Industry REPORTs

In response to the bushfires that significantly impacted communities in the East Gippsland region, East Gippsland Art Gallery (EGAG) initiated a program to assist community members who had suffered trauma as a result of the fires. The gallery's Regenerate | RestART | Renew program is based around the concept that art is always a form of healing. Working with Arts Therapist, Andrea Farley, the gallery developed a program to help deal with both the immediate need and a longer term response to healing trauma. The gallery offered casual drop-in art-based activities at the local library with a series of workshops to commence in a few weeks time in areas identified as having suffered the most including Bruthen, Orbost, Cann River and Mallacoota.