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Issue 169
Features this issue
Digital Arts
Jon Harrison gives an overview of recent developments in digital art; Read Delving into digital. Tim Jones reveals how a producing organisation can engage with digital work; Read Getting the bug. Roanne Dods tells how the Jerwood Moving Image Awards mark the coming of age of a creative discipline; Read Images and Imagining and Drew Hemment writes that digital art is about mass access and collaboration; Read Digital streets
Consultation
Elaine Cabuts explains how building relationships through consultation is beneficial to both organisations and their visitors and audiences; Read Listening to the audience and Jay Barron writes that using the arts to consult with young people has become a key skill in the arts sector; Read Embedding creative consultation.
Sounding Board
David Dixon dismisses the role played by Arts & Business in arts fundraising and proposes that the UK should be funding better ways of building relationships with business and increasing private funding. Read Public funding, private world
Essential IT
Hannah Rudman reflects on the work emerging from Futurelab’s ‘Digital Inclusion’ project: is the digital divide a last century anxiety, or still of concern to the cultural sector? Read Still slipping through the Net?
Community Focus
Damian Hebron looks at the benefits of ‘percent for art’ schemes in the healthcare sector. Read Percent for health
My Gurus
Fergus Early introduces us to some of the extraordinary people who have influenced him. Read My Gurus
Platform: Relevant or what?
It is becoming ever more fascinating to see how the different nations of the UK are developing their relationships with the arts and the creative industries. For Arts Council England (ACE), the McMaster Report is still the word of the lord. The new ACE report on audiences in England, which ... read more
John Dummett’s Full Bloom, Museums and Galleries Month. Read
News this week
The establishment of Creative Scotland, the replacement body for the Scottish Arts Council (SAC) and Screen Scotland, moved a step closer as the Transition Team gave evidence at Holyrood Palace before the Education, Lifelong Learning and Culture Committee (ELLCC) on 30 April. However, the Transition Team was criticised by the ELLCC for failing to provide sufficient financial information to allow the Committee to assess the budget and timeline for the implementation of Creative Scotland. Read ‘Creative Scotland’ a step closer
Income, social class and disability status have little or no significant effect on arts attendance, according to a report issued by Arts Council England (ACE) this month. Education levels and social status are the most important factors in determining whether somebody attends arts activities, while gender, ethnicity, age, region, having young children and health also determine the likelihood of this. Read Cash not a barrier, says new ACE report
Greater incentives for private donors to give to the arts, and greater recognition for those who do, are among the aims of a new nationwide campaign, ‘Private Giving for the Public Good’. Led by the National Museum Directors’ Conference, the Museums, Libraries and Archive Council (MLA) and Arts Council England ACE), the campaign is supported by a range of leading cultural organisations; Read Call for increased private giving
The impact of the EU Directive on artist resale rights (ARR), introduced in part two years ago, may have been exaggerated by a small group within the art trade in order to delay full implementation of the law, the Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS) has claimed. Read Conflict over resale rights
St Donats Arts Centre is examining its legal position following the decision of Arts Council Wales (ACW) not to reinstate its revenue funding, despite a successful appeal. All six of the organisations threatened with cuts appealed against the decision. Four have been rejected and one is still pending; Read St Donats to contest ACW appeal outcome
150 young people from twelve young theatre companies from countries including Zambia, Palestine and Brazil will be taking part in Contacting the World, an international theatre exchange project, in which youth theatre companies are randomly twinned in creative partnership. Read Contacting the World
Newsreel
Changing Faces
The latest appointments and job moves in the arts and cultural sector. Read Changing Faces