The Liberal Government is a strong supporter of the Arts in Tasmania.
Tasmania's cultural sector is a competitive strength of our state and provides important social, economic and public value in our community.
Investment in our artists helps deliver arts experiences around the state and also generates content for the festivals and events that bring tourists to Tasmania, pushing us further towards our goal of attracting 1.5 million visitors per year to the state by 2020.
The Government, through Arts Tasmania, is introducing a new Artist Investment Program to be rolled out in 2015, for projects commencing in 2016.
The Artist Investment Program comprises two categories
The Artist Investment Program introduces a new two-stage application process aimed at reducing the upfront work required by artists.
The initial Expression of Interest focuses solely on the artistic idea. Selected artists will then be invited to make a full application requiring a budget and project plan.
For the first time artists can apply for both categories. This can be for two separate projects, or for two distinct components of the one project.
Expressions of Interest will be assessed by artform peers drawn from Arts Tasmania's new Peer Register, along with relevant artform members of the Artist Investment panel. Full applications will continue to be assessed by multi-artform panels.
Expressions of Interest for the new Artist Investment Program will open in February and close in April 2015.
The new Artist Investment Program is the result of several years' formal and informal consultation with industry, shaped by feedback received from the new models of arts investment directions paper and artist survey.
For further information on the Artist Investment Program visit: www.arts.tas.gov.au/newmodels