Module overview
Looking to the future. This module will help you demonstrate the skills you will need as a professional artist beyond the studio, engaging you with key concepts and skills around employability. The first semester of the final year is a critical juncture for thinking and planning your career prior to undertaking your final project on the programme. This module will enhance your ability to position yourself for practice and employment on completion of the programme.
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- analyse your current practice for direction and professional context;
- select appropriate methods for presenting your professional practice;
- recognise the professional opportunities relevant to your practice.
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- manage information about yourself and your work with professional relevance;
- produce written materials with direct application in the development of your career.
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- issues relating to employment and professional practice in Fine Art;
- the process of making applications for work and project support.
Syllabus
This module will support you in understanding and processing employability within your subject specific contexts. It will allow you to focus upon strategies of employment and define a method of engaging within a professional context
Indicative content for this module covers:
- Artists’ Statements
- Career Strategy
- Commercial Opportunity
- Public Art
- Funding and Applications
- Project-Pitching
- Ethics and Audience
- Social Media and Engagement
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Teaching methods include:
- lectures;
- sign-up tutorials.
Learning activities include:
- lectures;
- sign-up tutorials;
- Independent learning, including reflection and evaluation of feedback;
- independent research;
- online reference material and tutorial notes;
- peer-group learning.
Type | Hours |
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Wider reading or practice | 50 |
Seminar | 6 |
Lecture | 13.5 |
Tutorial | 0.5 |
Completion of assessment task | 80 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Internet Resources
Academic Skills ( including AI).
Journal Articles
(2009/10). Collective Curating. Manifesta Journal, 8.
Textbooks
Obrist, H. (2008). A Brief History of Curating. London: JRP Ringier.
Obrist, H. (2014). Ways of Curating. London: Allen Lane.
Steedman, M. (ed) (2012). Gallery as Community: Art, Education, Politics. London: Whitechapel Gallery.
Martinon, J.-P. (ed) (2013). The Curatorial: A Philosophy of Curating. London: Bloomsbury.
Adamson, G. (2007). What Makes a Great Exhibition?. London and Philadelphia: University of the Arts.
Smith, T. (2012). Thinking Contemporary Curation. New York: Independent Curators Inc..
O’Neill, P. (2012). The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s). Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press..
Barker, E. (1999). Contemporary Cultures of Display. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press.
Thea, C. (2009). On Curating: Interviews with Ten International Curators. New York: Distributed Art Publishers, Inc..
Cottrell, S (2015). Skills for Success: Personal Development and Employability. London: Intellect or Journal of Curatorial Studies.
Assessment
Formative
This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.
Portfolio
- Assessment Type: Formative
- Feedback: Spoken feedback is given during an individual sign-up tutorial, at which you may present drafts of task documents completed to date. Feedback will be given on the basis of an outline inspection of these and any issues you raise.
- Final Assessment: No
- Group Work: No
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Portfolio | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Portfolio | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Portfolio | 100% |