Set up by Arts Council England in 2002, Creative Partnerships is set to become an independent organisation. Creativity, Culture and Education (CCE), as the organisation will now be known, will receive a
A report from the Education and Skills Select Committee has confirmed the value of Creative Partnerships’ work within the curriculum.
£40 million was awarded to the development of Creative Partnerships through the Arts Council of England as part of the Government’s 2000 Comprehensive Spending Review. The two-year pilot programme that began in April 2002 will run to March 2004. The […]
Kwong Lee of Manchester-based Castlefield Gallery discusses how the gallery works with universities in the city in to provide professional development support to students and contribute to cultural policy research, and offers his views on practice-based research and PhD programmes. Based on an interview by artist Steve Pool.
This guide takes artists through the different stages of finding and creating opportunities to work with young people in a range of settings. It asks: How are artists recruited? What is the best practice? What do young people want from such collaboration? What do artists need from teachers?
Samuel Dowd and Hayley Skipper of SpRoUt respond to Import/Export.
A UK network of organisations that help arts and crafts practitioners with their professional development, Creative People is due to complete its pilot period in June. An initiative of the Arts Council of England, the establishment of Creative People in […]
Clive Gillman, currently the lead artist for FACT explains how the organisation works to support and promote artists using new and emerging media tools.
Outer space investigates the interface between artists’ practice and the socio-political domain. Devised and edited by Esther Salamon, contributors include Chris Batt MLA, Paul Collard Creative Partnerships, Jonathan Davis CABE, David Lammy MP Minister for Culture, Graham Leicester International Futures Forum and Tom Shakespeare.
This profile looks at the activities of Littoral, an arts trust promoting new creative partnerships, critical art practices and cultural strategies in response to issues about social, environmental and economic change.
Kate Pahl, Professor of Literacies in Education at University of Sheffield, discusses what artists bring to academic research projects, and identifies some of the challenges artists and academics face when working together. Based on an interview by artist Steve Pool.
Here, we profile a selection of courses offering postgraduate level study for artists seeking to develop their practice further within creative, supportive and critically challenging environments.
New evidence exposing, quantifying and discussing the likely impact on the visual arts of Arts Council England’s decisions on fifteen previously Regularly Funded Organisations (RFOs) visual arts organisations unsuccessful in their NPO application. It shows that a disproportionate number of artists’ membership and development agencies and practice-based organisations lost core funding, despite ACE’s aim of creating a balanced national portfolio and makes recommendations for sustaining their work as part of a strengthened arts ecology.
Given the voracious and swift nature of the cuts brought in by the current government, it is unsurprising that artists are already feeling the effects.
Mir Jansen, Programme Manager of the professional development programme at Yorkshire Artspace in Sheffield talks to Jane Watt about how the studio organisation continues to support artists, the parallels between an artists and an organisations profile development, and her top five tips on making funding applications.
The British Ceramics Biennial (BCB), launched on 1 December 2008 and directed by A FINE LINE partners Barney Hare Duke and Jeremy Theophilus, is a major initiative to create a programme of events and activities and a showcase Biennial event in Stoke-on-Trent to take place in October/November of 2009, 2011 and 2013.
Updated for 2008 Research papers, Indexing intelligence is a listing with live weblinks of accessible ‘facts and figures’, research studies, conference reports, publications and other resources that are pertinent to all those working in the visual arts, compiled and edited […]
A panel of education experts have selected England’s thirty most creative schools to be the leading edge of a £110m national creative learning programme.
New appointments in visual arts, development and curating
The new developments at the Newlyn Art Gallery and The Exchange have had a mixed response from local and national media, with three main strands.
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.
As children and young people are high on the national agenda with a host of new policies and initiatives addressing young people’s services, education and the arts, envision and enquire are hosting additional briefing days in September aimed at gallery and museum educators, artists and others working with these groups.
It would seem that politics has taken centre stage in contemporary art.
In October 2005, Channel 4 asked the nation to get involved in the Big Art Project.
David Butler discusses artists and urban regeneration.
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