Ngununggula’s Art Access Program is designed for individuals and creatives who identify as living with a disability or experiencing access requirements. The program fosters social inclusion and supports artistic practice by providing dedicated workshop space, materials, mentorship, and access to industry professionals.
Art Access | Current program
Term 1 2025
26 February - 2 April 2025
2 PM - 4 PM
AGE: 16+ | FREE
ARTIST FACILITATOR: BRUCE WOODS
The 6-week session held every Wednesday in our Education Space offers participants an accessible space to explore the diverse representations of portraiture creatively. 6 sessions in total, all materials provided. Please contact our Assistant Director, Milena Stojanovska, at [email protected] to learn about this program.
2024 PAST PROGRAMS
TERM 3 | ARTIST: BRUCE WOODS
TERM 4 | ARTIST: BRUCE WOODS
Are you a support service or carer?
At Ngununggula, we offer a dedicated program or day that can be tailored to participants' needs and interests.
Tour and Art-making Day
Program Length: 90 minutes session
Cost: FREE. All material and morning tea is provided.
Participants will be limited to 15
If you would like to book your group for one session, please get in touch with our Assistant Director, Milena Stojanovska at [email protected]
How we began ART ACCESS
Art access - PILOT PROGRAM
In 2023, Ngununggula launched a pilot program to engage people in our community who identify as living with disabilities or experiencing access requirements. ART ACCESS aims to foster social inclusion and support artistic practice by providing dedicated workshop space, materials, mentorship, and access to industry professionals. The program was free to participants (artists), with travel subsidies included. Artist Rosie Deacon led the program alongside the education team—pilot program partners: Southern Highlands Disability Group, Challenge NDIS, and Mental and Creative Space Bowral.
ART ACCESS offered a six-week program, two hours weekly. The framework encouraged participants to use their artistic practice and collaborate to develop an installation and series of individual works displayed in the Entry Foyer at Ngununggula following the program.
The creative outcome was an immersive sculptural installation that explored and interpreted the natural environment. The participants who collaborated on the project were Negin Chahoud, Clinton Mckeown, Natalie Will, Anakin Kronenberg, Donna Dengate, Nellie Smith, Peter Leja, and Jess Pound.
We hosted an opening event on the program's final day to celebrate the artists' achievements. Over 50 people attended, including families, friends, gallery staff, and members of partnering organisations.
Following the pilot program, participants expressed their desire to continue the program and were inspired by Rosie, expressing an openness to working alongside other artists. Importantly, participants felt connected to Ngununggula; the education space was their resource and space to extend their practice and learn new ways of working. Most importantly, it was social, inclusive of all, and actively engaged in their practices.