Into the Heart is a collaborative research and curatorial project between Dr. Maya Haviland and Dr. Anni Doyle Wawrzyńczak investigating the material and social history of community arts in Canberra. The research seeks to explore how collaborative community art-making has shaped the Canberra community over the last five decades. In particular, the project asks what the traces of historic community art projects and groups tell us about the social and cultural themes that have shaped Canberra as a local community, and explores how these traces can be effectively exhibited and presented in physical and online formats.

Into the Heart worked with students from the ANU Masters in Heritage and Museum Studies program to curate a temporary exhibition at the ANU Heritage Library in late 2017. Download the Catalogue from this exhibition here.

In 2018 Into the Heart is collaborating with the Canberra Museum and Gallery and members of the Canberra Zine Emporium to host a number of Zine Workshops to engage Canberra artists, community development facilitators and community members in sharing their stories and objects related to community and collaborative art projects in Canberra over the past 50 years. These workshops are supported by funding from the Research School of Humanities and the Arts and in-kind support from the Canberra Museum and Gallery.

Into the Heart also includes collaborations with the Centre for Digital Humanities Research and ANU Design at the School of Art and Design in developing a digital map component of the research.