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Making Places Open Call

Making Places is an initiative by Waltham Forest Council to deliver creative projects across the borough, which will have a lasting impact on communities and neighbourhoods. The Open Call is for artis… Continue Reading Making Places Open Call

Call for Artists: Alexandra Reinhardt Memorial Award, Artist Commission 2020 at The Tetley, Leeds

commission, exhibition, grants and funding, professional development | November 11, 2019

Artists are invited to apply for the 2020 Alexandra Reinhardt Memorial Award (ARMA), Artist Commissi… Continue Reading Call for Artists: Alexandra Reinhardt Memorial Award, Artist Commission 2020 at The Tetley, Leeds
Making Places Open Call

commission, grants and funding, professional development | November 18, 2019

Making Places is an initiative by Waltham Forest Council to deliver creative projects across the bor… Continue Reading Making Places Open Call
PlySpace Residency Summer 2020 Term

grants and funding, international, professional development, residencies and studios | November 1, 2019

PlySpace is an artist-in-residence program dedicated to offering creative individuals’ time and spac… Continue Reading PlySpace Residency Summer 2020 Term

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Small Grants Scheme: In the Making

grants and funding, socially engaged

Small grants scheme, in the making, is a new funding programme for community projects that share the… Continue Reading Small Grants Scheme: In the Making
Culture Seeds

grants and funding, professional development, socially engaged

Culture Seeds is part of the Mayor of London’s draft Strategy for Culture, Culture for all Londoners… Continue Reading Culture Seeds
Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants

grants and funding

In 2018 Arts Council England’s National Lottery Project Grants replaced Grants For The Arts. Project… Continue Reading Arts Council National Lottery Project Grants

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SET

SET is a multifaceted arts and community initiative based in numerous centres across London. SET curates an eclectic and experimental arts programme alongside affordable artist workspace. SET projects… Continue Reading SET

Shipment artist-led, installation, interdisciplinary

Shipment is a moving, artist-led gallery that occupies a trail of liminal locations to present site-specific, creative projects. The gallery’s main go… Continue Reading Shipment
KitMapper digital, discount, moving image, photography

For artists who own or want to rent audio visual kit, a digital SLR, a PA system, or maybe even a 16mm projector. List your kit on KitMapper and you g… Continue Reading KitMapper
Art Licks artist-led, press

Art Licks launched in 2010 and has since grown to provide an essential platform and voice for the lesser-known and under-represented activities that f… Continue Reading Art Licks
New Contemporaries graduate show, visual arts

New Contemporaries is the leading UK organisation supporting emergent art practice from British art schools. Since 1949 New Contemporaries has consist… Continue Reading New Contemporaries
Art Monthly press

Since 1976, Art Monthly has been a leading magazine for contemporary visual art. Published ten times a year, it provides in-depth features, interviews… Continue Reading Art Monthly

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Featured How to Articles

What is an internship?

Until the 1970s the term ‘internship’ was used rarely outside of the field of medicine and, even in this context, rarely outside of the US. Today, the scale of internships in the UK has been called en… Continue Reading What is an internship?

Pensions for self-employed people employment, pension, self employment

Kay Linnell and Nick Wilson of Accounts Action Ltd shed some light on the different pension options… Continue Reading Pensions for self-employed people
Approaching gallery curators curator, getting an exhibition, network

How do curators operate within and outside of the gallery? Here we cover some points for artists to… Continue Reading Approaching gallery curators
Own Art: How and why do collectors collect? collector

This series of films, commissioned by Own Art as a way to introduce their programme, also gives an i… Continue Reading Own Art: How and why do collectors collect?
Rhian Solomon: on residencies interview, residency

Artist Rhian Solomon talks about some of her residency experiences, looking at ways to find and fund… Continue Reading Rhian Solomon: on residencies
When to apply for grants application, grant, publicly funded

Making grant applications takes a lot of time, and is highly competitive: avoid wasting your resourc… Continue Reading When to apply for grants