Don’t miss: A London writers’ residency and grants for underrepresented creatives
The creative industry is constantly offering opportunities for designers, artists and general makers and doers to help them excel in their careers. Which is why, every few weeks, we share some of the best job listings, events and programmes on our Opportunities Board.
This week, we’re highlighting roles in curation as well as the latest grants and bursaries, including opportunities from the Kurt Geiger Kindness Foundation, Whitechapel Gallery and Arebyte.
Engagement Curator – Oriel Myrddin Gallery
Based: Wales
Type: Freelance
Salary: £250 per Day
Opportunity Closes: 27th October 2023
Oriel Myrddin Gallery is seeking a suitable candidate to work as an engagement curator on a unique, two-year programme for the visual arts and heritage sector in Wales. The role is particularly suited to a person from the global ethnic majority. As engagement curator, you will be responsible for creating, planning and organising environments to connect creative practitioners with communities and groups.
Curator – UP Projects
Based: London
Type: Full-Time Job
Salary: £30,000
Opportunity Closes: 29th October 2023
This curatorial role will develop and deliver strategic commissions and/or projects working closely with artists, partners and community participants, as well as undertake research and develop critical thinking that will inform the curation of wider programme and learning initiatives.
Communications Officer – Without Walls
Based: Manchester
Type: Full-Time Job
Salary: £24,000 to £27,000
Opportunity Closes: 30th October 2023
Without Walls is looking for a dynamic and experienced individual to join their team as communications officer. The communications officer is an integral part of the Without Walls communications team in delivering core marketing functions across their partner network. The role reports to the senior communications and development manager, working closely on strategic campaigns for programmed activity.
The Jamie Iddon Award for Emerging Artists – Blast Theory
Based: UK-wide
Type: Grant
Opportunity Closes: 6th November 2023
The Jamie Iddon Award for Emerging Artists supports artists or artist groups with a grant of £3,000 each, and the money can be used to make a new piece of work to be shown to the public. It can be small or large: a work-in-progress, a prototype or demonstration, or a website, for example. The organisation is interested in work that is urgent, committed and skilful. It can be funny or serious, quick or slow. You do not need to have any formal education to qualify.
£1,000 for Creatives of Colour in the UK – Grand Plan Fund
Based: UK-wide
Type: Grant
Opportunity Closes: 9th November 2023
Grand Plan Fund is a charity awarding £1,000 grants to people of colour based in the UK who want to bring a new creative project to life. The platform supports creativity in all its forms including: poetry, paintings, fashion, zines, music, food, flowers, photographs, workshops, events or something else completely.
Creative Access x McLaren Racing Career Development Bursary – Creative Access
Based: UK-wide
Type: Bursary
Opportunity Closes: 8th November 2023
Are financial barriers preventing you from progressing your career in the creative industries? Creative Access has teamed up with McLaren Racing to launch a fund aimed at individuals from communities who are underrepresented in the creative economy – in terms of ethnicity, disability, and socio-economic status – who have aspirations to work in or develop their career in the creative sector. The bursary will support people with financial grants as a means to overcome some of the cost barriers to entering or progressing within the industry.
Get into Marketing: Free employability bootcamp – Marketing Academy Foundation
Based: London
Type: Workshop
When: 9th November 2023 (register by 8th Nov 2023)
The Marketing Academy Foundation is a registered charity that gives talented young people from tough backgrounds the chance to start fun and fulfilling careers in marketing, advertising, PR and digital media. The Marketing Academy Foundation's BeTheOne bootcamp is a day-long event to help you improve your success rate in the job market. It's free and lunch and travel expenses will be covered for London-based participants.
Business by Design Academy – Kurt Geiger Kindness Foundation
Based: London
Type: Training Programme
Opportunity closes: 12th November 2023
The Kurt Geiger Kindness Foundation has launched Business By Design, a training programme aimed at young people. This programme offers game-changing skills with unbeatable exposure to the creative industry from design, buying, marketing, e-commerce and digital, sales, finance, merchandising and social media. You will be offered learning, practical experience, mentorship and community.
Hotel Generation Open Call for Digital Artists – Arebyte
Based: UK-wide
Type: Open Call
Opportunity closes: 20th November 2023
Hotel Generation mentors the next generation of digital artists during the critical early stages of establishing a career in the arts. The development programme selects six young digital artists from Scotland, Wales, North England, Midlands, South West and South East England, to pair them with a regional art organisation. The successful candidates then receive curatorial guidance as they work on an exhibition proposal for Arebyte's exhibition space.
Young Writer in Residence – Whitechapel Gallery
Based: London
Type: Residency
Salary: Up to £5,000
Opportunity Closes: 4th December 2023
Aged between 18 and 24 and interested in writing and contemporary art? Whether you see yourself as an artist, writer, or someone experimenting with the written form, Whitechapel Gallery’s Young Writer in Residence scheme offers one young creative the opportunity to work on their writing practice in the context of a contemporary art gallery.
None of these opportunities for you? Head over to our Opportunities Board page to see what other opportunities are in store:
Written by Creative Lives in Progress