Opportunities

20.08.18

The Art of Coventry II

The Art of Coventry is a programme of events organised by Coventry Artspace designed to support and develop West Midlands-based artists. The second season runs from August to October.

News

16.08.18

What Do Artists Do All Day?

Watch artist and New Art West Midlands Advisory Group member Mahtab Hussain in this BBC Four programme following him on one of his latest photographic projects. Mahtab’s work can currently be seen at The New Art Gallery Walsall.

Opportunities

16.08.18

Artist’s Copyright

Navigating copyright laws can be confusing, so it’s important to know your rights and how to protect your work. On Tuesday 18 September Vivid Projects’ Black Hole Club are holding a workshop with not-for-profit visual artists’ rights management organisation DACS. The session will demystify rules and regulations, enabling you to make copyright work for you and your career.

News

10.08.18

In:Site Festival

This September Craftspace are taking over the centre of Birmingham once again for In:Site Festival. The free week-long event will see the green space outside Birmingham Cathedral turn into an outdoor art gallery as it gradually fills up with new artworks, created outside by recent graduates, in collaboration with passers-by.

News

01.08.18

#CVANFuture National Strategy

CVAN publishes its new national strategy to 2021.

News

01.08.18

Birmingham land earmarked for new world-class cultural centre

A site in Yardley, East Birmingham has been agreed as the potential location for a new collection and cultural centre, led by Birmingham Museums Trust

Feature

30.07.18

National Trust Residency: Grace A Williams

Grace A Williams, awarded a residency at Mr Straw’s House, a National Trust property as part of New Art West Midlands 2018 shares her experience.

News

30.07.18

Brexit: arts will suffer without freedom of movement, say Lords

The UK’s thriving cultural industries may suffer by struggling to attract skilled talent from abroad if freedom of movement is restricted after Brexit, a House of Lords committee has warned – via The Guardian.

News

27.07.18

#SaveLightHouse Appeal

Wolverhampton’s Light House Cinema & Cafe Bar is currently under threat of closure. The Black Country’s only independent cinema and community venue, the space supports local artists and has also launched many careers in the arts.

News

26.07.18

Doreen Foster announced as Director of Warwick Arts Centre

Doreen Foster has been announced as the next Director of Warwick Arts Centre. She is currently Deputy Director of the Black Cultural Archives and, before that, Chief Executive of the Bernie Grant Arts Centre in Tottenham.

News

23.07.18

Cultural sector to ACE: we need support, not measurement

The priorities that the cultural sector want Arts Council England to address over the next ten years have been laid out in a new report, Arts Council England: The Conversation, following a consultation by the funder. It reveals a desire for ACE to advocate more strongly for culture, while finding low levels of support for quality measurement. – via Arts Professional

Review

11.07.18

Review – Three Models for Change

Laura O’Leary reviews Three Models for Change which took place at Stryx, Birmingham from 9-16 June 2018, a collaboration between the University of Birmingham and Grand Union.

10.07.18

EBacc impact: arts teacher numbers in England plummet by almost a quarter

9,000 secondary school arts teachers have left their jobs in England since 2011. Arts Professional’s Jonathan Knott reports – via a-n.

News

09.07.18

Yasmin Boyle: The Space Between Gender

This is the last week to catch ‘The Space Between Gender’, Yasmin Boyle’s solo exhibition at the RBSA. Yasmin won the opportunity to exhibit at the prestigious gallery as part of New Art West Midlands 2017.

Opportunities

04.07.18

Walking Over Coals

Friction Arts’ CPPPD (continuing personal, practice and professional development) programme for emerging, post-emerging and submerging artists of all disciplines, ages and backgrounds. Over the course of a year a diverse group of arts practitioners will work together to make new, risk-taking work and create a group show from the ground up – including fundraising, developing and managing the project, while working with each other and a wide range of professionals from across the artistic spectrum.

Opportunities

02.07.18

Hidden Gems, new grant scheme to highlight Herefordshire

A new grant scheme to identify hidden gems of local heritage and work with communities to produce arts programming or innovative interpretation that tells the gem’s story, making Herefordshire a better place to live, work, and visit. Nine grants of up to £12,000 will be available between 2018 and 2020, with four grants awarded in 2018.

Opportunities

02.07.18

RBSA Next Wave 2018

Deadline approaching for the RBSA’s Next Wave biennial exhibition opportunity for emerging and early-career artists.

Feature

26.06.18

Disabled artists cultivated by DASH mentoring scheme

DASH has just brought Cultivate to a close, a three year mentoring programme for Disabled visual artists based in the West Midlands. Over three years 45 artists took part, and 155 mentoring sessions were held by 12 highly skilled mentors. As a result of the programme’s success, DASH is now planning a Midlands-wide mentoring starting in 2019.

22.06.18

Assembly Birmingham: from precarity of modern living to the power of righteous fury

Birmingham-based artist Pete Ashton reports on a-n’s Assembly event at Eastside Projects.

Engine News

19.06.18

Curatorial Research Group: Can the museum be a site of change? – Thursday 21 June 2018

This Thursday’s Curatorial Research Group, reflects on institutional resistance and the possibility of transformation with the co-curators of ‘The Past Is Now: Birmingham and the British Empire,’ currently on at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery.