The programme will take place between October 2023 and February 2024. Find more information here:
https://nncontemporaryart.org/programmes/nn-associates/ As a member of the programme you will:
- Undertake a development session to talk about yourself to find out more about your interests and set goals for the programme.
- Find out more about the arts and cultural sector from established industry professionals.
- Learn more about developing careers, applications and networks in the arts to kickstart your career in the Arts
Work alongside NN Contemporary Art (NNCA) to:
- Develop your own self-managed projects to explore more of what you want to do and contribute to the gallery programme. With a particular focus on helping to shape the Civic Reading Room programme in 24 Guildhall Road in Northampton (our new home!)
- Work as part of the NNCA team to get a better understanding of roles within the arts and develop your skills. This includes volunteering at forthcoming events/exhibitions and some desk-based research and archival work (the NNCA office is based in the Cultural Quarter in Northampton town centre). Forthcoming events/projects include:
Diasporas Now 23/24 Tour
Diasporas Now is a platform for expanded performance art by the Global Majority. Supported by Arts Council England, they are undertaking a UK tour in 2023/24. As one of the tour partners, NNCA will be staging a live performance event on the 2nd November featuring artists drawn from a national open call.
Northamptonshire Black History Digital Archive
The Northamptonshire Black Digital Archives is a project developed by NNCA in partnership with the Northamptonshire Black History Association involving a digitalisation of the archival material assembled by the Association and three artist residencies responding to it. The project will provide a platform for preservation and analysis of the historically significant material documenting past Black histories in the region and facilitate the creation of artistic research relating to the contemporary experience of Black communities.
David Panos - Gothic Revival
Panos has been commissioned to produce a new audiovisual work as part of the Sensing Place programme. Entitled Gothic Revival, the work explores Northampton through its physical, social and political landscape with a particular focus on the persistence/importance of musical sub-cultures (Goth) in regional towns.
Giles Round - Civic Reading Room
Round is an artist who works across disciplines including art, design and architecture. Round's works often takes the form of long-term, open-ended projects in which exhibitions themselves become the medium. An ongoing work, ‘The Art Direction of the Noguchi Museum’ (2018–) is an enquiry into the role an artist might play as an embedded part of institutional and design teams, but also of society’s infrastructures and organisations at large. NNCA have commissioned Round to design a new Civic Reading Room space that comprises a community kitchen, reading room, café-bar and co-working and learning hub at 24 Guildhall Road in Northampton's Cultural Quarter.
Expectations
Each participant within the scheme will be expected to undertake a minimum of 30 hours development, equating to approximately 3 hours per week. This is a combination of organised sessions and self-managed time so the programme can work flexibly for you.
To apply please complete the form below. You will be contacted once applications have been assessed.
This programme is intended for people looking to develop their careers in the arts.