MORE than fifty years of arts and creativity is being celebrated this year by Beechworth Arts Council (BAC) with a photographic exhibition.

BAC’s Chris Dormer said the ‘Beechworth Family Album - Portraits of Creative Beechworth’ project is the next chapter in the Beechworth Family Album - a photography project started in 1984 and produced every decade since then.

“The BAC photographic project engaged local photographer Marc Bongers to take photographs of Beechworth creatives for the exhibition,” she said.

The photographic exhibition, to be held at the Sub Treasury building in Beechworth’s historic precinct, celebrates Beechworth’s artists and crafts people featured with self-portraits in a creative display taken by Mr Bongers.

Photographs include local artists, photographers, musicians and creative groups.

“The event is pivotal for celebrating five decades of Beechworth Arts Council’s as the leading community arts organisation in Beechworth," Ms Dormer said.

A series of five panels of photographs will be on display with the exhibition telling the story of the Beechworth family album and its creative contribution to the cultural life of Beechworth.

Panels include a focus on the photographer for each chapter and a visual history of the Beechworth family album projects in 1984, 1994, 2004 and 2014.

The exhibition will be launched at the Sub-Treasury building in Ford Street by federal member for Indi Helen Haines at 6pm on Thursday, 5 June.

The exhibition will continue to be showcased over the June long weekend from 10am – 4pm on Friday, 6 June to Monday, 9 June.

Among projects undertaken by BAC with its long history includes a major one with the tapestry in the town hall started in 1984 for the 1988 centenary.

The long-standing organisation for artists and creatives also established the first craft markets running for a decade in the Town Hall Gardens in the early 80s.

BAC is a non-for-profit community arts organisation with the of goal of building opportunities for local artists and artisans as well as fostering creative arts across Indigo Shire.

The photographic project is supported by Indigo Shire Council with a community grant.