Deadline: 18-Jul-22
Applications are now open for the Audience Development Fund to support galleries to develop and trial models for developing and engaging new audiences that will increase immediate and future attendance, access and participation.
The fund offers public galleries in NSW assistance towards targeting and developing new audiences for the visual arts. It encourages galleries to create new, innovative programs, events and activities that engage targeted audiences and connect them with artists and visual arts practice.
Funds can be used for costs that support the development and implementation of public or educational programs, provide seed funding to trial new models for public engagement and/or build new partnerships for audience development.
The Audience Development Fund (ADF) is a devolved funding program of the NSW Government through Create NSW and is administered by Museums & Galleries of NSW.
Priority Areas
Applicants are also encouraged to target audiences from the following priority areas;
- people living and/or working in regional NSW people living and/or working in Western Sydney, NSW Aboriginal people, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people with people with disability or who are d/Deaf.
Funding Information
- Amount available: up to $10,000 for each grant (no minim um)
Eligibility Criteria
- Grants are available to publicly funded galleries, arts and craft organizations based in New South Wales.
- To be eligible to make an application, a gallery must be a legally constituted entity and be one of the following:
- A not-for-profit incorporated body
- A co-operative or trust
- A local government authority
- Individual business units and entities of local government authorities (such as art galleries or performing arts centres) are eligible to submit applications on their own behalf if they have their own ABN.
- The gallery is to be accessible to the public at regular and/or specified times and meet professional facility standards. In addition, its programs and activities are to be managed by at least one professional staff member with relevant tertiary qualifications and experience.
For more information, visit NSW.
For more information, visit https://mgnsw.org.au/sector/funding/grants-we-administer/gallery-grants/audience-development-fund/