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New Visions Artist Fellow

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We now seek to make the following appointment: New Visions Artist Fellow

Job Title: New Visions Artist Fellow

Remuneration: £2,500 yearly stipend with a materials budget of £1,000

Location: The MAC, Belfast

Application Deadline: Thursday, 31 October 2024 at 12pm

The MAC’s Creative Learning and Engagement team is seeking talented and passionate socially engaged artists to share their collaborative practice with ArtistTeachers with the aim of centring social practice in the classroom.

Selection Criteria:

  • Experienced socially engaged artist with a strong social practice.
  • A minimum of three years’ experience of delivering socially engaged projects with schools and / or communities.
  • Experience of project planning, working within budget, and working to deadlines.
  • Ability to produce high quality creative outcomes in collaboration with project participants and community members.
  • Champion accessibility and inclusivity.
  • Excellent communication skills.
  • Confident leading education-focused co-designed creative projects.
  • The socially engaged artist should be community focused, and socially and politically aware.
  • Willing to travel to various locations in Belfast and beyond.

For further details about the role please download the application pack and equality monitoring form.

How to Apply:

Please submit the following:

• A cover letter outlining your suitability for the position of New Visions Artist Fellow. Within the cover letter, please discuss which school or schools you are interested in working with, and why you think you are best suited to pair with them.
• Submit five photos which document socially engaged projects you have delivered. Please describe the project and its impact. Please submit these collated in one pdf.
• A two-page CV with two referees.
• A completed equal opportunity monitoring form.

Applications should be sent by email to [email protected].

If you have any questions about the role, please email Elaine Forde, Creative Learning Manager at [email protected].

The closing date for applications is 31 October 2024 at noon, shortlisted applicants will be invited to an interview. Interviews will be conducted on Friday 8 November 2024. If you cannot make an offered interview time, we may not be able to give you an alternative. If you have not heard from us by 10 November, please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

Please note that we are unable to consider any applications which are received after the deadline or are incomplete.

We are an Equal Opportunities Employer.

Belfast is a diverse and vibrant multi-cultural city, and we want to recruit artists who reflect the diversity of our city. As part of this recruitment drive, we welcome applications from Black and Global Majority communities, LGBTQ+, low income and working-class backgrounds and artists living with a disability.