Founded in 2021, Art School Plus is breaking new ground in empowering early career artists to use their skills and vision to reignite communities through impactful and intelligent public realm work. It achieves this by delivering an intense week-long, in-person training course with a small cohort of carefully selected artists and practitioners designed to equip participants with the practical experience and mindset to respond to public commissioning opportunities and deliver considered, impactful work.
The Art School Plus course includes best practice knowledge and training alongside direct support from world-leading mentors, trainers and artists with public-realm expertise. This training comprises best-practice knowledge and insights from leading artists, architects, local community groups, developers and arts professionals, as well as hands-on experience of responding to live commissioning opportunities. This course aims to equip artists with the knowledge, insight and support they need to meaningfully work on commissions in their future careers.
Creative Cardiff Art School Plus Scholarship 2023
The 2023 Art School Plus training course takes place in October, and Creative Cardiff are thrilled to announce that we’ve partnered to create a fully funded ‘Creative Cardiff Art School Plus Scholarship’. This means that one local, early-career artist will have the opportunity to participate in the 2023 Art School Plus training course this year on a fee-free basis, including travel and accommodation costs.
Criteria
Applicants for the Scholarship must be:
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Living or working in Cardiff or the wider Cardiff Capital Region (CCR) across South East Wales. The CCR comprises Cardiff and the surrounding nine local authorities of: Blaenau Gwent, Bridgend, Caerphilly, Merthyr Tydfil, Monmouthshire, Newport, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Torfaen and Vale of Glamorgan.
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An ‘early-career’ artist. This is defined as ‘an artist within the first seven years of their professional practice’. If you graduated from art school, you may have taken some time away from your practice meaning you have not been actively practising for over seven years, hence eligible to apply. Alternatively, you may not have formally studied or graduated from an art school, but have evidence up to seven years of active professional practice.
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Demonstrate past experience of, or future potential, of public realm practice, particularly within Cardiff or the Cardiff Capital Region.
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Demonstrative a collaborative and inclusive approach to your practice.
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Demonstrate motivation and commitment.
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Be available for the training programme from 9-13 October 2023 and able to prepare for, and contribute to, an exhibition of work at KOKO immediately following this.
If you have questions about your eligibility you can email creativecardiff@cardiff.ac.uk in the first instance.
How to apply
The Art School Plus Scholarship represents a considerable investment. As such, we want to select the very best candidate at the right moment in their career. It is a competitive and rigorous process and we have taken every care to make the application and selection process as thorough and fair as possible. If you wish to make an application:
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Decide if this is the right programme for you and your practice, and if you can commit to the programme dates. Arts School Plus hold a series of online information events to support you in this decision – read the full details.
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Find a nominator, who is willing to support you in your application and is able to supply a statement of support by the deadline (it is your responsibility that they submit on time)
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Fill in the application and equal opportunities forms, ticking that you wish to be considered for the Creative Cardiff Scholarship opportunity.
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Send your application via email to hello@artsp.org in advance of the deadline on 14 August 2023 (09.00am)
All application documents and supporting information can also be found on the Art School Plus website.
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