The Place To Be!Creative Practice Seminars

The Place To Be! Saturday 3 March, 1-5pm

Creative Practice Seminars for Artists.

Practical toolkits for creatives with leading artists, arts organisations and arts professionals.

In Partnership with Goldsmiths and Lewisham Arts Services

£10 early bird tickets per seminar or £12.50 on the door.

Seminar Room, Ben Pimlott Building, Goldsmiths, University of London, London SE14 6NW

Chaired by Rosalind Davis and Annabel Tilley,  ZeitgeistArtsProjects

To book please go to www.ZeitgeistArtsProjects.com

Practical toolkits for artists: finance, marketing, writing funding applications and selling your work and using social media, with leading artists, arts professionals.

Networking, Blogging and Social Media, Making Applications, Writing Proposals & Arts Opportunities

Speakers: Jack Hutchinson, Rob Turner, Brigid Howarth (Lewisham Arts Service) , Matthew Couper, Deptford X, Julia Alvarez, (SLAM)        

Arts Opportunities: Where are they? How to find then, fund them and get them seen.

Julia Alvarez: Goldsmiths graduate Director of Bearspace exhibiting emerging artists & South London Art Map www.slam

Brigid Howarth: Arts consultancy business and Lewisham Arts Services, with clients including the Arts Council, Silverstone Holdings  Royal College of Art, University of the Arts, London, co-Director of museumaker

Matthew Couper: Deptford X. An annual contemporary visual arts programme Deptford X a festival of some best contemporary visual art in London with residency and commissioning opportunities.

www.mattcouper.webeden.co.uk.

Networking, Blogging and Social Media with Jack Hutchinson.

How to blog, tweet & network to:

·         Promote and maximise your practice

·         Build New audiences

·         Expand and create supportive Peer Networks

·         Get jobs and Get paid!

Jack Hutchinson is an artist, writer and critic. A specialist on the role of digital technology within the visual arts, he is Communications Coordinator for AIR and Editor for a-n and AIR. He is a regular contributor to Guardian Online and his writing has featured in including Dazed and Confused, Garageland, AnOther Man, Twin Magazine, a-n Magazine and Schweizer Kunst.
www.jackjhutchinson.wordpress.com

Making Applications, Writing Proposals with Rob Turner

Rob Turner is an artist who works in the public realm. Over a 25 year career, Rob has explored his own creativity and engaged directly with the changing relationship between art and society through the creation of well over 100 public and community art works across the U.K.

www. rob-turner.blogspot.com

Chaired by Annabel Tilley and Rosalind Davis  ZeitgeistArtsProjects:
Tilley and Davis are both artists, curators and writers and the innovative partnership behind the highly successful DIY Educate programme, Show&Tell which provides artist talks, practical workshops & Seminars, one-to-one tutorials, and peer critiques (supported by Elizabeth Murton), placing them at the forefront of independent arts education.

Their artists professional development programmes focus on giving realistic advice and toolkits for the challenges faced by self-employed and portfolio career artists today as well as the opportunities: emphasising professional development, skill-sharing and networking.

www.zeitgeistartsprojects.com

Let’s be Professional: creative practice seminars.

Let’s be Professional:  Saturday 24 March, 1-5pm Creative Practice

In Partnership with Goldsmiths and Lewisham Arts Services

£10 early bird tickets per seminar or £12.50 on the door.

Seminar Room, Ben Pimlott Building, Goldsmiths, University of London, London SE14 6NW

Chaired by Rosalind Davis and Annabel Tilley,  ZeitgeistArtsProjects

To book please go to www.ZeitgeistArtsProjects.com

Seminars for Artists: Practical toolkits for creatives with leading artists, arts organisations and arts professionals.

Speakers: Alison Branagan, Paul Perlin, Elizabeth Murton, Day+Gluckman.

Getting Your Work Seen With Day+Gluckman and Rosalind Davis

• How to utilise networking, marketing and tips to get your work seen

·         How to maximise exhibitions, open studios, projects and opportunities for greater success

·         How to approach and build relationships with curators, galleries and collectors. 

 Day+Gluckman are Lucy Day and Eliza Gluckman, a curatorial partnership who have been working together since 2006 programming exhibitions for the Collyer Bristow Gallery, London. Initially trained as artists and latterly working as curators they have worked for many years across independent, public, artist-led and commercial galleries.

www.dayandgluckman.co.uk

Money Talks with Paul Perlin

Paul is a Chartered Accountant running Perlin Franco with the expertise and experience of dealing with clients in a wide range of business sectors and is a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art. This is a great opportunity to ask all those difficult 'tax' questions that will help save you money long term. Practical advice on becoming self-employed & tax & physical examples of simple book-keeping, keeping artists accounts & expenses
http://www.perlinfranco.co.uk/
Creative Entrepreneurship with Alison Branagan and Elizabeth Murton

·         Enterprising skills for an artist & How to focus, and spot or create future business opportunities.

·         Creative problem solving and timekeeping 

·         The importance of inter-personal and practical enterprise skills in establishing a creative business.

·         Succeed as a practitioner and build a business within the visual arts and cultural industries.

·         The importance of presentation, networking, creative thinking, being able to negotiate with clients

·         How to sell and issues such as IP, contracts and copyright.

Alison Branagan is an author and visual arts consultant. Over the last decade she has written several books and has studied different approaches to teaching business theory and enterprise skills. Since 1999 she has established enterprise courses at a number of London universities including Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and conducted a series of Master Classes for the Association of Illustrators.

www.alisonbranagan.com

Elizabeth Murton is an artist, curator and graduate from Goldsmiths College. She has received commissions from Deptford X and The Crafts Council and has exhibited internationally. Elizabeth runs the Engine ChatChat Peer Critique ideas-matter-sphere connecting art & science, providing opportunities to share knowledge and ideas through talks, discussions & exhibitions. www.elizabethmurton.co.uk

Chaired by Annabel Tilley and Rosalind Davis:  ZeitgeistArtsProjects:
Tilley and Davis are both artists, curators and writers and the innovative partnership behind the highly successful DIY Educate programme, Show&Tell which provides artist talks, practical workshops & Seminars, one-to-one tutorials, and peer critiques (supported by Elizabeth Murton), placing them at the forefront of independent arts education.

Their artists professional development programmes focus on giving realistic advice and toolkits for the challenges faced by self-employed and portfolio career artists today as well as the opportunities: emphasising professional development, skill-sharing and networking.

www.zeitgeistartsprojects.com

Show&Tell 2012. Guest speakers & organisations

www.ZeitgeistArtsProjects.com

Show&Tell 2012. Guest speakers & organisations

Zeitgeist – The Big Art Idea

Dynamic Artist-led independents talk about what drives them forward

17 May: C4RD: Andrew Hewish

Director, Centre For Recent Drawing, London & International Curator

31 May Standpoint Gallery: Fiona MacDonald

Artist, Curator & Winner of British School of Rome Residency, 2011 

14^th June: Transition Gallery: Cathy Lomax & Alli Sharma

Renowned artists, curators and directors of independent artist led-gallery

28 June: Sluice Art Fair: Ben Street & Karl England

Curator & Artist.team. Invented SLUICE, the 2011 alternative to Frieze

25 October: Co-Exist: Amy McKenny,

Artist, Curator and co-Director of artist-run space CoExist in Southend.

8 November. Jerwood Space:  Sarah Williams

Curator at Jerwood Space & independent projects

Sustaining A Practice – Artists of Repute

Artists talk about what keeps them going

19^th April. Susan Collis

Installation, sculpture, drawing

26^th April: Mark Tichner

Turner Prize nominee.

12^th July: Alex Pearl

Sculptor, renowned Blogger (3 million hits) & Tweeter

11^th October Freddie Robins

Artist & Senior RCA Tutor in Textiles

22^nd November Virgina Verran

Jerwood Drawing Prize Winner 2012

Phoebe Unwin, Painter, British Art Show 7, Hayward Gallery 2011 (dates tbc)

All Talks on Thursdays 6.30-8.30pm.

Tickets : £5 for DIY members, £10 non members.  Annual DIY Membership £22

ASC Studios, Bond House, Goodwood Rd, New Cross, London, SE14 6BL

diyeducate@gmail.com                                                    www.ZeitgeistArtsProjects.com           

Engine ChatChat: Peer Critiques.

22^nd March, 24^th May, 18^th October

DIY Educate Press Release

CREATING OPPORTUNITIES OURSELVES: ART SCHOOL ALTERNATIVES

www.ZeitgeistArtsProjects.com

DEPTFORD, LONDON – ‘I can see that it is important in the current financial climate to create opportunities ourselves.’ (DIY Educate Member)   

Art schools across the United Kingdom face unprecedented cuts, tuition fees escalate, arts funding is slashed, and creatives seek ways to engage and learn without a £27,000 price tag. DIY Educate addresses the growing need for providing alternative art education.

Launched in 2011 at Core Gallery the artist-led DIY Educate programme has provided artist talks, practical workshops, one-to-one tutorials, and peer critiques ( with artist Elizabeth Murton) , placing them at the forefront of independent practice and education. Show & Tell focuses on helping artists respond to the lack of available resources and networks. The programme gives a balanced view of the challenges faced by self-employed artists today as well as the opportunities: emphasising professional development, skill-sharing and networking.

Edwina Ashton talks to us about 'Sustaining her practice'

‘DIY Educate puts practice at its centre,  embraces professionalism, provides a critical context in which new graduates and emerging artists can gain valuable support and guidance - at a price that they can afford. This is a timely occurrence because the state is no longer committed to mass higher education, particularly where the humanities and arts are concerned.’   
(Graham Crowley, former  Professor of Painting, RCA)

Artists & co-founders, Rosalind Davis and Annabel Tilley manage this innovative programme under ZeitgeistArtProjects. Titled Show & Tell, it received a Fenton Arts Trust grant and has already secured funds from Lewisham Arts Service to run the 2012 programme who recognised the work as important not only to their local arts community, which includes Goldsmiths and Camberwell art colleges, but also to the wider community.

Over 250 artists from as far afield as Birmingham, Hastings and Southend have attended. The programme included talks by British Art Show 7 artist Phoebe Unwin, highly popular one-to-one tutorials with renowned painter & former RCA Professor, Graham Crowley and workshops on blogging and marketing, as well as how to get paid in the notoriously underpaid art world. 

Phoebe Unwin at Show&Tell 2011

The Show & Tell programme inspires and empowers artists to take their careers seriously. Annabel Tilley says, ‘Show & Tell uses experienced artists as role models for new graduates, giving them a more realistic picture of the highs and the lows of an arts career and how to survive after art school. We are not interested in ‘success’ as such, but how to survive and thrive in a arts community that can often be dismissive and unsupportive of new talent.’

Rosalind Davis, also an AIR Council member (advocate for 17,000 artists) says ‘DIY Educate was created through a desire to nurture artists at every stage of their career, but also out of a belief that ‘quality’ art education does not have to come from an institution but can be found in the art community itself, from those who are not only successful but passionate about art and art education.’

DIY Educate, support by Graham Crowley

‘DIY Educate puts practice at its centre, embraces professionalism, provides a critical context in which new graduates and emerging artists can gain valuable support and guidance - at a price that they can afford. This is a timely occurrence because the state is no longer committed to mass higher education, particularly where the humanities and arts are concerned.’    
(Graham Crowley, former Professor of Painting, RCA)

ZeitgeistArtProjects

Rosalind Davis & Annabel Tilley, the innovative partnership, behind the highly successful 2011 DIY Educate pilot programme, Show&Tell, delivered at Core Gallery ( Rosalind founded and directed the gallery ) including artists Phoebe Unwin, Delaine Le Bas, Freddie Robins, Matt Roberts, Day+Gluckman and many more.Their new artist led organisation is called ZeitgeistArtsProject.
ZeitgeistArtsProjects will continue to provide DIY Educate: for artists high quality professional practice events, including talks, workshops, exhibitions & residencies available to all artists.

Both Rosalind and Annabel are AIR Council members: Advocates for improving, representing and making change in artist’s lives. AIR has a membership body consisting of 17,000 artists.

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