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For twenty-five years Ku Arts has provided advocacy, services and resources, creative skills and professional development opportunities for artists and arts workers across all stages of their careers in support of a strong and dynamic Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander visual arts and crafts sector.

ALL STORIES
Skill sharing at Ngapala Arts
Skill sharing at Ngapala Arts

Ngapala Arts, Copley
May 2026

Ku Arts ran a creative development workshop at Ngapala Arts this May, bringing together artists working in ceramics to share ideas, techniques, and stories.

Ku Arts Symposium
Ku Arts Symposium

AGSA Courtyard, Tarntanya/Adelaide
October 2026

Ku Arts brought together First Nations artists, art centres, curators, and cultural leaders from across Australia together at the 2025 Ku Arts Symposium.

Kulintja Palya
Kulintja Palya

Yulara
July 2025

Ku Arts was pleased to host Kulintja Palya, a wellbeing and workforce support initiative for staff at our member art centres.

Curator’s Program
Curator’s Program

Tarntanya/Adelaide
May 2025

Ku Arts was pleased to present the 2025 First Nations Curators Program. Across five days, programs supported ten emerging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and arts workers to expand their practices as future curators.

Ku Arts supports Aboriginal artists living and working in ten regions, across 46 language groups within South Australia. From ancient mountain ranges, to ochre coloured deserts, to salt lakes and wild oceans, the State has many distinctive landscapes and wildlife. Covering a total land area of 983,482 square kilometres, South Australia’s population is 1,800,000 with 400,000 people living outside the capital city of Adelaide.