I am now back from Galway; I visited the opening of TULCA. The visit was interesting not least because I met so many fascinating people, writers, artists, makers, curators and people working within the arts field. There were about 150 […]
New appointments and farewells.
Scotland’s largest gathering of artists, arts organisations and delegates from the cultural sector will converge on Edinburgh next year for a three-day cultural summit.
Sally Lai is currently a Clore Leadership Programme fellow and holds an MA in Curating from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Based in Manchester, the wide range of exhibitions and projects she has been involved with reflect her special interest […]
Congratulations to New Work Network, that celebrates ten years as one of the UK’s leading arts networking organisations.
1000000mph Project Space
6 June 2007 to 7 July 2007
Sonya Dyer’s publication questions assumptions about non-white artists, curators and administrators that shape the current diversity landscape, and suggests alternative ways forward.
A consortium of five disabled artists, leaders and managers has been awarded £60,000 funding from the Cultural Leadership Programme to form a new professional development network.
The arts community were shocked and dismayed by the surprise announcement of a huge 35 per cent cut in the Arts Council England (ACE) Grants for the Arts (GFA) scheme announced on 1 April.
Letters in response to the recent a-n Review of Normal Flora.
As the AirSpace project is already one year old I feel like we should start with a little background information on the group and what they have achieved so far. It all started with two graduates from the BA Fine […]
It would seem that politics has taken centre stage in contemporary art.
Notions of locating Creative Scotland – the new body arising from the merger of Scottish Arts Council with Scottish Screen – outwith Edinburgh is upsetting both the city council and those arts professionals who may be looking to Creative Scotland for their future careers.
From an application of over 115, seventeen projects will receive funding for networking programmes designed to develop future and emerging cultural leaders.
“Spirit in community will die unless there’s someone calling the meeting.”
A leader is best
When people barely know that he(she) exists,
“What happened to the people who said ‘we will represent something in the world’? When did artists start to say ‘we will change the world’?”
This Research papers series offers a timely response to the need for more easily accessible data and knowledge about, and for, artists.
Adventure playgrounds, or junk playgrounds, as they were known, began life as occupied building sites, wastelands and bombsites that had been colonised by city children looking for interesting and adaptable spaces in which they could play in relative privacy away from adults.
It is great that a-n is asking artists and organisations what they think of the recent structural changes at Arts Council England.
The term synchronicity was first used by the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung to describe “temporally coincident occurrences of casual events”1.
October saw the formal opening of Elements, the transformed garden and corridor areas at Park House, North Manchester General Hospital. Under the leadership of artists Stella Corrall and Adam Reynolds, service users and staff at Park House have been brought […]
Two major themes emerged during a recent Littoral conference, and both of them had to do with community self-reliance.
In October, after a six-month review period, Arts Council England issued news of the new structure that is designed to create “a more focused, streamlined and effective organisation that is better able to provide national leadership and planning, build new partnerships and make a stronger case for the art”.
Arts Council England has come under heavy fire recently, as debates have raged about how usefully it serves the artistic community and the public.
