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2026 Grant Program: Ignition
The VADEA NSW Professional Learning and Research Grants for 2026 will be officially launched at VADEA's 2026 Conference - Ignition: Collective Energy in Motion, Powering Visual Art Education. The VADEA Professional Learning and Research Grants are a unique opportunity for VADEA NSW to support visual arts educators, conference delegates and presenters who are current VADEA members to activate teacher agency as designers of future learning to curate learning experiences that connect classroom, artworlds and contemporary practice.
The Expression of Interest period for this 2026 grant program will open soon.
For more information email: contact@vadea.org.au.
IGNITION HUMANIFESTO
Enter the engine chamber
Where ideas ignite and converge
Fuelled by diverse voices and viewpoints
Activating teacher agency as designers of future learning
Curating learning experiences that connect classroom, artworlds and contemporary practice
From intention to impact, ignition becomes propulsion
Sustaining momentum as a collective force into the future
Humanifesto written by VADEA Team members Hannah White and Wendy Ramsay