Exhibitions

Art Tuesdays for creative children aged 6-12 will start during Term 1. The Maitland Regional Art Gallery program feartures an eight-week term of fun, and after-school art and entertainment for children.

It will be held every Tuesday from Febrary 3 until March 24, from 4pm-5.30pm at Rutherford Community Centre in Arthur Steet, Rutherford.

Tony Moffit has reopened the Gallery in the Garage with a collection including local landscapes and his new Vermeer paintings. The gallery is at 52 Edward St, Merewether, open Wednesday to Sunday, 2pm-6pm. More info phone Tony on 4963 7162

 Mixed media drawings by third year graduating students from the Newcastle Art School, TAFE.

depARTure shows just how fundamental drawing is to art practice, regardless of the individual artist's dominant discipline.

A wide range of mediums is explored, from graphite powder, to watercolour, threads and paper itself.

Divergent in approach and technique, this exhibition represents an entire year's work and reflects each artist's evaluation and understanding of their art practice through the discipline of drawing.

The program provides grant funding of up to $15 000 for preservation projects, and preservation and collection management training through community based workshops.

Newcastle's newest art space, Art Systems Wickham will open its doors this friday, December 5 with the aim to promote the Hunter's most interesting and contemporary art forms.

The new art space at Wickham is in a warehouse-like structure and will be made available to local artists, curators and community groups to rent out.

Located close to the Honeysuckle precinct and Newcastle Harbour, the gallery was established by Colin Lawson, also an artist, who would like to see Newcastle become more of a cultural centre.

One of the first artists to showcase his work at the gallery's opening exhibition is sculptor Bradden Snape.

His lastest sculptures - the tableau series - symbolise themes of turmoil.

This is an annual competition for female artists to exhibit contemporay art works in celebration of International Women’s Day. Work can be two or three dimensional and can be created in any medium. Winners will receive exhibitions at sponsored galleries.

Application fee $10, if accepted, exhibition fee $45.

This exhibition by Peter Blanchard is a combination of contemporary fi ne furniture and evocative sculpture, with the wood for many of the pieces coming from the Gloucester region.

Opening at 2pm, 3rd January. Gloucester Art Gallery, Denison Street.

Open Friday to Sunday 10am to 4pm. Free entry. For more details call 6558 3157.

The exhibition runs until the 1st of February.

The exhibitions will run until 8th February.

Opening 6pm. Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, Cnr of Bridge and Market Sts, Tuesday to Friday 10am – 5pm, Saturday 10am – 1pm, Sunday 2pm – 5pm, for details please call 6549 3880.

Muswellbrook Shire Council is seeking to appoint a Casual Assistant with the Muswellbrook Reginal Arts Centre. The person in mind will be energetic and motivated, possess excellent communication skills, and be keen to take on a variety of customer service, administration and manual duties.

Singelton Campus TAFE is offering this course in 2009 and is inviting anyone interested in the course to go to an information session, 4th December 2008. Enrollments can be made on this day or 5th February 2009.

10am, Block A, Singleton TAFE Campus, York St, Singleton. For more details call Dorothy Wishney on 6578 7133 or 6578 7100.