New evidence exposing, quantifying and discussing the likely impact on the visual arts of Arts Council England’s decisions on fifteen previously Regularly Funded Organisations (RFOs) visual arts organisations unsuccessful in their NPO application. It shows that a disproportionate number of artists’ membership and development agencies and practice-based organisations lost core funding, despite ACE’s aim of creating a balanced national portfolio and makes recommendations for sustaining their work as part of a strengthened arts ecology.
If you want to read about more art….. then dont read this, cos there is none here. I don’t know about you but sometimes I get full up with all this art……not to say that I’m going to quit, far […]
Given the voracious and swift nature of the cuts brought in by the current government, it is unsurprising that artists are already feeling the effects.
Arts Council asked to protect ‘front line’ services despite facing budget cut of 29.6%.
www.katebynamglass.co.uk Well I have 5 weeks left including the holidays until I hand in all my work – wow it is going to go so quickly. I have just heard from artists web that my domain name is now live […]
I missed my blog time last week, things got a little hectic at Uni and my car broke down twice once the Friday before last and Monday last week! It seems to be fixed now although I am a little […]
Eight weeks and counting until the end of my time at Wolverhampton. At the moment I am making some glass handles with internal textures inside them, like hands holding the handles. They seem to be going well but not too […]
Mir Jansen, Programme Manager of the professional development programme at Yorkshire Artspace in Sheffield talks to Jane Watt about how the studio organisation continues to support artists, the parallels between an artists and an organisations profile development, and her top five tips on making funding applications.
So, it’s been a fantastic weekend, but not much work or thinking has happened. It was a friends 30th birthday and she hired out a haunted-house-style, 4 or 5 storey mansion that slept something like 17 people! It was awesome […]
I feel like a bit of a con-artist at the moment. I’m presenting the world with a convincing impression of an artist, when in reality I haven’t really engaged with my practice for weeks. I feel really disengaged from it […]
Have done three schools for the YSP project and am already full of a cold after the little people were constantly coughing and sneezing all over me. I did, however, get a lot of little hugs yesterday when I left […]
Time runs away with you when your brain is for hire… I can’t believe its been so many months since my last blog. I’ve been working hard on various Creative Partnerships projects, a friend of mine refers to it as […]
I have been extremely busy with a whole range of things, all which interrelate like some delicate weave… I am happy to say that finally we will begin working with a group on the final workshop stage of my R+D. […]
Susan Jones (a-n Director) has been in touch to offer support for APT = Artists Parents Talking!; 'I think we could help the APT artists as parents talking group create up a forum. Our IT developer is up on Monday […]
AIR – Artists Interaction & Representation welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the workforce development plan for the visual arts.
I've been delaying posting a blog until a disc of images of 'Chamber Maid' arrives in the post from Julia Gatie, photographer. I'm not patient enough though, so that will have to follow. I do want to try to articulate […]
I cannot believe that the Bibliomancer's Dream is going to be over within a week. It has been a whirlwind, the constant events of the Imagine festival and the half term week saw it lovingly mobbed by children and adults […]
They are starting the install of the The Bibliomancer's Dream today at the Clore Ballroom. I am not needed till tomorow, so have just been feeding creative choices and responses in by email and phone in this last week. I […]
This blog is not meant to be a rant, although I do apologise in advance if I get a little, well, passionate once in a while. It stems from that New Year tradition of deciding this is the year! The […]
The British Ceramics Biennial (BCB), launched on 1 December 2008 and directed by A FINE LINE partners Barney Hare Duke and Jeremy Theophilus, is a major initiative to create a programme of events and activities and a showcase Biennial event in Stoke-on-Trent to take place in October/November of 2009, 2011 and 2013.
Well, it’s finally all been happening, and I haven’t had a minute to blog – so now I’ve paid for an afternoon’s childcare and resisted my daughters pleas to stay with me (apparently they would rather ‘do anything, even jobs, […]
Updated for 2008 Research papers, Indexing intelligence is a listing with live weblinks of accessible ‘facts and figures’, research studies, conference reports, publications and other resources that are pertinent to all those working in the visual arts, compiled and edited […]
Various Locations, Whitstable
21 June – 6 July 2008
A panel of education experts have selected England’s thirty most creative schools to be the leading edge of a £110m national creative learning programme.
