Visual Arts and Craft Strategy (VACS)

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Visual Arts and Craft Strategy (VACS)

The impact of VACS funding has been evaluated through research commissioned by the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council. We understand that the report contains a set of recommendations for the future of the scheme. When publicly released, NAVA will make it widely available. The visual arts sector greatly values the VACS funding which has restored our industry to a position of relative sustainability and vitality. However, NAVA is asking that from 2011, the $12+ million per annum additional VACS funding become a permanent commitment by federal and state/territory governments and fully indexed every year. We also want to see additional commitments made to support new areas of opportunity identified through the research.

To meet these new needs which have become evident as the environment changes, as a minimum, NAVA is asking all political parties to commit to the following additional annual allocations of:

• $3 million per annum for the payment of artists’ fees for work exhibited in publicly funded galleries (and therefore not offered for sale)
• $4 million per annum to enable small to medium arts organisations to keep pace with technological change in the development of their on-line business management and communication systems.