Options for annual individual membership

A package of benefits for professional artists

  • NEW Legal and tax helpline
    Obtain legal and tax advice 24 hours a day, 365 days a year on a variety of issues including contract disputes, debt recovery and self-assessment. More on the helpline
  • Your network
    Grow your network and share by posting on Blogs, Reviews and Events.
  • Resources
    Inform your practice with insights and strategies from guides, profiles and toolkits, alongside research and archives.
  • Regular updates
    New and useful content by email keeps you up to date.
  • Jobs and opps
    Find and share paid work and professional development opportunities.
  • Bursaries
    Member-only access to our annual programme supporting self-devised professional development.
  • Professional development
    Take part in workshops, talks and networking events or access specific programmes for skill development.
  • Advocacy
    Become part of the UK’s largest artists’ membership organisation and lend your voice and weight to our advocacy work including Paying Artists.
  • Insurance
    Membership includes £10m Public and Products Liability (PPL) insurance and £5m Professional Indemnity (PI) insurance and the opportunity to take advantage of specialist insurance packages for artists. More on insurance

Join as an Artist

A package of benefits for arts organisers

  • NEW Insurance
    Membership includes £10m Public and Products Liability (PPL) insurance and £5m Professional Indemnity (PI) insurance and the opportunity to take advantage of specialist insurance packages for artists. More on insurance
  • NEW Legal and tax helpline
    Obtain legal and tax advice 24 hours a day, 365 days a year on a variety of issues including contract disputes, debt recovery and self-assessment. More on the helpline
  • Online community
    Grow your networks, with tools for blogging, collecting, conversing.
  • Research
    All the latest sectoral research, advocacy and policy documents.
  • Professional development
    Inform your practice with resources including guides, toolkits, contracts, research and archives. Plus member events and networking.
  • Jobs and opps
    Find and share paid work and professional development opportunities.

Join as an Arts Organiser

For undergraduate students

  • NEW Legal and tax helpline
    Obtain legal and tax advice 24 hours a day, 365 days a year on a variety of issues including contract disputes, debt recovery and self-assessment. More on the helpline
  • Online community
    Connect with other students, artists and arts organisers, with tools for blogging, collecting, conversing.
  • Resources
    Plentiful early career advice and professional guides, profiles, contracts, research, toolkits, plus archives.
  • Jobs and opps
    Full access to listings to learn about the environment for work and find opportunities.
  • Events
    Invites to artists’ events for networking and professional development.

Membership is free to undergraduate students at universities with a JISC license agreement. Check here for a full list of current JISC university licence holders.

Join as a Student

Options for annual group membership

For groups of professional artists this package offers all the benefits of individual Artist membership with a discount for buying 10 or more. Ideal for studio groups and artists’ collectives.

  • NEW Legal and tax helpline
    Obtain legal and tax advice 24 hours a day, 365 days a year on a variety of issues including contract disputes, debt recovery and self-assessment. More on the helpline
  • Your network
    Grow your network and share by posting on Blogs, Reviews and Events.
  • Resources
    Inform your practice with insights and strategies from guides, profiles and toolkits, alongside research and archives.
  • Regular updates
    New and useful content by email keeps you up to date.
  • Jobs and opps
    Find and share paid work and professional development opportunities.
  • Bursaries
    Member-only access to our annual programme supporting self-devised professional development.
  • Professional development
    Take part in workshops, talks and networking events or access specific programmes for skill development.
  • Advocacy
    Become part of the UK’s largest artists’ membership organisation and lend your voice and weight to our advocacy work including Paying Artists.
  • Insurance
    Membership includes £10m Public and Products Liability (PPL) insurance and £5m Professional Indemnity (PI) insurance and the opportunity to take advantage of specialist insurance packages for artists. More on insurance

Prices from £35 per member per year for groups of 10 or more, with larger discounts for bigger groups. Further details [email protected]

Supporting the work of your organisation, this package enables you to stay connected to the UK’s largest artist membership, offering individual named access for staff to member only areas.

  • Online community
    Promote your events and paid work opportunities to a wide network of visual arts professionals (subject to our guidelines). Engage with the online community through blogging, collecting, conversing.
  • Special rate
    Take advantage of 20% discount off opportunities listings and online advertising.
  • Research
    All the latest sectoral research, advocacy and policy documents.
  • Best practice
    Make use of resources including guides, toolkits, contracts, research and archives. Plus member events and networking.

Prices from £180 per year, which includes access for 5 users. Further details [email protected]

Higher Education and Further Education membership offers students and staff access to a-n through a JISC license using your institution’s IP range or Shibboleth. The benefits of being a HE and FE member include:

  • Free a-n Student membership for all students
  • Unlimited access to sectoral resources and research, employability resources, advocacy and policy documents
  • Invitations to member events 
  • A recorded talk for students, offering practical advice about being an artist and working in the arts
  • 20% off advertisements in a-n Degree Shows Guide
  • Discounted memberships for graduating students 

Prices for a Higher Education and Further Education membership range from £293 to £451 per year and are booked directly through JISC. For further information and to purchase your a-n membership visit: JISC Collections

Please note:  Members can access all member content on the a-n website with the exception of Jobs and Opps listings. Access to Jobs and Opps listings requires an additional £100 upgrade. For more information on upgrading, contact [email protected]

Day pass option

Try out a-n for a day

  • 24 hour access
    For short-term research or allowing you to sample content
  • Dip into the online community
    See how you can connect with artists, arts organisers and students, with tools for blogging, collecting, conversing
  • Resources
    Use guides, contracts, toolkits plus archives, access the latest sectoral research, advocacy and policy documents
  • Take a membership
    Within 30 days of accessing a Day Pass you can redeem the cost off annual membership

Day pass users can view all member areas but can’t post content.

Join for a day