A new report from MTM London for Arts Council England exposes the potential for greater audience development in the arts through digital media.
A pilot initiated by Judith Mottram, Terry Shave and Joanne Lee from Nottingham Trent University’s School of Art and Design, ‘A Field Guide to Ideas’ is a collaboration with former Arts Council East Midlands Visual Arts & Literature Head Alison Lloyd.
Following the reduction in funding available to the arts, practitioners will need to rely less on traditional arts funding sources such as the arts councils and find other ways of financing projects. Here, artist Emily Speed outlines some of the newest options for creative and visual arts projects, that are covered more fully in the online a-n Practical guide How to get crowd-funding
From the Twitter and Artists talking communities.
Following the successes of the Go and See Bursaries offered since 2004, NAN is piloting Futurific! – three new awards up to £800 designed especially to support the sustainability and resilience of artists’ groups and networks in the UK.
Comings and goings amongst arts professionals and curators, designed to aid networking and collaboration.
Almost as if a gift for the festive season, in December Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt launched a strategy to encourage greater philanthropy in the arts. To kick it off, 2011 has been proclaimed the ‘Year of Corporate Philanthropy’.
Ben Washington, We’re Being Kept Informed As The Situation Unfolds.
Kathryn Campbell Dodd of Bird in the House reported in her blog on going to the ‘On Collecting: Transactions in Contemporary Art’ symposium at The National Gallery of Wales in December. The event was chaired by Gordon Dalton from Mermaid & Monster, facilitated by g39, and was part of the Contemporary Art Society’s National Network programme for their centenary year. The event’s purpose was to “investigate the market for contemporary art in Wales”.
The Open College of the Arts (OCA) launched Europe’s first MA in Fine Art by distance learning in January.
Resources, workshops and events for artists across the UK.
“The artist has always occupied a privileged but fragile position in the public eye. For centuries, we have looked to artists across all disciplines to inspire and entertain us, to help us explore the limits of human nature and human possibilities, [and] at times to lead debate and forment revolution.”
News of current public realm and gallery commissioning projects.
A selection of forthcoming open exhibition competitions, bursaries and prizes for artists.
A-n’s Collaborative relationships series exposes the working relationships between artists and the wide range of professionals they choose to collaborate with. In 2009-10 a series of permanent artworks were negotiated for a major redevelopment of Bethnal Green’s former Town Hall into an exclusive hotel. Artsadmin’s Manick Govinda and Clare Qualmann of walkwalkwalk give their account of these negotiations and the work resulting from one of the commissions.
Contents include: Features include ‘Commissioning 2011’ and ‘Prizes and awards’; Dr Jon Bowen debates ‘Democracy: the new way forward’; In Collaborative relationships Artsadmin’s Manick Govinda and Clare Qualmann of walkwalkwalk discuss recent commissions for the Town Hall Hotel in Bethnal […]
MIT Press, 2010
1 October 2010 – 31 December 2011
The first month So, as you might have noticed – I’ve started this blog at the end of January, so in theory nearly a month into the residency, but in practice I haven’t really started yet. This is frustrating but […]
In the last language exchange I learnt quite a lot of new words, I only hope I manage to remember a few of them. Unfortunately, I have the impression I forget words as quickly as I remember them. Trying to […]
Had an interesting meeting last week about our Contextual Reports, these are in place of a Dissertation. An MA without a dissertation seems very bizarre to me. I LOVE writing and was looking forward to this part greatly but and […]
The day after my last post I was taken ill with pneumonia and hospitalised. I thought only old or compromised people got pneumonia not fit healthy people! Anyway, it’s taken a while to get back on top of things and […]
VIRTUAL TECHNOLOGY V. AUTHENTIC MATERIALITY I cant get the idea out of my head that I need to justify (to myself) why drawing, specifically pencil on paper might be a valid means of visual art today. I imagine it lies […]
After experiencing frozen clay work before Christmas that resulted in a couple of disastrous firings (a miserable nightmare!) – things are looking up again :) *I have been selected for the second year for North Yorkshire Open Studios – happening […]
Can a work of art really be connected to the artist when the artist hasn’t made it or perhaps even touched it? Breaking through the restrictions of medium, what Rosalind Krauss calls the post-medium condition, shattered the boundaries but has […]
