Artist Accelerator
Rosetta’s Artist Accelerator programme helps kickstart the careers of local artists that have faced barriers to their careers.
This year we will select another five artists and provide them with access to networks, know-how, funded opportunities for public engagement and display of work, as well as mentoring sessions with experienced professionals, all to help develop their socially engaged practices in the local community.
The Artist Accelerator Programme has been such an insightful and meaningful experience for me—it's equipped me with new skills, fresh perspectives, and the confidence to embed my practice more deeply in my local community.
Ioanna Simion, Artist Accelerator 2024
Aims of the Programme
The programme supports artists to grow their practice through tailored mentoring, hands-on learning, and creative networking. Artists receive one-to-one coaching, explore new ideas on group trips, and develop practical skills in masterclasses. A paid public commission lets artists create meaningful work with local communities to engage with their local ecology and biodiverse surroundings.
What We Offer
- A coaching session:
- 3 hours of 1:1 support:
- Cultural Field Trips
- Creative Networks
- 5 Masterclasses:
- Group sessions:
- A Paid Commission for a Public Event with East Village:
A site-specific, public event or artwork designed in collaboration with local organisations and communities; focused on arts, culture and nature at East Village. - Artist Accelerator members will develop and deliver the project and each will be given a fee of £1000 and a small bursary of £70 for travel or childcare costs.
Where is the Project Based?
All group sessions and masterclasses will take place on Wednesday evenings, following consultation with the Artist Accelerator cohort from 6.00-8.00pm at Rosetta Arts Centre.
Any site visits to East Village or Museums and Galleries will be organised by consensus on weekdays, depending on group availability, so you must have some weekday availability throughout the year.
How people can get involved?
- Artists with a visual arts focus who are looking to develop their socially engaged practice as ‘Artist Activators’ within the community, working with people and in relation to space to interrogate the role of art in the public realm.
- Artists who are interested in connecting and collaborating with the other Artist Accelerator members.
- Artists with an interest in public participatory practices related to
- local ecology
- environmental responsibility
- community first place-making
- Public arts practices
- Artists who have faced barriers in developing their practice. We particularly encourage applications from groups who are underrepresented in the cultural sector including working class people, disabled people, and people from ethnically diverse backgrounds.
- Artists who are based in East London with priority given to artists based or born in Newham.
- Artists must be over 18 years of age and not currently in full-time education.
Funders & Partners
This programme is delivered by Rosetta Arts with mentors and practitioners from the arts and cultural sector. The public art commission is in collaboration with the Urban Heat Collective at UCL East and in consultation with local community groups and The Conservation Volunteers, Artist Accelerator programme is funded by Get Living and delivered by Rosetta Arts in partnership with the Urban Heat Collective.
Ready to join or want to find out more?
Applications for this oppurtunity are still being accepted!
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