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Making Visible: making Art with Rural Communities 2016 will be a conversation set between Dr Julie Crawshaw and Carolyn Black.

Based on a knowledge of contemporary platforms for visual and/or socially-engaged practices within rural communities, this conversation aims to re-think, re-consider and re-imagine new ways of collaborating with rural communities.

• Dr Julie Crawshaw comes from a visual arts practice background. She has worked across a range of artist-led and community projects as a gallery director, magazine editor, festival coordinator, public art commissioner, curator, evaluator and organisational development consultant. To better articulate the role of art, Julie’s research looks to describe what art does and how the relationships of art produce effects. Informed by a postgraduate in International Development, her PhD in Planning, Beyond Targets (2012) took an anthropological approach to articulate the role of art in regeneration. Previous projects include: co-directing Midwest (2002– 2008), an action research project to look at practice alongside policy; co-authoring Made Visible: East Midlands Rural Visual Arts Review (2007); and co-developing a residents’ commission plan for New East Manchester Housing Market Renewal (2006–2008).

• Carolyn Black is an artist, writer, art producer and advisor. She is the founder and director of Flow Contemporary Arts, and has delivered projects, such as ExLab on behalf of Big Picture in Dorset for London 2012; Aeolous with Luke Jerram to Eden Project, Salford Quays and Lyme Park (National Trust); various for the Forest of Dean Sculpture Trust; Dialogue in Bristol for Independent Artists Network. Carolyn describes herself as a ‘metaphorical cable-tie’. Anyone working in the arts will know how useful cable-ties are – they are simple, efficient and flexible in their uses, they can hold disparate materials together.

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