Open Studios – 5/6/7 & 12/13 May 2012

10 Artists welcome you to their Open Studio event in May.

5 / 6 / 7 & 12 / 13 May 2012, 10.30am – 5.30pm.

ENJOY the art, TALK to the artists

1. LARRY ELLIOTT
2. EMILY FINN
3. HEATHER [...]

Ch-Art

Ch-Art  -  an artist led initiative for artists, craftspeople and art students from West Sussex. Regular meetings held on the second Thursday of each month, 6 – 8pm, at Pallant House Gallery (and other events as programmed); £2.00 (inc. free entry to the Gallery).
Ch-Art - “A place where creative people can have a voice, make [...]

UAT mission

 “create, inspire, educate”
Unity Arts Trust has a mission. It wants to build a dynamic and thriving community of artists and craftspeople in Chichester, whose creativity, skill and ambition reach out into the wider community providing pleasure and inspiration – to learn and to practice.
In a recessionary climate we believe that Art and Craft can provide [...]

Public Appeal

We are seeking benefactors keen to commit to supporting UAT’s aims:

to provide mentoring and training aimed at enabling artists and craftspeople at the beginning of their careers to develop their skills and channel back their creativity to the local community, i.e. through educational work with the young and disadvantaged. 
to ensure access to training and/or facilities by offering [...]

Artists’ and Makers’ Support

SUPPORT FOR ARTISTS & CRAFTSPEOPLE:
Community Education Mentoring schemes:
Home-grown pilot MENTORING SCHEME – at any one time, 2 mentors, 2 projects, 6  artists. Through informal teaching each ‘community education’ mentor will take the lead in guiding a group of 3 selected artists/craftspeople, working together as a team, as they deliver one successful community art/craft education project. [...]

Artists’ and Makers’ Facilities

Unity Studios – Pilot project  – 11 studio spaces.
Selection Criteria for studio space:

‘Art/Craft Research/Practice,
Skill and/or innovation, ambition, aspiration to excellence and to national/international standards of art and/or craftsmanship,
demonstration of commitment to artistic development and helping to provide public benefit,
‘need’.
Note: There is no waiting list, applications are judged on merit.

Intended facilities for Artists & Craftspeople [...]

A-N magazine

A-N magazine (used to be called Artists Newsletter)
www.a-n.co.uk
Subscription £35 … INCLUDES public liability insurance! … great value, loads of opportunities for exhibiting etc, good articles etc.

CIBAS Creative News

CIBAS Creative News .

Subscribe to this highly recommended e-newsletter via their website – http://www.port.ac.uk/cibas

ArtJobs and ArtNews

–You can now subscribe to the Arts Council’s ART JOBS and ART NEWS via FACEBOOK !

You can now view the latest arts jobs and opportunities, filtered by region and artform, on your Facebook profile.
Install the application … or go to the ACE Website and subcribe to the ART JOBS and ART NEWS email newsletters. [...]

ARTQUEST

Important website for information on the Visual Arts – including national exhibition opportunities etc – http://www.artquest.org.uk/