Professional Engagement

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;
• recognise the professional opportunities relevant to your practice.
• select appropriate methods for presenting your professional practice;

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• produce written materials with direct application in the development of your career.
• manage information about yourself and your work with professional relevance;

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.

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

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.

Resources & Reading list

Internet Resources

Academic Skills ( including AI).

Study Skills.

Library.

Blackboard (E:learning).

Journal Articles

(2009/10). Collective Curating. Manifesta Journal, 8.

Textbooks

Barker, E. (1999). Contemporary Cultures of Display. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press.

Obrist, H. (2014). Ways of Curating. London: Allen Lane.

Steedman, M. (ed) (2012). Gallery as Community: Art, Education, Politics. London: Whitechapel Gallery.

O’Neill, P. (2012). The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s). Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press..

Cottrell, S (2015). Skills for Success: Personal Development and Employability. London: Intellect or Journal of Curatorial Studies.

Martinon, J.-P. (ed) (2013). The Curatorial: A Philosophy of Curating. London: Bloomsbury.

Thea, C. (2009). On Curating: Interviews with Ten International Curators. New York: Distributed Art Publishers, Inc..

Obrist, H. (2008). A Brief History of Curating. London: JRP Ringier.

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..

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

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.