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Here comes summer!
Tomorrow is the first day of the four day children’s summer school and I am both excited and nervous. It has been a year since I last ran a workshop and I am feeling out of practice. I am pretty […]
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Work and working from home
Every year as part of my annual appraisal at the council I have to fill in a separate form about my ’other employment’. Along with asking for basic information concerning my name, address, and job at the council the form […]
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National Gallery tribunal campaign: “Artists and educators deserve to be valued and treated fairly”
A group of 27 artists and art lecturers are taking the National Gallery to tribunal following their dismissal last year, in a bid to prove that they were employees rather than freelancers. ‘NG27’ member Richard Stemp argues that the case has important implications for all artists and those working in the arts.
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Artists work in 2016
The latest in a series of papers commissioned by a-n, providing detailed data on the amount, context and nature of employment for visual artists.
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Creative industries: focus on employment
DCMS official statistics providing economic estimates to measure employment in the Creative Industries and Creative Economy in the UK up to 2015.
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Momentous day
Today is a bit momentous – my first day as a 100 % fully self- employed artist. A couple of weeks ago I heard that I had been successful in gaining funding from Bradford organisation Two28 to run a participatory […]
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Question of age: ‘old’ artists need not apply
Glasgow-based artist Ally Wallace asks: Why is ageism seen as an acceptable form of discrimination by so many in the art world?
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Untitled blog post from "Restart"
P/art 2 Of all the posts I have done for this blog, the last one about working part time as an artist has had the most reaction. Because it got such a strong response I want to look at what […]
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Artists will lose out in benefits change
The phasing in of Universal credits will affect millions of people, in particular the self-employed and sole business owners, including artists.
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Leeds City Council: “We’re not doing a Newcastle.”
Following substantial investment this year from Arts Council England, Leeds Museums and Galleries announce 14 new jobs focusing on community outreach and engagement.
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Best job ever
An overwhelming response to a casual tweet shows people are still motivated to work in the arts.
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Low pay in the arts: “The cycle has to be broken”
While the Olympics has helped highlight artistic, as well as sporting achievements, much still needs to be done to create sustainable careers in the arts.
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Internships and volunteer programmes
This evening Cultural Enterprise Office (CEO), a business advice service for the creative sector in Scotland, in partnership with Stills Gallery in Edinburgh are to run an event ‘Realising the Value of Internships and Volunteer Programmes’.
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Feeling the shape of the arts economy
Invited by W.A.G.E to kick-start their partnership with Artists Space – exploring potentialities for artists’ self organisation in New York – artist, economist and sociologist Hans Abbing presented a curious and ultimately frustrating case for … I’m not sure what.
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Women in the arts
Cara Courage examines the evidence about the gender imbalance in the arts workforce and asks whether it’s really down to women wanting to ‘have it all’.
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US artists workforce critical
Last year’s National Endowment study revealed the importance of artists in America’s cultural vitality and economic prosperity.
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Artists highly qualified
The recent AIR survey that revealed that levels of self-employment were higher amongst artists than the creative industries as a whole also highlighted the high level of qualifications artists hold.
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Cultural jobs promised
Government plans to create between five and ten thousand new jobs for young people who will be paid the minimum wage were announced in May by the then Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell and outgoing Culture Secretary Andy Burnham.
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Arts salaries poor
Arts Professional’s recent survey shows that arts organisers across all art forms are badly paid, with over half earning less than £25K annually.