Making your art work: Career Development for Visual Artists

20th November, 2012, 9.30 – 4.30
Coventry (venue tbc)

Visual artists, this is an opportunity to think about your practice as a sustainable enterprise and to begin focusing on the skills and tools needed to develop your career. The day covers a range of topics including:

•   Making successful proposals and applications
•   Selling and Presentation
•   Project planning
•   Defining and promoting your practice
•   Peer networks: critiquing, collaborating, strengthening the individual offer

Who is it aimed at: visual artists of any age and at any stage in the development of their practice based in the West Midlands.

Workshop tutors include Wendy Law, Director of Turning Point West Midlands; Laura Elliott, Director of Coventry Artspace and a freelance project manager and consultant; Amber Merrick- Potter, Artistic Coordinator at Coventry Artspace and practicing visual artist and Peter McLuskie,
Coordination Manager at Creative Enterprise

This is a free workshop. To book a place CLICK HERE 

To be eligible you must be a graduate based in the West Midlands.

For more information contact Peter McLuskie: pmcluskie@cad.coventry.ac.uk

MA exhibition dates announced across the West Midlands

Birmingham City University

School of Art, Margaret Street, Birmingham

Opens:  Friday 31 August, Private view from 6pm-9pm 

Closes: Sunday 9 September, 4pm

Opening times: Monday - Saturday: 10am - 6pm. Closed Sunday.

Coventry University

The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum

Opens: Friday 21 September

Closes: Sunday 14 October  

Opening times: Monday - Saturday: 10am - 4pm. Sunday: 12pm - 4pm

University of Wolverhampton 

The Public, West Bromwich 

Opens: Wednesday 19 September

Closes: Saturday 20 October 

Opening times: Wednesday- Saturday:10am-5pm. Sunday: 11am-3pm. Closed Monday and Tuesday. 

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FOR GRADUATES: NEW ART WEST MIDLANDS EXHIBITION 2013

The Barber Institute / Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery / Grand Union 

A new exhibition will take place in Spring 2013 featuring selected work by BA, MA and PhD art graduates from 2010, 2011 and 2012. Graduates from the following universities in the West Midlands will be eligible to apply:

• Birmingham City University

• Coventry University

• Staffordshire University

• University of Wolverhampton

• University of Worcester

Application forms will be available soon. To receive application details, email  newartwestmidlands2013@bcu.ac.uk

Information will also be available via our free fortnightly Artists' News & Opportunities Bulletin