Have you found it hard to start or grow your career as an artist, arts leader or arts teacher?
We are looking for a creative person aged 18-30 to work with our team on an arts project, supporting other young people to learn arts skills and be creative.
You will be helping the workshop leads, learning new arts skills, setting up and putting away materials, talking to learners and helping them while you learn.
You don’t need any qualifications in art or experience in this kind of role. We are looking for someone who sees themselves as an artist, regardless of their background or training. You will be supported by experienced artists and project leaders.
This project will use visual arts like printmaking, drawing, photography and collage to explore ideas about places we live in and call home.
The Trainee Workshop Assistant will be paid £50 for each session they work at, and we would expect them to work at 12 sessions altogether, between June and December 2024.
We will also pay a £100 allowance for materials to develop your own work.
We will pay for training like safeguarding and customer service.
This is a young people led project, as we have identified an age-based barrier to taking lead roles in arts activities, which is why we are specifically recruiting someone uder 30 to this role.
Workshops would happen in Ladywood and Balsall Heath in Birmingham. We can pay for travel costs if this will help you.
The closing date for this opportunity is 6pm on 29 April 2024.
Please let us know if you need any help in making an application or you have any questions.
hello@makegoodarts.com
Send us your answers to the questions below.
You can send your answers in any one of these ways:
- As typed text
- As handwritten scanned text
- As illustrated text/cartoons (but please include some words too!)
- As an audio or video recording
By email to: hello@makegoodarts.com
To our WhatsApp: 07745 301 549
You can also apply online here:
https://forms.gle/jdgv88vPzz4CNeKv7
- Tell us about your interest in arts; how did you start making art?
- Do you have an art form you like to work in?
- Please link to anywhere online where we can see your artwork (don’t worry if you don’t have this, it’s not essential)
- You can also attach some images – please make sure they are less them 500k in size
- What sorts of things have made it challenging for you to follow an arts career? (e.g. health, money, family expectations, caring responsibilities, disability, lack of educational opportunities, isolation, bullying)
- What would help you overcome these challenges
- What do you think you would most enjoy about this role?
- How shall we contact you? Please provide an email, phone number or WhatsApp
Do you have experience and skills in one of these crafts:
- Using a sewing machine, from basic sewing to advanced skills
- Hand or sewing machine clothing repair, visible mending
- Textile crafts like weaving, embroidery or quilting
- Knitting or crochet
- Drawing and painting, collage, printing, papercrafts
Do you also…
Enjoy talking to new people, have a friendly approach and want to help people learn
Have a commitment to treating all people equally, fairly and with kindness
Want to work as a self-employed person – this means you’ll register as self employed and pay your own tax and national insurance from anything you earn.
We’d love to hear from you! We have opportunities for volunteer and paid roles within our projects for 2024!
hello@makegoodarts.com
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