At Blacktown Arts, we walk alongside our First Nations Elders, knowledge holders, and broader communities of artists, partners and collaborators in our shared vision of creative and cultural experiences being part of everyone’s daily lives.

In Blacktown we live and work on the land of the Darug people, home to Australia’s second largest urban Aboriginal population and one of the most linguistically and culturally diverse cities in the country. A deep sense of culture, place and people sit at the heart of everything we do. By exploring the histories and communities of Blacktown, we develop new work that draws on local and global issues. Blacktown Arts is a division of Blacktown City Council, recognised as a leader in the commissioning and presentation of community engaged contemporary arts.

Our work extends to city-wide cultural planning, public art, managing a city art collection. We manage three cultural spaces - The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre, Main St Studios and Kelso Lane Creative Hub. The Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre is an innovative multi-arts hub located in the heart of Blacktown. The Centre has two gallery spaces, a performance studio, a workshop studio and a weaving garden.