Deadline: 15-Oct-2025
Are you a professional artist with skills and experience in high quality community-engaged work? The Arts & Culture Maribyrnong is offering a Community-Engaged Artist Residency opportunity for an individual artist or collective to work with and celebrate the communities that use the Maribyrnong Community Centre.
The residency invites proposals that actively involve the Maribyrnong communities in arts, culture, and creative activities; reflect engagement with contemporary art practices and contexts; present an existing practice or project that can be developed over the course of the residency; generate positive artistic, cultural, and social outcomes for the community; create opportunities for community members to share and express their stories, culture, perspectives, or environment and enhance the relevance and accessibility of arts and culture in Maribyrnong.
Artists will be based at the Maribyrnong Community Centre, a hub that offers a wide range of social and educational programs including yoga, line dancing, children’s drama, language and computer skills, cards, indoor bowls, cooking, knitting, and craft. Selected artists will receive up to $10,000 in fees, provision of working materials, access to spaces at the Maribyrnong Community Centre, producer support, marketing assistance for public events, and advice from Arts and Culture staff.
Applicants are expected to demonstrate project management proficiency with a strong timeline and a balanced, realistic budget. The Maribyrnong Community-Engaged Artist Residency is open to artists who can deliver an arts project developed with the Maribyrnong Community Centre users and the wider community, celebrating its people, perspectives, or local environment. Resident artists are expected to engage the community as essential co-creators and provide arts participation opportunities suited to a range of ages, backgrounds, time commitments, and levels of arts experience.
Resident artists will work part-time over approximately a three-month period, building meaningful connections with the local community. While applicants do not need to live or work in the City of Maribyrnong, a demonstrated connection to the local community and strong experience in community arts practice will be highly regarded. The program encourages applications from First Nations and culturally diverse artists, as well as artists living in Melbourne’s west.
Expressions of Interest should be submitted by Wednesday 15 October 2025, with decisions communicated within four weeks of closing. Artists are encouraged to contact the Arts Engagement Officer prior to applying to discuss the program and learn more about the Centre and its communities.
For more information, visit Maribyrnong City Council.