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The Sunshine Coast Arts Foundation 2024 Gifted Recipients were announced on 17 November at Cool Art Gallery & Picture Framing in Coolum. Our special thanks goes to Joe & Erin for providing the perfect location for the event and a huge thank you to Evelyn from The Joy Collective in Maleny for her incredible catering. We were delighted to have a previous recipient, visual artist, Libby Derham give her insights into the relationship between philanthropy and the arts. The 2024 cohort of Gifted Recipients are pictured from

11 November 2022 Sunshine Coast Arts Foundation’s Gifted program will support nine diverse artist projects in 2023 including new ceramic, sculpture, watercolour, photographic, street art and dance artworks, a PhD mentorship, and a pilot film for a series of live music performances. Seven of the projects are supported by Gifted Program Patrons, who have nominated the arts medium or practice that inspires them as an investment into the recipient’s creative journey. Foundation Chair Professor Jennifer Radbourne announced the Patrons and

A team of three University of the Sunshine Coast students have produced a video to promote the philanthropic work of the Sunshine Coast Arts Foundation. The video, produced as a Work Integrated Learning Project, was premiered at a special event on Friday 11 November to announce SCAF’S 2023 Gifted Program recipients and Patrons. The Creative Industries and Marketing students were Caleb Stevens, who lead the project, Viola Pink and Lisa Sandberg. Foundation Chair, Professor Jennifer Radbourne said SCAF was incredibly

August will be Gifted time on the Sunshine Coast! Sunshine Coast Arts Foundation (SCAF) invites local creatives – individuals and organisations – to submit a proposal for cash support from its annual Gifted program. Chair, Professor Jennifer Radbourne said that each year the SCAF Board selected a number of local artists and organisations across disciplines to receive a contribution from donations made to the Foundation. “The program invests in the Sunshine Coast’s gifted artists, for example to help them develop

Once again, Sunshine Coast Arts Foundation (SCAF) is hosting the annual Gifted Campaign with the announcement of a new Gifted Patrons Group.  a new Gifted Patrons Group. A tax-deductible gift of $1000 will enable you to nominate an artistic medium or category you are passionate about and would like to support. We’ll endeavour to get proposals from artists in your chosen medium and keep you connected with the progress of the successful artists, including opportunities to meet and discuss their work.

A physical theatre company, new recording label, local artist space, national pastel painting event, community sewing project and several visual artists based on the Sunshine Coast will receive support from the Foundation’s Gifted program in its second year. Foundation Chair Professor Jennifer Radbourne announced the seven diverse local artists’ projects at a special event and private viewing of Sunshine Coast artist Joseph Daws’ latest exhibition, Resolution, at Jan Manton Gallery, Brisbane on Saturday 13 November. Pictured from left Tricia Taylor,

Brendon Murray, Partner, Bentleys and Professor Jennifer Radbourne, Chair of Sunshine Coast Arts Foundation (SCAF) co-hosted an exclusive function celebrating the arts, community and philanthropy, in the Bentley’s Board Room at Minyama on Wednesday evening 22 September. Guests included Andrew Wallace, Federal Member for Fisher, Jarrod Bleijie, State Member for Kawana, philanthropists, artists, business people, friends and board directors of SCAF. All enjoyed a special performance by acclaimed cellist and inaugural artistic director of the Sunshine Coast Chamber Music Festival,

31 August 2021 It’s Gifted time again. The Foundation is calling for proposals from artists and organisations seeking support from our annual giving program, Gifted. Each year the SCAF Board selects a number of talented local artists and organisations across disciplines to receive a contribution from donations made to our annual giving program. Gifted invests directly in talented local artists to ensure their success and the artistic prosperity of the Sunshine Coast. It also provides opportunities for donors to engage

The Foundation co-hosted an event with Argon Law and the Friends of the Caloundra Regional Gallery on 17 June at the Gallery, which focussed on the value of the arts and how investment will bring greater social connection, achievement and identity in the Sunshine Coast. Foundation Chair, Professor Jennifer Radbourne (above) asked guests to consider their personal legacy. “It may be something in your history, it may be your children, it may be something in your will (your home, property, money, a work of