Valerie Kirk, Head of the Textiles Workshop at the ANU School of Art, has been awarded the ACT Creative Arts Fellowship for 2013, valued at $45,000. Valerie has been awarded the prestigious Fellowship to allow her to undertake research and develop a new body of contemporary woven tapestries. She will also complete work on the large tapestry commissioned by the ANU to recognize the awarding of a Nobel prize to Professor Brian P. Schmidt and oversee the $88,000 research grant to develop the Canberra Centenary Community Tapestry, a major new tapestry project funded by the Canberra Centenary and the ACT Legislative Assembly. Valerie is also one of the coordinators of the Selling Yarns 3 conference and exhibition. This major international event promotes textile and design practices of Indigenous artists from across Australia is a partnership of Craft ACT, the National Museum of Australia and the ANU and will be held from 28 February to 3 March 2013.

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