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Art Day West moved to Footscray Community Arts Centre, as part of Artlife.

Get Out! Studio was born from demand for new programs in the Frankston- Peninsula region. Way Out West (WOW) in St Albans also started.

A long running partnership with Breast Screen Victoria continued with wonderful results. A program with the Victorian Aboriginal Women’s Health Service created sculptural works and a poster. Community arts workshops promoting women’s wellbeing ran across Melbourne over these years.

Audio description was available for some local theatre performances since 1991. In 2001 Audio description reached a milestone with the first local TV production to be audio described. Channel 9’s Water Rats was broadcast on TV and audio described on RPH Radio.

People are holding up a dragon costume they are about to put on. a computer screen with photoshop open.
people in purple shirts are signing. The side of a house where a mural is painted between two windows.

The world came to us in 2002 with the 13th Inclusion International World Congress at Melbourne Convention Centre. Arts Access Victoria hosted 1500 delegates and showed the work of 200 Victorian artists.

The Sheep’s Back started in 2003. This regional arts project involved hundreds of Disabled artists and their networks. It ran for three years across Victoria.

The Other Film Festival (TOFF) launched to great acclaim. It held Australia’s first International Disability Film Festival at Melbourne Museum in December 2004. Oscar-winning filmmaker Adam Elliot was the festival patron.

In 2005, AAV received multi-year funding for the first time from Arts Victoria (now known as Creative Victoria). AAV was definitely here to stay!

  • a book open to a page with emus painted on it.
  • Deaf Choir performing
  • A man is looking into a mirror.
  • An AAV think you and Happy Holidays card
  • A person in white, stairs over their shoulder.
  • People holding up a sign saying
  • A book in the shape of a heart.
  • People working on computers
  • someone editing making art in photoshop
  • a painting of ned kelly.
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Go Back: Sharing knowledge (Mid – Late 1990s)

Go Forward: Leading Change (mid to late 2000s)