Artists’ News & Opportunities Bulletin Issue 43: 14 June 2012 Click on the headings below to go straight to your preferred section of the bulletin... o Funding o Opportunities o Commissions o Calls for work o Prizes o Residencies o Traineeships o Jobs o Voluntary Positions o Festivals o Courses/ workshops o Graduate Exhibitions o What’s happening o Ongoing exhibitions TPWM News: Project Updates Artist Development In summer 2012 a professional development programme for artists will be launched by TPWM in collaboration with The Art Gallery Walsall and other partners. It will take place across the West Midlands and will be aimed at artists at varying levels of career development. Details will be available soon on www.tpwestmidlands.org.uk New Art West Midlands 2013: Call for Applications from recent Visual Arts Graduates Application forms available from: http://www.tpwestmidlands.org.uk/new-art-west-midlands-2013/ Deadline: 14 September 2012. Residencies Four organisations in the West Midlands will lead on TPWM new artist residency opportunities: The Library of Birmingham, University of Worcester with Movement Gallery and Worcester City Museum, Eastside Projects and The National Trust at Dudmaston. Two of the four residencies will have an open submission application process. More details will be available soon on www.tpwestmidlands.org.uk Writing Bursary TPWM has awarded a writing bursary to Grand Union (in association with Eastside Projects), in order to offer an opportunity for a new or emerging writer to develop skills in critical writing for publication and encourage writing practice within the West Midlands. The writing bursary will be awarded following an open submission. More details will be available soon on the Grand Union website: http://www.grand-union.org.uk/project-space/opportunities/ 1 Funding NEW Ideas Fund Innovators Ideas Fund Innovators is our funding scheme open to all creative disciplines. If you're aged between 16-25 and have a creative project that could do with a cash injection, this is the fund for you. We’re offering 10 projects £1,000 each to help get them off the ground. In the past we've funded everything from dance and film projects to music videos and photography collectives. Whatever creative field you work in, we'll consider your application. We're looking for projects that are inspiring, original, innovative and that we think you can deliver. Read application tips from previous winners and download our PDF about creating a project budget. So here’s the boring bit. You MUST read the Ts&Cs and How To Respond Tab in full before you apply – we get loads of applications we have to make ineligible because people haven’t read the terms. Here are a couple of highlights: You must be aged 16 to 25 on the closing date (22 June 2012) and be resident in the UK. Your project must take place between July 2012 and March 2013. This brief closes at 5pm on Friday 22 June 2012. http://www.ideastap.com/Opportunities/Brief/b4b43690-4c49-44a7-abe7-a01d00b34a70#Overview RBSA Workshop Bursaries The RBSA Gallery is offering six bursaries on our Summer School for students aged 16-25 in full-time education (includes school, college and university courses). The bursaries will enable six students to take part in one of three selected Summer School workshops at a much lower cost. Workshops include 'Medals: A Wider View' (25 July), 'Sporting Figures in Print' (23-24 July) and 'Head Start: Portrait Sculpture' (9-11 August). For more details and an application pack, please contact Natalie Osborne on 0121 262 3990 or [email protected] Deadline: 20 June 2012 http://www.rbsa.org.uk/news/rbsa-summer-school-workshop-bursaries/ Open Grants Scheme, Paul Hamlyn Foundation Formally constituted organisations: the Paul Hamlyn Open Grants Scheme supports innovative ways for people to enjoy, experience and be involved in the arts across all art forms. It has a particular interest in young people, including initiatives involving families, careers and communities. www.phf.org.uk/jobs Deadline: 20 May 2013 J D Fergusson Arts Award (£4,000), Perth Criteria: Artists born in Scotland or have spent more than half their life there, who graduated more than three years ago, and have not won awards £1,000+ within the last two years Exhibition Award providing funding for research and development of a body of new work, and an exhibition opportunity for completed work at The Fergusson Gallery, Perth. £4,000 award plus funding for catalogue Application form and guidelines available from www.pkc.gov.uk/jdfaat Deadline: 31 October 2012 Wakeham Trust (UK) http://www.wakehamtrust.org/ Philip Bates Trust Arts Grant http://www.philipbatestrust.org.uk/index.html Foyle Foundation: Main Grants Scheme – Arts http://www.foylefoundation.org.uk/how-to-apply/ Artists' international development fund, Arts Council England http://goo.gl/5kDJI Voluntary Arts http://www.voluntaryarts.org/category/funding/ 2 Opportunities NEW Hooky Street Press: call for participants Hooky street press is a project focused on the development of a critical art writing culture in the west midlands. coordinated by chris poolman, the project has a purposefully irreverent agenda: the mobilisation of non-serious genres of writing - satire, the tabloid, stand-up comedy - as an alternative way of writing about art and art scenes it is underpinned by a belief that humour can be used to cut through hierarchies of seriousness (and power), thereby broadening audiences and participation in the visual arts. The project brings together artists, writers, academics and comedians in developing an experimental model of writing that unashamedly positions itself as entertainment. by adapting and tweaking writing methodologies from non-serious genres outside of art, the project is conceived as a critically informed departure from orthodoxy. The hooky street press project is about arguing a case for the non-serious as a legitimate form of cultural commentary - a ‘hooky’ form of art-writing. The project consists of the following seven elements: talks; art writing group; symposium; art-world pun-off championships; conference; website; publication. For more information on the project please contact [email protected] NEW Tender for a feasibility study and business plan (Consultant), Friction Arts and Space2Develop Friction Arts Ltd and STWMH Ltd T/A Space2develop wish to appoint a consultant with considerable experience and knowledge of business modelling, organisational structures, who has sound understanding of the arts and diversity. To support both organisations jointly in the delivery of a feasibility study and business plan for Space2develop, that will identify a sustainable basis on which to create a partnership for both organisations to share the premises at The Edge space in Digbeth Birmingham. We require a consultant who is creative, strategic, ambitious and realistic. The tender brief, available upon request, describes the elements of work required, which should include: consideration of appropriate legal relationship between both companies, the development of a sound business plan for Space2develop with indication of the potential impact on Friction Arts Ltd business model, the scoping of works to make the building fit for purpose, development of a cost project plan to take the proposal further to the launch of the space and identification of possible funding sources. This consultancy is financially supported by Arts Council England Renew Capital Grant. Fee: please quote a fixed sum with proposed interim payments. Application deadline: 29 June 2012. For information pack please contact: Marta Samalea - [email protected] NEW Opportunity: Unravel, Unauthorise, Upcycle Extra Special People Activity at Eastside Projects, 21 July and 18 August ESP members are invited to apply for a free place on this intensive self-publishing project. Over the course of two workshops in Birmingham and London, different strategies and ideas will be introduced by AND Publishing, Gavin Wade and An Endless Supply as participants develop publication ideas and prepare for print. For more information click here. Application deadline: Thursday 21 June 3 Allotment Opportunity and a call out for A Public Response Would you like an opportunity to be involved in the Allotment Project at mac, Birmingham? Well here’s your chance to do so! Have a look through any one of the hexagonal mirrors in the allotment space and take a photo of what you see. (starts 26th May 2012) Email the photo, to [email protected] along with the following details: - your name (or alias) - a title to one of your favourite films of all time I will then respond to your photo within 48 hours with an original digital art work of my own. All the photos submitted by you will be uploaded to the website www.apublicresponse.co.uk For more about the project visit: www.danauluk.co.uk or http://10plots.tumblr.com/ AirSpace Gallery window An opportunity to create an eye-catching exhibition in our window space, which will be seen by thousands, passing the gallery each week. We like site specific, or non-specific works which will engage the public, and create a talking point. If you would like further information about how to apply and to read the Terms and Conditions, then please contact [email protected] with the subject ‘In the Window.’ For more information about the gallery and to see images of the work that we have exhibited in the past please visit our website www.airspacegallery.org or our a-n blog. All exhibitions will be advertised via our mailing list and a record will be kept on our website of each exhibition. http://goo.gl/I5yCb Midlands Artsplatform- Invitation to join creative network THE ARTS PLATFORM is a group for all types of artists to share work & ideas, events, exhibitions, websites, facebook pages, gallery spaces and open competitions, to talk to one another as well as regularly updated career opportunities and links.