Business Support For Artists | Artist as Brand: Mark Brereton | Mini Commission Masterclass | Artist Surgery | Interlaced: A reflective session for artists led by Jo Buffery | Open Studios
Artist Development Programme
#4: Business Support for Artists
Developing your career as an artist often requires becoming self-employed. This session teaches you how to start a business, guides you through the process of how to start up and advises you on the key issues to consider. Led by Michael Niles from business support organisation Wenta.
Venue: 123 Midland Road, Bedford, MK40 1DE
Date: 19th Jan
Time: 7 - 9
For: Practicing artists who may currently be unemployed or economically inactive or those considering self-employment as an alternative to employment.
Cost: Free
To book: call 01234 818670 or email info@bedfordcreativearts.co.uk
Artist Development Programme
#5: Artist as Brand: Mark Brereton
The Artist as Brand workshop explores individual routes of brand and identity that an artist may or may not be aware of in their practice. It guides the artist through a unique and practical cognitive mapping process and stops along the way to identify the individual points you wish to develop or focus on further. This exciting and refreshing session looks at how we see ourselves, how others see us and how we wish to identify what we do in a creative and thought provoking way. Expect a useful and focused mix of planning, self-awareness and professional development.
Mark Brereton’s work is concerned with community and communication and identity of space, place, person and location. He creates work and projects fusing design, typography, the spoken word and various found and bespoke objects. www.dustdigital.co.uk
Venue: 123 Midland Road, Bedford, MK40 1DE
Date: 16th February Time: 7 - 9
For: Practicing Artists
Cost: £5
To book: call 01234 818670 or email info@bedfordcreativearts.co.uk
Artist Development Programme
#6: Mini Commission Masterclass
In preparation for making an application to our Spring Mini-Commission you are invited to find out more about the art of writing artist statements, proposals and budgeting projects for those artists interested in pursuing funding. These principles will help you to apply for the Mini Commission and beyond. You will also have the chance to hear from our selected Winter Mini Commission, Kristian Purcell. For more information about how to sign up for these opportunities please call or email us.
Venue: 123 Midland Road, Bedford, MK40 1DE
Date: 15th March
Time: 7 - 9
Cost: £5
For: Anyone interested in applying for a Mini Commission or other opportunities
To book: call 01234 818670 or email info@bedfordcreativearts.co.uk
Artist Development Programme
#7: Artist Surgery
Booking essential as these sessions fill quickly. Make an appointment to come into Bedford Creative Arts to talk about any questions you may have about your practice in 1-1 sessions of 45mins with curator Jessica Kenny from Art Exchange at University of Essex Gallery. To book your place please send brief details of your query and some images of your work and/ or an artists statement.
Venue: 104 Midland Road
Date: 15th March
Time: slots available throughout the day.
Cost: £5
For: Practicing artists
To book: call 01234 818670 or email info@bedfordcreativearts.co.uk
Artist Development Programme
#8: Interlaced: A reflective session for artists led by Jo Buffery
Through this session participants will be encouraged to explore the connections and separations between their personal and professional worlds. In doing so, they will unpick some of the knots in order to retie them in more constructive and beautiful ways. The workshop will be facilitated by Jo Buffery, who has a wealth of experience in supporting reflective artistic practice (www.artsandlearning.org.uk). Jo will introduce a series of questions and creative tasks to help participants frame their exploration. Through working in a supportive group setting, individuals will come away with greater clarity about how their own personal and professional lives weave together most beneficially with a unique series of twists and loops to create an intricately patterned and yet resilient web. Places are limited so please book early to avoid disappointment.
Venue: 123 Midland Road, Bedford, MK40 1DE
Date: 17th May Time: 7 – 9
To book: call 01234 818670 or email info@bedfordcreativearts.co.uk
Open Studios
Come and see what Bedford Creative Arts has to offer. Visit us between 14th – 17th March at any time between 12pm – 5pm for our open studios drop in. Meet our studio artists, view our studios and find out more about our up coming programme.
