1. Identify and act on professional opportunities relevant to your own studio practice.

2. Negotiate and liaise with an institutional body, group, or organisation.

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

4. Produce documentation of your artworks suitable for promoting yourself professionally.

5. Demonstrate critical reflection through evaluation of your skills, strengths and experiences and communicate the key reflections as part of a career action plan.

For this module, you will submit for assessment:

1. Coursework: Proposal Pack (Learning Outcomes 1, 4)
Your Proposal Pack should contain a letter of introduction and Curriculum Vitae, a 500 word placement proposal (with images), and an illustrated mini-folio of images of your current practice.

2. Coursework: Evaluation Pack (Learning Outcomes 2, 3, 5)
Your Evaluation Pack will contain a full evaluation and reflection on the progress of your project/placement/exhibition/internship, as well as relevant supporting research and development material.

3. Coursework: Careers Portfolio (Learning Outcome 5)
Your Careers Portfolio, initiated in Level 4, will be extended in this module to contain as well as evidence of engagement with university careers resources to generate a career action plan.

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 real-world employment contexts, drawing on contributions from external practitioners (both from inside and outside of the visual art sector) to support students learning experience as well as the development of appropriate networking opportunities.

Students will have the opportunity to initiate and negotiate an external placement, exhibition, or project, which they identify as being appropriate to their own future career ambitions and aspirations and to their own studio practice. These events might take place in schools, colleges, commercial companies, and gallery or non-gallery venues.

Students will be encouraged and guided through the process of initiating and taking advantage of potential opportunities available within the local community, other institutions, or the creative industries more broadly.

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 real-world employment contexts, drawing on contributions from external practitioners (both from inside and outside of the visual art sector) to support students learning experience as well as the development of appropriate networking opportunities.

Lectures
Seminars
Tutorials
Group critiques
Researching and information gathering
External Visits
Online resources
Independent study to initiate and support placements

Congdon, L., Ilasco, M.M. & Fields, J. (2014).¿Art, Inc: the essential guide for building your career as an artist. San Francisco: Chronicle Books.
Doherty, C. (2004).¿Contemporary art: from studio to situation. London: Black Dog publ.
Delphian (2020) Navigating the Art World: Professional Practice for the Early Career Artist. Delphian Gallery.
Grant, D. (2004).¿The fine artist’s career guide: making money in the arts and beyond. 2nd ed. New York: Allworth Press.
Lang, C. (2006).¿Taking the leap: building a career as a visual artist. San Francisco: Chronicle Books
O’Doherty, B. (1999).¿Inside the white cube: the ideology of the gallery space. Expanded ed. Berkeley: University of California Press.

O'Doherty B. (2009): Beyond the Ideology of the White Cube. MACBA, Barcelona
Weblinks:
Welcome to Axis - the online resource for Contemporary Art www.axisweb.org/
a-n The Artists Information www.a-n.co.uk
The Arts Council: https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/
Artquest: www.artquest.org.uk
Reflective Writing Resources:
How to write a reflective task: https://www.citewrite.qut.edu.au/write/writing-well/reflectivewriting.html
Reflective writing: Reflective questioning: https://libguides.hull.ac.uk/reflectivewriting/reflection2a
Creative and Participatory Evaluation: https://blogs.staffs.ac.uk/ccu/current-research-and-projects/creative-and-participatory-evaluation/

Further online resources are available via the Library.

Studio Space
Workshops
Library
Student word-processing facilities
Computer suites
AV Equipment
The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available (where relevant) to support this module.