Tuesday 20th of June

9.30am - 12.30pm / 1.30pm - 4.30pm

Jake Jackson (The Glasgow School of Art)

As an academic with two decades experience in the field of fine art, exploring the realities of life beyond graduation have long been an area of interest. Statistics highlight tenacity and resourcefulness and a willingness to juggle multiple jobs in an attempt to sustain creative practices. Finding ways to better support arts and humanities graduates is, therefore, key to my concerns as an invested party.

About this Session

Looking at longitudinal artist livelihood data, this workshop will explore the purpose of arts education in a postpandemic world. Various statistics suggest further work needs to be carried out to expand the role of the artist in contemporary society. A focus will, therefore, be placed on identifying the current career trajectories of arts graduates. Through a series of workshops, the employment discourse will be expanded further to identify greater career options and possibilities. Specifically, within the creative and cultural industries.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the session participants will have been introduced to the following:

• Brainstorming as a means to generate ideas.
• The benefits of capitalising upon creative individuals inherent problem-solving skills.
• Critique as an integral part of artistic enquiry.
• Collaborative engagement and communities of practice as a (shared) body of knowledge through the lens of Membership Knowledge (Have, 2002)
• Critical consensus.
• Workshop as research methodology.

Who might be interested?

This series of workshops will be of interest to doctoral researchers from the arts and humanities. Importantly, those who have gone on to employment or self-employment post-graduation and, or, those who have juggled work whilst studying.

Participant pre-requisites

Participants are not required to carry out work prior to this all-day event. Their experience of life post-graduation is essential. Post-graduation in this instance means those any time out of education prior to doctoral studies. This can be month or years, and can include working whilst studying.

Participant access requirements

Free brainstorming software will be utilised to help generate ideas and to map the topics discussed. Information generated will later be analysed during the morning session to identify themes. Each theme will be further discussed in the afternoon sessions. From these discussions a clear set of objectives will be detailed, identifying what future professional practice provision should include, whilst in education, tailored for a broader range of professions identified through the workshop session for the creative and cultural industries post-Covid19 and the 4th Industrial Revolution.

Event contact: j.jackson@gsa.ac.uk 

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First published: 5 May 2023