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The National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA) is one of the most prestigious art awards in Australia. Established in 1984 by the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in Darwin, and awarded annually, it is sponsored by Telstra, so is commonly known as the ''Telstra Award''. Prize-winners include Ngoia Napaltjarri Pollard and Dorothy Napangardi. The competition is open to all adult Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, with the aim of showcasing the best Indigenous art from around the country. The first prize of $50,000 is awarded to the work considered the most outstanding in the exhibition. Additional prizes of $5,000 each are awarded in four media categories. The five categories in which prizes are awarded are Telstra General Painting Award - $5000 Telstra Work on Paper Award - $5000 Telstra Bark Painting Award - $5000 Wandjuk Marika Memorial 3D Award (sponsored by Telstra) - $5000 Telstra Youth Award - $5000 The exhibition features artists from all over Australia, focusing on a wide range of themes, styles and media including paintings on bark, canvas and paper, prints, sculpture, fibre art, ceramics, glass, photography, digital media and video. The Award is an important showcase for both established and emerging artists and has come to be regarded as the premier national event in the Australian Indigenous art calendar. Telstra has sponsored the Award since 1992. In 2000, they doubled the First Prize money from $20,000 to $40,000. It is now $50,00 and including the $25,000 other prize monies, it is the highest amount offered for any Indigenous art award. There have also been two travelling exhibitions, in 2000 and 2003, enabling around 40 - 50 selected works to be shown in regional galleries around Australia, promoting the richness of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art to a wide audience across the country. ==List of winners== : 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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