5. Mission Statement

5. Professional Creative Development

Challenge:

To provide opportunities that extend professional skill sets

Responses:

• support artists in identifying and developing their competencies.
• present developing artists with options to extend their techniques and to explore different media
• maintain a professionally equiped exhibition, installation and workshop spaces for local artists that is accessible to a broad range of creative milieu
• offer promotional and public relations support services for exhibitors

CELEBRATING ART CULTURE AND HERITAGE IN THE GOLDFIELDS

5. Our Mission Statement

This section identifies six developmental areas we can work in that ensure we deliver Creative Goldfields vision goals.

Our responses are all achievable mechanisms. They liberate latent creative expression, foster interdisciplinary creativity and support further creative aspiration.

Challenge:

To foster development and sharing of creative

industry skills

1. Individual Creative Development.

Responses:

• encourage self expression through the acquisition of new skills, self discovery and confidence building.
• generate developmental pathways that assist members to identify their goals and explore how these goals can be achieved.
• support skills development and sharing in the pursuit of creative goals.
• maintain a website of creative members that showcases their artworks
• assist emerging artists and students in building balanced portfolios of work

Challenge:

To share our creativity as an entry point for community development

Responses:

• encourage self expression through the acquisition of new skills, self discovery and confidence building.
• generate developmental pathways that assist members to identify their creative goals and explore how these goals might be achieved.
• support skills development and sharing in the pursuit of creative goals.
• maintain a website of creative members that showcases their artworks
• assist emerging artists and students in building balanced portfolios of work

2. Community Creative Development

Challenge:

Partner with the business community to enhance its vibrancy

Responses:

• offer local businesses opportunities to explore developing competitive advantage through creative contributions
• maintain a database of local creative businesses that offer creative services within their commercial, industrial, professional or retail operations.

3. Commercial Creative Development

Challenge:

To build community creative capacity with events and festivals

4. Arts & Cultural Events Development

Responses:

• generate a range of arts and cultural activities to celebrate creativity and diversity.
• support Ethnic and Cultural expression in festivals and community events
• support the inclusion of all forms of creativity in our local culture

Challenge:

To continue developing and remain a leading edge community arts organisation

6. Organisational Development

Responses:

• maintain well equiped exhibition, and workshop space for local artists
• ensure an accessible spaces for a broad range of creative milieu
• market creative activity to the wider tourist community
• maintain management promotional and public relations support for exhibitors