Neil had to get a few things ready this morning, so for the first 30 minutes or so the class had to further explore how to write artist's grants for work. To be honest I do find the business side of art quite confusing, but I do understand the importance of it. After much consideration for ideas I could write a grant for, I eventually signed up to the Arts Council website, because I see my future work involving helping others using art, and there was an option to apply for funding that sounded quite similar to what I see myself doing. Just to be clear, as I am still a student, I am not eligible to apply for funding, but the purpose of this exercise is to write an almost draft proposal for a grant for work. This did take me a while to understand, and what we have to do is to use the application template on the arts council website to help us to understand how these grants are written.
http://www.artscouncil.org.uk
Neil had then got today's presentations ready, and at this time I had only just signed up for the Arts Council, so after this I was too busy participating in today's lecture to further explore the Arts Council website. The first part of today's lecture was about ownerships to work, and how that works. We were all given copies of the presentations, which I did find handy, and will be very useful to refer to. Something else I found useful for me to understand the lecture was that there was a small quiz about ownerships of work, even though I did get a lot of the questions wrong. It was also interesting to hear about the relationship between ownership of work and online and social media, such as Facebook, Pinterest and DeviantArt. Also, I found the strict laws in some countries about online file sharing scary but interesting, which was also mentioned in today's lecture.
The second part of today's lecture was about how being self employed in the art world works, and we were all given a large booklet about all the different ways of being self employed, which was a lot of information to take on, but again, I feel that the quiz that we had to do about this definitely helped make the lecture more exciting and informative.
These lectures I have on Wednesday mornings are very similar to the lectures last year with Neil W, but I feel I am a lot happier with where I am with college and the future than I was this time last year. I also feel that Neil B is a lot more considerate towards myself, Ananda and the photography students than Neil W was in the ways of making the work easier for everyone. Being on New Media this year might be an advantage to understanding these lectures, but I do feel that Neil B definitely involves the photography students. Also, it could be easier this year because there are less students in these lectures, so it could be easier to make your voice heard.
However, I did feel a little bit confused as to what to put in my portfolio for these lectures, as some of the other students have already started recording work, but Neil B said not to worry and that he will give me a list of things that I will need for my portfolio, which felt very reassuring. As far as I'm concerned, I think that I will need the journal, what we have worked on in the lectures and the application for the artist's grant.
I should also note that because of my work placement yesterday, I am really enjoying drawing, which sadly is something I haven't really done for a while due to being quite busy recently. I was even polishing up some drawing in the class today!
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