Artist for phase two of engagement programme
Creativity Works background:
Creativity Works is a consortium consisting of Pennine Lancashire Arts Officers, Arts Council North West, Lancashire County Council, Creative Lancashire, Elevate and Curious Minds. The partnership provides the infrastructure for joint working, shared approaches, economies of scale working across the sub region and alignment to the Multi Area Agreement as well as districts Local Area Agreement’s.
Creativity Works was initially set up in 2000, supporting Creative Industries in Pennine Lancashire. In 2008 it extended its remit to work strategically on four priority areas: Health, Business, Regeneration and People, to raise the profile of and participation in, quality arts practice in the region.
The engagement programme of work that this project belongs to, began in September 2009. The aim of this work is to increase engagement in the arts through working with local heritage venues. This project leads on from the success of the Open Shop Project that took place in August 2010
Project background:
The Open Shop Project that formed the first phase of this programme worked with an artist to use an empty shop space in Accrington market to engage a new audience with arts and the Haworth. To find out more about this project you can look at the project blogs http://www.theopenshopproject.wordpress.com/ and http://www.annehaworthsfan.wordpress.com/
The second phase of this work aims to use the Haworth collections in unexpected ways to encourage a new audience to visit the gallery. We are working with artist Stuart Haygarth to develop a new piece of site specific work to be situated in the Gallery, taking its influence from the Tiffany glass collection. You can read more about this on the project blog www.thespringprogramme.blogspot.com and our website www.creativityworks.info . We are looking for an artist, ideally local to the area or to Lancashire , to deliver a programme of engagement workshops alongside the work Stuart Haygarth is producing. We would like to engage people in creative activity at the gallery, influenced by the Tiffany glass collections informing Stuart’s new work, to give the community a chance to experience the collections in a different way. We would like to attract a new audience to the museum whilst offering its existing audience new ways of connecting with it. The workshops will take place before and during the time the work is exhibited. The artists will be responsible for engaging the community as well as existing groups (this may mean doing outreach sessions), designing, planning and delivering the workshops.
Aims:
- To increase engagement in the arts in Hyndburn
- To work with the community and local voluntary groups to engage the local people with the collections of the
Haworth - To use the gallery as a venue for arts activity
- To raise the profile of
Haworth Art Gallery - To increase visitor figures to the gallery (as part of the bigger phase two project)
- To encourage conversation and discussion.
Project brief:
To deliver a programme of artist workshops that will support the work being delivered by Stuart Haygarth in partnership with the Haworth Art Gallery
Project Structure:
The workshops will take place in the month leading up to and during the exhibition around April –May 2011 (tbc).
10 half day sessions will take place through arrangement between the artist and the museum staff in this time. These will be a combination of drop in workshops and prearranged group workshops. One of these is to be an evening session for the Museums at Night event in May. Some sessions maybe held outside of the museum.
Included in the budget is provision for two half day planning sessions to be carried out before the programme starts
Budget:
The budget for the project is £1,500 to include all planning, deliver, materials and travel.
10 half day workshops x £100 = £1000
2 planning session x £100 = £200
Materials = £300
How to apply:
To apply, please send us:
1. An outline of how you would approach this project. This should include:
- How you would approach working with the community and voluntary groups
- Skills that could be taught through the workshops
- The themes you would be interested in exploring
2. Examples of previous work/projects that you have undertaken with images (maximum 3)
3. A full CV
4. A letter of application stating what interests you about this project.
Please send application, or for more information, by email to Laura Rodgers, Creativity Works Arts Engagement Officer, laura.rodgers@blackburn.gov.uk
Closing date: 07/03/11
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