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The Bauhaus Knew.

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date June 2, 2026

The Bauhaus lasted fourteen years. Its founding idea — that craft and art, trade and design, hand and mind are not separate hierarchies but a single discipline — has lasted a century. CWA is building the institutional infrastructure that idea required and never received: the sector recognition, certification, registry, and workforce classification that makes skilled cultural production a formally governed, economically legible, professionally credentialled field in Australian law.

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2.4 Million Australian Women Are Making Things

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date May 18, 2026

2.4 million Australian women participate in craft activities — the most popular cultural activity in the country. 95,000 earn some income from it. The average is $12,330 a year. Artists’ incomes haven’t moved in forty years. The ABS has been counting these women for years. The system has not yet decided to count them as workers. Here is what the data actually shows — and what infrastructure would change it.

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