Nancy Sposato Projects

29/11/2020

How the Blackbird Creative Recovery Project is helping the Nambucca Valley heal.

05/05/2020

Thanks Arts Mid North Coast for promoting my work on the Black Bird Bushfire Recovery Project and increasing awareness of the benefit arts practice can bring to community healing and recovery.

Blackbird Creative Bushfire Recovery Project was initiated by Nambucca artist Nancy Sposato and facilitated with Bellingen arts therapist Marg Coutts.

30/04/2020

Exciting times ahead.

"We are delighted to have Patricia Walker and Nancy Sposato joining the team."

17/04/2020

These images were taken in February this year during a Creative Bushfire Recovery Project I initiated in the Valley. The same valley where plans are in place (or have possible commenced) to log Nambucca State Forests.

Many threatened species were struggling before the bushfires; their plight now is obviously dire.

Logging as our community recovers simply seems insensitive, for many directly effected this issue will trigger the experience of significant trauma.

To learn that forests can be logged with no community consultation is simply depressing. On top of increased anxiety in our communities in the wake of COVID-19, logging our state forests presents as a blanket disregard of our needs.

We live on an extraordinary planet and in a marvellous piece of it. If you are keen to write a letter to the powers that be to urge them to meet the needs of wildlife, native flora and fauna and the wellbeing of our community please reach out. I am more than happy to share my letter in support of you finding your voice.

Nambucca Valley Conservation Association is asking people to write short letters to Nationals Melinda Pavey and Liberals Matt Kean, Environment Minister.

30/03/2020

I have kicked off through Nambucca Heads Arts Studio.
Calling on artists and teaching artists to share FREE, ACCESSIBLE activities that bring REFLECTION, CALM and/or SMILES online.
The aim is to help more people benefit from arts practice in their day to day life, plus there are benefits for artists across the Mid North Coast.
Post an activity and simply tag on FB or Insta and I will repost and making sure the artist is credited.
I hope all are doing well. x

Early this year, during a visit to a local GP, I mentioned that I had established the Nambucca Arts Studio. My GP seemed excited by the project. That afternoon I returned home to find a lengthy document in my letterbox, a medical research paper regarding the health benefits of arts practice, personally delivered by my GP.

In response to COVID-19 I feel this is a very timely moment for artists, to share their passion and reveal the importance of CREATIVE CAPITAL in helping our community cope with life's challenges

We are calling on artists and teaching artists of ALL ART FORMS across the MID NORTH COAST, NSW to share an arts activity for people to do whilst in isolation.

All activities need to:
- Be FREE.
- Be ACCESSIBLE for a wide age range and ability and consider that people may have limited resources.
- Bring REFLECTION, CALM and/or SMILES.

If you are doing something creative right now that is lifting your spirits, then it is likely to help someone else. Check out our FB and Insta feed for ideas that have already come in.

Some of you simply don’t have capacity for this right now, some days I don’t either and that is fine.

For anyone with the space and energy please DM up to 150 words and up to 4 images describing the activity through Facebook or simply tag when posting an activity on FB or Instagram - your contributions will be posted/reposted and CREDITED.

IMPORTANTLY during these trying times this initiative can HELP ARTISTS of the Mid North Coast as a way
- To spark connection with other local creatives.
- To meaningfully share practice.
- To enable professional opportunities.
- To collaboratively grow audiences.

BEFORE COVID HIT, I was in conversation one day with Regional Arts Australia, the officer spoke of isolation as a VERY common experience for artists living regionally. Can we use this experience as an opportunity to really unpack how we can BE IN THIS TOGETHER NOW and into the FUTURE??

Have you been thinking about this?
What would support, as an arts practitioner living in the MNC, look like for you right now?

I thank you for your time and sincerely hope all are well.

Nancy - Nambucca Heads Arts Studio

03/02/2020

Art in action.

As a collective group of Australian artists, we have been driven to reclaim public advertising space with posters speaking to the Australian government’s inaction…

26/01/2020

Always was, always will be.

13/12/2019

Art as a vehicle to empower people and their communities has been my focus for some time and over the past year I have fed this passion into initiating Nambucca Heads Arts Studio. I have loved witnessing the confidence in participants grow as they develop their creative expression. I am so very excited to see what 2020 will bring.

A place for the community to garden is now also a place to practise art.