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Support Structures 🧰🐝

July 15, 2025 sophia Leave a comment

🐝Support Structures 🧰

Pollinator deadline today, plus upcoming events and opportunities

Whether you’re enjoying a break, getting time in the studio, or enjoying summer in the city, I hope you’re finding space to recharge and reconnect with what matters to you.

Today is the final chance to sign up for the Pollinator virtual residency. Tomorrow, I’m facilitating a reading group in Jane McCabe’s open studio at Fanshaw Projects. And this autumn, I’m launching Making a Buck Without Selling Out – a new professional practice course, in collaboration with Cristiana Bottigella. Also below: Artquest One-to-ones in August, and two upcoming courses – Art + Critique and Curating Contemporary Art. Continue reading Support Structures 🧰🐝 →

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September Update 🏮🍂

September 20, 2023 sophia Leave a comment

September Update 🏮🍂

The days are getting shorter, the evenings are cooler, and we’ll be spending more time indoors. I usually dread this time of year, but I’m looking forward to getting a lot of work done. At least that’s the plan. Invariably, something always blows my plans out of the water; overcommitting, unexpected workloads or crises, and burn out. But I’m learning to pace myself and take time off. Working longer hours doesn’t necessarily mean getting more done, in fact if you’re tired or stuck it’s better to take a break or even a nap. Continue reading September Update 🏮🍂 →

ALTERNATIVE ART EDUCATION, COURSES, CRITICAL STUDIES

CRITICAL STUDIES BIBLIOGRAPHY

A comprehensive bibliography for the Art + Critique lecture and seminar series. You can use it as a further reading list or to locate references that are not in the handouts, reader or further reading and resources. Please click the headings for a drop-down list.

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ALTERNATIVE ART EDUCATION, COURSES, CRITICAL STUDIES, PEDAGOGY, STUDIO PRACTICE

Art + Critique: Critical & Contextual Studies in Art Practice

Art + Critique

CRITICAL & CONTEXTUAL STUDIES IN ART PRACTICE: ONLINE COURSE

Studio practice and critical studies course that integrates practice and theory in a comprehensive programme of lectures, seminars, workshops, off-site visits, tutorials, assignments, feedback and peer support.

The curriculum fosters experimentation and collaborative study in a community of peers. It provides a supportive environment where participants will extend their knowledge of critical theories and discourses, develop their ability to discuss, write about and judge contemporary art, and contextualise their own practice.

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NEWS

Open Call: Fee-waiver Award

January 27, 2018 sophia Leave a comment

Critical Theory in Contemporary Art Practice Fee-waiver Award

Deadline Friday, 23 February 2018 at 5pm

We’re very pleased to invite applications for a fee-waiver award for the upcoming course Critical Theory in Contemporary Art Practice. The award is open to anyone over the age of 18. The fee-waiver is awarded to the applicant who will benefit most from participating in the course, regardless of previous experience, background or education. Every application will be judged on its own terms, there are no academic or professional entry requirements. Please read the course description, it will help you decide whether this course is for you.

The course runs from 19 April to 14 June 2018, on Thursday evenings for 9 weeks, including off-site visits on Saturday, 5 May 2018 at Kupfer, Arch 213, Ponsford Street, London E9 6JU.

For more information and to apply, please download the application form and return it by 5pm on Friday, 23 February 2018. You will be notified of the outcome on Friday, 2 March 2018 and if you are selected you must accept the offer by Friday, 9 March 2018.

We endeavour to offer affordable rates for everyone when we host our own courses. We also offer one fee-waiver award per self-hosted course so that one person can join the course for free. As a non-profit organisation we aim to cover our expenses, including venue hire, tutors’ salaries, insurance, booking fees etc. Free or affordable access to a venue helps keep our fees down.

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Bursary

Critical Studies Bursary, Autumn 2018

DEADLINE Monday, 3 September 2018
COURSE RUNS @Deptford Lounge, London SE8 4RJ, 8 Oct – 3 Dec & 27 Oct 2018

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ALTERNATIVE ART EDUCATION, RESEARCH, RESOURCES

ALTERNATIVE ART EDUCATION

ALTERNATIVE (ART) SCHOOLS & NETWORKS

Directory of alternative art schools, free schools, projects, support networks and vanguards of the alternative education movement. Please get in touch if you are associated with a school, project or network that is not on this list, or if you want to amend or expand the entry.

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COURSES, CRITICAL STUDIES, PEDAGOGY

Critical Theory in Contemporary Art Practice

This course maps the theories and discourses that inform the production and reception of contemporary art, providing a supportive environment to develop your practice and articulate your ideas on the production, exhibition and interpretation of art.

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CRITICAL STUDIES, RESEARCH, RESOURCES

CTHEORY BIBLIOGRAPHY

A comprehensive bibliography for the Critical Theory in Contemporary Art Practice lecture and seminar series. You can use it as a further reading list or to locate references that are not in the handouts. Please click the headings for a drop-down list.

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CRITICAL STUDIES, RESOURCES, STUDIO PRACTICE

ART PRACTICE & RESEARCH RESOURCES

A thematic list of resources for art practice and research, click the headings for a drop-down list. For a list of resources for curators please follow the link. Continue reading ART PRACTICE & RESEARCH RESOURCES →