Wednesday 15 February 2012

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.


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.

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.

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.




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 
14th 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

19th April. Susan Collis
Installation, sculpture, drawing
26th April: Mark Tichner
Turner Prize nominee.
12th July: Alex Pearl
Sculptor, renowned Blogger (3 million hits) & Tweeter
11th October Freddie Robins
Artist & Senior RCA Tutor in Textiles
22nd 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.
22nd March, 24th May, 18th October