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Self-Employment, Collectives, Care, Arts Organising, Research, Mentoring, Professional development

Rethink­ing Gov­er­nance by Dr Cara Courage

What does fit-for-pur­pose gov­er­nance for you, your way of work­ing, and your organ­i­sa­tion look like?
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06/09/23
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Research

Resources for free­lancers, col­lec­tives & arts organisers

Rachel Dobbs shares a range of use­ful tools and resources from the per­spec­tive of a ser­i­al freelancer
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04/03/20
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Multidisciplinary
Professional development

Cre­at­ing Kind Spaces by Gay­lene Gould

How do you care for those you are work­ing with, how do we care for our­selves? Restora­tive Care Prac­tice is way to hold space for your­self and Others
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26/05/23
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Multidisciplinary
Professional development

Con­tract of Self Care

Lumi­nara Flo­res­cu’s Con­tract of Self Care, avoid burnout and explore sus­tain­able work­ing for artists with phys­i­cal and men­tal health disabilities.
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23/05/23
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Curating
Professional development

A read­ing list by Amal Khalaf

An invi­ta­tion to dis­cov­er lines of enquiry into how we relate, and new frame­works for car­ing action at the inter­sec­tion of art and social justice.
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23/05/23
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Multidisciplinary
Self-Employment, Rights & Pay, Care, Arts Organising, Professional development

List of Wants by Rachael Clerke

How are peo­ple work­ing in the arts expect­ed to know what they want and what they can ask for, what if we actu­al­ly just… told each other?
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12/04/23
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Moving Image
Self-Employment, Arts Organising, Applications, Research, Mentoring, Funding, Professional development

Mov­ing Image Resource

A resource for artists’ mov­ing image in Eng­land by Ben­jamin Cook, Direc­tor of Lux
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30/03/23
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Professional development

Artist Asso­ciate schemes

Inter­est­ed in join­ing an artist asso­ciate scheme? Find out about these region­al & nation­al ini­tia­tives — what they cost, what’s on offer & how to join
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23/03/23
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Curating
Self-Employment, Rights & Pay, Care, Arts Organising

Togeth­er We Will event

A record­ing of an event for the Togeth­er We Will pro­gramme, focus­ing on dis­man­tling struc­tur­al inequal­i­ty in the visu­al arts.
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04/02/22
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Rights & Pay, Care, Arts Organising

Togeth­er We Will: Inter­sec­tion­al Approach­es to Best Practice

VASW shares new rec­om­men­da­tions for best prac­tice in visu­al arts for insti­tu­tions, organ­i­sa­tions and free­lance arts organisers.
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18/11/21
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Arts Organising

Arts&Heritage Resource Hub

Arts&Heritage Resource Hub is an online archive of guides and tem­plates for artists, cura­tors and muse­um professionals.
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04/08/21
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Care, Arts Organising

Access Docs for Artists

Infor­ma­tion on writ­ing an access doc­u­ment for dis­abled artists.
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08/07/21
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Funding

Fund­ing Work­shop: Arts Coun­cil Eng­land’s DYCP

A recod­ing of a work­shop by VASW for artists and art work­ers apply­ing for Arts Coun­cil England’s Devel­op­ing your Cre­ative Prac­tice fund.
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11/02/21
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Care, Arts Organising, Communications, Audiences

The Space’s Toolk­it on Respond­ing to Online Abuse

A toolk­it designed as a prag­mat­ic guide for artists and cul­tur­al organ­i­sa­tions to effec­tive­ly pre­vent and respond to online abuse.
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19/11/20
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Rights & Pay, Funding

The White Pube’s Fund­ing Library

The White Pube’s Fund­ing Library is a resource of suc­cess­ful fund­ing appli­ca­tions to a range of fund­ing bod­ies to help you write your own application.
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18/11/20
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Care, Arts Organising

The Reset Webi­nar: Euel­la Jack­son and Kam­i­na Wal­ton on Allyship

Watch The Reset, episode 3: Euel­la Jack­son and Kam­i­na Wal­ton from Ris­ing Arts Agency on ally­ship in anti-racist work.
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23/09/20
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Curating
COVID-19

The Reset Webi­nar: Sup­port Net­works for Curators

Watch The Reset, episode 2: Sup­port Net­works for Cura­tors, with cul­tur­al con­sul­tant, cura­tor and pro­duc­er Mandy Fowler.
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22/07/20
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Curating
Arts Organising, COVID-19

Intro­duc­tion to Tick­et­ing for Muse­ums and Galleries

Down­load ACE’s guide on how to intro­duce a timed entry book­ing operation.
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15/07/20
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Collectives, Arts Organising, Funding

Rachel Dobbs on Fundraising

Rachel Dobbs shares a range of use­ful tools and resources from the per­spec­tive of a ser­i­al freelancer.
Posted
02/07/20
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Collectives, Arts Organising, Connecting

Rachel Dobbs on Map­ping out Local Resources

Rachel Dobbs shares a range of use­ful tools and resources from the per­spec­tive of a ser­i­al freelancer.
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02/07/20
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Collectives, Arts Organising

Rachel Dobbs on Col­lec­tive Organising

Rachel Dobbs shares a range of use­ful tools and resources from the per­spec­tive of a ser­i­al freelancer.
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02/07/20
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Self-Employment, Rights & Pay, Care

Rachel Dobbs on Pre­car­i­ous Work

Rachel Dobbs shares a range of use­ful tools and resources from the per­spec­tive of a ser­i­al freelancer.
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02/07/20
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Self-Employment, Rights & Pay

Rachel Dobbs on Trade Unions

Rachel Dobbs shares a range of use­ful tools and resources from the per­spec­tive of a ser­i­al freelancer.
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02/07/20
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Insurance

Rachel Dobbs on Insur­ance for Freelancers

Rachel Dobbs shares a range of use­ful tools and resources from the per­spec­tive of a ser­i­al freelancer.
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02/07/20
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Self-Employment, Rights & Pay

Rachel Dobbs on Arts Work­ers’ Fees and Pay Rates

Rachel Dobbs shares a range of use­ful tools and resources from the per­spec­tive of a ser­i­al freelancer.
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02/07/20
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Multidisciplinary
Audiences

The Reset Webi­nar: What does social dis­tanc­ing mean to visu­al arts?

Watch our webi­nar with Andy Bry­don (Curat­ed Place) and Fiona Wot­ton (Corn­wall 365) on the arts sec­tor’s recov­ery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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24/06/20
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COVID-19, Audiences

Audi­ence Engage­ment resources from Curat­ed Place

Andy Bry­don from Curat­ed Place shares resources on reopen­ing and engag­ing audi­ences as organ­i­sa­tions adjust to liv­ing with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Posted
24/06/20
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Research
Research

Updat­ed: BLM Resources Com­piled by VASW

An ongo­ing list of resources to help us learn and relearn all we can about racism with­in the arts and with­in wider society.
Posted
24/06/20
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COVID-19

Is the future of the art mar­ket online?

The Art News­pa­per pod­cast dis­cuss­es the future of the art mar­ket as gal­leries and auc­tion hous­es remain closed and art fairs have been cancelled.
Posted
11/06/20
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Writing
Rights & Pay, Care, Research, Mentoring, Connecting

BLM Resources from Jody Mul­vey / @sadgrads2020

A col­lec­tion of books, arti­cles, char­i­ties and oth­er resources explor­ing racism with­in the arts.
Posted
03/06/20
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Multidisciplinary
COVID-19

Impact of COVID-19 on Visu­al Arts Work­ers: Sur­vey Summary

Fol­low­ing emer­gency sec­tor sup­port mea­sures announced in March, CVAN and Earth­en Lamp devel­oped a sur­vey on the pan­demic’s impact on cre­ative practice
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27/05/20
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Care

Tips and Tricks for Bud­ding Young Artists

RWA has col­lat­ed a series of arti­cles designed to help young artists and chil­dren dis­cov­er art and cre­ate at home.
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20/05/20
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COVID-19

Art Work­ers Italia: Manifesto

Art Work­ers in Italy share their out­line of demands in response to how things have tran­spired due to the Coronavirus.
Posted
20/05/20
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COVID-19

Pan­dem­ic Programme

A list of inter­est­ing, enter­tain­ing, use­ful, relax­ing, rec­om­mend­ed, crit­i­cal­ly engaged & par­tic­u­lar­ly GOOD online visu­al arts con­tent by Kevin Hunt.
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20/05/20
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Research

VASW’s South West Clus­ter Meeting

Notes by VASW’s Net­work Man­ag­er Paula Orrell from pub­lic sec­tor devel­op­ment meet­ings from Sep­tem­ber 2019 till Jan­u­ary 2020.
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07/05/20
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Research

Strate­gic Com­mu­ni­ca­tions and Advo­ca­cy Plan

A research project by UK Arts & Her­itage con­sul­tan­cy Palmer Squared iden­ti­fy­ing key region­al challenges.
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07/05/20
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Futur­ing the Visu­al Arts: A Review of Youth Arts Provision

A research project by Dr. Ron­da Gow­land-Pryde on the cur­rent sta­tus of region­al youth arts pro­gram­ming. Com­mis­sioned by VASW.
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07/05/20
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COVID-19

COVID-19 impact sur­vey: Final Report

a‑n The Artists Infor­ma­tion Com­pa­ny share the final report from their recent Covid-19 impact survey.
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29/04/20
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COVID-19

COVID-19: Artists Sur­vival Guide by a space arts

a space arts have shared the first of their reg­u­lar Artist Sur­vival Guides designed to offer sup­port dur­ing the Coro­n­avirus’ restric­tions on movement.
Posted
25/03/20
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Self-Employment, Care, Connecting, COVID-19

COVID-19 & Free­lance Artists

A new web­site has been cre­at­ed to give free­lance artists access to invalu­able resources through­out these uncer­tain times.
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18/03/20
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Rights & Pay, Funding, COVID-19

COVID-19: Infor­ma­tion and guid­ance for artists and arts organisers

Access sup­port and guid­ance from across the arts sec­tor, plus wider gov­ern­ment and NHS guid­ance, fol­low­ing the coro­n­avirus Covid-19 outbreak.
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18/03/20
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Care

Future Proof, Ep 5: On Resilience and Per­son­al as Political

Eliza Gluck­man (Deputy Direc­tor, Gov­ern­ment Col­lec­tion) hosts a con­ver­sa­tion with 3 SW-based artists to explore resilience and per­son­al as political.
Posted
26/02/20
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Arts Organising

Future Proof, Ep 4: Fore­cast­ing the Future of Exhi­bi­tion Making

In this Future Proof pod­cast, jour­nal­ist, author and futur­ist Katie Baron, dis­cuss­es the future of exhi­bi­tion making.
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26/02/20
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Arts Organising

Future Proof, Ep 3: Worlds and Futures made Pos­si­ble through Practice

Robert Leck­ie (Direc­tor, Spike Island) hosts a con­ver­sa­tion with the Brunswick Club and Simon Sheikh on the val­ue, mean­ing, and impact of space.
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26/02/20
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Care, Arts Organising, Mentoring

Future Proof, Ep 1: Set­ting the Scene

Tune into the first part of the Future Proof series, where we intro­duce the focus of dis­cus­sions from a col­lec­tion of artists, cura­tors and academics.
Posted
19/02/20
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Care

Future Proof, Ep 2: Plat­form­ing Young Voices

In this Future Proof episode, Emi­ly Bull is joined by a col­lec­tion of young artists who explore how we can devel­op more acces­si­ble environments.
Posted
19/02/20
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Communications

The Space’s Online Audi­ences Toolkit

A user-friend­ly guide to build­ing your online audi­ences, cre­at­ed by The Space.
Posted
19/02/20
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