Museums, galleries and visual arts venues across the UK have until 8 June to apply to host the 2013 Alexandra Reinhardt Memorial Award Artist in Residence (ARMA), worth £12,000.
ARMA aims to highlight and inspire artists, and to work with children and young people in a therapeutic way. It was established in 2005 memory of the artist Alexandra Reinhardt who died a year earlier having battled with a rare blood disorder and profound deafness all her life.
Engage, the national association for gallery education, is running the 2013 programme, which includes a 10-week artist residency and a public art commission displayed at the host venue.
The artist residency will run from January to March/April 2013, with the chosen artist or artists creating work for the venue that responds to the building, collection or audience.
Jane Sillis, director of engage, said: “This is a fantastic opportunity for a museum, gallery or visual arts venue of any size to host an artist residency, which will include education work, perhaps for the first time, and will result in a commissioned visual artwork.
"We have deliberately made the criteria very broad as we’re keen to see applications from a broad spectrum of organisations, whether they have experience of working with artists or not.”
The deadline for host venue applications is 10am on Friday 8 June. Artists will be invited to apply in the summer.
The host venue will be awarded £2,000 to cover the costs of hosting the residency, including staff time, with a further £500 available for the cost of a celebratory event for the residency and commission.
Other costs such as the artist fees, expenses, education activities, creating and installing an artwork, will be met by the Max Reinhardt Charitable Trust, totalling an award of £12,000.
ARMA was first hosted by the health charity Paintings in Hospitals, with five artist residencies held in NHS hospitals around the country. Since 2010 it has been coordinated by the Art Room, an organisation that offers art as therapy to five to 16-year-olds who are experiencing emotional and behavioural difficulties to help riase their self-esteem, self confidence and independence.
Click here to for more information and to apply for ARMA
ARMA aims to highlight and inspire artists, and to work with children and young people in a therapeutic way. It was established in 2005 memory of the artist Alexandra Reinhardt who died a year earlier having battled with a rare blood disorder and profound deafness all her life.
Engage, the national association for gallery education, is running the 2013 programme, which includes a 10-week artist residency and a public art commission displayed at the host venue.
The artist residency will run from January to March/April 2013, with the chosen artist or artists creating work for the venue that responds to the building, collection or audience.
Jane Sillis, director of engage, said: “This is a fantastic opportunity for a museum, gallery or visual arts venue of any size to host an artist residency, which will include education work, perhaps for the first time, and will result in a commissioned visual artwork.
"We have deliberately made the criteria very broad as we’re keen to see applications from a broad spectrum of organisations, whether they have experience of working with artists or not.”
The deadline for host venue applications is 10am on Friday 8 June. Artists will be invited to apply in the summer.
The host venue will be awarded £2,000 to cover the costs of hosting the residency, including staff time, with a further £500 available for the cost of a celebratory event for the residency and commission.
Other costs such as the artist fees, expenses, education activities, creating and installing an artwork, will be met by the Max Reinhardt Charitable Trust, totalling an award of £12,000.
ARMA was first hosted by the health charity Paintings in Hospitals, with five artist residencies held in NHS hospitals around the country. Since 2010 it has been coordinated by the Art Room, an organisation that offers art as therapy to five to 16-year-olds who are experiencing emotional and behavioural difficulties to help riase their self-esteem, self confidence and independence.
Click here to for more information and to apply for ARMA
