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Art Galleries Association Australia
The Art Galleries Association of Australia (AGAA) is the peak body for commercial art galleries in the primary visual arts market.
Art Source (WA)
Artsource is the peak membership body for visual artists in Western Australia. Our vision is of a world in which culture and the arts are valued as vital and where visual artists flourish.
Australia Council for the Arts
Australia Council for the Arts is the Australian Government’s arts funding and advisory body.
Australian Design Centre
A leading centre for contemporary craft and design in Australia. They play a critical role in building a significant design culture for this country by nurturing a nation of innovative makers and thinkers and inspiring audiences to use design in their lives.
Craft (Victoria)
Craft is one of Victoria’s largest and oldest arts organisations dedicated to championing aspirational making and ideas driven practice through exhibitions, public programs, events and retail opportunities. Craft is a not for profit, membership based organisation that represents more contemporary craftspeople than any other organisation in Australia, and supports makers through every stage of their career.
Guildhouse (South Australia)
Guildhouse is the leading South Australian organisation supporting and creating connections for South Australian creative practitioners for 50 years.
National Association for Visual Arts
The National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) is the national peak body protecting and promoting the professional interests of the Australian visual and media arts, craft and design sector.
Print Council of Australia
The Print Council of Australia (PCA) is a national not-for-profit member organisation that promotes contemporary Australian fine art printmaking and print media, including artist books, zines and works on paper, and provides support and advocacy for artists.
Sculptors Society (NSW)
The Sculptors Society aims to: Promote public interest in sculpture; Be an advocate for the interests of its members; Provide a forum to disseminate information regarding sculpture and sculptors; Hold regular exhibitions to promote members' work.
The Sculptors Society offers a range of services to sculptors and to those who wish to buy, commission or promote sculpture.
Women's Art Register
The Women’s Art Register is Australia’s living archive of women’s art practice (non-binary and trans inclusive) and a National, Artist-Run and Not-for-Profit community and resource.

Australian Print Workshop
Australian Print Workshop is a not-for-profit arts organisation with a proud 35 year record of supporting Artists to produce original, limited edition, fine art prints.
Australian Tapestry Workshop
The Australian Tapestry Workshop (ATW) is regarded as an international centre of excellence for innovative, contemporary, hand-woven tapestries, created in collaboration with leading artists, architects & designers. Established in 1976, it is the only workshop of its kind in Australia and one of a few in the world dedicated to the production of hand-woven tapestries.

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ArtsHub
ArtsHub is Australia’s leading portal for professionals working within the arts, where a community of approximately 80,000 registered users; 13,000 premium members; and hundreds of dedicated contributors read, write and share their knowledge and passion for the industry.

Since its launch in 2000 as a small weekly jobs bulletin covering the performing arts, ArtsHub has continued to grow organically in both size and scope.

The Drawing Center
The Drawing Center, a museum in Manhattan's SoHo district, explores the medium of drawing as primary, dynamic, and relevant to contemporary culture, the future of art, and creative thought. Its activities, which are both multidisciplinary and broadly historical, include exhibitions; Open Sessions, a curated artist program encouraging community and collaboration; the Drawing Papers publication series; and education and public programs. It was founded in 1977 by curator Martha Beck (1938–2014).
The Drawing Room
Drawing Room explores ideas around contemporary drawing and makes them visible in the public domain. As the only public and non-profit gallery in the UK and Europe dedicated to contemporary drawing, Drawing Room provides a unique resource for the promotion of drawing, its practice, theory and methodology.

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