Deadline: 7-Mar-23
Applications are now open for Contemporary Touring Initiative(CTI) to supports significant exhibitions of work by living contemporary visual artists and craft practitioners that reach and engage national audiences, and extend into regional communities.
The Contemporary Touring Initiative provides up to three years of funding for the development and/or national touring of significant contemporary visual arts and craft exhibitions.
Under the Contemporary Touring Initiative, a national tour is five or more locations to at least three states or territories outside the applicant’s home state. To be eligible the locations on a tour must have consecutive exhibition dates. Breaks in the middle of a consecutive schedule of exhibition venues are possible if there is a compelling reason and the impact on the funding request is minimal.
The program is targeted to ambitious organisations with demonstrated contemporary visual arts exhibition development and touring expertise to develop and/or tour an exhibition between calendar years 2023-2026.
The program will support projects that best demonstrate
- Cutting-edge practice and innovation in how contemporary visual arts and craft is exhibited and toured, including new ways to reach and engage audiences
- Exhibitions that include the work of First Nations artists
- Strong partnerships, reach and impact in regional communities.
- A national tour is defined as one that includes three or more states and territories outside of the applicant’s home state or territory.
What you can apply for?
- Costs of research, development and design of the exhibition, including partnership development, critical writing, artist fees;
- Commissioning of new work;
- The costs of touring, including exhibition production, installation, freight, engagement, promotion, public programs, artist residencies etc;
- Costs associated with the delivery of COVIDSafe touring. These may include costs such as additional cleaning within exhibition locations and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) costs;
- Access costs are legitimate expenses and may be included in your application. They encourage applicants to ensure that their work is accessible to everyone. Therefore, budgets may also include costs associated with making activities accessible to a wide range of people (e.g. performances using Auslan, translation to other languages, captioning, audio description, temporary building adjustments, and materials in other formats);
- If you are an applicant with a disability, or are working with artists with disability, you may apply for access costs associated with the use of an interpreter, translation services, specific technical equipment, carer or support worker assistance.
What you can’t apply for?
- Core salaries.
Eligibility Criteria
- Only organisations are eligible to apply;
- To apply you must be registered in thier Application Management System a minimum of two business days prior to the closing date;
- To be eligible for Contemporary Touring Initiative funding, the work exhibited within a touring exhibition needs to be produced by Australian artists, or produced by an artist or collective of artists who are Australian citizens or have permanent resident status in Australia;
- An eligible work could also include a component of work produced by Australian and international artists as part of an Australian-international collaboration. Work of artists who are not Australian citizen may also be incorporated into an exhibition provided they are in a minority of the artists presented.
For more information, visit Australian Government.
