Empower Your Artistry: Building Skills for Myanmar Artists
Collaborating with Grace Adam from the UK, AMCA organizes Empower Your Artistry: Building Skills for Myanmar Artists training program to build skills for Myanmar contemporary artists. Through two online workshops, it will focus on the following topics:
Portfolio making
Pitching
Proposal writing
Sharing information on grants and cultural institutions
The program will be delivered in two stages of training for artists in five regions – Mon State, Kachin State, Karen State, Shan State, and Mandalay Division.
This comprehensive training program for Myanmar contemporary artists will cover a wide range of essential topics to enhance their skills and professional development. Participants will delve into the art of creating impactful portfolios, with practical examples and a useful checklist. They will also gain insights into effective proposal writing, crafting compelling CVs, optimizing websites and social media presence, and articulating a clear artist statement. In addition to this, the program will provide valuable resources, including exhibition proposal and exhibition preparation checklists, a curated list of relevant artists across disciplines for reference as well as guidance on maintaining a meticulous record of their artistic journey.
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Stage 1: Training for Trainers – this stage will be facilitated by the UK consultant and conducted online. It is dedicated to mid-career artists or practitioners representing the five regions.
4 Nov 2023: Workshop Day 1 (via Zoom)
5 - 9 Nov 2023: Participants to send back their Toolkit Implementation Scenario for verbal and written feedback
11 Nov 2023: Workshop Day 2 (via Zoom)
Stage 2: Peer-to-Peer – this is an in-person training for artists who need to build up such skills from the five regions. It will be facilitated by mid-career artists who attended the Stage 1 TOT.
14 - 19 Nov 2023: Preparing for Peer-to-Peer workshops in respective communities in their regions
20 - 25 Nov 2023: Peer-to-Peer workshops (Any 2 dates between these days)
By the end of both stages, all participants will have built skills around portfolio development, and a better understanding of international opportunities and engagement. A fixed amount of stipend will be provided to attend the training and to organize peer-to-peer sessions.
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Interested artists from Mon State, Kachin State, Karen State, Shan State, and Mandalay Division are encouraged to apply for this program. The online application form can be accessed through here.
Application deadline is 23 October 2023, 11:59 PM (Myanmar Standard Time). Only selected candidates will be notified.
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Grace Adam is an artist and lecturer. She trained as a painter and completed her M.A. in Sculpture and Installation at Chelsea College of Art & Design, where she was then Fellow for a year. She also holds a PGCert. She teaches History & Theory at Chelsea College of Arts on Undergraduate and Post-graduate courses. She has created and delivered lectures, life drawing, teaching materials and CPD for galleries including Whitechapel Gallery, The Serpentine Gallery, The Royal Academy of Arts, The Courtauld Institute, Tate Modern and Britain and the National Portrait Gallery.
Grace co-created and co-hosts The Art Channel. With over 1,270,000 views, The Art Channel reviews and films exhibitions of Modern and Contemporary art. She is currently working with the British Council Myanmar on curating, artists portfolios and the British art scene, and preparing for a solo show next year.
