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Education and Engagement Producer

This position would be ideal for a self-motivated candidate with previous experience, possibly as a creative practitioner with programming experience/ interests, who would relish the opportunity to work in conjunction with a contemporary arts organisation in this particular context.  By creating a relationship through new work, organising artist talks and family activities with the aim of developing a coherent path between the NN programme and the many other advantageous creative opportunities we regularly come across. We hope to develop our existing partnerships and create new ones. By reaching schools and communities through coherent projects the aim would be to develop the burgeoning relationship between NN, our young audiences and identified groups, to the advantage of all parties.

Creative Producer

Déda is seeking to recruit a new member to its creative team, someone who is at ease with change, challenge and innovation. Someone who can enrich Déda with their ideas and beliefs, their artistic flair and cultural knowledge. The Creative Producer role will provide the right person a truly exceptional opportunity to be part of a team that is redefining both Déda’s role and place in Derby’s cultural economy, in line with the Arts Council England’s “Let’s Create“ manifesto, to broaden and amplify the organisation’s broader position in the arts community in the Midlands and beyond.

Open Call for Workshop Participants

Artist Ryan Heath, Ignite! and BACKLIT Gallery are looking for 6 young people to take part in a series of four online workshops exploring creativity, conservation, and tech. These sessions are for those aged 16 – 25 currently based in Nottinghamshire. Together, we’ll be exploring if ‘augmented reality’ (AR) can be used to further conservation efforts. We will be working on some interactive, digital signage – using Attenborough Nature Reserve as inspiration. These virtual signs will aim to encourage best practices and inform visitors to the reserve. These will be prototypes, not finished works.

Design and Development Assistant

You’ll join the team based at our Stoke-on-Trent office, which is where our China and Glassware products are made. In a new role, you’ll support the design, development and planning of the production of items. By providing vital admin and logistical support to the team, you’ll gain insight into many stages of the product cycle. You’ll help place and oversee regular orders of stock, packaging and gift boxes, bringing all the components of a product together, ready to send out to our shops.

Art House online Gallery Art Contest

Art house online gallery invites artist to take part in a bimonthly contest and to submit their artwork. This is an international competition in which artists from around the world are invited to submit their works. All visual art supports are acceptab …

Running Artfully Network – Artist Call Out

The Running Artfully Network (RAN) is a new international artist-led group that brings communities and experts together to reframe running as an artistic intervention to unpick our time of multiple global crises, and to create a more equitable and creative future. To celebrate its online launch, we’re inviting the submission of proposals for art-inspired running or running-inspired art that outlines new insights into the climate crisis, inequality, the threat of technology, or mental health.

FORMAT21 Volunteering Opportunities

FORMAT21 has an ambitious programme of both online and real world exhibitions, events and portfolio reviews planned. FORMAT relies on a team of dedicated and enthusiastic volunteers to ensure a great experience for everybody involved. We are looking to recruit a variety of people from different backgrounds and with different levels of expertise and experience to help us deliver one of our most diverse festival programmes to date, through both online and real world volunteering opportunities.

RUNNING ARTFULLY NETWORK – ARTIST OPEN CALL

The Running Artfully Network (RAN) is a new international artist-led group that brings communities and experts together to reframe running as an artistic intervention to unpick our time of multiple global crises, and to create a more equitable and creative future. To celebrate its online launch, we’re inviting the submission of proposals for art-inspired running or running-inspired art that outlines new insights into the climate crisis, inequality, the threat of technology, or mental health.

Collections Registrar

The Gallery is seeking a motivated and experienced individual to join as a Collections Registrar. The post holder will lead and manage all day-to-day registrarial procedures relating to the acquisition of new works and loans entering into the Primary Collection. 

Artist and Author in Residence 2021 Call Out

We are looking for a creatively curious visual artist and an author/writer who get excited about a blank page, like to think imaginatively and enjoy sparking off other people! Each year Inspire: Culture, Learning and Libraries commission an artist and author to create and deliver a programme of visual art and literacy activity for children and families, inspired by and linked to the Summer Reading Challenge. Stimulating creativity and imagination, we ask that they enhance our existing library programmes, influence new directions using their professional expertise and leave a legacy of collaborative work.

Fundraising Manager

Reporting to the Head of Development, this role contributes to the effective operation and management of all fundraising and development activity throughout MAC. Supporting delivery of MAC’s Fundraising strategy and maximising income opportunities. Responsible for developing trusts and foundations activities and supporting the Individual Giving strategy. Embedding a culture of philanthropy across the organisation and for our audiences and visitors. Please see job description for further details.

Printmaking Tutor (freelance)

Thanks to funding through the Culture Recovery Fund, we grow our freelance pool of printmaking tutors. Assisting us in our aim of supporting printmakers by delivering an exciting and engaging range of online workshops, you should be confident working with students with varied experience. Delivery is not dependent upon location. You might be experienced already with online delivery or looking to develop how your share your printmaking knowledge with others outside of a face-to-face context.

Barber Health Coordinator

The new role of Barber Health Coordinator is key to the successful delivery of this project.  Partnership working is essential and the Coordinator will work closely with the Barber Health team, including our new Nurse in Residence and key community and University partners.  The post holder will contribute to the design and delivery of creative, innovative Covid-safe Barber Health activities and resources that utilise and share the Barber’s collection effectively.  The Coordinator will also be responsible for project administration, logistical planning and effective communication.

Open call for artists | Online Exhibition | Creative Reactions

Open call for artists to participate in an art-meets-science collaboration and to exhibit their artwork online in May 2021. Part of Pint of Science UK.

Chief Producer

The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) seeks a talented, inspiring and experienced producer to lead on the management, development, planning and delivery of the ICA programme at one of the most exciting moments in our history – the eve of the ICA’s 75th anniversary. The Chief Producer will report directly to the Executive Director and the Managing Director and is a unique opportunity to produce a cross-arts programme of major new work at one of the world’s leading arts institutions.

Engagement Curator

Yorkshire Sculpture International (YSI) is seeking an Engagement Curator. The role will oversee, plan and manage a fully integrated and innovative engagement programme for Yorkshire Sculpture International over a six month period. Working with the Producer and with the curatorial and learning teams at Yorkshire Sculpture International’s partner galleries – comprising Henry Moore Institute, Leeds Art Gallery, The Hepworth Wakefield and Yorkshire Sculpture Park – the Engagement Curator will make an active contribution to the next phase of YSI’s development and build a collaborative approach to cross-regional engagement and audience development.

Artists Commission

The Lapworth Museum of Geology at the University of Birmingham is delighted to announce an exciting opportunity for an artist to create a virtual, interactive arts-based workshop linked to the Museum’s collections.

Librarian/Archivist

We are seeking a Librarian and archivist who will oversee organizing the personal art library of Anita Zabludowicz. The library, housed in two main locations holds resources including books and catalogues (as well as some films, and audio files) relating to artworks and artists, many of whom are in the Zabludowicz Collection. This is a self-directed role and the employee will be working independently over two locations in North London. 

Exhibition – In Memoriam

We would now like to invite artists based in Derby and Derbyshire to support the project by making postcard-sized artworks. Our aim is to support both our communities, and artists in Derby and Derbyshire. We will send selected artists an art pack, and you can use any form of expression you want – write a poem or a prose text, paint or draw, paste a collage or a photograph – whatever you think leaves you with a sense of closure, of emotional relief, of expressing what you have been unable to do so as yet.

QEST Craft Funding

The Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust (QEST) offers funding of up to £18,000 to talented and aspiring makers wishing to further their training and education. This can be through traditional college courses, vocational training, apprenticeships, one-to-one training with master craftsmen and more.

Call for Submissions

Sculpture in the City has launched an open call for submissions for a 2D graphic artwork that will be featured as part of a temporary site-specific installation within the public realm of the iconic Cheesegrater building in the City of London. The successful artwork will form part of the landmark 10th Anniversary edition of Sculpture in the City, which is due to launch summer 2021. The deadline for submissions is 19 February 2021.

Online Art Café; Multiple Streams of Art Income & Opportunities During COVID 19

FREE to all UK and International Artists, we would like to invite you to our February get together featuring London based Contemporary Fine Artist Skye Holland & International Abstract Animal Artist Tammy Walters. The focus of conversation will be …

Chair & Trustees

We work across the East Midlands and beyond to exhibit, develop and elevate international, national and local contemporary art in the public realm. Having recently achieved £1.56 million in partnership funding with Northampton Borough Council to deliver a new centre for contemporary art in Northampton’s Cultural Quarter, NN is at an exciting point in its history having undergone a significant process of evolution to become a leader in our sector. To support us through this next phase of transition, we are now seeking a dynamic leader to become Chair of the Board as well as several new Trustees.

Trustee – City of Leicester Museums Trust

Would you like to be involved in the acquisition of items for the collections of the Leicester Museums & Galleries? The City of Leicester Museums’ Trust is a registered charity whose purpose is to promote the work and collections of the Leicester Museums. We support the fulltime members of the Museum Service by purchasing relevant objects and exhibits for the collections. Purchases are funded largely through public donation boxes in our museums and galleries, together with private donations, bequests and grants.

Arts and Health Commissions

Clinicians from The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and the University of Wolverhampton have undertaken research interviewing female patients diagnosed with IBD and their partners. Funded by Crohn’s and Colitis UK, we have explored lived experiences of family planning amongst participants. We now seek to collaborate with an artists and designers to use our research to creatively reflect findings/ themes. We envisage the works will enable us to report and promote awareness in women with IBD (and partners) throughout all perinatal stages.

BBA Gallery Artist Prize 2021

Who can apply: International call, open to all media, all ages over 18, all genders and all educational backgrounds. The selection process: 
An international jury of high ranking industry professionals judge the entries, they look for the artist which …

VISUAL ART OPEN PRIZE 2021 – Artist Call – £8,000 Prize Fund

All UK & International artist are invited to apply for the Visual Art Open Prize 2021. Presented by the Visual Artists Association, the prestigious VAO 2021 Prize is now celebrating its fifth edition and offers an £8,000 Prize Fund.

LIFE, ON MARS

We would like artists of any discipline and any age to address, as broadly as they wish, the idea of a future life on Mars. With SpaceX and Elon Musk striving to create a human habitat on Mars, the possibility of what was previously science-fiction cinema, may become a reality within our lifetimes. Whether artists seek to address the geography of the planet, how humans will breath or create food, the computer technology or space travel as a whole are just a few ideas.