Toolkit Masterclass – Marketing Surgery

Monday 11 December 2023
5-6:30pm
Humber Street Gallery
Pay what you can, booking required

In an age where over half of the world’s population has a social media account, ‘standing out’ can feel like a bit of a challenge. This masterclass aims to equip you with the tools to reach new audiences using digital and traditional media, share your story online with engaging content and capture media attention through an expertly written press release.

Toolkit Masterclass – Funding in Practice

Monday 29 January 2024
5-6:30pm
Humber Street Gallery
Pay what you can, booking required

This masterclass will explore methods for building intuitive pathways towards project planning, from reaching out to new collaborators and the value of conversation in everyday practice, to writing funding applications. We will gain insight into the structuring of commissioned project work involving multiple partners and explore balancing responsibilities and income streams, thinking about how we might locate those moments where our regular, required occupations and freelance practice become seamless.

Past Events

Toolkit Masterclass – Positioning Practice

Monday 16 October 2023
5-6:30pm
Humber Street Gallery
Pay what you can, booking required

This masterclass invites participants to question, consider and embrace the complexity of the experience of being an artist. Through open discussion and questions participants will be encouraged to self strategise and set goals in relation to their creative practice in order to succeed in a complex cultural landscape.

Toolkit Masterclass – The Art of the Artist Statement

Monday 6 November 2023
5-6:30pm
Humber Street Gallery
Pay what you can, booking required

This masterclass will explore the craft of the artist statement, the type of language we use as artists when explaining our practice, and how we communicate our work to everyone else. By the end, you will have gained a deeper understanding of how to write your own artist statement and, hopefully, have gained the confidence to speak and write clearly about the work you create.

Toolkit Masterclass – People

Monday 20 November 2023
5-6:30pm
Humber Street Gallery
Pay what you can, booking required

This masterclass will consider how artists can develop the necessary broad skills of a facilitator, explore new ways of thinking about community and look at contemporary debates in community arts practice. We will also discuss the role of arts organisations as a provider of opportunities in this field, how that relationship works in practice and how it helps artists to become more visible within communities.