Launched in 2006,Turning Point is a national ten-year strategy for the visual arts. A network of regional Turning Point groups has since been emerging, each charged with “strengthening the visual arts infrastructure”.
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This month, a-n’s Newcastle offices have seen the hanging of our first purchase of artists’ work.
New research from innovative think-tank Mission Models Money (MMM), developed through a partnership with the Cultural Leadership Programme, is exploring and developing a body of theory and practice about the competencies, qualities and attributes that will equip people working in the cultural sector to thrive in the fast changing, complex, uncertain and unpredictable operating environment.
Manchester-based Cornerhouse in collaboration with FutureEverything, is hosting an artist in residence on 12-15 May.
Managed by Art Projects and Solutions, Forming Ideas is a curatorial development programme that aims to broaden and stimulate debate around contemporary craft practice for curators working across England in art galleries, museums and independently.
Alinah Azadeh and Rosa Nguyen are the latest artists to exhibit new work as part of The shape of things initiative, which has awarded bursaries to nine artists to create new work for display at public museums and galleries.
Over recent years the discussion around the current state of art teaching, and that of art education, has come to the fore.
Twenty four-year old London photographer Laura Pannack has scooped top prize in the portrait singles category at this year’s World Press Photo contest for her work Graham.
Cultural Leadership Programme’s Meeting the Challenge initiative, set up to support and nurture current and future leaders, offered an open submission inviting organisations to apply.
Seven young people aged between sixteen and twenty-four started Suffolk’s first ever Creative Apprenticeships back in January.
A one-day symposium in April developed by In Certain Places is aimed at urban planners, artists, public art commissioners, architects, urban designers and people with an interest in the future of cities.
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In March The National Campaign for the Arts staged the ‘This country can no longer afford to subsidise the arts’ debate.
Work from ‘Locws Schools’, an exhibition by pupils from five Swansea schools who responded to the 2009 Art Across The City programme by Locws International.
The Crafts Council celebrated the 6,000 people who’ve so far signed up to the Craft Matters initiative with March’s event at the House of Lords that also launched www.craftmatters.org.uk.
In January the quantitative findings of a longitudinal study Creative Graduates Creative Futures were published.
Winners, shortlists and announcements for March.
Glasgow’s museums, galleries, streets, bridges and hidden spaces will showcase the work of national and international artists when Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art returns in April 2010, building on the success of the 2008 Festival.
Art Sheffield 2010 – Life: A User’s Manual, showcasing work by locally, nationally and internationally based artists takes place across Sheffield from 6 March until 1 May 2010.
Curated by Joanna Fiduccia and Chris Sharp, The Zero Budget Biennial is billed as the biennial to end all biennials.
Yorkshire’s Artimelt Academy is The Culture Company’s new support programme for arts organisations and individuals that wish to develop knowledge and ideas with the purpose of producing proposals of strong creative media content for digital and social media funding programmes such as Channel 4’s 4iP programme, The Wellcome Trust’s Arts Award scheme and Grants for the Arts from Arts Council England.
Wales-based artists will have the opportunity to travel the length and breadth of the country for inspiration and enlightenment thanks to a project created by artists Tom Goddard and Brian Watkins.
Sadly, a-n’s Director of Development, Louise Wirz, is leaving to explore new territories.
Jack Hutchinson reports back from The State of the Arts – The Conference for the Arts, hosted by the Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce (RSA).
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