Calman ArtWorks: Call for Artists 2012

Young people working with Calman Trust are looking for an inspiring professional artist who has the ability to work with them to create ArtWorks’ second annual event in Inverness in 2012.

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What is Calman?
Calman Trust works alongside young people in the Inverness area who are making the transition to independence, and supports them in developing the skills and confidence needed to live a fulfilled and meaningful life. Calman offers housing support and employment focussed training, which will be tailored to enable ArtWorks to integrate into the existing Calman provision.

Calman has secured funding from the Inspiring Communities strand of Creative Scotland supported by the National Lottery to develop a yearly event of high quality creative work to be developed, created and run by young people working in partnership with artists and the Calman team. Their participation will inspire and promote personal development and life chances and open up new opportunity. We are seeking a professional artist who ideally has experience of successfully working with young people who have limited experience of involvement in creative activities.

The artist will work collaboratively with young people to develop the vision, theme, content and design of this year’s event. Young people will be involved across all areas of the project including project direction, creation, PR and marketing. This is the second year of three years of funding.

What we’re inspired by:
Der Lauf der Dinge (Fischli & Weiss)

Edinburgh Cow Parade (various artists)

Millennium Clock (Stead, Besudsky, Sandstöm, Jürgen, Tübbecke &Lenert)

We are not looking to replicate these projects, but they seem to contain the potential to meet the following criteria which are fundamental to the success of the project:

What	Why
Artwork which is divisible into component parts	In order to enable ArtWorks to fit into Calman’s organisational structure; how this happens from an operational view will be worked out as soon as an artist and initial direction have been established
Strong theme	To ensure that the component parts feel part of the same project
Stimulates measurable change for YP	Makes a difference for young people involved, captured by working with the training team
Allows for individual creativity	To maximise experience of the artistic process for young people and personal connection with the project
Strong element of team work	Important that young people feel they are working with others; both creatively and generating and maintaining momentum for the project
Excitement and connection to the project by young people	To maximise potential for ownership by young people of the project
Incorporate public viewing/ performance	Validates project in young people’s eyes and provides an audience
Involve young people across different communities (with potential scope for artwork to be shown/ performed across Highland)	Widen net for participation of young people (and maximise impact of project)
An element of photography/ video documentation of the project	Create a valuable record of the event

Goals of the project:

• Young people working with artists create quality art for a public performance or exhibition
• Young people become inspired creative producers aware of how art can be personally meaningful
• Young people develop personally though their involvement

Finances:
Artist’s (or Artists’) salary, materials and marketing budget: in the region of £10,000. Should a project require additional funding there would be scope for the artist and Calman to put together additional funding bids to meet this requirement.

Timescale of the project:
There is not a fixed timescale for the project, but we would expect it to be an extended piece of work, completed at the latest by the end of 2012.

How to apply:
Please send a CV and up to 6 images of your work, along with your response to the following four questions (no more than 200 words each) to Ferga Perry before 9am on Monday 19th December.

• How would you ensure that participants felt ownership of the project?
• What would young people get out of the project in terms of learning and skills development if they were to work with you? How would they develop personally?
• What is your experience of delivering a project made up of component parts or different groups?
• How would you plan ahead and define roles into which the project could be divided?

Dates:
9am Monday 19th Dec ‘11- Applications to submitted by email or post
20th Dec ‘11- Notification of artists selected for interview
Week commencing 9th Jan ‘12- Interviews in Inverness which will involve leading a workshop with young people


If you have any questions or would like more information please contact Ferga Perry, Inspiring Arts Coordinator at
Calman Trust
17a Hilton Village
Oldtown Road
Inverness
IV2 4HT

01463 248630
07841 504246


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