Creative Open Call – Climate Communication

Count Us In are inviting artists and illustrators to submit new or existing work in the form of a single image to inspire people to consider: What or who do you want to protect most from the effects of climate change?

 

Selected entries from the open call will be published as part of an Instagram takeover on the Count Us In Instagram account from Valentine’s Day, February 14th.

 

What is Count Us In?

Count Us In is a radical collaboration by over 70 organisations around the world (and growing) including TED, the EU, Tottenham Hotspur, IKEA, the Olympics and many more. Our aim is to inspire 1 billion individual citizens to take practical actions to reduce their carbon pollution and place pressure on leaders to make bold the changes needed to prevent the worst effects of climate change over the next decade. We will achieve this through Count Us In soft-launched in late 2020 with big ambitions for 2021.

 

Deadline 28/01/2021

To find out more information, visit www.count-us-in.org.

Competition – Finding the Fearless, Frasers Group

Finding the Fearless, Frasers Group

Frasers Group is home to some of the world’s leading retail brands. We’re looking to turn one innovative idea into a reality – no matter what you study, or where you’re studying in the UK/IE.

 

Your Mission:

Come up with an idea for a product, process or initiative that you’d like to see taken on by one of our brands OR an event that Frasers Group could run to improve things during the pandemic, for your fellow students. What you’ll win:

 

Prizes:

£5K

Prize money – for you to spend how you like!

£10K INVESTMENT

See Frasers Group bring your idea to life

KICK-START YOUR CAREER

Fast-track opportunity to join the Elevation Programme

REPUTATION

Your name and concept promoted as the fearless winner

 

 

Deadline 27th January 2021

For more information about how this could look, click here.

Introducing – Creative Lives In Progress

Introducing Creative Lives In Progress! (Formerly known as Lecture in Progress)

Creative Lives new website offers industry knowledge, tips and experience with behind the scenes into the lives of professionals. There is plenty to get involved with including the opportunity for portfolio reviews and live Q&As with guests.

 

Creative Lives also includes…

 

Creative Lives

Meet the creatives making the industry thrive, covering early beginnings to what a typical working day looks like.

In the Studio With

Go behind the scenes at acclaimed creative companies to get to know their teams, culture and ways of working.

Advice

Words of wisdom on a wide range of topics, from preparing portfolios to building confidence and essential skills.

Resources

Helpful information, tools and recommendations, from inspiring podcasts and documentaries to the latest funding schemes to apply to.

Guides

Comprehensive guides that go a bit deeper than our advice articles, with actionable steps on everything from pitching for work to building connections.

 

View the website at www.creativelivesinprogress.com

Student Juror Program, Apexart – International Open Call

What is Apexart?

Apexart is a non-profit arts organisation in Lower Manhattan founded in 1994. We offer opportunities to curators and emerging and established artists, while challenging set ideas about culture, art, exhibitions, and curation through our exhibitions, Fellowships, publications, and public programs.

 

Make voting in apexart’s open call part of your class curriculum

The apexart open call occurs twice annually soliciting idea-driven, group exhibition proposals from everyone, anywhere. Proposals must be 500 words or less, in English (Google translate works well) and contain no images, links, videos, or CVs so that jurors can focus on the idea only. The NYC open call is for NYC exhibitions while the international open call is for exhibitions proposed anywhere in the world other than NYC.

The jury is composed of approximately 400 individuals and arts-related classes from around the world using an online crowdsourcing system. Each juror votes on a subset of anonymous and randomized proposals. Our signature selection process results in exhibitions that reflect the interests and sensibilities of our international audiences, while allowing artists and curators from locations that don’t get their due attention to compete on a fair playing field.

 

How you, your university class, or your high school class can participate
As an individual, contact us at juror@apexart.org. To involve your class as an assignment or an elective, you can specify the number of proposals that students review for credit—generally 20–50, and take advantage of our lesson plans for subsequent discussion. It takes about 2 hours to read and rate 50 proposals. Each juror is given an individual login and password, rating each proposal on a scale of 1 (uninteresting)–5 (I’d like to see it). At its conclusion, the process generates more than 16,000 votes on 450–500 submissions.

 

Classroom benefits
As apexart jurors, students review ideas coming from all around the world and actually help determine apexart’s exhibition programming—while gaining a real-world perspective of issues evaluating proposals, and considering what makes one compelling and another less so. Our last open call drew proposals and jurors from 89 countries. Being on the other side of the “grading” process is essential to one’s own understanding of the curatorial process and the jury process in general, and sparks dynamic classroom discussion about what art is, what’s important to individuals and what art’s role and purpose can be. The variety of proposals provides valuable insight into the themes, conditions, history, and ideas that are pressing in local and international contexts.

 

Sign up
Provide names and email addresses of participating students for direct email, or let us know the number of students to make logins for, if you wish to not have them on our mailing list. Tell us the parameters of the process that work best for you, including the number of proposals to be assigned, and any specific calendar restraints. You can send this information to lisa.vagnoni@apexart.org. We will send login information, voting instructions, and deadline reminders to you and your students. We provide you with a live tally page that will show the number of votes logged by your students, the ratings for each proposal given by each student, a copy of the proposal, the order of its ranking as determined by all jurors, and the last time each student logged in.

 

Educators find that serving on an apexart jury encourages lively discussion about many aspects of curating, writing, and exhibition organization including size, location, purpose, and feasibility. To date, more than 120 classes from universities and art schools have participated, including The New School (New York City), Node Center for Curatorial Studies (Berlin), Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, de Appel Curatorial Program (Amsterdam), Makere University (Kampala), and MICA (Baltimore).

 

In recognition of their effort, we offer a free e-book of one of apexart’s relevant and readable publications to all student jurors.

More information on the program and how to sign up can be found here. Contact: Lisa Vagnoni, Web Director—lisa.vagnoni@apexart.org.

Modern Queers, LGBTQIA+ Community Newsletter

What is Modern Queers?

Modern Queers is a quarterly double sided print newsletter distributed by post. Inspired by newsletters circulated by LGBTQIA+ community in the 70s, 80s and 90s. Modern Queers is an attempt to create new networks, share news and be physically connected around the world in the digital age.

 

‘It’s for queers, by queers’

 

Get involved!

The content is created through submission and by invitation. It may include stories, recommendations, news, creative writing, personal ads, replies to previous articles, skill swap, reviews, recipes… anything in writing.

If you identify as queer* or questioning, you can submit content via our website

*By queer we mean someone who identifies as LGBTQIA+ and/or socially and politically identifies as queer

 

For any questions, email modernqueers@gmail.com

 

Art Supplies – Student Discount (Limited time only)

Don’t miss Cass Art’s Online Exclusive offer!

 

Students receive and extra 20% off EVERYTHING and a free goodie bag worth over £50, when you shop online at www.cassart.co.uk from Tues 19th – Thurs 21st January and spend £50 before discount.

 

Stock up on everything you need for the term and receive a goodie bag filled with the best quality materials from the world’s best brands.

 

For more information visit: www.cassart.co.uk/students

Digital Graphic Designer – Paid Opportunity

Digital Graphic Designer – Paid Opportunity

Alfie Smith, freelance graphic designer from London and UWE Graphic Design graduate is looking to take on a Digital Graphic Designer.

 

The Role

  • Remote working
  • Working on projects from a range of industries (mostly health tech space and online news outlet)
  • Working with websites and creating graphics/motion art whilst considering UI/UX

Important Qualities

  • Hard worker
  • Understanding importance of brand messaging and creating content that fits
  • Confidence in your work
  • Organised
  • Able to prioritise work loads
  • Not afraid to ask questions

Skills

  • Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator & Aftereffects)
  • WordPress

Non-essential but beneficial skills

  • HTML/CSS
  • UI/UX

 

Contract length & expected hours

  • Short term (2-3 months), possible to continue after that
  • 10-15 hours a week expected, but potentially more based on your availability

Pay

  • 10p/h

 

Start date

  • ASAP

 

To Apply

  • Please send over a short cover letter in response to this ad with any relevant work examples or portfolio to alfie@draperanddash.com