Umoona Arts is located in Umoona Community, Coober Pedy, in the north of South Australia. Established in 2020, Umoona Arts joins neighbouring art centres on the APY Lands with the central aim of building capacity for sustainable employment pathways through the art centre. Community members have commenced work with passion and focus. There is a collective spirit of ambition and drive, as a long-held dream of owning and operating their own art centre is finally becoming a reality. Umoona Community is diverse, with artists from different language groups across the central desert working alongside those who have always called Umoona and Coober Pedy home. Artists embrace a variety of mediums including acrylic paint on linen, punu work and carving (wood-work), tjanpi (fibre weaving) and ceramics, with works demonstrating a diversity of styles alongside a vibrant use of colour and energetic mark making. Their inaugural exhibition titled Umoona was launched at the APY gallery in Adelaide on the 30th Sept 2021. This exhibition proudly launched the careers of 24 artists including Lisa Aitkin, Pearl Austin, Janice Bailes, Marion Nyunmiti Baker, Janelle Chamberlaine, George Cooley, Patricia Fatt, Charmain Mungkari, Joanne O’Tool, Tanya Van Horen, Jan Marion Nyunmiti Baker, Myra Kumantjara, Christine Lennon, Darlene Lennon, Hayley O’Toole, and Tanya Van Horen.