Assessment 1: Coursework: Proposal Pack
Your Proposal Pack should contain a 150 word creative statement and a 500 word art trail proposal (with images), and an illustrated mini-folio of images of your current practice.

Assessment 2: Coursework: Evaluation Pack
Your Evaluation Pack will contain a (1500 word or 10 minute presentation) full evaluation and reflection on the progress and learnings resulting from the creative project.

Formative Assessment:
Participation in project development seminars and 1:1 tutorials to support idea development and artwork delivery progress.

This module will provide work-related experiences that enable students to acquire the skills and qualities that will enhance their career prospects, horizons, and personal success, preparing the student for the expectations of employers in the visual art sector. The module will facilitate close contact with a real-world context, to experience the planning and delivery of a public art project.

Students will have the opportunity to negotiate an individual project, which they identify as being appropriate to their own future career ambitions and aspirations and to their own creative practice, within the format of the art trail.

Students will be encouraged and guided through the process of planning and delivering a creative art trail within the local community or a public space.

Students collaborate to develop and deliver proposals which respond to a given site in the city, through the creation of site responsive art works installed to create a public day-long art trail.

1. Propose a project for a professional opportunity relevant to your own creative and professional practice.

Programme Learning Outcome: Communication

2. Organise project-related activities in an entrepreneurial, independent, and professional way

Programme Learning Outcome: Application & Problem Solving

3. Demonstrate critical reflection through evaluation of your skills, strengths and experiences and communicate the key reflections gained from taking part in a creative, professional opportunity.

Programme Learning Outcome: Personal Development & Entrepreneurship, Reflection

4. Conduct research that informs decision-making within the project

Programme Learning Outcome: Research Skills

Lectures
Group Seminars
Researching and information gathering
External site Visits
Online resources
Independent study

Student Life https://www.youtube.com/@uniofstaffsstudentlife/videos
University Careers https://staffs.careercentre.me/Members
University Library https://libguides.staffs.ac.uk/library
Blackboard Virtual Learning Environment will support this module where relevant

Delphian (2020) Navigating the Art World: Professional Practice for the Early Career Artist. Delphian Gallery.
Doherty, Claire (2009) Situation: Documents of Contemporary Art. MIT Press.
Kester, Grant H (2011) The One and the Many.
Lang, Olivia (2021) Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency. Picador
Matarasso, Francois (2018) A Restless Art. Gulbenkian.

This module will provide work-related experiences that enable students to acquire the skills and qualities that will enhance their career prospects, horizons, and personal success, preparing the student for the expectations of employers in the visual art sector. The module will facilitate close contact with a real-world context, to experience the planning and delivery of a public art project.