The Art Shack at Wallabadah began with the provision of creative arts classes to a rural community. It is now an inspiring example of the unsung creative arts tourism market. The Hartigans have established cabins on their family farm, engaged high-caliber artists and achieved growing demand for their art classes. The message has spread through the use of social media and Air BnB. Guests have come from as far afield as South Africa and Canada for an artistic, rural Australian retreat in the solar-powered Art Shack. The creative art class farm stay innovation is a diversification that secured the family farm business, now and for the next generation. The Art Shack’s success means jobs and a café addition. Workshops will expand to cater for the NDIS and creative writing.
