The Central Australian Arts Sector

This sector comprises:

• a large population of active Aboriginal artists
• up to 40 not for profit Aboriginal art centres located in Alice Springs and many remote communities
• an increasing number of commercial art galleries in Alice Springs, specialising in Aboriginal Art with significant levels of locally made Aboriginal art work freighted to interstate and international galleries
• a growing cohort of professional non-Aboriginal artists slowly gaining national recognition / profile
• escalating national recognition for contemporary practice involving cross-cultural collaborations linked to place 
• an active community of amateur and semi-professional non-Aboriginal artists, across a range of art forms
• a developing professional arts sector within artform specialist not for profit (NFP) arts organisations 
• a strong volunteer arts sector with both emerging and established not for profit groups (some with 30yr histories)
• a high proportion of arts administrators per capita due to employment in Aboriginal and other NFP arts and community organisations

In addition to the above markets RHA also provides services to:

• The local community (audience members, partnership organisations)
• Local, Territory and Federal Government
• Interstate and international visitors, audiences & agencies