Landscape Sketch of the Arts session: key moments in artistic careers
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The Landscape Sketch of the Arts is a comprehensive analysis of Flanders' professional arts landscape that Flanders Arts Institute puts together at the start of each new political term. To make sure nothing is overlooked, we organise several sessions throughout 2024 to gather input from the sector, each time focusing on a different part of the arts field.
-> Read more about the Landscape Sketch of the Arts here.
Session key moments in artistic careers
On May 28, Flanders Arts Institute is hosting a session for artists, focusing on evolutions and important key moments in their careers. Artistic careers are rarely straightforward. An invitation to work abroad, a burn-out, a successful collaboration or changes in your personal life can all have an impact.
In this session, we focus on those important turning points: when did you know you wanted to become an artist? When did you feel recognised, or not? When did you need to move in a new direction? And when did you feel fulfilled as an artist? Together, we look at the defining moments in an artistic career, the dynamics behind them, the consequences and how they are experienced.
Are you an artist at a transitional moment in your career? Are you looking back on a career or are you still finding your way in the arts as a new creator? In particular, we are looking for artists who have insight into the general path of an artistic career, as well as the various breakpoints such a career has. This way, we hope to gain insight into the developments and events that affect your career as an artist, while zooming in together on the challenges and opportunities.
When and where
May 28, from 11:00 until 15:00 at Sint-Lucas (Schoonbekestraat 143, 2018 Antwerp).
(Vegetarian) lunch will be provided.
Register
Would you like to participate? You can register via the button at the top right. Registration is possible until May 15.
The focus group will consist out of 20 participants. If we receive more than 20 applications, we will make a selection that's a representation of different profiles and disciplines. Therefore, in the application form we ask for a short motivation explaining your artistic career, experience and background.
Feel free to tell us about: the discipline you work in, how many years of experience you have, whether you are still active in the arts sector, and how you see your identity in relation to various aspects such as gender, ethnicity, health and age.
It might also be interesting to tell us about e.g. a care role you take on, whether you work (market-oriented or not), whether you attended an arts school or not, whether you receive long-term support (e.g. from collaborating partners in the arts), whether you complement artistic activities with other jobs, and whether you work mainly nationally or internationally.
We will contact all participants on May 18.
Remuneration, barriers and confidentiality
Flanders Arts Institute wants creators' voices to be heard more. For freelance artists (who are not on the payroll of an arts organisation and for whom participation is therefore unpaid) Flanders Arts Institute provides a fee. You can indicate this in the practical confirmation email of 18 May.
Furthermore, we want to help address any barriers for participants, e.g. through hybrid participation for people who have difficulty getting physically on site, food preferences or childcare. Please let us know how we can accommodate you via that same confirmation email.
To enable a safe conversation, Flanders Arts Institute commits to keeping identifiable statements within the conversation and to anonymously incorporate these insights into the final report.
