Arts OutWest’s project work springs from our core business of supporting arts development in the region.
On this page:
- Links to our over-arching strategic project focus areas
- Case studies of projects past and present
We choose projects that sit well within our current strategic plan, that our small team has the capacity to deliver, and of course, that we can secure funding for! Some projects are driven by us, others we auspice or support in other ways.
Each of the projects – present and past – outlined in these case studies started life in conversations, connection making, asking questions, answering needs in our region. See our SERVICES page for the kinds of support and services we offer in our core program.
You’ll notice lots of common threads here. Even the very smallest projects often loop around and influence future projects, or bring together artists or organisations time and time again. You’ll also notice how many of these projects are partnerships or collaborations – we think this is a really effective way to work.
Award winning programs that integrate the arts into health outcomes.
Creating showcases and opportunities for Aboriginal artists.
Showcasing the region’s arts and culture
Supporting a strong music industry in the Central West.
Micro Grants to support creatives and creative activity in the region.
Action research in-bedded in Arts OutWest arts and health projects
Opportunities for building your practice and business
Projects in the region we auspice, fund or partner on.
Including projects and activities Arts OutWest is a partner on or supports as the auspicing body.
Small recovery grants
arts project to create healing environments
Schools based history and storytelling
Mentoring Aboriginal writers
arts experiences in aged care
State-wide, multi arts project,
Small grants
Art exhibition responding to music
Ongoing: arts programming in hospitals
New Aboriginal cultural experiences
Online maps of arts and cultural experiences
Connecting creatives across our region
Work of regional Aboriginal artists
Researching arts in aged care
Photography team
A selection of case studies from just some of our recent projects. Including projects and activities Arts OutWest was a partner on or supported as the auspicing body.
Exhibition of contemporary and traditional Aboriginal arts practice
2022: Youth song making
2022: Lake Cargelligo MPS mural
Supported 2022: creative and professional development
Supported 2021: theatre production
Small grants to restart arts activity
Supported 21-22: multi-arts response to bushfire recovery
Original music from the Central West
2021-22: Live, local, music gigs
Supported 2021: new play premiere
Supported: gallery and community hub
2021: arts Business skills
2021: Gigs and venue support
2021: curated exhibition
2021: Art making for health space
2021: workshops, hospital exhibition
Supported 2021-22: Condobolin’s SkyFest
2021: regional boost
Ongoing: arts programming in hospitals
Supported 2020: exhibition and arts activities
Supported: Geolocative storytelling app
Supported 2019: Multi-arts mental health stories
Supported 2019: A touring schools theatre program.
2019: Welsh storytellers touring
Supported 2019: Play script development
2018: For People Living with Dementia and their Carers
2018: Contemporary art and a huddle of arts fans
2018: Part conversation, part arts festival.
Prose and poetry responding to the big sky
Hospitals adopt Aboriginal language signage
2015-2017: embedding arts into new hospitals
2017: Multi-arts approach to good mental health
Aged care art and dementia program
Songwriting for good mental health
Multi-layed community arts project
Supported 2016-17: short film
2017: Kids making history films
2017: colouring in book for patients, visitors and staff
Artists Run Initiative for artists with and without disability
2017: Celebrating the music and legacy of Jimmy Little
2015, 2016: Tour by South African performance group
2016: Pilot program training musicians to work in hospitals
Creating the ‘Siloscopes’ outdoor sculpture for Forbes Hospital
2014-15: Conversations about how and why we make arts and culture
2014: professional development sessions for creatives
2011-15: arts skills and participation of young people
2012-14: Aboriginal health
Supported 2014: dance and physical theatre
2014: Artform skills for Aboriginal artists
2013: multi-arts program of music, dance, visual arts, storytelling.
Exchanging art experiences with Derbyshire UK
2012: Pilot Art and Alzheimer’s program
2011 and 2012: Showcasing Aboriginal arts