CVAN EM has been awarded funding from Art Fund's Reimagine programme to help deliver an Art Technician Training Programme for the East Midlands, in partnership with ArtTechSpace and supported by organisations across the region. These events were part of a series of online Professional Development Sessions.
Art Technician Professional Development: Unions & Insurance
Date: Monday 10 July 2023, 1-2PM
Format: Online via Zoom
A session with representatives from the art technician union BECTU to discuss what being a member of a union can do for you, the support and benefits you receive, why joining a union is important to making our profession more professional and how we can help each other as union members. The session also covered Personal Liability Insurance (PLI), why we need it as art technicians and how being a union member gives you access to the only PLI designed specifically for art technicians.
Art Technician Professional Development: CVs & Invoicing
Date: Monday 10 July 2023, 6-8PM
Format: Online via Zoom
Being a professional art technician means you need to sell yourself with a good CV tailored to the work we do. This session covered dos and don'ts for CVs, clever letters and applying for jobs, touching on how to find and keep freelance work. Putting your best foot forward also happens when you invoice for work at the end of a job. It's important to get it right so you keep employers in your good books but also so you look professional and can manage your finances easier.
Art Technician Professional Development: RAMS & Method Statements
Date: Tuesday 11 July 2023, 6-8PM
Format: Online via Zoom
Risk assessments and method statements (sometimes called installation guides) are vital documentation to help us do our jobs safely and efficiently whilst upholding health & safety regulations. This session covered:
- Risk assessments (RAMS): who should be completing them, what they should cover and who needs to see them
- Method statements & install guides: what they should cover for specific artworks or installations, how they help prepare for dealing with artworks with the right amount of time, people and resources
About ArtTechSpace
After many years as art technicians themselves, full-time and freelancing, hiring and being hired, fabricating to installing, ArtTechSpace was created as an online community of art technicians and their employers. It started as a way to connect those looking for and those offering work, but has grown into a bigger resource: a place to find art technical information, products and services to help you and your career and business with training and events.
Access
All sessions took place via Zoom with closed captions available throughout. Sessions were recorded.
This training programme was delivered with Art Fund support.