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New Museum School Advanced Programme
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The New Museum School Advanced Programme kicks off a second year, building on the success of the first cohort of 15 students. In September 2022, 15 new students joined the programme – providing fully funded postgraduate study opportunities at the University of Leicester’s renowned School of Museum Studies. As part of their studies, students undertake a Project in Practice module, hosted by a UK Museum/Gallery – this year’s organisational partners include: Bethlem Museum of the Mind
London Metropolitan Archives – City of London Corporation Pitt Rivers Museum – University of Oxford Museum of London RAF Museum English Heritage Culture&’s New Museum School provides a pipeline of fresh, diverse talent to the arts and heritage sector. Over the past 7 years, New Museum School has provided accessible and flexible training to 134 young people from diverse backgrounds with around 74% finding full-time employment in the sector within six months of graduating. Having supported these young professionals to gain entry level access to employment we followed them up to see how their careers were progressing. A survey conducted with them tells of their encounter with a ‘glass ceiling’ and the barriers that impede their career progression, experiences that reflect the findings of broader surveys into diversity in the museum workforce (Arts Council England 2019).The New Museum School Advanced Programme addresses Culture&’s core strategic objective to open up who makes and enjoys arts and heritage. The Programme will be looking for the most promising diverse talent with leadership potential within the Arts and Heritage workforce. The course allows professionals to continue full-time employment while attending distance learning. The course has a flexible and modular structure leading to post-graduate qualifications from PGDip to MA level. There will be an accessible recruitment process for applicants with a wide-range of experiences and budget to diversify the Arts and Heritage workforce. We look forward to sharing more later in 2023
We are very excited to announce that Kirsty Kerr has joined the Culture& team as Administrator and Associate Curator. Kirsty has been working with and alongside Culture& since 2018, initially through her New Museum School traineeship and later as Associate Curator for the Memory Archives: Sensory Boxes, designed for Black elders living with dementia. She has a background in contemporary art and socially-engaged practice, and has experience in delivering exhibitions, public programmes and artist commissions, working with Create London, V&A East, London Metropolitan Archives, Museum of the Home, UK New Artists and gal-dem, Wellcome Collection amongst others. She is currently undertaking an MA in Museum Studies with the University of Leicester, as part of the New Museum School Advanced Programme. Kirsty has her own creative practice, often drawing on experiences of living in/between mixed spaces and identities such as race, class, culture and religion. She is enthusiastic about contemporary interventions in heritage spaces, and art encountered in the everyday, public realm. Kirsty is excited to join the Culture& team as Administrator and to continue supporting the organisation with its vision to make the Arts truly reflective of our society.
We are excited to announce that Yujia Wang has joined the Culture& team as the Executive Assistant.Yujia has worked with a variety of art spaces in the UK and in China, including non-profit and commercial cultural organisations and film festivals, in administrative, public programming, exhibition-making, as well as marketing roles. When studying at the Curating Contemporary Art MA at the Royal College of Art, Yujia was awarded distinction for her dissertation on analysing Western-centric discourses on ‘queer exhibitions’ from a transnational perspective, and co-curated ‘For us, to share’, a project in collaboration with Southwark Park Galleries and the Bosco Centre in Rotherhithe. Being a curator, digital artist and animator, Yujia is passionate about exploring intersectional subjectivities, transnational kinship and belonging through multidisciplinary practices.
Photograph courtesy of Cromwell Place We are thrilled to share the news that we are now an honorary member of Cromwell Place. Cromwell Place is a membership organisation offering exhibition and working space for galleries, dealers, collectors and art professionals. Other honorary members of Cromwell Place include the Serpentine Galleries and Gasworks. Stay tuned for exciting collaborations between Cromwell Place and Culture&, coming soon! |
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‘Uncovering Careers in the Arts’ with Southbank Centre
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Culture& collaborated with London’s Southbank Centre today. The event called ‘Uncovering Careers in the Arts’ was designed to encourage young people to access jobs in the cultural sector.
Filmmaker Ashton John and writer/curator Daniel Adediran were on a panel with director of Museum X Sandra Shakespeare plus Culture& director Dr Errol Francis. We spoke about the need for arts and culture to be more accessible to people from varied backgrounds and Daniel and Ashton shared their unique experiences.
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Culture& Reviews: CEZANNE
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Paul Cézanne, ‘Scipio’, 1867, oil on canvas This portrait stands out as the only depiction of an African person in the current @tate Cézanne retrospective and its large size (107x86cm) and isolated hanging gives it prominence. There is some debate about who was the sitter and what was his real name. Scipio is likely to have been formerly enslaved and is known to have been an art model at the Académie Suisse in Paris where Cézanne attended in the 1860s. In her essay about the portrait, American artist Ellen Gallagher points out the sitter’s furrowed back which suggests the scarring of a flogged, enslaved person. She connects the painting with a photograph of an enslaved man known as Gordon, in a similar pose, showing his back with large weals caused by flogging. The image was published in Harpers Weekly in 1863 during the American Civil War and it’s thought Cézanne supported abolition of slavery. Others argue that Scipio could have been a nickname derived from the eponymous character in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery novel ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’, published in France in 1862. Whatever is the case, the painting is a striking anomaly in the Cézanne exhibition. ‘Scipio’ was previously owned by Claude Monet and is now in the collection of the Museu de arte de São Paulo, which has loaned the work to Tate. Cézanne is at Tate Modern until 12 March. Photo credit: Errol Francis Photography
Cecilia Vicuña, ‘Brain Forest Quipu’, Hyundai Commission, 2022 One of two huge sagging structures hung from the roof and falling the entire height of London’s Tate Modern, Turbine Hall. The sculptures are made from fraying raw wool, knotted rope and twine, woven netting and suspended braided fabrics. The Chilean artist’s work is an elegy to lost language and destruction of indigenous culture. There is the sound of birdsong and tumbling water, the noise of insects, folk song and the artist’s own voice ‘Brain Forest Quipu’ is at Tate Modern, Turbine Hall until 16 April 2023. |
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A subversive project called ‘Permissible Beauty’ was launched at London’s Hampton Court Palace – a former royal residence, built by King Henry VIII’s chancellor Cardinal Wolsey The Palace holds a series of eight portraits known as the ‘Hampton Court Beauties’ by Sir Godfrey Knellar. They depict the most glamorous women from the court of King William III, commissioned by co-regent Queen Mary II in 1689 Hampton Court also houses another earlier series of eleven paintings – the ‘Windsor Beauties’ by Sir Peter Lely. These were assembled in 1659 by Anne Hyde, Duchess of York; likenesses of celebrated women in the Restoration court of King Charles II ‘Permissible Beauty’ responded to the Lely works by challenging how beauty has been historically defined and how this has shaped British heritage and the iconography of royal celebrity Based on reinterpretations by art historian and musician David Mcalmont , the show featured a film by Soup Co. and portraits of icons from the British Black queer community by photographer Robert Taylor. The sitters are: Le Gateau Chocolat, Son of a Tutu, Ebony Rose Dark, Karnage Kills, Julius Reuben and Winn Austin The exhibition was designed by artist Julie Howell and led by a three-year collaboration with Richard Sandell at the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries, University of Leicester ‘Permissible Beauty’ exhibited at Hampton Court Palace until 26 February 2023
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Job Opportunity – Learning Coordinator (The Superpower of Looking) |
Learning Coordinator (The Superpower of Looking)
£27,500 per annumFull-time fixed-term contract, minimum 36-month temporary post.Work from home, anywhere in the UK.
Art UK is looking for a highly motivated Learning Coordinator to join their friendly and dedicated team to coordinate the delivery of their innovative programme, The Superpower of Looking® (SPoL).
About The Superpower of Looking®
The Superpower of Looking® is an innovative and inclusive programme that seeks to transform the visual literacy skills of primary school children across the UK, taking the world of art and images as its starting point. Using a set of free teaching resources, children will gain an essential superpower: the ability to really ‘see’ – to critically observe, analyse, question, interpret, and empathise.
Children will become visually literate in the image-dominated world around them. The programme is designed to harness the power of digital learning, demonstrate the techniques of visual literacy, and provide children with sharpened powers of observation and analysis, as well as a love of art. While SPoL’s overriding focus is to equip children with these vital lifelong skills, at a practical level it enables teachers to deliver many aspects of the Art and Design curriculum, as well as providing exciting new interdisciplinary approaches to learning. Following two successful schools pilots, which involved the development of twenty KS2/Second Level lessons focused primarily on paintings, in 2023 Art UK will begin our national rollout of SPoL across the UK, expanding the resource to include other 2D artforms and Key Stages. As part of this rollout, they will be running multiple national marketing campaigns alongside a Teacher Champion Scheme, through which schools will be rewarded with a real artwork for utilising SPoL lessons in the classroom and helping us spread the word to other schools. About youYou have experience of developing and coordinating learning projects, from online classroom resources to in-person events. You enjoy working with a wide range of people and partners, and you are an excellent communicator. You are well organised, enthusiastic and full of initiative. You are passionate about, and an advocate for, using art and visual literacy as a powerful educational tool. At Art UK you will be supported within a team focusing on delivering both learning resources and wider content. You will liaise closely and work collaboratively with your colleagues on many aspects of the role. You will promote equality and diversity in all aspects of your work – with the public, colleagues and external partners.
For more information and details on how to apply, please visit: https://artuk.org/about/jobs