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Volunteer Roles at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Volunteering is a great way to be a part of Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s work. YSP greatly values the time given by volunteers and the skills, knowledge and experience they bring to their teams.
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YSP currently has the following Volunteer vacancies:
Gallery Assistant - To support the work of the YSP galleries team
Information Assistant - To work as part of a volunteer team to help deliver a high quality visitor experience through meeting and greeting YSP visitors
Tour Guide (Art & Landscape / Woodland & Heritage)
Outdoor Invigilation - To work closely with the Gallery Supervisor to support visitors in their understanding and enjoyment of the works on display.
For further details and to download an application form, please visit the website, or telephone if you have any queries - website and contact details given below.Category:
VoluntaryRegion:
YorkshireOrganisation: Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Application Deadline: 31/05/2013Contact:
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, Wakefield, WF4 4LG
Phone: 01924 832503
Website: http://www.ysp.co.uk/page/volunteer/tc -
Contestants - The Great British Sewing Bee - BBC Two
Are you serious about sewing?
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Is your home full of your own creations?
Do people admire your handmade clothes?
Love Productions are looking for men and women who love sewing to take part in the second series of this popular BBC TV series.
From skirts to shirts, blinds to bags; if you’re at home behind a sewing machine and a dab hand with a needle and thread, they’d love to hear from you.
For further information, terms and conditions and to apply, please visit the website below where you can download and complete the The Great British Sewing Bee application form.
There is no closing date, but you must be able to commit to all the filming days which are currently expected to be during Autumn/Winter 2013/2014.Category:
VoluntaryRegion:
NationalOrganisation: Love Productions/BBC
Application Deadline: 30/09/2013Contact:
The Great British Sewing Bee, Love Productions, 43 Eagle Street, London WC1R 4AT
Email: [email protected]
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Timothy Hawson Memorial Summer Residency 2013
Summer residency ideally suited to early career craft-based-practitioners within the private Studio and Workshops of Thomas Hawson, Designer/Maker/Artist and Jenny Ozwell, Studio Potter, in the Scottish Borders.
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Applications are invited from undergraduates, recently graduated and postgraduate students from art and design related courses.
Ideally suited to someone looking to develop their craft-based-practice, in a rural landscape. However, applications from all levels and disciplines of academic and vocational training in art, craft and design welcome.
This residency is offered for summer 2013 between early June and late September.
In return for accommodation and access to workshop and studio facilities, the resident is required to work 1 day or 8 hours a week in art and design related employment for Thomas Hawson. The resident is also expected to help prepare and exhibit in the Hundalee Mill Farm’s Open Studio Event, 23 – 25 August, which will also be an opportunity for the resident to exhibit and sell work.
For further information, please visit the website below.Category:
Professional DevelopmentRegion:
ScotlandOrganisation: Thomas Hawson/Jenny Ozwell
Application Deadline: 30/05/2013Contact:
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 01835 869931
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Making Progress and Made to Measure 2013/14
As part of the Craft Highlands & Islands mentoring and creative support programme, Making Progress and Made to Measure programmes are open to all makers based in the Highlands and Islands at any level from new graduate to well established makers.
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The main criteria are that you should be a professional maker (i.e. in business, retailing and/or exhibiting your work), working full or part time and would like to grow your business.
Growth can mean: creatively, going full time, expanding your networks, showcasing, exhibiting or retailing in areas you have not covered before. It does not necessarily mean you need to take on staff, move to larger premises or become a multi-national company!
Up to 6 makers will be supported on the Making Progress programme. The main programme runs from June 2013 until March 2014 and offers makers support through 1-2-1 and mentoring, exhibiting and showcasing opportunities, advice on your social media and website use, workshops, networking and more.
For further information and to apply, please visit the website below, where you can download the guidance & application form document.
If you have any questions please email or call - details given below.Category:
Professional DevelopmentRegion:
ScotlandOrganisation: Craft Highlands & Islands
Application Deadline: 27/05/2013Contact:
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 01463 720886
Website: http://hi-arts.co.uk/services/talent-development/crafts/creative-and-business-support-craft/ -
The Balvenie Masters of Craft 2013
Now in its third year, The Balvenie Masters of Craft is an awards programme that champions British craftsmanship and those who devote their working lives to it.
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Whether it is the beloved leather armchair in the corner of your room that was painstakingly upholstered, a suit cut to fit your own back or that chocolate truffle that tastes like heaven, we all appreciate the art of true craftsmanship – particularly in a world that’s becoming increasingly mass-produced.
This year we are making each of our categories far broader to embrace a wider range of items. The winner in each category will receive the recognition they deserve, along with a £1,000 commission from The Balvenie.
To enter for an award or make a nomination, or for further information, please visit the website below.Category:
Funding and GrantsRegion:
NationalOrganisation: The Balvenie
Pay: £1,000 commission
Application Deadline: 30/08/2013Contact:
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Dartmoor Arts Project Bursary Awards 2013 for young artists
Dartmoor Arts Project is looking for young artists, printmakers, designers and architects to come and join them at their summer school this July and they have a number of bursaries to award across the range of courses.
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Bursaries are discretionary and limited so you are advised to apply early.
To apply, please download the 2013 bursary application form from the website below.Category:
Funding and GrantsRegion:
South WestOrganisation: Dartmoor Arts Project
Application Deadline: 30/06/2013Contact:
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Picture Framer, Frame Factory Ltd
The Frame Factory is a long established North London based picture framers, known for producing high-end work for both private and corporate clients. Clients over the years include companies such as Apple, Sony, Westfield and a number of galleries across the UK.
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The Frame Factory are currently undergoing thorough reorganisation, and part of that is restructuring the team. The three positions available are:
Joiner (x1), Part/Full time - must be experienced, main duties include: cutting and joining; staining and finishing; stretching canvases.
Sales and Assembly (x2), Full time - main duties include: advising customers; taking and organising phone orders; assembling work into frames.
For further information, please contact Fred Godfrey - email address below.Category:
EmploymentRegion:
LondonOrganisation: Frame Factory Ltd
Pay: Salary £14k - £18k (dependent on experience)
Application Deadline: 01/06/2013Contact:
Fred Godfrey
Email: [email protected]
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Research studentships, Manchester School of Art and Hollings Faculty
Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design (MIRIAD) studentships serve the Manchester School of Art and the Hollings Faculty and support postgraduate researchers on a full and part-time basis in the subject areas covered by the REF2014 Unit of Assessment for Art & Design.
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Students have the opportunity to undertake research projects with over 70 nationally and internationally recognized researchers, historians, theorists, practitioners and professionals. MIRIAD alone employs four research professors, thirteen research fellows and associates and houses the Arts for Health Unit. Based in All Saints the Manchester School of Art has a thriving community of approximately 90 students and the Hollings Faculty some 50 students.
In addition to traditional academic concerns emphasis is placed on sharing research training opportunities, student-led initiatives and research groups aimed at knowledge exchange with the creative professions and industries. PARCNorthWest consists of twelve participating departments from 13 Higher Education Institutes encompassing the range of the creative arts from theories and histories to the practices and professions of art, architecture, craft, design, creative writing, new media, music and performance.
For further information, please visit the website below.Category:
Professional DevelopmentRegion:
North WestOrganisation: Manchester School of Art
Contact:
Professor Jim Aulich
Email: [email protected]
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Artist(s), Ribble Rivers Trust
The Ribble Rivers Trust would like to appoint an artist to creatively engage local young people with Burnley’s hidden rivers, enabling them to explore and get to know this important aspect of the landscape.
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Applications are sought from artists working within any art form except drama, identifying how you would creatively engage local 13 to 25 year olds with Burnley’s hidden rivers. Collaborative approaches with more than one artist applying are welcome.
The project will be based in the Crib – Burnley Central Library’s dedicated youth space, which has music equipment, iMacs, screens and games consoles. Art forms that are particularly suited to the Crib include music, sound art, digital arts, animation, graphic design/comics, game design, film, photography, and visual and combined arts. Proposals that use more than one of these arts forms, either alongside each other or in combination, are of particular interest.
Project activity will be focussed in school holidays, after school and at weekends – details to be agreed with the Library.
For further information including how to apply please contact Rachel Hawthorn via the email address below.Category:
EmploymentRegion:
North WestOrganisation: Burnley Council/Ribble Rivers Trust /Lancashire County Council
Pay: Artist Fee: £4900 (minimum 20 days delivery, and to include planning and evaluation time); Materials: £1000
Application Deadline: 20/05/2013Contact:
Rachel Hawthorn
Email: [email protected]
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Co-ordinator - Makers Fair Festival Special, Saltaire Inspired
Are you a natural organiser? Do you have a passion for crafts? Then Saltaire Inspired are looking for you!
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Saltaire Inspired need a Lead Coordinator to deliver the Makers’ Fair Festival Special on the 14th & 15th September 2013.
The Makers’ Fair Festival Special is a two day event organised by Saltaire Inspired (organisers of the Saltaire Arts Trail in May) as part of the Saltaire Festival, and the Lead Coordinator will be required to coordinate the event in line with Saltaire Inspired’s delivery plan and budget. Responsibilities also include: managing your team of volunteers, liaising with various partners and organisations, and carrying out any and all activities that may be necessary before, during and after the event.
This will be a fixed term, freelance contract, with the successful candidate ideally beginning in early June and terminating in late September, although with some flexibility for the right person.
For job description and specification please visit the website below.Category:
EmploymentRegion:
YorkshireOrganisation: Saltaire Inspired
Pay: Contract Fee: £1000 for the agreed fixed period.
Application Deadline: 24/05/2013Contact:
Pam Lonsdale
Email: [email protected]
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Creating Space, Junction, Goole
Junction is able to offer emerging and established artists the space to create. Its workshop room will be offered free of charge to an artist/company in order to further develop their work. Junction would like to share this process with its community both during the process and at the end, e.g. by a sharing of work or discussion of discovery. The timetable for this is to be agreed but artists offering the most engagement time with the public will be preferred.
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Junction will offer 2 weeks’ use of the workshop room from Monday 22 July – Saturday 3 August free of charge. The sharing/discussion should take place on Saturday 3 August. There are several community events happening on that day, including a community beach day for families and the town’s annual horticultural show.
Junction are interested in hearing from individual artists and companies who work in any art form.
Please email Nicola Dixon with your contact details and a description of your proposed project, or for more information telephone Nicola or Charlie Studdy - contact details given below. Please note that Creating Space is to support local and regional artists in developing their work: proposals for other uses will not be considered.Category:
Professional DevelopmentRegion:
YorkshireOrganisation: Junction, Goole
Application Deadline: 24/05/2013Contact:
Nicola Dixon
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 01405 763652
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The Cockpit Arts / NADFAS Award 2013
Call for Entries now open! This annual Award is supported by The National Association of Decorative & Fine Arts Societies (NADFAS) and supports a designer-maker practising a traditional craft requiring skills at risk of dying out. In 2012, the Award was organised in conjunction with the Heritage Crafts Association. The prize consists of free studio space and business development support for one year - see the Call for Entries via the website link below for further details.
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To apply, please read the Call for Entries and complete the Application Form, which can be found via the website link below.Category:
Professional DevelopmentRegion:
NationalOrganisation: Cockpit Arts/NADFAS
Application Deadline: 22/05/2013Contact:
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Artists Commissions and Residencies, b-side multimedia festival
The b-side biennial festival commissions site-responsive work for public spaces in Weymouth and Portland, Dorset, UK revealing unexpected aspects of contrasting coastal locations and communities. b-side is offering a number of commission and residency opportunities to create new, temporary, site-responsive work in any media for the next festival in September 2014 on Portland, Dorset, UK. They are looking for ideas that respond to and reveal all aspects of the island, which may include its relationship with mainland Weymouth.
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The commissions will form the core programme of the festival with artists also contributing to talks and other events.
These opportunities fall into two categories: CATEGORY 1 - Commissions; CATEGORY 2 - Commissions with Residencies.
Applications are invited from artists working across all media; visual art, performance/live art, digital, sound, film, text based work, social media and socially engaged practice.
Please download the full brief and application form from the website below.Category:
EmploymentRegion:
South WestOrganisation: b-side biennial festival
Pay: Commissions - total max £5500 plus additional expenses; Commissions with Residencies - total max £8500 plus additional expenses
Application Deadline: 28/05/2013Contact:
Sandy Kirkby
Email: [email protected]
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Freelance Skilled Potter, Whitechapel Gallery
This summer Chicago based artist Theaster Gates will present Soul Manufacturing Corporation (2011 – present), as part of the group exhibition The Spirit of Utopia at the Whitechapel Gallery. This project involves setting up a pottery studio in the exhibition space, where skilled potters will train apprentices, using a wheel to producing utilitarian pots that will be displayed as they are created.
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Theaster Gates refers to his ceramics education as a metaphor for social transformation. In Soul Manufacturing Corporation Theaster Gates explores the idea that “things happen when we transfer skills”.
This project is recruiting two skilled potters to be working in the Gallery for the duration of the show. This will be a unique opportunity to participate in an ambitious artist’s project, which is being presented for the first time outside the US.
This appointment will require a commitment of a minimum of 2 days per week, including weekend and occasional evening shifts, starting July 03 and ending September 05 2013. Work days and times will be during gallery hours: 11am–6pm Tue–Wednesday & Fri–Sun / 11am–9pm Thursdays. Exhibition dates 04 July–05 September 2013 – all skilled potters must be available to meet in the week prior to the opening of the exhibition.
To apply, please email CV, 8 images of thrown pottery or equivalent experience in ceramics, and cover letter to the address given below, including “Skilled Potter” in the subject line.Category:
EmploymentRegion:
LondonOrganisation: Whitechapel Gallery
Pay: Payments £80 per day
Application Deadline: 20/05/2013Contact:
Sofia Victorino
Email: [email protected]
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Freelance Apprentice Potter, Whitechapel Gallery
This summer Chicago based artist Theaster Gates will present Soul Manufacturing Corporation (2011 – present), as part of the group exhibition The Spirit of Utopia at the Whitechapel Gallery. This project involves setting up a pottery studio in the exhibition space, where skilled potters will train apprentices, producing utilitarian pots that will be displayed as they are created.
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Theaster Gates refers to his ceramics education as a metaphor for social transformation. In Soul Manufacturing Corporation Theaster Gates explores the idea that “things happen when we transfer skills”.
This project is recruiting apprentice potters to be working in the Gallery for the duration of the show. This will be a unique opportunity to participate in an ambitious artist’s project, which is being presented for the first time outside the US.
This appointment will require a commitment of a minimum of 2 days per week, including weekend and occasional evening shifts, starting July 03 and ending September 05 2013. Work days and times will be during gallery hours: 11am – 6pm Tue–Wednesday & Fri–Sun / 11am–9pm Thursdays. All apprentices must be available to meet in the week prior to the opening of the exhibition.
To apply, please email CV and cover letter stating relevant experience/interest in ceramics (4 images of thrown pottery attached) to the address below, listing “Apprentice Potter” in the subject line.Category:
ApprenticeshipsRegion:
LondonOrganisation: Whitechapel Gallery
Pay: Payments £45 per day (£60 Thursdays)
Application Deadline: 20/05/2013Contact:
Sofia Victorino
Email: [email protected]
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Volunteers, Saltaire Arts Trail May 2013
Saltaire Arts Trail (SAT) are on the lookout for volunteers to help over the SAT weekend (25th - 27th May) with a variety of duties including setting up, invigilating exhibitions, street ushering, helping with family activities, info desk manning, the list goes on! So if you’re interested in being involved send an email to the address below and they’ll be in touch. And remember, it doesn’t matter if it’s 2 hours or 2 days that you can be involved, any help you can give will be much appreciated!
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VoluntaryRegion:
YorkshireOrganisation: Saltaire Arts Trail
Application Deadline: 20/05/2013Contact:
Email: [email protected]
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Unravelling Uppark, Unravelled
Unravelling the National Trust is a series of exhibitions that aims to showcase extreme or conceptual craft in a site-specific context, showing in three different National Trust venues across the south east from 2012 - 2014. The third exhibition is due to open at Uppark in West Sussex, part of The National Trust, on May 2nd 2014. It will run for 6 months from 2nd May 2014 till 2nd November 2014.
For Unravelling the National Trust at Uppark there are up to ten commissions of £1000 each for artists or makers using or subverting the notion of craft in extreme or conceptual ways. Proposed artworks should be site-specific and engage with the idea of creating interventions within the historic house setting, or within the gardens at Uppark.
For more information, and a full copy of the exhibition brief, please visit the website below.
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EmploymentRegion:
South EastOrganisation: The National Trust
Pay: Commission fee £1000
Application Deadline: 09/06/2013Contact:
Caitlin Heffernan
Email: [email protected]
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Scottish Basketmakers’ Circle - Run an event in your area
Are you a member of the SBC? If so, you are invited to join in the 25 anniversary celebrations by running an event in your area.
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The SBC is 25 this year and are celebrating this with, amongst other things, a virtual encircling of Scotland with basket related activities happening on Saturday the 22nd June 2013.
Members are encouraged to do what they like best about basketmaking; get together with others, make, talk about baskets, share techniques… The aim is to have as many different events as possible to taking place all over Scotland.
You are invited to do something in your area, for example: getting together with others to make; making a special basket; a talk or demo, exhibition, or show and tell; working with another association, historical, museum, art gallery; making an outside piece; making from found materials… you decide what suits you, your situation and your locality.
For further information, please visit the events page via the Facebook link below.Region:
ScotlandOrganisation: Scottish Basketmakers' Circle
Application Deadline: 22/06/2013Contact:
Email: [email protected]
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Library of Birmingham – Creative Residencies
On Tuesday 3rd September 2013 the Library of Birmingham will re-open in its brand new, purpose-built premises in Centenary Square, becoming the largest public library in Europe. Birmingham-based arts producers Capsule have been appointed to curate the opening festival season of cultural events that will run from 3rd September through to December 2013.
As part of the Discovery Season Capsule and LoB are inviting artists, creative practitioners and arts organisations to propose ideas for week-long residencies in the Playground of Discovery: an exciting and dynamic structure designed by artist Morag Myerscough to be situated in the foyer.
Residencies will need to offer free drop-in activity for visitors to the LoB around the central principle of Discovery. The structure will be able to accommodate between 10- 20 people. All residencies must engage with visitors to Library of Birmingham and offer opportunities for them to actively participate. Unless otherwise stated, you will be required to work with all ages.
For full details of how to apply download the Brief and Assessment Criteria from the website given below.
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EmploymentRegion:
MidlandsOrganisation: Library of Birmingham
Pay: Fee: £1,000 artist fee - up to £1,000 production budget will also be made available.
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Caitlin Griffiths
Email: [email protected]
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Studio Assistant (Near London) for Sculptor Kendra Haste
Full/part-time paid opportunities to work as part of a team with leading wildlife artist Kendra Haste on a series of large-scale wire animal sculptures. The studio is situated in Oaks Park, Woodmansterne - near Croydon.
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Physical strength is required, as well as an understanding of animal forms. Experience of working with sculpture, and wire in particular, is also helpful. Minimum 6 month commitment from June onwards. For information about Kendra please visit the website below.
Please respond by email to Patrick Davies at the address below, including CV, details of relevant experience and a short statement saying why you think you would be an asset to the studio.Category:
EmploymentRegion:
LondonOrganisation: Patrick Davies Contemporary Art
Pay: Paid (£10k-15k pro rata)
Application Deadline: 01/06/2013Contact:
Patrick Davies
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://www.kendrahaste.co.uk/home/
