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Art Month Sydney is a city wide festival that celebrates contemporary art and artists through a rich and diverse program of exhibitions, workshops, panel discussions, artists studio visits, tours, precinct nights and more.

The festival facilitates access to Sydney’s leading and emerging artists and their stories. This year Art Month focuses on Sydney as an Engine of Creativity.

"If we think of the city as an engine that drives creativity, what are the parts of the motor that move differently but in union to produce forward motion?

It’s often said that artists aren’t artists because they want to be, but because they have to be. If it’s the artists’ creative juices that are the fuel, what, are the pistons that fire, the drive shafts that crank, and the wheels that turn to get this engine of creativity moving.

Art Month 2016 throws the elemental pieces of that engine down in front of you, artists, art schools, studios, galleries, institutions, both “bricks and mortar and virtual”, collections private and public, for you to piece together how these form a working whole.”

- Barry Keldoulis, Artistic Director, Art Month Sydney 2016

Art Month Sydney is a not-for-profit festival of contemporary art produced by Art Fairs Australia for the Australian Art Events Foundation, a registered non-profit organisation ABN 97 137 878 098

Australian Art Events Foundation Board Members
Chair, Becky Sparks | Fredrik Blencke | Delwyn Everard | Max Germanos | Clinton Ng | Michael Reid | Maree Whybourne

Art Month Sydney Founders
Vasili Kaliman & Michael Reid

2016 Art Month Team
Barry Keldoulis, Artistic Director
Samantha Watson-Wood, Program Director
Jo Duncan, Marketing Director
Phebe Chan, Commercial Director
Mary Wenholz, Gallery Liaison Manager
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