Education Curator
£23,000 pro rata, 2/3 days per week
24 month contract, potentially renewable, 3 months probationary period
Application Deadline: Wednesday 29 June 2011
Interview Date: Monday 4 July 2011
Over the past year, Studio Voltaire has been reassessing how there Education Programme relates to the organisation as a whole in terms of artistic content, organisational strategy and sustainability. Over the last ten years there has been a much more substantial focus on the role of education in art galleries. More recently, this has shifted into a focus on integrated programmes that break down the division between curatorial and education work. This is reflected in curatorial models and artistic practice more widely that have brought collaboration, research and participation into the gallery environment. They have developed a new programme that signals a marked change in our artistic strategy with closer links with our Exhibition and Studio Programmes through the dovetailing/overlapping of these activities and providing new ways and contexts for working with artists/art work. The programme will have multiple entry points for audiences and participants through a diversity of programming and activities, and be a key part of our audience development plans.
The new programme takes the work of the late Jo Spence as a starting point for investigating the legacy of her work in relation to contemporary culture and life through a series of exhibitions, commissions, offsite projects, workshops and public events - both in community framework and a more mainstream contemporary art discourse. Jo Spence (1934 –1992) was a key figure on the English photographic scene from the mid seventies and crucial in debates on photography and the critique of representation. Her work engaged with a range of photographic genres, from documentary to Phototherapy. Through her own artistic practice and teaching, which are very closely linked, she rigorously explored complex issues of class, gender, health and the body, combining personal experience, political understanding and critical theory. The work produced near the end of her life dealt directly with her experience of having cancer and the treatment she received by the medical establishment.
24 month contract, potentially renewable, 3 months probationary period
Application Deadline: Wednesday 29 June 2011
Interview Date: Monday 4 July 2011
Over the past year, Studio Voltaire has been reassessing how there Education Programme relates to the organisation as a whole in terms of artistic content, organisational strategy and sustainability. Over the last ten years there has been a much more substantial focus on the role of education in art galleries. More recently, this has shifted into a focus on integrated programmes that break down the division between curatorial and education work. This is reflected in curatorial models and artistic practice more widely that have brought collaboration, research and participation into the gallery environment. They have developed a new programme that signals a marked change in our artistic strategy with closer links with our Exhibition and Studio Programmes through the dovetailing/overlapping of these activities and providing new ways and contexts for working with artists/art work. The programme will have multiple entry points for audiences and participants through a diversity of programming and activities, and be a key part of our audience development plans.
The new programme takes the work of the late Jo Spence as a starting point for investigating the legacy of her work in relation to contemporary culture and life through a series of exhibitions, commissions, offsite projects, workshops and public events - both in community framework and a more mainstream contemporary art discourse. Jo Spence (1934 –1992) was a key figure on the English photographic scene from the mid seventies and crucial in debates on photography and the critique of representation. Her work engaged with a range of photographic genres, from documentary to Phototherapy. Through her own artistic practice and teaching, which are very closely linked, she rigorously explored complex issues of class, gender, health and the body, combining personal experience, political understanding and critical theory. The work produced near the end of her life dealt directly with her experience of having cancer and the treatment she received by the medical establishment.
The Education Curator will play a key role in developing and managing the new programme within a community and participatory context. Working with Studio Voltaire’s Artistic Director and Education Committee, the programme will particularly strive to reach out to and involve a range of locally based interest groups including women’s groups, schools, colleges and local health and wellbeing centres.
This position has been made possible with the generous support of Bloomberg.
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