Corban Estate Arts Centre sits on a historic site in Henderson and has become one of the busiest creative hubs in The West. Artists work on site in their own studios, classes and workshops run through the year, and galleries and performance spaces bring locals in to see what is being made right on their doorstep.
Once a year Open Arts Day invites the public past the gallery walls and into the studios themselves, where artists host visitors in the middle of their actual working spaces. This year it ran on Saturday 7 November from 10am to 4pm, and it was another success, with artists and volunteers on deck across the site for the full six hours.
A Supporters Club grant from Goodhome Lincoln Rd covered 47 Coffee Studio sandwiches, delivered to studios and stations throughout the busy event. Everyone got fed, and nobody had to abandon their post.
As the team at Corban Estate Arts Centre put it, this annual opportunity to visit artists in their studio spaces would not have been possible without the means to feed artists in situ.
That is pretty much what the Supporters Club is for. It is a monthly stream where our venues back local groups with smaller, practical grants of up to $500, the kind of support that is often exactly what an event needs and hardest to find funding for.
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