Multimedia Artist & Workshop Leader

You will contribute to a comprehensive training and development programme leading an online talk and Q&A, followed by a 2-day masterclass exploring your creative practice.

Elevate aims to equip its participants with the skills and knowledge to help them succeed in the creative industry. As well developing creative skills, it will teach essential business skills. It will offer networking opportunities, access to professional advice and mentoring. The programme will build participant’s confidence and their understanding of their own practice. The successful artist will be expected to offer advice based on their own experience of working as a professional artist.

You will:

• Present a short and up-to-date online presentation of your work and practice
• Provide professional and relevant answers during the Q&A
• Give a guided tour of your studio/workspace (if COVID-19 restrictions permit and you work locally)
• Lead a 2-day masterclass workshop based on your creative practices
• Show commitment to diversity and inclusion, working sensitively with people to draw out their creativity and confidence
• Share professional tips and advice for a toolkit City Arts is creating

Background

Elevate is a project led by City Arts working in collaboration with Near Now, Broadway’s studio for arts, design and innovation. Elevate has been made possible thanks to funding from Real Creative Futures. It will provide a comprehensive training and development programme for aspiring young artists and producers based in Nottingham.

Elevate will run in two phases. The first phase will take place between January and June 2022 and will consist of mid-week talks led by local artists and facilitators, “go-and-see” work place visits, practical workshops and skill sharing sessions led by The Prince’s Trust and Big House. If successful, you will contribute to this first phase of activity.

The second phase, beginning June 2022, gives participants the opportunity to consult and lead the recruitment of a Fellow for the Near Now Fellowship programme. The Fellow will work with participant to create a new piece of work, whilst offering mentoring and advice.

City Arts will create a toolkit for each participant to take away which includes professional tips and advice from each of the contributors.

About City Arts

Since 1977, City Arts has collaborated with communities and artists to create and explore art of all kinds – from music to writing, from drawing to dance. We aim to give everyone the chance to be creative, regardless of who they are or where they’re from.

About Broadway’s Near Now

Broadway is recognised as one of the UK’s leading independent cinemas and creative hubs. Near Now is Broadway’s studio for arts, design and innovation. They enable multidisciplinary collaboration and creative R&D, supporting the development of new work from artists’ bold ideas.

Person Specification

The successful applicant must:

• Have experience working with community groups or art collectives
• Be able to meet required outcomes
• Be an experienced multimedia artist
• Have an Enhanced DBS Check and Public Liability Insurance (if you do not have either, please inform us in your application and we will support you to get them)

City Arts is not currently licensed by the UK Government to employ non-UK citizens (with the exception of Irish citizens). Because of this, we can unfortunately not accept applications from people without UK or Irish citizenship.

Positive Action Statement

We particularly encourage applications from black people, people of colour and disabled people, who are currently under-represented in the City Arts workforce.

Diversity Statement

City Arts is committed to increasing the diversity of our staff, artists and freelancers. We believe that inviting and supporting applications from people with a diverse range of backgrounds, identities and life experiences strengthens the work that we do.  It leads to higher quality art and better outcomes for our participants and audiences.

If there’s anything about this recruitment process or the way we’ve promoted this opportunity that has created barriers to you applying, please let us know. We will do our best to support you and improve how we do things in future.

If you are interested in applying for this role, but have access needs which might make it difficult to undertake the work in the way we have described it, please make an application. If at the end of the recruitment process we offer you the role, we will work with you to find practical solutions to any barriers you might encounter. Your access needs will not be a factor in the decision to offer you the role.

To Apply

To apply please send the following to recruitment@city-arts.org.uk:

• A covering letter with examples of work
• An outline of ideas for the masterclass
• A completed Equalities and Diversity monitoring form for each named person applying for the commission (download below)

We will not consider late applications. We expect to notify the successful candidate by the end of the week.