About Us
The scale and outreach of Queensland Arts Council is extraordinarily diverse, solid and widespread reflecting a passionate team at the centre and an enthusiastic audience across the state.
GEOFFREY RUSH, QAC ASSOCIATE ARTIST
The only constant cultural input into our community are the wonderful touring shows, exhibitions, information packages, schools programs, mentoring and workshops that we access through
Queensland Arts Council.
SARAH LARSEN, BILOELA ARTS COUNCIL
About Queensland Arts Council
Queensland Arts Council is a not-for-profit organisation that ensures all Queenslanders have access to high quality arts regardless of their geographical location. We present, produce, program, tour, fund and facilitate the arts right across Queensland.
Queensland Arts Council tours mainstage and school productions, plus multimedia art exhibitions. We also support regional communities to develop their own arts events through funding, training, advice and resources.
We make up the nation's greatest regional arts network, and Queensland's most extensive mainstage touring program and largest program of live arts for schools.
Vision
arts access statewide
Mission
To enrich the lives of Queenslanders and the creativity, liveability, sustainability and prosperity of communities statewide through access to and participation in the arts.
The arts fabric is woven through the lives of individuals and communities. Our vision is to strengthen that fabric and to tangibly enrich the lives of Queenslanders, no matter how geographically isolated, no matter how culturally diverse, with arts experiences, which make relevant their sense of place in Australian society in the 21st century.
Corporate Philosophy
Our corporate philosophy is to contribute to local community cultural development by creating, developing and presenting quality arts products and services statewide and by nurturing and supporting the growth of Queensland's arts industry.
Inherent in the pursuit of this philosophy is the recognition of the significant role and influence the Arts exert, economically, socially and educationally, in fostering the enjoyment and creative talent necessary for the development of our future arts practitioners and arts consumers.
Local Arts Councils
Our network consists of incorporated Local Arts Councils (LACs) in 60 regional communities and includes in excess of 6,000 regional members.
Through this network, and QAC's partnerships with Queensland's leading performing arts companies, we provide a broad and dynamic range of performances, exhibitions, workshops, masterclasses, arts related services and funding programs of assistance to Queensland communities.
These services make a pivotal contribution to the culturally led revitalisation of regional communities.
QAC is strongly supported by both the Queensland Government (through long-standing partnerships with Arts Queensland and Education Queensland) and the Federal Government through the Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts and the Australia Council for the Arts.
QAC works closely with Local Governments through the LAC network and also plays a national advocacy role for regional arts. We are also able to leverage significant national outcomes for regional Queenslanders through our membership of Regional Arts Australia.
What we do
Queensland Arts Council operates three statewide touring programs and a regional community building service:
Ontour inschools tours live arts performances and workshops to schools statewide to ensure students from metropolitan, regional and remote schools experience high quality arts from prep to Year 12. Over the past seven years, the program has performed to an audience of 3.4million Queensland students.
Ontour onexhibition connects the people and places of regional Queensland through visual arts and creates ways to celebrate their stories nationwide.
Creative incommunities creates a network of over 60 statewide communities, enabling Queensland Arts Council to deliver community building services including funding, advice and resources, including free online community resources for developing and delivering locally initiated arts projects.
Our corporate goals
- Strengthen company and sector
Strengthen company operations, company position within industry and positively influence the perception of sector within society. - Produce, program and present quality products
Produce, program and present high quality arts and cultural experiences. - Strengthen touring services
Provide performing and visual arts touring services for the local, national and international arts industry. - Build communities statewide
Provide skills development, funding and partnership programs, resources and services to develop the creative, leadership, advocacy and entrepreneurial skills of Queenslanders. - Develop strategic alliances and partnerships
Develop and strengthen strategic alliances and partnerships across all levels of government, with the business sector, philanthropic agencies, and the arts industry to ensure the growth of resources necessary to achieve the widest arts access and deepest participation.
Image credit: Sandra Godfrey The Overseers (2004) from A Child's Life on the Station touring with Ontour onexhibition.