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Creative Industries
Craft in an age of change
Mapping and impact study of the contemporary craft sector commissioned by the Crafts Council.
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Cultural policy
A fair share? Direct funding for individual artists from UK arts councils
a-n-commissioned research that presents information on the destination of visual arts funding across the four UK arts councils and the percentage rate of successful applications in years 2009-10 and 2008-09.
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Working practice
Realising the value: how practice-based organisations will fare after the cuts
Six months on from the ‘Ladders for development’ report, Dany Louise revisits ladders organisations and reports on how they fared after the first round of coalition government cuts in 2011.
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Cultural value
Why art works: the value of the contemporary visual arts in Lancashire and Cumbria
Summary of an evaluation study that was commissioned by North by NorthWest, a consortium of twelve publicly funded visual arts organisations in Lancashire and Cumbria.
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Creative Industries
Creative industries council skillset skills group
Recommendations presented to Creative Industries Council to instigate industry led proposals for addressing skills issues to boost the growth and competitiveness of the Creative Industries.
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Working practice
Big Artists Survey 2011
Summary of key findings of the 2011 AIR artists’ advisory group and a-n survey of its 16,500 membership to better understand the conditions and concerns of artists.
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Cultural policy
Understanding Turning Point – A briefing paper
Turning Point was a visual arts strategy launched by ACE in 2006. A complicated programme, a-n commissioned this briefing paper to provide clarity for visual arts practitioners and organisers.
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Cultural policy
Understanding Turning Point
In this 2011 report Phyllida Shaw unwraps the ‘what’s what’ and ‘who’s who’ of Turning Point, a 10-year Arts Council England strategy for the visual arts.
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Cultural value
Economic impact of the Liverpool Arts Regeneration Consortium
Economic impact assessment of the arts in Liverpool, focusing on the organisations that made up the Liverpool Arts Regeneration Consortium.
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Education
The impact of creative partnerships on school attainment and attendance 2008-09 and 2009-10
One of four Creative Partnerships evaluation reports undertaken by NFER.
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Cultural value
Supporting growth in the arts economy
Report illustrating synergies between the arts and the creative economy and discussing suggestions for ACE’s strategic approach.
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Leadership
Hidden wealth research project – updated findings April 2010 – June 2011
Part of a Culture 2020 project intended to assist arts organisations to engage with donors. Updated findings April 2010 – June 2011 by consultancy Arts Quarter.
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Working practice
Size matters
Excellent paper that articulates the value of and challenges facing small visual arts organisations. Essential reading.
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Creative Industries
Ladders for development: Impact of Arts Council England funding cuts on practice-led organisations
Case study paper discussing the likely impact on the visual arts of Arts Council England’s decisions to remove funding from fifteen visual arts organisations unsuccessful in their NPO application.
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Participation
Intrinsic impact: how audiences and visitors are transformed by cultural experiences in Liverpool
Eight arts and cultural organisation in Liverpool surveyed audiences and visitors about the impacts of their experiences over the 2009 – 2010 season.
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Cultural value
Arts Audiences: insight
Widely adopted breakdown of arts audiences into thirteen different “segments” for marketing use by organisations and local authorities.
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Cultural value
Changing face of artists’ employment
Exploring the effect of the economic recession on the livelihoods of artists in terms of access to employment and career opportunities.
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Cultural value
The role of diversity in building adaptive resilience
Builds on the case for diversity as culturally productive for artists, audiences and communities, and positions diversity as a way to increase the adaptive resilience of organisations, making them less vulnerable to unexpected change.
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Cultural policy
ACE Wednesday
a-n’s analysis of ACE’s new National Portfolio Organisations (NPO) for funding 2012-15.
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Cultural policy
A new landscape for Wales
Short sector commentary on Arts Council Wales review of revenue-funded clients in December 2010. Included as an early effect of the 2008 “credit crunch” and the resulting “austerity” programme which resulted in significant changes to cultural policy and cuts to arts funding across the UK.
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Education
Access to art education survey results
Results of AIR’s survey of its members on the subject of access to art education; and a call for arts education to be accessible to all.
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Working practice
Alternative art schools
A consideration of the background to alternative arts schools and their current relevance, citing historical ideology and using eight case studies.
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Education
Response from VAGA to The Commons Select Committee on education inquiry into the English Baccalaureatte
Short but articulate response by Hilary Gresty of he Visual Arts and Galleries Association submission to the Commons Select Committee, regarding the proposal to exclude art and design from the Ebac.
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Participation
Evaluation of find your talent – overview report
Evaluation to assess impact of the programme in ten pathfinder areas between 2008 and 2011.
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Working practice
Business models in the visual arts
Commissioned by Arts Council England and the Turning Point Network (as it was then) to assist visual arts organisations in reviewing and strengthening their own business model in a climate where public funding is not secure.
