring newsletter. This newsletter has lots of new information and an interesting interview with Chantel Schott. Included at the back is the copy of Minutes for AGM 2010.

Join us to celebrate recovery and resilience with CLICK THIS LINK TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THIS FLOOD MARKER PROJECT EOI FORM ENTER HERE

OFFICIAL LAUNCH SEPTEMBER 16TH AT 6:30PM Kath Dickson Community Art Centre In 2011 ACT decided to change the approach to the Postcard Project and give member Artists the opportunity to have postcards made of their artwork. It was a project of joint benefit, as the artists receive postcards at a reduced price and Arts Council… Continue reading Artists Postcard Series