Artist Parents Talking (APT) supported by a-n and a NAN Go and See research bursary, has successfully bid for £7,147 from Arts Council England’s Grants for the Arts.
Doug Jones, Men at work.
Speaking at the Culture Change conference in January, Arts Minister Ed Vaizey called on arts organisations to embrace new technology as a resource to engage and develop audiences.
Eastside Projects, Birmingham
27 November – 29 January
Tenderpixel, London
13 January – 3 February
Alma Enterprises, London
19 November – 16 January
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
5 November – 5 February
The majority of RFOs across art form have an annual income of less than
A new addition to Manchester’s artist-led activity, The Art Corner gallery’s curatorial team comprises emerging artists and art students.
In advance of 2012’s arts cuts, some important production organisations supporting visual arts’ practice will shortly close.
Nicola Williams, Cement Garden, 2009.
Cameron’s Big Society has been criticised for being a cover for spending cuts. Its proposal to shift power from central government to communities and volunteers is not enough to maintain services that will be compromised by deep cuts, many argue.
Dan Thompson’s letter in response to the State of the Arts conference
Dany Louise’s response to State of the Arts conference
Concerning the word ‘spiritual’ in art. Mark Dean considers the historical roots of art’s contemporary alliances to spirituality and asks whether art is the new religion.
Sonya Dyer reports from the second event of the series, which confronted the difficulties faced by artists from outside the EU coming to work in Britain. Artists Sinead O’Donnell (UK) and Poshya Kakl (Iraq) used Skype to perform an action with the Cardiff audience, bridging the gap between ‘here’ and ‘there’ – the liminal space.
A new report from MTM London for Arts Council England exposes the potential for greater audience development in the arts through digital media.
A pilot initiated by Judith Mottram, Terry Shave and Joanne Lee from Nottingham Trent University’s School of Art and Design, ‘A Field Guide to Ideas’ is a collaboration with former Arts Council East Midlands Visual Arts & Literature Head Alison Lloyd.
Following the reduction in funding available to the arts, practitioners will need to rely less on traditional arts funding sources such as the arts councils and find other ways of financing projects. Here, artist Emily Speed outlines some of the newest options for creative and visual arts projects, that are covered more fully in the online a-n Practical guide How to get crowd-funding
From the Twitter and Artists talking communities.
Following the successes of the Go and See Bursaries offered since 2004, NAN is piloting Futurific! – three new awards up to £800 designed especially to support the sustainability and resilience of artists’ groups and networks in the UK.
Comings and goings amongst arts professionals and curators, designed to aid networking and collaboration.
Almost as if a gift for the festive season, in December Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt launched a strategy to encourage greater philanthropy in the arts. To kick it off, 2011 has been proclaimed the ‘Year of Corporate Philanthropy’.
Ben Washington, We’re Being Kept Informed As The Situation Unfolds.
Kathryn Campbell Dodd of Bird in the House reported in her blog on going to the ‘On Collecting: Transactions in Contemporary Art’ symposium at The National Gallery of Wales in December. The event was chaired by Gordon Dalton from Mermaid & Monster, facilitated by g39, and was part of the Contemporary Art Society’s National Network programme for their centenary year. The event’s purpose was to “investigate the market for contemporary art in Wales”.
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