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Changing Landscapes, Changing Lives Project Artist Brief and Application Process Type of contract: Freelance Duration of contract: September 2015 – June 2016 Total number of working days: 47 Fee: £9,400 (at a rate of £200 per day including all artist’s fees and expenses) 1. Summary: The Laing Art Gallery is inviting applications from experienced and suitably qualified artists/facilitators to lead Changing Landscapes, Changing Lives a project that will engage a range of audiences and support them to explore archival material from the Tate archives online, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums collections and local archives in the Newcastle area. The role of the Project Artist will be to lead a series of sessions with different groups including school students, people over the age of 55 and young people who are not in employment, education or training. These sessions will enable participants to creatively respond to the archive collections and contribute to the creation of artwork and both physical and digital learning resources which will reflect the overall project theme of how rural and urban landscapes have changed over time in Newcastle and the impact this has had on peoples’ lives. Applicants are requested to read the full contents of this Project Artist Brief document carefully, as it contains important information about the project and the application process. Changing Landscapes, Changing Lives is part of Archives and Access, a national programme of digital access, learning and participation with archives and heritage led by Tate and supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. 2. Changing Landscapes, Changing Lives - Project Background Learning at Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums This role will be managed by the Learning Officer at Laing Art Gallery. 1

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Changing Landscapes, Changing Lives Project Artist Brief and Application Process

Type of contract: FreelanceDuration of contract: September 2015 – June 2016Total number of working days: 47 Fee: £9,400 (at a rate of £200 per day including all artist’s fees and expenses)

1. Summary:

The Laing Art Gallery is inviting applications from experienced and suitably qualified artists/facilitators to lead Changing Landscapes, Changing Lives a project that will engage a range of audiences and support them to explore archival material from the Tate archives online, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums collections and local archives in the Newcastle area.

The role of the Project Artist will be to lead a series of sessions with different groups including school students, people over the age of 55 and young people who are not in employment, education or training. These sessions will enable participants to creatively respond to the archive collections and contribute to the creation of artwork and both physical and digital learning resources which will reflect the overall project theme of how rural and urban landscapes have changed over time in Newcastle and the impact this has had on peoples’ lives.

Applicants are requested to read the full contents of this Project Artist Brief document carefully, as it contains important information about the project and the application process.

Changing Landscapes, Changing Lives is part of Archives and Access, a national programme of digital access, learning and participation with archives and heritage led by Tate and supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

2. Changing Landscapes, Changing Lives - Project Background

Learning at Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums

This role will be managed by the Learning Officer at Laing Art Gallery.

Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums (TWAM) brings learning to life across 9 different venues, each with their own unique collections.  With recognised collections of archaeology, art, history and natural science, some of them of national and international importance, we have something to offer everyone.

TWAM’s skilled and enthusiastic Learning Team can support a wide range of different audiences. Our diverse collections are interpreted by a range of subject specialists, and our learning opportunities are designed to effectively meet the needs of different groups.

Our inspiring venues and collections are a powerful resource that are capable of enriching the learning of all ages and abilities, helping to make a positive difference to people’s lives.In our work we aim to:

Support all audiences in their learning

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Make the most of the resources the museum offersShow that museums are valuable resources for learning for all audiences

We are committed to delivering high quality learning experiences through:

Using collections and environmentsDeveloping inspiring experiences by exploiting our unique resourcesDelivering experiential, multi-sensory, interactive, and creative experiences

Find out more about learning at Laing Art Gallery here: http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/schools/laing-art-gallery.html

Archives and Access

Changing Landscapes, Changing Lives is part of Archives and Access, an ambitious five-year programme of digital access, learning and participation with archives and heritage, led by Tate and supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. It is making 52,000 items from Tate’s archives fully accessible online and inviting participation and shared learning through a new interactive Albums feature on the Tate website. Albums allows people to group, tag, annotate and share their own collections of artworks and archive items and online visitors will also be able to access a series of resources such as films and study guides related to the digitised archive collections.

These archive materials and digital tools will be used as the basis for partnership learning projects in five different areas of the UK between 2013–2017. The programme involves Tate Liverpool; the Josef Herman Art Foundation Cymru, Ystradgynlais; Tate Britain, London; The Laing Art Gallery (Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums), Newcastle; and Turner Contemporary, Margate.

These learning projects will enable new audiences to engage with the digitised archives and Albums, and to work with artists to make their own creative responses which will form the basis for new learning resources for publication online.

You can find out more about Archives and Access here: http://www.tate.org.uk/about/projects/transforming-tate-britain-archives-and-access.

3. Changing Landscapes, Changing Lives - Project Aims

This project will focus on engaging harder to reach communities through an exploration of their evolving physical environment, reflecting the move from the rural to industrial and now to a post-industrial landscape, as well as giving the opportunity to examine the resulting impacts on the different communities’ economic and cultural lives. This will be made possible by using specific Tate Archive collections online as a point of historical and cultural reference. The project will also use the archives and collections of the Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums network (TWAM), as well as artworks on display at the Laing Art Gallery. It will focus on engaging school students, young people who are not in employment, education or training (NEETs) and the older generation (over 55s) to create an intergenerational learning focus that brings issues from the past and the present together.

Participants will include:

• Pre NEETs: a term that represents a student who is still attending an educational institution but may be out of mainstream education and are at risk of becoming NEET when leaving school.

• NEETs: people aged 18-25 who are out of employment or training.

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• People aged over 55 who form part of TWAM’s Platinum Programme, which is TWAM’s culture and heritage programme of inspiring activities and experiences for people aged over 55 to get involved in.

• School students taking part in the annual Articulate programme.

4. Changing Landscapes, Changing Lives – Detailed engagement description

The project will deliver 30 workshops which will enable 710 instances of participation. There will also be two launch events at the end of the project which we anticipate 350 will attend and a wider engagement of an estimated 600 contributors to an online community gallery. The project will include training in archive and digitisation processes, working with museum Learning staff across the TWAM network to develop their knowledge and capacity, as well as the main body of this project, for which the Project Artist will work with groups of older and younger people and students at risk, to explore the changing local environment and industrialisation in the North East.

A series of workshops will take place which will make use of art-based activities to explore archives and heritage. The programme will be planned with the selected Project Artist to bring their own creative practice to bear on the activities and workshops. A range of visual materials will be used from Tate’s online archives and the TWAM collection both in their archives and on display in the Northern Spirit gallery at the Laing Art gallery. Activities will make use of objects that can be handled and a range of different art techniques. Art-based activities will provide a starting point for looking closely at collection objects and ideas about heritage and for prompting discussion. For example, a participating group might be invited to consider representations of the local landscape in a range of archive materials and respond creatively using sea coal as a medium, a material derived from the landscape itself.

The workshops will be shaped by the participants’ responses and interests and build the participants’ own skills to create a photographic archive, albums, exhibitions and online community photo-gallery. The project will produce not just images of the landscape and context of the region today, but will also document the conversations and changing perspectives of the older and younger participants as they develop through the project. For example we might do this by creating a dialogue through exchange of images – either paintings or photographs.

The resulting images will provide an online gallery of work for the Albums platform on the Tate website that shows original artworks and archive materials from Tate’s digitised archive and images from local archives and people’s own personal collections in juxtaposition with contemporary images created by the participants. These will be accessed in conjunction with their own documentation of the process, their thoughts and changing perspectives: a living archive of their own experiences with their heritage. These materials will also be added to an interactive map on display in the Northern Spirit gallery.

5. Project Artist Role

Main purpose of role:The Project Artist will lead the development and delivery of an arts programme with school students, young people who are not in employment, education or training (NEET) and older peoples groups over 55s. The Project Artist will use Tate archives online, Laing collections and other local archives to create learning resources for Tate’s website, a digital interactive map on site at the Laing and a memory box (a tangible resource to be used as a legacy to the project with groups visiting the Laing).

Main Tasks:

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Write a project plan in conjunction with the Project Team and the Laing Art Gallery team and representatives from the participating groups;

Create workshop plans to engage groups; Conduct research into local and Tate archives and Laing collections on the theme of

landscape and social change; Deliver the required number of participatory arts workshops to groups; In collaboration with the Learning Officer, support the Project Intern in gaining skills and

experience in the research, planning, delivery, documentation and evaluation of the project; Work closely with the Project Team to deliver all aspects of the project; Attend all internal and external planning, project monitoring and evaluation meetings as

necessary; Keep financial records of all expenditure for reporting to Project Team.

Reporting:

The Project Artist will:

Attend meetings and deliver presentations as and when required; Report to Laing Art Gallery’s Learning Officer on all aspects of the project; Liaise with the Learning Officer on points of clarification throughout the project; Provide documentation of the learning resource design and specifications, which will

remain the property of Laing Art Gallery; Contribute to reporting and evaluation requirements throughout the project for the purposes

of the Archives and Access project evaluation led by an independent Learning Evaluator and of reporting to the Heritage Lottery Fund.

6. Project Artist fee and timetable breakdown

The fee for this project is £9,400.

The fee will be paid in 3 phases over the duration of the project on completion of set targets to the satisfaction of the Project Team.

The fee covers 47 working days as follows:

47 days @ £200 per day = £9,400

Participation in Project Trainee interviews 1 day

Participation in Training and Practice Sharing workshops 2 daysled by Archives and Access team

Planning time for workshops 7 days

Delivery of sessions for NEET young people, school students and 16 daysand over 55s groups (30 x 2 hour workshops and 2 events)

Developing content/resources 10 days

Planning and installation of exhibition 4 days

Planning, meetings 7 days

Total (@ £200 per day = £9,400) 47 days

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There will be a materials and equipment budget of up to £2,000 for the project.

7. Application Process

Artists/facilitators are invited to submit applications that set out their proposed methodology for researching, devising and facilitating a series of workshops for the project. The workshops should draw on the artist/facilitator’s practice, archival material and the project theme of changing landscapes and be tailored to the needs of the different audience groups. The proposal should also address how the workshops will generate content for the physical learning resource and the digital learning resources to be shared through TWAM’s and Tate’s websites.

To be considered for this role, please provide:

- an up-to-date CV including the names and contact details of two referees;- a short personal statement providing evidence of your experience as an artist/facilitator

and suitability for this role (this should be no longer than 1500 words in length);- an initial proposal outlining your approach to the project including how you will research, co-

design and produce the learning resources in collaboration with the project participants (this should be no longer than 1500 words in length).

Submissions should be sent by email FAO Anne Fountain, Learning Officer, Laing Art Gallery at [email protected] by 31 August 2015

The post is subject to enhanced DBS check, including barred lists.

The selection panel will consider these submissions and select a shortlist of suitably qualified artists/facilitators for interview. Selected candidates will be invited for interview week commencing 21 September and will be required to make a 10 minute presentation to the panel.

The panel will consist of:

1. Julie Milne, Chief Curator of Art Galleries 2. Anne Fountain, Learning Officer, Laing and Shipley Art Galleries 3. Sally Davies, Curator: Learning Outreach (Archives and Access), Tate

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