Creative Equity Toolkit

64 Million Artists: Cultural democracy in practice

This publication shares examples and case studies and provides a framework and argument for cultural democracy. Originating from the UK it is both a practical toolkit and a growing compendium of best practice.

An Unsettled Settler Response to Open Cut

This article discusses the ways in which colonial development funding is implicated in the arts industries, using the example of Jacky Green’s 2018 exhibition Open Cut. The author probes the meaning of how we, in the arts, are implicated in the settler colonial processes of mining and dispossession.

Arts & Equity Toolkit

Case studies and resources for building equitable organisations, strengthening boards and advisory groups and creating partnerships and collaborations, including a sample partnership agreement. Also includes advice on evaluations and the pros and cons of different methods of obtaining feedback.

Artists in the Black Collaboration Toolkit

Focused on arts projects involving Indigenous Australians; provides templates and information on legal agreements for collaborative arts projects. The useful Value Matrix is a power mapping resource to help identify benefits for each stakeholder so a fair agreement can be negotiated.

Creative Connections: Balancing responsibility and innovation in volatile times

A panel from Australia Council for the Arts featuring Ananth Gopal and Tom Henderson from Polykala & Polykala.

It asks: What forms of formal and informal authority do we have in our contexts? How do we feel about providing strong guidance, clear communication and directives? Who’s going to be hurting most in your sphere — what plans do we have in place to mitigate harm, reassure them or at least acknowledge their hardship?

Boundaries in the Arts and Culture Industry: Caleb Nichols-Mansell

Caleb Nichols-Mansell is a palawa graphic designer and founder of Blackspace Creative, Tasmania's only First Nations-owned arts and cultural hub.

'When I’m told the budget or timeline ...it can become really clear that my involvement in the project has been a last minute decision.'

'A lot of companies will approach you and ask for Black artwork so that they can position themselves as Black-supporting or Black allies. But they also use that artwork in a way that builds their capital.'