A 30-year ambition: Regional Arts WA steps up the game to drive funding innovation

For its 30th anniversary, Regional Arts WA has launched a new investment framework that seeks to shift away from fragmented funding.
Regional Arts WA team with Regional Arts Network representatives and special guests. A photo of a group of arts workers smiling and looking at the camera with a sign with the text 'REGIONAL ARTS WA'.

Regional Arts WA is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year and, among the festivities, it has launched the new Thrive! Regional Arts, Culture and Creativity Investment Framework 2025-2029 to carry its commitment into the future.

Discourse to develop this framework began around the same time as the WA State Government’s 10-Year Vision for the creative industries, which is due to be released this year. Both respond to the call for statewide strategic development, and it was “clear that the regional arts sector needed to have a voice in that,” says Regional Arts WA CEO, Dr Pilar Kasat.

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Celina Lei is the Diversity and Inclusion Editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Most recently, Celina was one of three Australian participants in DFAT’s the Future of Leadership program. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne. Instagram @lleizy_