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Digital Collections
MAPDA Winners
The Gallery is collaborating across Maitland City Council with Maitland Libraries, Maitland Gaol, and the Morpeth Museum on a Digital Collections project, which will see a digital hub established and the complete digitisation of the Council's cultural collections. This multi-year project, supported by a $478,000 Create NSW grant, will make Maitland’s art and history accessible to audiences everywhere.
At the Museums Australasia Multimedia & Publication Design Awards in June 2021, the Gallery took out the award for best Children’s e-Activities, for the ‘MRAG Home Delivery’ videos created during our closure. We also received an award for best Exhibition Branding Package, for designer Clare Hodgins’ collaboration with artist Lucas Grogan on his 2020 exhibition Long Story Short. The judges commented on the artwork “excellent collaboration between the artist and the designer which amplified the graphic nature of the artwork.”
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Detail from Long Story Short exhibition catalogue, available for $25 in the Gallery Shop or on the MRAG website. (L to R) Clare Weeks, Jenni Nichols (The Hunter Artisan Gallery) and Fiona Lee. Lionel Lindsay, Hornbill, 1932, Wood engraving, printed in black ink on paper, 14 x 14cm, The MRAG Collection. 16
