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We’re excited to welcome WA artist and project manager Emma Buswell to the FAC team as our new Print Award Coordinator. Emma filled us in on some of her arts highlights and what she’s looking forward to for this year’s award and exhibition.

Enrolments are NOW OPEN for our April Kids' Holiday Art Courses. Browse the fun, creative program for classes in animation, pottery, drawing, fashion, felting, music, jewellery, painting and much more.

Entries are now open for the FAC Print Award 2017, Australia's richest and most prestigious print award.

Get a behind the scenes look at our 2017 Perth International Arts Festival exhibition SPAN with FAC Curator Ric Spencer. SPAN traverses the emotional, spatial and politicised boundaries of our contemporary environment, comprising work from leading WA artists Susanna Castleden, Andrew Sunley Smith, Olga Cironis, Clyde McGill and Tanya Lee.

New Zealand’s Katie Breckon filled us in on her time in residence at FAC, ahead of her Open Studio this Friday and Saturday. Katie’s a multi-disciplinary artist who lives and works in the Kimberley. Over the past month she’s been creating three-dimensional drawings out of thread inspired by her experience at Bungarun, the Derby Leprosarium.

Snapcat's Anna Dunnill chats girl gangs and women called Shirley ahead of this Sunday's Before the Siren for Perth International Arts Festival. Snapcat and Melbourne artist Lara Thoms have been in residence at Fremantle Arts Centre to create this free footy frenzy filled with half-time entertainment and community parades.

We chatted with Soft Soft Loud Artistic Director Matthew Hoy to find out more about the history of the program, a firm favourite on the Perth International Arts Festival calendar, and find out what to expect with this year's show Future Shock.

Eight years since they last toured Oz, London legends Madness are set to make a very welcome return on Mon 10 Apr, touring in celebration of their latest studio album Can’t Touch Us Now.

Part half-time show, part community parade – Before the Siren is a celebration of the inaugural AFL women's competition, girl gangs, women's teams and their fans on Sunday 19 February at Fremantle Oval. Commissioned by Perth International Arts Festival, Melbourne artist Lara Thoms and Perth art duo Snapcat have been working on-site at Fremantle Arts Centre to create this footy frenzy. We caught up with Lara ahead of the show.

Fremantle Arts Centre’s iconic façade will be blanketed by a life-size print of Fremantle Port’s passenger gangway as five leading WA artists examine a world full of movement, consumption and control in a thought-provoking exhibition for Perth International Arts Festival.