Artists may join an organisation/have a membership to professional body which may include different benefits. For example, discounts on materials/exhibitions, access/guidance to insurance, support with various aspects of business and access to exclusive workshops and training. They help artists starting out get their foot in the business, and support funding as well as helping community endeavours.
Below are some of the organisations/memberships that may be of use to me in the future. Wasp Studios is an art charity which provides affordable studios for artists and creative disciplines in their twenty facility’s locations across Scotland. It is one of the largest studio providers in the UK, with a broad spectrum of 900 creative patrons/businesses using their provided spaces. The benefits of joining them are the studio spaces for in resident creators as well as an open space available to hire for exhibitions or in-house workshops. https://www.waspsstudios.org.uk/about/ https://www.waspsstudios.org.uk/spaces/artist-space/apply/ Dundee Contemporary Arts, also known as the DCA is a local creative hub and social space housing various exhibitions, an in-home cinema and café, as well as a printing studio/space open for anyone to join, with access for all disabilities. An introduction course is mandatory when joining the print studios as it goes over health and safety, equipment provided and booking them, as well as payment for the membership. One on one sessions for these inductions are available by pre-booking and artists can sell their work made in the studio in the gift shop above reception. https://www.dca.org.uk/visit/print-studio Creative Scotland is a public body which supports and financially enables creative endeavours, businesses and artists across Scotland. They are funding via public through the Scottish government and the UK National Lottery, with the requirements for being funded being a creative based practice and being a working artist/creator. They help fund public events and solo creative endeavours, perfect as a starting point and getting one’s name out there on their website. https://www.creativescotland.com/ https://www.creativescotland.com/explore/read/stories/features/2015/cultural-enterprise-office I have a plus-one membership to V&A Dundee, which allows free access to the paying exhibition either through single, family or plus one membership. This is better than paying each time you go as it allows you to visit the paying exhibition more than once and is more cost effective than paying for a visit of the traveling exhibition. They have a reference library and a quiet reading area for visitors who want to sit down and read one of the many books about art in their collection, some of which are on sale in their various giftshops, often pertaining to current/previous exhibitions held in the facility. Members have a 10% discount to the giftshop and cafés in the V&A Dundee, as well as having exclusive access to surveys which help decide and preview the potential exhibitions they can hold. Members also get a 25% discount to the exhibitions in V&A London, which includes all social spaces and their reference library too. I have personally found this space super useful for studying and inspiration during the units I’ve had in HNC/D since their opening. The reference library is extensive and varied in the content they provide, everything from animation, interior design and specific artists such as Macintosh. https://www.vam.ac.uk/dundee/info/membership
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Eiladh
26/3/2020 02:05:30 pm
Very interesting and informative for creatives (or people wanting to get into the creative industry) in Dundee! :D
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