Welcome

Please be aware that this initiative is in early stages of development and is, therefore, very much a 'work in progress' –like so many more wonderful social, cultural, and economic renewal efforts around the world.

As concern over issues of peace, health, climate change and sustainability increasingly enter public debate, arts practitioners are finding their roles as educators, facilitators, and cultural conservationists are growing in importance.

Gifted practitioners in the liberal, performing and visual arts present the "big ideas" that take us beyond the surface of our troubles, to the source of our joy and ingenuity, and present a catalyst for solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges.

The Global Arts Collective is a global community without borders, committed to collaboration in creative initiatives that play a role in preserving heritage and stimulating cultural vitality and diversity for a just and peaceful world.

"The arts, more than sport, embodied and required skills and attitudes increasingly used by businesses. These involved critical thinking, being able to challenge conventional wisdom and to look at familiar themes from new angles and perspectives, and borrowing and adapting techniques that work in other settings."
Leon Gettler, Chief Economist ANZ Bank, Australia
quoted in The Age Newspaper, 19 April, 2007

Mairéid Sullivan
Curator
maireid.com

Collective defined:

• A term used to describe any moral, political, or social outlooks that focus on human interdependence.
  
  
• The philosophical underpinnings of collectivism are often related to holism or organicism - the view that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

“I'm not trying to counsel any of you to do anything really special except to dare to think, and to dare to go with the truth, and to dare to really love completely.” R. Buckminster Fuller, 1895 - 1983

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