FUNDING
‘Art is.. a winner for feds, Victoria’, The Mail-Times, Friday 20 November 2009, p. 12
Almost $50,000 in state and federal government funding has secured Horsham’s Art is... festival for another year.

‘$885,000 to support new Victorian Arts Projects’, Media Release from the Minister for the Arts, Wednesday 18 November 2009
The 2010 Art is.. elemental festival received $19,000 as one of fifty-five new Victorian arts projects to share in $885,000 in the latest round of funding through the Brumby Labour Government’s Arts Development program.

‘New Festivals Australia grants announced’, Media Release, The Hon Peter Garret MP, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, Tuesday 17 November 2009
Arts Minister Peter Garrett announced funding of $420,000 for arts and cultural activities at 27 community festivals around Australia. The 2010 Art is... elemental festival received $30,000.

‘Art is festival gets $30,000 federal government grant’, The Mail-Times, Tuesday 17 November 2009
Horsham’s Art is…elemental festival will receive $30,000 in Federal Government funding as part of $420,500 in grants for community festivals across Australia.

‘Art is... snub from tourism group’, The Mail-Times, Wednesday 4 November 2009, p. 1 & 3
For the first time in 10 years Horsham’s Tourism Advisory Committee has rejected an application for funding for the 2010 Art is... festival.

‘Art is needing give and take’, The Mail-Times (editorial), Wednesday 4 November 2009
Editor Rod Case encourages the Art is... festival committee to meet with Horsham Rural City Council to work together to produce a submission for funding that meets the Tourism Advisory Committee’s requirements.