Connections North Seminar
Friday 22nd March 2013, 10.15am-3.30pm
Connections North Seminar: Residencies and other opportunities for Visual Artists
Friday 22nd March 2013
Harrogate Studio Theatre, Oxford St, Harrogate
Would you like to try working and responding to a different environment, making new contacts, exploring creative collaborations and benefiting from access to high quality facilities and equipment? Would you like to gain new skills and confidence by working in a different country?
Chrysalis Arts is planning the further development of its Connections North project which has so far involved developing and supporting residencies by North Yorkshire artists with arts organisations in Finland, Ireland and Sweden.
This event will include speakers from Finland, Sweden, Scotland and Arts Council England and include information about:
- Arts Council England’s Artists’ International Development Fund, which supports international visits outside the UK by artists working in any artform and runs until 2015.
- Case studies and information about a variety of artists’ residency opportunities in Finland, Sweden and the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.
- Feedback and information from North Yorkshire artists who have taken part in international residencies.
- Information about plans for a future collaborative printmaking project involving artists from these areas.
Fee: £15 includes coffee and a buffet lunch with plenty of time for networking.
PROGRAMME
10.15 Arrivals and Coffee
10.45 – 11.00 Welcome and introduction to Connections North: Rick Faulkner, Director, Chrysalis Arts
11.00 - 11.30 Residency Opportunities in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland: Pamel Conacher, Talent Development Manager, Hi-Arts, Inverness, Scotland
11.30 - 11.45 Ratamo Printmaking and Photography Centre
Presentation: Jukka Partanen, Curator, Jyvaskyla Art Museum, Central Finland
11.45 – 12.00 KKV Bohuslan Presentation by sculptor Sarah Smith about a residency at KKV artists collective and international artists workshop, Sweden
12.00 – 12.30 Algarden Printmaking Centre, Workshops and Gallery, Boras, West Sweden Presentation by residency artist Hester Cox and Christina Lindeberg and Anna Mattsson, Artists and Board Members, Algarden
12.30 – 1.30 Networking Lunch
1.30 – 2.00 Arts Council England’s Artists’ International Development Fund Presentation by Catherine Mitchell Relationship Manager Visual Arts, Arts Council England, Yorkshire about this funding initiative which supports international visits outside the UK by artists working in any artform. Followed by Questions
2.00 – 3.00 How to make the most of National and International residency opportunities: Good practice presentation followed by discussion led by Rick Faulkner, Chrysalis Arts and Leif Strengell, Printmaker and Head of Fine Art at Novia University, Jakobstad, Finland
3.00 – 3.30 Tea and networking in the Bar
To book a place, contact France-Leigh on 01756 748529 / [email protected]
