Arts OutWest provides opportunities for arts education across different levels including professional development, industry knowledge, and hobbyist participation, where funding permits.
Current activities
Photography team
visual arts networking
visual art workshops
Toolkit
2026: critical writing in the arts
Latest news
Wed 8 July at 4:15 pm – 7pm at Orange City Bowling Club.
Presented by Support Act.
A workshop to help creatives build a more sustainable relationship with their work, their wellbeing and themselves.
Thu 9 July at 9:45am – 2pm at Orange City Bowling Club.
A free workshop designed to help creative workers and leaders respond confidently and compassionately when someone shares something difficult.
Sun 21 June, Lithgow. We’ve invited Milk Crate Theatre to run an introduction to measurement and evaluation workshop which includes information about their innovative, industry respected Creating Impact project.
It’s Makers Month at the Foundations, Portland, throughout October 2025 and Arts OutWest is involved in all kinds of ways.
We then start November participating in the popular Lithgow Arts Trail.
past project case studies
Examples of past professional development activities
2023-2025: professional development
Supported 2024: ARI gathering
an (im)possible festival
Career launchpad for 16 to 27 year olds
Supported 2022: Youth song making
2021-23: State-wide, multi arts project,
2021: arts Business skills
2014: professional development sessions for creatives
2014-15: Conversations about how and why we make arts and culture
2016: Pilot program training musicians to work in hospitals
2018: Part conversation, part arts festival.
Artists Run Initiative for artists with and without disability