Artist Trading Cards (ATCs) –
Threatened Species Workshops
Threatened Species Family Day Collaboration with Melinda Stacey
Saturday 05 September
Join Melinda Stacey from Spectrum Organising for a special Artist Trading Cards (ATCs) – Threatened Species Workshops on Saturday 5 September as part of Threatened Species Family Day at WILDBARK.
Artist Trading Cards are a wonderfully creative and accessible art form, loved by beginners and experienced artists alike. These miniature artworks encourage storytelling, creativity and connection, making them the perfect way to celebrate Australia’s incredible threatened species. You’ll create your own unique ATCs inspired by Australian and local Canberra threatened species.
Learn more about threatened species and ATCs through this hands-on workshop, with an opportunity to create and trade your cards with others!
We’re thrilled to have Melinda as part of Threatened Species 2026, and we know Melinda’s workshops are going to be a real highlight of the day.
Artist Trading Cards Workshop 01 – Black Gum
Sat 5th of September 10am-12pm
WILDBARK Woodlands Room
Artist Trading Cards Workshop 02 – Diamond Firetail
Sat 5th of September 12:30pm-2:30pm
WILDBARK Woodlands Room
Workshop location: Wildbark 25 Rosenberg Street, Throsby ACT 2914
Questions, feedback or glitches please email: caroline@belcoarts.com.au
About Melinda Stacey
Melinda a multidisciplinary artist, designer, and creative professional based in the ACT, Australia. Working primarily in mixed media, Melinda weaves together photography, collage, paint, digital processes, and found materials to create work that is visually layered and emotionally resonant.
Melinda’s creative voice is shaped by more than four decades of lived experience. As a neurodivergent person and long‑term carer to two neurodiverse adult sons with complex medical needs, Melinda’s life experiences deeply inform her work. Themes of disability, resilience, identity, care, and the transformative power of creativity are at the heart of Melinda’s practice.
Much of Melinda’s art explores the quiet, unseen labour of caregiving – the exhaustion, devotion, grief, joy, and fierce determination to create beauty in the midst of challenge. Melinda’s pieces are known for their textural depth, symbolic layering, and a visual language that blends vulnerability with strength.
Melinda creates to make the invisible visible. Melinda’s practice is a space for reflection, storytelling, and connection, inviting viewers to consider the complexities of human experience and the many forms resilience can take. Melinda’s process is intuitive and adaptive, shaped by the realities of daily life and the need to carve out moments of expression within a demanding caregiving environment.
Melinda’s art is not only a personal outlet – it’s a way to advocate for disability visibility, celebrate neurodivergent perspectives, and honour the strength found in lived experience. You can follow Melinda’s creative journey, see works‑in‑progress, and hear about upcoming classes on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube.
Instagram: @spectrumorganising
Facebook: @spectrumorganising
Youtube: Spectrum Organising – YouTube
Website: www.spectrumorganising.com.au
