A-n The Artists Information Company and Artquest have recently announced a new partnership programme that will provide increased professional development opportunities for artists throughout the UK.
Thoughts from artists and arts professionals about how cuts in public spending will affect their future working pattern. Plus April Britski gives an account of how recent governmental decisions to cut arts funding have affected Canadian artists.
Today has been a little bit blissful. I woke up at 9, put my head down again and somehow it was midday. It the best and first sleep I have had at home, at the weekend for about 6 weeks. […]
In April, Liverpool-based artist and curator-led group TAXED held an experimental event at A Foundation in Liverpool: TAXED No10: Skillmarket, an exchange for practical skills and useful information.
I had a bit of a dip in energy levels for a while, but I feel ready to take the bull by the horns again. A conversation with steering committee member Rachel Welford helped – I was feeling weary of […]
Heard from a magazine in China this morning that my copy of their May issue is on the way: http://www.youthvision.cn/ They have featured me on their discovery page, with Inhabitant. Not sure what it will be like exactly, but looking […]
Very sad news on Friday that my Auntie has died, not sure what happened yet, but it’s been a shock and clearing up/sorting a bit at her house today was strange – nice to be there and near her, but […]
It’s been a while, mainly because life seems to be going at a crazy pace. We have had lots of visitors here at A Curriculum (next week is our last week!), including Elena Bajo, Axel Lapp, Jaime Gili and Juan […]
A couple of years ago I ran a small local arts organisation, the Revolutionary Arts Group, struggling with no resources to stage artist-led festivals and open studio events, and using non-traditional venues for exhibitions- an old bakers, a functioning church, […]
I feel like I should own up a bit today. I had a lovely comment from Rosalind Davis on my blog yesterday, which I really appreciated. BUT! I wanted to say that although I have very strong opinions on some […]
Sadly, a-n’s Director of Development, Louise Wirz, is leaving to explore new territories.
Absolutely knackered, life still in boxes blog: Firstly, thanks so much for all the recent kind comments – these have cheered me up immensly and make me want to continue blogging. Secondly, I didn’t put the link to the the […]
I saw this earlier this evening, posted by Susan Jones on twitter: http://www.skillset.org/uploads/pdf/asset_14315.pd… A guide to Internships. Lots of really good rules about pay/minimum wage – worker issues and time limits. So I applied this to the two internships advertised […]
I’ve been finding a bit difficult to write the blog recently; too much upheaval and not enough time to do my usual reading around and pondering on things to form much opinion on monetary matters. Linz also confused things so […]
Arts Council England convened a meeting between regional Turning point groups and national visual arts organisations in July, with representatives from a-n, AIR, Axis, Contemporary Art Society, Engage, Museums, Libraries and Archives Council and National Federation of Artists Studios Providers invited to attend.
In December 2008, Worcestershire Contemporary Artists (WCA) was awarded a NAN Go and See bursary to look at different artist-led organisations in urban and rural areas. Emilia Telese talks to Nathaniel Pitt of WCA about the initiative’s development and the impact the bursary had on its activities.
Good letter in the Guardian from Susan Jones about artists in these lean times: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/jun/04…
What is an artist-curator? What makes a good collaborative partnership between a curator and an artist? What financial, practical and critical support is available to curators? Do you work with an organisation or go it alone?
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 […]
I've been thinking and researching about what it means to be a parent and an artist, and what a collective would be like and what it's for. Here's a quote from c2c gallery in Prague relating to a show in […]
In addition to adding admin days into my life, I have been thinking that a plan might be a good idea. This was also something that came out of the AIR event: Susan Jones said that in her mentoring she […]
It was the AIR Open Dialogue event last night at Castlefield Gallery. Very nice to finally meet Susan Jones after much emailing, and also great to discuss the very basics of practice with loads of new faces. I thought about […]
A guide for artists and organisers, with comments from artists and good practice checklist.
Consideration for the environment along with building community engagement feature within some recent projects organised in Yorkshire, Scotland, Wales Northumberland and Derbyshire.
