Occupation: Call For Student Submissions

Occupation:

Free Art Space – Free Education

Deadline 18 December

To highlight the importance of their influence on our city, Bank Street Arts is offering free access to our Project Spaces for students to create, exhibit or otherwise occupy. We invite proposals for the creative use of the spaces from anyone currently studying, in any field, in any institution, at any level.

While thousands of students and educators march, occupy and resist on the streets of London, Leeds, Sheffield and nearly every other University town, the ConDem Coalition pushes forward its regressive education agenda. Educators say that arts courses are likely to suffer heavily from the fee hike, with many poorer young people unlikely to take the financial risk. A large proportion of the artistic community in Sheffield is made up of students and graduates from our Universities and Colleges. The cultural face of our city is at risk.

To highlight the importance of their influence on our city, Bank Street Arts is offering free space for the first three months of 2011 specifically to students. The three Project Spaces, usually offered to our Artists In Residence, will be offered for approximately a week per proposal (although we will consider other periods), for a period of three months, as part of an open residency for students. All proposals will be considered no matter how large or small in scale and ambition, political or pedestrian. Illustration, painting, sculpture, installation, performance, photography, moving image, sound, graphic and even non art based practices. Proposals can be from individuals or groups.

To submit a proposal, send by e-mail to: media@bankstreetarts.com

The deadline for submission is the 18th December 2010.

Initial submissions should include a short written proposal of what you intend to do with the space. You may send up to four images as examples of your proposed project or of relevant previous work (please include a website reference if you have one). Please also include the your full contact details and any other information that you feel may be important. Please also send the name and e-mail address of a tutor at your institution so we can verify the status of the proposal.

Work exhibited at Bank Street Arts is subject to our exhibitions policy, available by request at info@bankstreetarts.com.