REGIONAL STAFF
- EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
- John O’Brien
- Email rado@artsupperhunter.com.au
- Mobile: 0409382509
- OFFICE MANAGER
- Sandra Reichel
- Email admin@artsupperhunter.com.au
- Mobile: 0481 166 415
REGIONAL DIRECTORS
CHAIR: Ivan Skaines, Co-opted Member
- VICE CHAIR: Robert Booth, Co-opted Member
- TREASURER: Jennifer Lecky, Muswellbrook Shire Council
- BOARD MEMBER: Michael Tobin, Dungog Shire Council
- BOARD MEMBER: Danny Thompson, Singleton Council
- BOARD MEMBER: Jaccqui Bakewell, Upper Hunter Shire Council
- BOARD MEMBER: Auntie Jean Hands, Co-opted Member
CONTRIBUTING COUNCILS
Upper Hunter Shire
Muswellbrook Shire
Singleton
Dungog Shire
ABORIGINAL ARTS & CULTURE
Aboriginal Population and Language Groups
- Just over 3,000 Aboriginal people live in the region (approximately 3.3% of the general area population)
- Highest concentration of Aboriginal people live in Muswellbrook Shire (twice the national average at 4%)
- Muswellbrook is home to the Wanaruah Local Aboriginal Land Council and the Hunter Valley Aboriginal Corporation
- Traditionally the lands of the Upper Hunter were where the Kamilaroi, Wanaruah and Wiradjuri people’s lands met. Today the area is predominately Wanaruah.
Aboriginal Arts Organisations
- Living Country Culture Camp, Wollombi
- Arwarbukarl Cultural Resource Association
- Awabakal Local Aboriginal Land Council
- Keepa Keepa Elders Ungooroo Aboriginal Corporation
