#arts sector

[jacksmith3]

Budget 2021: Chancellor set to announce £400m for arts sector

The chancellor is set to announce £408m of help for museums, theatres and galleries in England to reopen when Covid restrictions start to ease.

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Young people invited to create arts project in their local area

Young people invited to create arts project in their local area | British Museum looking for charities and third sector organisations to help deliver new programme. #cultural #accesstoarts #diversity

The British Museum is looking for 16-24-year-olds to come forward and help create local arts projects which matter to young people. The announcement will also invite organisations in the cultural and third sectors to work with 16-24-year-olds to co-design the local projects, including festivals, food, music and other cultural experiences. The work by the British Museum and its partners will focus…

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[museum-geek]

Reasons not to work in a museum

As I started to think about this Tumblr and what it could be... the sort of things I might want to post and reblog... I decided to go through all the blogs/articles/texts I have been saving since I started to get into museums. 

John Orna-Ornstein’s post on the Arts Council England Blog has resonated with me for a long time. 

"Why would anyone choose to work in a museum?”

I remember after I got my first internship in the Education department of a museum, I met up with some friends and while I was excitingly talking about the workshops and the guided tours I was doing, someone turned to me and said “Is that why you spent all this years studying? To guide people around?”

Idiotic comments aside... years later and after numerous attempts to get into the sector and actually find a stable job, I keep asking myself: why do I want to work in a museum?! When it’s so hard and when there are not that many jobs (certainly not permanent ones), when you will have to do extra hours and more that it’s stated on your job description and when the paying is not that great. 

Why? 

Well... exactly because of all that! Because like John said “These are indeed challenging times for museums, but they’re also full of hope.” The people who work in these institutions often live under the threat of a short term contract or the potential local authority cuts. But they go the extra mile regardless of that. They stay late, they do whatever needs to be done and they work together for a common cause. But most importantly, they carry on with an inspiring love for this profession. 

And because I believe museums are extraordinary places that can change people’s lives! I've seen it happen... Museums can bring a community together by engaging them with their common history; museums can help children learn without the constrictions of a classroom that are not a good fit for all students; museums can inspire and empower people by providing a space to create something.  

I agree with John, “There’s nowhere better than a museum to work.”

[arts-su]

Paying Artists: join the campaign

A new campaign, with support from the Arts Council of England, reveals that a shocking proportion of artists - 71% - in Britain are not paid when they develop and exhibit work for publicly-funded galleries, while 63% of artists have turned down opportunities such as these because they are unpaid. The Paying Artists campaign has written a report you can read, gathered case studies of viable methods of paying artists to exhibit and is lobbying the industry for much needed improvements. Get involved and show your support: a positive change in the arts sector WILL affect you and your coursemates in the future!

[westmeathlibrary]

ArtConnected is an online platform for artistic business interactions linking the entire arts sector through seamless communication. It has been developed to specifically meet communication needs of artists, artistic professionals, organisations, festivals, venues and service providers.

[nerd-gasms]

"Within the visual arts sector – as with many other sectors of the economy – free labour is rife. Those at the beginning of their careers are particularly vulnerable.

"Of course, many in the sector (dominated by middle class people whose parents can help them support themselves) do not experience this as a barrier. However, what it does create is an artificial filter, with the people who cannot rely on family or other support left to fall by the wayside."

"How can a sector open itself up to people from 'non-traditional backgrounds' (the euphemism used to describe non-white and/or non-middle class people) when they are expected to work for free in order to get their foot in the door?

"I would argue that it is no longer acceptable for organisations and funding bodies that claim to value 'equality of opportunity' and 'diversity' to not back – in principle and in practice – paid internships as a right and as an expectation.

via Facebook, via a girl from my Museum Studies course.