Since the beginning of the year it has been very busy behind the scenes at St George’s Arts. In response to some brilliant advice from Jim Shea from Shea Debnam Associates we have made big changes to our organisational structure and also to the structure of our arts programme.
http://www.sheadebnamassociates.com/
Under Jim’s guidance we undertook an organisational development review to look at our future options and analyse better ways of doing what we do. Shea Debnam describe what they do in relation to this sort of advice as; organisational development and change management. And change there has certainly been.
The most important change for me has been the division of my role into two. St George’s Arts has taken on an administrator, Maggs Latter who was previously the arts development officer for Elmbridge. Her role is to deal with much of the necessary admin, press and behind the scenes organisation leaving me to liaise with the artists, organise workshops and other events.
We have decided this year to move on and build from our previous pattern of 3 to 6 month artist residencies to a more varied programme which includes two residencies but also includes an installation, exhibitions and artist’s talks and creative workshops for artists as well as for the local community.
I would like to thank Loretta Howells, from the R C Sherriff Trust with whom we are working in partnership this year, for her support and enthusiasm.
http://www.rcsherrifftrust.org.uk/
Tomorrow I’ll post more specific news about our 2011 arts programme.
Our first artist is Mary Branson who is working on a sound-piece for St George’s which will be accompanied by an installation of lights running through the building.
