Know Your Worth

Know Your Worth was a professional development program on rights and industry guidelines to fair pay for visual artists. This was presented in partnership with the National Association for the Visual Arts and held at Whitlam Library in Cabramatta. Guest speaker was local artist and 2023 Creative Australia Award recipient Khaleed Sabsabi. Emma Pham from the National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA) shared tools and resources developed by the organisation. Khaled Sabsabi gave his perspective on NAVA’s Code of Practice as one tool in the artist's toolkit to help sustain a professional career and practice. 

Emma Pham is an artist and arts worker living on unceded Dharug and Dharawal lands. Emma is passionate about cultivating spaces that facilitate the participation of underrepresented groups in the arts. At NAVA, she is the NSW Professional Development Coordinator and runs programs to activate conversations around NAVA's Code of Practice. Outside of NAVA, Emma has a drawing practice, working across pixel art and digital illustration to express wishes for a better future.

Khaled Sabsabi migrated with his family to Australia in 1978 following the outbreak of civil war in Lebanon. They settled in Western Sydney, where Sabsabi now lives and works. Since the late 1980s Sabsabi has worked with communities, particularly those in Western Sydney, to create and develop arts programs and projects that explore the complexities of place, displacement, identity, and ideological differences associated with migrant experiences and marginalisation.