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Upcoming Online Courses: BOOK NOW
Booking is now open for our next two online trainings.
If you’re new to touring exhibitions, join us to learn the fundamentals on our Introduction to UK Touring Exhibitions training.
Alternatively if you want to learn more about commissioning projects and installations from artists and creative practitioners, join us for our brand-new Artistic Commissioning training.
As always, our members get a discounted rate for all of our training and events so consider joining today.
COURSE: Introduction to UK Touring Exhibitions
Wed 6 Nov and Wed 13 Nov 2024, 09:30 – 12:30
Online
If you’re new to receiving or producing UK touring exhibitions, this is the training for you!
Spaced over 2 x 3-hour online sessions over consecutive weeks, this online course is aimed at individuals and organisations who have just started, or wish to start, producing and/or receiving local, regional and national UK touring exhibitions.
It provides basic level skills and knowledge for receiving, creating and managing UK touring exhibitions, and is an opportunity to network with other professionals interested in temporary, touring and partnership exhibitions.
Book now
COURSE: Artistic Commissioning
Thurs 5 Dec and Thurs 12 Dec 2024, 09:30 – 12:30
Online
This brand-new training from The Exhibitions Group has been developed in response to sector needs for guidance on commissioning and delivering projects and installations in collaboration with artists and creative practitioners.
The online training enables participants to look in-depth at why and how you might commission a contemporary artist to create new work as part of a temporary exhibition or touring project.
Through vibrant discussion, knowledge sharing and presentations of case studies and examples of good practice; different creative approaches to artistic commissioning will be explored.
The roles and responsibilities of the commissioner and artist will be outlined and participants will be given an opportunity to discuss benefits and risks associated with this type of work as well as talking through any issues or complications that can arise when working on complex partnership commissioning projects.