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Leading through practice: Calling the meeting
“Spirit in community will die unless there’s someone calling the meeting.”
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Leading through practice: The Journey
A leader is best
When people barely know that he(she) exists,
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Leading through practice: We will change the world
“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’?”
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Leading through practice: Artists don’t change bloody lightbulbs
They sit in the dark and mope
[or artists take the lead]
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Leading through practice: Framing the discussion
Artist as Leader is a programme that aims to understand the ways artists lead through their practice with a view to informing and developing a critical understanding of the role of creativity in culture.
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Artist’s guide to good and bad galleries?
I have recently been very badly treated by a gallery – as in not told about artworks sold, then not paid, then given bouncing cheques and downright lies and evasion.
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We are all friends now: Hybrid practices and Georg Simmel’s modes of interaction
“Life flows forth out of the door from the limitation of isolated separate existence into the limitlessness of all possible directions”. Georg Simmel, ‘Bridge and Door’
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Code of Practice – Organisations
A Code of Practice takes commonly-agreed principles of good practice and demonstrates why and how they should be applied.
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Code of Practice – Artists
A Code of Practice takes commonly-agreed principles of good practice and demonstrates why and how they should be applied.
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Perspectives on practice – Introduction
Tom Burtonwood introduces his selection of articles from a-n’s archives for Perspectives on practice, illustrating the impact a-n has had on foregrounding developments in artists’ practice and strategies.
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Changing public art practice and artist-led regulation
The evolution of public art is an ongoing process and as an arts practitioner I contribute my share through work with Chrysalis Arts, which is currently celebrating twenty years of live and public art practice. As a co-founder and director I feel it is time for some reflection on the climate for creating artwork in public places and consider what the future holds.
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An international practice
Chris Brown interviews Neeta Madahar on a return visit to Boston, where she studied for three years at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.
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Code of practice
89% of those attending a Code of Practice event in 2004 said it provided practical examples they could employ in their practice and 87% said it suggested where they could go to for access to further advice and information. As […]
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Code of practice for the visual arts
In publishing the Code of Practice for the Visual Arts in June 2003, we made a commitment to its wide distribution, by free access on www.a-n.co.uk and through a printed booklet. By June 2004, we had distributed 20,000 booklets. A […]
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Creative practice and global networks
Jeremy Theophilus considers the issues raised for practioners, organisers and funders by the Jetset conference, in the second of two articles inspired by it.
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A guide to research into fees and payments to artists
Susan Jones introduces a collation of key documents and evidence that informed a-n’s publication of fees and payments guidance and good practice documents. This report aims to widen understanding of the history and prior good practice thinking and attitudes around payment to artists.
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Jobs and opps
Find and advertise work in the visual arts with employer profiles and good practice resources at www.a-n.co.uk/jobs_and_opps
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Why volunteer in the visual arts?
A guide for artists and organisers, with comments from artists and good practice checklist.
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Artists, tax, and self-employed status
The recent coverage in a-n publications on good practice and rates of pay for artists is very useful, but I think that an important issue has not been covered.
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Guidance for arts employers published
a-n’s Director of Programmes Susan Jones introduces Good practice in paying artists.
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Fees and payments for artists
Funded by Arts Council England, this research study in 2004 prefaced new resources from a-n to extend the Code of Practice and demonstrate good practice within artists’ fees and payments, for use by artists and public-sector employers and commissioners. For current sample rates go to Guidance on fees and day rates and for latest Paying artists research go to www.a-n.co.uk/tag/paying-artists
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Positive engagements
Government enthusiasm for involving young people in arts activities has focused the attention of many galleries. Kate Tregaskis reports from Scotland on recent debates around programmes abroad and raises some questions about good practice.
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Budgets
A budget is an essential tool for any artist planning a new project, making a funding application or drawing up a business plan, while a-n’s Exhibition Payment Guide asks artists to provide a clear exhibition proposal and budget in advance of negotiation. This guide by the Cultural Enterprise Office in Glasgow offers straightforward advice on how to construct and manage a simple budget.
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Quick guide to exhibition agreement
a-n/AIR’s Exhibition Payment Guide calls for written confirmation of exhibition and financial details in the form of a contract or letter of agreement. This quick guide offers 12 key points an agreement should cover.
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Exhibition contract checklist
A best practice reference guide to use when creating an agreement for a solo or group exhibition with a gallery or organisation presenting visual arts. You can also use the a-n Contracts Toolkit to build a contract to the specific exhibition context, and this checklist will support you with this.
