Call for applications: photography and creative writing GLOW Artist’s Residency

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GLOW Newcastle and Atkinson Road Primary Academy are seeking applications from creative writers and artists working in photography for a school-based residency. 

This residency will support a creative writer and an artist working in photography to run a co-creation Residency with  Year 4 learners and their teaching teams at Atkinson Road. 

We welcome joint applications and also individual applications in either discipline.  If you work in both disciplines please also feel free to apply. 

Atkinson Road Primary Academy is a vibrant, proudly multi-cultural setting. Over 40 languages are spoken at the school and a rich diversity of pupils.  Creating a safe, family atmosphere where everyone feels valued, respected and listened to is key to the school’s culture.   

Fee and timescales: 

The fee for this residency is £150 per half day and £250 per full day.  We anticipate the residency lasting for around 15 half days in total.  

The Residency will run from October – November 2024 and January – February 2025.  The project will begin with photography and continue with creative writing. 

Themes

Autumn Transformations: be a Colour Change Catcher, a Falling Leaves Forager, a Hibernation Hunter, a Migration Mapper, and a Specialist Spotter of Shifting Seasons.   

GLOW Newcastle and Atkinson Road Primary Academy have created this residency to help Year 4 explore the changing seasons and express their observations and responses in exciting, creative ways.  We are especially interested in enabling and inspiring the children to present their own unique perspectives while developing their photography and creative writing skills. 

We are seeking an artist working in photography and a creative writer with experience of facilitating co-creative workshops with primary aged children.  Critical outcomes for pupils include: 

• Discovering and exploring their own unique take on changing seasons 

• Learning some basic photography skills  

• Recording their observations and perspectives as photographic images 

• Finding unique, inspiring ways to describe their images and experiences 

• Creating a record and legacy for the project 

It is essential that the artists have experience of working with primary aged children.

As well as co-delivering the sessions with the Year 4 teaching teams, the resident artists will deliver a CPD session to the wider staff body, based on themes and approaches emerging in the sessions which could be usefully adapted to engage learners across the school.   

Current DBS for child workforce and Public Liability Insurance are essential for all applicants.   

Activities 

Stage 1  – week of 26th Sept 

• Planning and scheduling meeting 

• Schedule agreed between artists 

• Project activity begins week of 30th Sept (photography-practitioner) 

Stage 2 – 4th Nov – 2nd Dec 

• Project activity continues (creating writing practitioner joins) 

• Continuing Professional Development (CPD) session for the wider staff body, demonstrating your work and facilitation methods and sharing learning through your practice. 

• Visits 

Stage 3 – Jan 6th – Feb 28th  

• Curate installation, create invitations and host exhibition  

• Hold a celebration event (at the school or venue tbc) for parents and carers, the wider school community, Glow, Newcastle staff and Trustees and other stakeholders. 

• Found photography club 

Application and Interview Process 

• Submit an expression of interest highlighting your interest in this opportunity, your CV and two professional references by email to us at GLOW Newcastle office@glow-newcastle.co.uk    

• Include a portfolio of previous work and relevant links and / or social media handles where relevant.  Please feel free to submit an application by video.  Ensure any portfolios are sent as pdfs and under 5MB to us at office@glow-newcastle.co.uk 

• Candidates will be shortlisted and invited to interview on Thursday 19th September 2024.