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Although aimed at visual artists, a-n’s Good practice in paying artists, sets out a framework for paying practitioners according to their overheads and experience, and The artist’s fees toolkit have been recommended by Theatre Education News – the quarterly magazine […]

In May we conducted a sample survey of arts officers attending NALGAO’s annual conference in Cardiff, to find out more about how they worked with artists, what methods they used to recruit them for work, and to identify the additional […]

Over fifty subscribers attended the first 25-year networking event in Ipswich in April, joined by speakers David Mach, Liliane Lijn, Caroline Broadhead and Faisal Abdu’Allah from the preceding ‘No Boundaries’ conference, organised by Suffolk County Council’s Making Art Work programme. […]

a-n was at Glasgow Art Fair from 28 April to 2 May, with an information stand in the Extension. Staff from the Editorial Production and Communications and Sales Teams were on the stand each day to promote a-n to artists […]

Hosted by London College of Communications, the a-n HE Advisory Group meeting in April discussed current approaches to professional practice in art and design courses and the challenges for tutors and careers advisers, and to identify areas for wider exchange […]

a-n's not the only organisation advocating for imaginative solutions for financing artists in their old age. Modelled on a US scheme, The Artist Pension Trust is in the process of identifying 250 artists over five years to benefit from an […]

The first meeting of an Advisory group to steer Arts Council England's major review of the Presentation of Contemporary Visual Arts took place in April. The review intends to make the case for increasing funds for visual arts in the […]

Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS) has welcomed the Commons Select Committee recommendations in March on implementation of Droit de suite (Artist’s resale right) from January 2006. Artist's resale right entitles artists and visual creators whose work is protected by […]

From a-n Magazine June 1995 “Collaboration is inescapable and students urgently need to develop the skills required to work collectively…” said art educationalist Sean Kaye; Shadow Minister for the Arts Mark Fisher was talking in earnest to arts professionals to […]

Also under the microscope has been Arts Council England’s Grants for the arts programme. This has been dubbed in Annabel Jackson Associates’ evaluation of the 2003/04 scheme as “a brave and radical initiative that has transformed grant making [but that […]