Access to art education survey results
Results of AIR’s survey of its members on the subject of access to art education. Downloadable PDF version. Requires PDF reader.
Results of AIR’s survey of its members on the subject of access to art education. Downloadable PDF version. Requires PDF reader.
Established by a-n as an integral part of a-n’s Artist membership for practising visual and applied artists, AIR identifies and explores issues that impact on artists’ practice.
AIR announces campaign to improve payment of artists.
Following AIR Council fact-finding and sifting of artists’ opinions over recent months, consultants DHA Communications have been commissioned to develop a body of evidence and advocacy tools for a campaign highlighting the need to pay artists for their vital contributions to arts and culture.
Artists shaping the world is a hot topic at the moment. Jack Hutchinson asks: can artists effect change and what will this look like?
AIR Communications Officer Jack Hutchinson heads to the 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art in Istanbul to explain AIR’s latest collaborations and how they are impacting on the lives of artists.
Response from AIR: Artists Interaction and Representation.
Over 50 individuals from 18 different European countries attended ECA conference Experiencing the Arts – Artists’ Contribution to Creative Thinking and European Innovation, held in Valetta Malta 30 October – 1 November.
On 16 September 2009, David Cotterrell was invited to speak at the VAGA symposium Making the Case held at Tate Modern to an audience comprised of gallery and museum directors, commissioners, consultants and local government representatives.
Artists’ employment status and livelihoods were the hot topics at a meeting that took place in August between Visual Arts Ireland’s Chief Executive, Noel Kelly and AIR advisers Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva, Sally Sheinman and Caroline Wright.
Earlier this year, AIR members were invited to contribute to National Campaign for the Arts consultations on a new manifesto for the arts.
Research in 2006 into the effectiveness of artists’ representation structures revealed that artists ‘unions’ across Europe and elsewhere have been struggling to attract membership from newcomers to the profession.
Since 2009, AIRTIME events for artists have enabled them to both explore their approaches and strategies for their practice and to access information and networking opportunities.
Since 2008, AIR has been pushing for independent artist representation within implementation of Arts Councils Englands Turning point, originally launched in 2006 as a ten-year strategic visual arts plan designed to increase government funding for the visual arts.
AIR – Artists Interaction & Representation welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the workforce development plan for the visual arts.
Committed to providing interaction amongst and representation for UK visual and applied artists, this is a summary of some of the key areas for development that AIR Artists’ Advisory Group has set out for the forthcoming period.
A response to the McMaster Review from the AIR Artists’ Advisory Group.