When: Tuesday 30 June, 1-2PM
Where: Online, via Zoom
Booking: Book essential
Join Katy Morrison for a practical session on writing stronger funding applications while thinking more strategically about income diversification and organisational sustainability.
Drawing on her experience as Director of PINK, an artist-led gallery, studio and event space in Stockport, Katy will explore how arts organisations can build clearer funding narratives while developing mixed-income models that support long-term resilience. The session will look at public benefit, organisational fit, access, partnerships, delivery capacity, impact and learning, alongside wider questions of earned income, space hire, studios, consultancy, trusts and foundations, local authority funding, Arts Council England funding and international opportunities.
The session is aimed at arts workers, directors, producers, trustees, programme leads and freelancers working with organisations. It will include practical advice, common pitfalls and space for live questions around funding, income and sustainability.
Hosted by Contemporary Visual Arts Network East Midlands (CVAN EM) & CVAN WM. Bi-monthly Better Together sessions are framed by a different urgent topic that is relevant to the East and West Midlands and wider arts and culture sector.
Access:
- Online event, closed captions will be available during the session.
- The session will not be recorded.
- Please contact info@cvaneastmidlands.co.uk with access queries.
About Katy Morrison:
Katy Morrison is an independent curator, researcher and founder of PINK, a four-floor arts centre and studio complex in Stockport, Greater Manchester. Established in 2019, PINK supports over thirty studio artists and delivers a sustained exhibition and residency programme alongside an earned income model developed outside cyclical dependence on public funding.
Katy’s curatorial practice is rooted in long-term, research-led collaboration with artists, with a focus on sustained enquiry rather than the transactional logic of the single exhibition. She is currently completing a practice-based PhD at Manchester School of Art, where she is developing ana-curatorial enquiry: an original framework for understanding how curatorial knowledge is produced through the iterative labour of self-instituting.
Alongside her curatorial and research practice, Katy works as a freelance consultant, supporting artists and arts organisations to develop stronger funding applications, entrepreneurial strategies and resilient organisational models. She is also an Access Support Worker specialising in Arts Council England funding and an End Point Assessor for the Level 7 Curator Apprenticeship at Teesside University.