Salamanca Arts Centre

Salamanca Arts Centre has identified four Strategic Priorities: To enrich creativity throughout Tasmania. We support contemporary artists with resources and opportunities to make new work, to engage with other artists and to share their practice with the world. We enliven our spaces with activities of creating, innovating, making, communicating and... connecting, to ensure the continuing relevant and value of the nationally significant Salamanca warehouses. We enable diverse communities of artists, producers, audiences and visitors to engage with the arts in ways that enrich their lives and expand their vision. SACs aims are to enable artists to create new works of national significance, to enable artistic entrepreneurism, to manage our buildings responsibly and ethically, and, through respect, guidance and inspiration, to foster connections between artists and audiences. Central to achieving our Purpose are the individual artists studios, our art and design retailers and other arts organisations who choose to make their home within Salamanca Arts Centres buildings and beyond, through our programs and support. In everything that SAC does, we adhere to the core organisational values of: SAC is a not-for-profit Arts Centre formed in 1975 as an incorporated association and established in 1977 in buildings owned by the Government of Tasmania and leased to SAC to manage as a Community Arts Centre. In 2009 Salamanca Arts Centre became a Company Incorporated by Guarantee. Salamanca Arts Centre (SAC) will continuously strive to be locally valued and universally recognised for our support of artists and the development and presentation of new works of national significance. SAC is the custodian of seven heritage buildings and manages these buildings on behalf of the people of Tasmania. SAC is home to studio artists in residence, numerous arts organisations working across the visual and performing arts, festivals & events, literature, writing & film, and to designers, makers, retailers of, and commercial galleries for ...Read More