history

• MAPBM holds its first gallery-based Show & Tell session involving two exhibitions
• MAPBM starts the trial of a new seminar series with a presentation by Mountains author Douglas Kahn on Jack Kerouac
• MAPBM applies successfully for Blue Mountains City of the Arts Trust funding for its '5+5' project to reactivate Wentworth Falls School of Arts in early 2025
• Miriam Williamson elected MAPBM Chair

• MAPBM holds a successful first inner-Sydney members’ exhibition, Together or otherwise a(part) at Articulate Project Space in Leichhardt with 18 artists
• MAPBM also holds successful digital screenings _Mosaic, MASHUP! and MASHUP II in the inner city
• MAPBM starts gallery-based Show & Tell sessions

• MAPBM’s exhibit Carnivale Catastrophe involving eight artists addressing the impacts of the 2019/20 bushfires is a major component of the CEMENTA22 Festival
• MAPBM is successful in holding its first festival – Lumière, Mount Victoria’s Festival of the Moving Image – with 25 artists in multiple venues across Mr Victoria
• Alex Gooding elected MAPBM President

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• MAPBM receives Festivals Australia and NAB funding for the MAPBM exhibit Carnivale Catastrophe at CEMENTA (deferred to 2022)
• MAPBM receives City of the Arts Trust and Bendigo Bank funding for the Lumiere exhibition at Mt Victoria (deferred to 2022)
• Bubbles lockdown initiative commences
• MAPBM Vimeo channel established
• MAPBM holds first video presentation, rest/less,at Mt Vic Flicks in June
• ‍Blue Too members’ show held at WAYOUT in Kandos February to April
• Successful Fabrik exhibition concludes in February‍

• ‍Fabrik exhibition opened at Penrith Regional Gallery in November‍
• SEWNUP and SEWNUP2, supported by funding from the Blue Mountains City of the Arts Trust, were held at Lyttleton Stores in April and November‍
• Blue exhibition runs from August to September at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre
• MAPBM participates in the Worldwide Apartment and Studio Biennale and in Hello World
• First online Show and Tell sessions are held on Zoom
• MAPBM conducts the first survey of its membership
• MAPBM holds successful fundraiser, Blue Bijou

• Second annual MAPBM members show, MAPPING, held at Braemar House in August
• MAPBM makes a successful application to the Blue Mountains City of the Arts Trust for funding for the SEWNUP exhibition to be held in April 2020 at Lyttleton Stores
• MAPBM applies successfully for an exhibition in the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre Exposé program to be held in 2020

• Kiosk 3x6 Project successfully completed
• First annual MAPBM members show, Imperceptible Resistances, is held at Everglades
• MAPBM members Show and Tell Program established
• Distribution of MAPBM members newsletter is started

• Explorers: Narratives of site project successfully completed
• MAPBM joins with Toolo in leasing Katoomba Falls Kiosk to develop an unfunded artist residency program
• MAPBM makes a successful application to Create NSW for funding for the Kiosk 3x6 Project to run three short-term curatorial residencies at the Kiosk
• Fiona Davies elected President

• Final Art and Architecture program successfully completed
• MAPBM makes a successful application to Create NSW for funding for the Explorers: Narratives of site in contemporary art practice project at Woodford Academy
• Beata Geyer elected President

• Second Art and Architecture program successfully completed
• MAPBM makes a successful funding application to the Trust for the final Art and Architecture program

• Modern Art Projects Blue Mountains becomes an incorporated association
• First Art and Architecture program successfully completed
• MAPBM makes a successful application to the Blue Mountains City of the Arts Trust for funding for the second Art and Architecture program

• Modern Art Projects Blue Mountains is established with Dr Billy Gruner as the first President
• MAPBM makes a successful application to the Blue Mountains Cultural Program for funding for the first in what becomes the Art and Architecture series

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