Selling Yarns

Australian Indigenous textiles and good business in the 21st century

 

Speakers

Carly Davenport Acker: Biography

Cultural Relations Manager, FORM Contemporary Craft and Design

Carly Davenport Acker has a degree in Art History and Curatorship from The Australian National University and a Post Graduate Diploma in Anthropology from the University of Melbourne. In 2005 she completed the unique course Multicultural Arts Professional Development (MAPD), an initiative of Kape Communications, Australia Council for the Arts, Australian Multicultural Foundation (AMF) and RMIT University.

Davenport Acker has lived and worked across Australia, charting her way from major arts institutions to some of the country's remote Aboriginal communities. For 10 years she has brokered arts and cultural initiatives for local and global audiences and has contributed to and led high profile projects and programs at the National Gallery of Australia, the Melbourne Museum and Munupi Arts (Tiwi Islands). Davenport Acker has facilitated educational products, exhibitions and programs that focus on cultural, social, economic sustainability for artists. She has published an array of articles celebrating Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists in industry journals, magazines and CDROM.

Carly Davenport Acker is currently Manager, Indigenous Development at FORM: Contemporary Craft and Design in Perth whereby she has compiled the Cultural strands / Woven visions public program.

See also: Abstract of Carly Davenport Acker's paper:
Cultural strands / Woven visions: Imagining the future