Call for Creative Practitioners

 

 

Meadow Arts – Call for Creative Practitioners

 

Meadow Arts, an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation, require Creative Practitioners to work with schools, universities & colleges as well as the wider public to plan, deliver and evaluate contemporary arts projects as part of the Meadow Arts Inspires Programme.

About Meadow Arts and Meadow Arts Inspires

Meadow Arts brings unique contemporary art projects to places where art is not usually shown, supporting artists by commissioning new work and creating inspiring events and exhibitions. Based in Shropshire the organisation works predominately in Shropshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Through its Learning programme, Meadow Arts Inspires, Meadow Arts works with schools, colleges, universities and artists to create education projects that are tailored to the needs of each education establishment. Recent projects have included working with a whole school group to create a Mandala with students from the Royal Grammar School in Worcester and creating craft items to be sold with young people (18 plus) at Chadsgrove School in Bromsgrove.

Your role

Our Creative Practitioners play a key role in running our programme. As a skilled practitioner you will be responsible for planning and delivering education and engagement projects with us. This will include responding to briefs, meeting with our Education & Engagement Officer, Steve Wilson and the individual schools and colleges, agreeing on dates and then running the individual project. You will be required to evaluate the project with us, to ensure that there have been positive and proven learning outcomes.

Your skills

We are looking for Creative Practitioners with the following skills and experience

• Ability to develop and implement projects from a creative brief
• Ability to evaluate projects
• Knowledge of Contemporary Visual Arts and the wider arts scene
• Knowledge of the school curriculum at all Key Stage Levels
• Experience of working within an education setting
• Experience of working with the wider general public
• Knowledge of accreditation including Arts Awards and Arts Mark
• In addition we require you to have your own transport and have a current DBS Certificate as well as your own Public Liability Insurance.

Our Role

We will support you throughout your work within schools and wider engagement work. You will be profiled on our new webpage and we will actively promote you to our many partners.

If you are chosen for any of our projects we pay a highly competitive rate of £250 per day and additional travel and expenses costs where appropriate.

If you are interested please send a CV and letter of no more than 2 pages outlining why we should select you. We would also like to informally meet you if you are selected.

Please email your application to Steve Wilson, Education and Engagement Officer at steve@meadowarts.org by Friday 26^th January 2018. You can also ask Steve any questions relating to this brief.

 

 

Deadline approaching - Calling Visual Artists and Designers

Thames Festival Trust are looking for a Worcestershire based artist/designer to deliver visual art based workshops in secondary schools across Worcestershire between March - June 2018 as part of Rivers of the World, our international arts and education project.

The programme involves the pupils working with an artist or designer on their local river through environmental, economic and cultural learning and themes to learn and gather ideas that are channeled creatively into drawings, paintings, photographs and other visual media which result in the creation of large-scale work of art. The artwork is then curated and exhibited in partner schools outside the UK and along the River Thames walkway in September as part of Totally Thames. Since its creation in 2005, Rivers of the World has been delivered in over twenty countries around the world. 

How to apply:
To apply, take a look at the Freelance Artist person specification below. 
Send your CV, brief cover letter outlining relevant experience and what you feel you could bring to the project and Equal Opportunities Form to Elaine Knight by Tuesday 9 January 2018.

If you have any examples of your work, or work which you have carried out with young people, which you feel would be relevant to this project please also send this. If you are proficient in Photoshop please send some examples of design work you have produced.

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Worcester Stands Tall

Calling all artists!

Decorate a giraffe with Worcester Stands Tall

Would you like the chance to decorate an unusual type of canvas as part of a major public art showcase arriving in Worcester next summer?

 
There is still time left for artists – both amateur and professional – to get involved with Worcester Stands Tall and submit designs for its loveable giraffe sculptures. 

Worcester Stands Tall will see at least 25 beautifully decorated giraffe sculptures form an art trail through the city streets and public spaces for 10 weeks in summer 2018. 

Currently, each 2.5-metre tall giraffe sculpture is naked – but, with the help of artists from across the country, they will soon be covered in bespoke artwork.

Imaginations have been running wild and some fantastic giraffe designs have already been submitted by artists from across the country – and you could get involved too! 

So, if you like the sound of this project, get your creative thinking cap on, draw up your designs and submit them to us before the deadline of Friday, 5th January 2018.

 
All the details, including the artist fee, design guidelines and templates are in the artists' information pack which can be downloaded from the Worcester Stands Tall website. Instructions on how to submit your designs are also in the pack.

Artists must submit their designs to artist@worcesterstandstall.co.uk by Friday, 5th January 2018. 

Worcester Stands Tall is a Wild in Art event brought to the city by St Richard’s Hospice.

For more information visit www.worcesterstandstall.co.uk