The Future Jobs Fund is looking to be possible addition to the Chapel Arts studio programme. I had a good chat with those people today, and they think the ideas are (a) good and (b) stand a high chance of acceptance. If we can get a series of 6 month roll-over residencies in the chapel, with each successive unemployed artist placed into a local school or college, we could reach out to literally thousands of people. It’s a big step-up from a workshop teaching a dozen or so locals how-to-do.
The blog I read the other day by Emily Speed has added a lot of impetus to this plan. When she asked about the difference between an artist initiated public-art project and a public-art project, I think she touched on a very relevant issue for what I’m hoping to do here.
Getting even so much as an early stage endorsement from the Future Jobs Fund people is very encouraging .
