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Editorial – 2011 July
In this issue we continue to get a glimpse of how the visual and applied arts are developing new approaches in a harsher climate.
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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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International relations
Supporting the international activities of artists and arts organisations is a key function for many national arts funding agencies. In order to investigate this area of arts policy and identify key issues affecting the programs and priorities of such agencies, the International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA) conducted a worldwide survey in English, French and Spanish, the results of which have been analysed and supplemented by other research and presented in a report.
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Payment for exhibiting
Editorial published in Artists Newsletter in June 1991.
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Arts funding – Canadian comparison
Funding for the arts has never been an easy sell – not with governments or the public. April Britski, Executive Director of CARFAC reports from Canada.
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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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ACE Wednesday
a-n’s analysis of ACE’s new National Portfolio Organisations (NPO) for funding 2012-15.
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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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New directions for the arts
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.
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Midwest
Midwest was an artist’s development programme that ran from 2003 to 2008 in the West Midlands. Here we share pdf reports on Midwest’s activity that provide valuable insights into possibilities within artist-led culture.
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Achieving great art for everyone
A strategic framework for the arts.
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Tracking AIR activism
Alongside AIR’s campaigns and work looking at the issues affecting artists, a group of AIR activists (myself included) have volunteered to play a more active role; raising awareness of the value of artists. These are early days in what will hopefully prove to be long-term and ever-widening effort, but conversation has begun and some activists already have events planned.
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a-n submission to ‘Funding on the Arts and Heritage’ enquiry
a-n The Artists Information Company submission to government committee enquiry, examining funding of the arts and heritage.
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Culture clips
Soundbites.
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What do senior artists need?
A programme of research into the lifestyle and artistic needs of senior artists in Canada with reference to international case-studies will inform developments by AIR – Artists Interaction and Representation.
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Turning Point update
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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Response from Visual Arts UK to Achieving great art for everyone consultation
Overarching comments on behalf of the visual arts sector in the UK responding to new ACE policy in 2010.
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Asking rhetorical questions
In March The National Campaign for the Arts staged the ‘This country can no longer afford to subsidise the arts’ debate.
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Achieving great art for everyone: a review of research and literature to inform the Arts Council’s 10-year strategic framework
A review of research and literature to inform the Arts Council’s 10 year strategic framework.
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Creating an impact: Liverpool’s experience as European Capital of Culture
Impacts 08 was a joint research initiative of the University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University, which from 2005-2010 evaluated the social, cultural, economic and environmental effects of Liverpool’s hosting the European Capital of Culture title in 2008.
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Culture shock
Joint Demos and CASE (Culture and Sport Evidence Programme) fellowship essay examining evidence in relation to public participation in culture and sport. Addresses the question: why should the state get involved in culture, and if it should, how?
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Employment status
Last month, as part of gathering evidence to support future art and design courses and government job creation programmes, we asked AIR members to respond to a survey about their employment status. As a result, we now have firm statistics to take back to HE and Government.
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Artists in Ireland
Artists’ employment status and livelihoods were the hot topics at a meeting that took place in August between Visual Arts Ireland’s Chief Executive, Noel Kelly and AIR advisers Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva, Sally Sheinman and Caroline Wright.
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Arts Council reorganisation
Arts Council England will save
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What now for arts sponsorship?
In January, Arts & Business (A&B) published research showing that arts sponsorship budgets are relatively safe in the short term, but in the longer term the picture is troubling. It also indicated where the cultural sector should turn to secure, […]