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📢 Call for Papers: Encounters in the Archive 📢https://lnkd.in/d7Mr5_3e Submit your project or research addressing how creative practises can disrupt power structures embedded in archival collections In March 2025 Autograph and Parse Journal will host a new symposium 'Encounters: Art, Power and Archives' in London to discuss strategies and methodologies to rethink, reimagine and reshape the histories embedded in archival collections Submit you paper for a paid opportunity to present your work at the symposium 💫 Here's how to apply: ♦️ Read the full details about the call on Autograph's website ♦️ Submit a 400- word project description and a 200-word bio ♦️Along with samples of supporting material: up to 6 images and 3 links ♦️ The deadline is Wednesday 8 January 2025 — Encounters: Art, Power and Archives is a partnership between Autograph and Parse Journal Image: Sasha Huber, Tailoring Freedom – Fassena, 2022. Courtesy the artist. Commissioned by The Power Plant, Toronto; Autograph, London; Turku Art Museum, Finland; and Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, 2022. Original image courtesy the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and. Ethnology, Harvard University, 35-5- 10/53048.

New event💫 Join us at this symposium examining the social history and legacy of Brixton in the 1980s https://lnkd.in/d4nBenN4 📅 Thursday 23 January 2025 2:30pm 📍 Autograph's gallery in Shoreditch Autograph’s new exhibition 'The Studio – Staging Desire' features never-before-seen photographs from this era by Rotimi Fani-Kayode, who was a prominent figure in the Black British art scene and contributing member of the Brixton Artists Collective. To commemorate his radical vision, this symposium will bring together artists, historians, writers and residents who experienced and participated in this creative moment in social history – as well as those inspired by its legacy. Panel one will delve into local social activism involving anti-racism movements, LGBTQ+ rights campaigns and grassroots community organising that sought to challenge institutional inequalities. Panel two will examine the ongoing impact of these movements and explore how they continue to inspire activism and creative practices around identity, community, and representation. 🎟️ Book tickets on Autograph's website

New event ⚡ Join us online for our symposium examining the social history and legacy of Brixton in the 1980s https://lnkd.in/d9erEQf5 📅 Thursday 23 January 2025 3:00pm (GMT) 🖥️ Everyone is welcome to join, from any location⁠ Brixton in the 1980s was shaped by radical action with activist groups, community centres and art spaces confronting disparities in race, gender and wealth. Autograph’s new exhibition 'The Studio – Staging Desire' features never-before-seen photographs from this era by Rotimi Fani-Kayode, who was a prominent figure in the Black British art scene and contributing member of the Brixton Artists Collective. To commemorate his radical vision, this symposium will bring together artists, historians, writers and residents who experienced and participated in this creative moment in social history – as well as those inspired by its legacy. Panel one will delve into local social activism involving anti-racism movements, LGBTQ+ rights campaigns and grassroots community organising that sought to challenge institutional inequalities. Following this, we will turn our focus toward the future in a second panel. Panel two will examine the ongoing impact of these movements and explore how they continue to inspire activism and creative practices around identity, community, and representation. ⁠🎟️ Free tickets available on Autograph's website

Want to know more about the London artist-teacher residency opportunity? Join this friendly webinar to learn more and ask your questions. https://lnkd.in/dqBKNwVu 🔹 Tue 7 Jan 4:30pm 🔹 Online via Zoom 🔹 Free tickets available Applications are now open for two fully funded London artist-teacher residencies, offering time and space to develop a new body of work that explores the relationship between personal creative practice and teaching. Thinking of applying? Have questions about the application process? The residency itself, or how it might impact your teaching practice? Curious to learn more? At this webinar Autograph staff will be joined by the current resident artist-teacher Dianne Minnicucci, plus teachers from our partner school Thomas Tallis. They'll share their experiences with the residency and answer your questions.

📢Applications Open for London Artist-Teacher Residencies📢 Apply by 10am (GMT) Monday 3 Feb 2025 https://lnkd.in/dhY-FVUN Autograph is inviting applications for two fully funded six-month residencies over the period 2025 – 2027 from London based secondary school art and photography teachers from global majority backgrounds. Both residencies come with a professionally curated public presentation opportunity at conclusion. The residency model is designed to work within the context of a school setting and offers time and space for the resident to develop a new body of work. It is tailored to artist-teachers who have a visual arts practice outside of teaching and are interested in how practice and teaching inform one another. The project offers the artist-teacher: ♦️  Budget for materials and resources ♦️  Framework and support to create a new body of work ♦️ Time to undertake research and development ♦️ Opportunity to expand teaching style and collaborate in new ways with students examining how the role of artist and educator are integrated ♦️ Opportunity to publicly profile art practice -- The Visible Practice Residency programme is in partnership with The Photographers’ Gallery and generously supported by Freelands Foundation.

📢 Call for Writing: The Liberatory Space of the Photography Studio 📢 Apply by 10am (GMT) on Monday 6 January 2025 https://lnkd.in/dmJbJgcZ Are you an unagented or emerging writer looking to publish new work? We're inviting pitches for texts that critically engage with the ways in which the photography studio can serve as a liberatory space to explore expression and identity. 🔶 This opportunity is for unagented or emerging writers. Don’t be put off pitching us a piece if you haven’t been published before – we’re keen to work with first-time writers too. 🔶 The successful applicants will receive a £312 fee to produce the full text, editorial support from Autograph and publication on our website. We will consider submissions for writing in a range of formats so long as it speaks to the themes. This might include – but certainly isn’t limited to – a comment piece, a remembrance, a piece of poetry, a listicle or a short work of fiction.

📢 Open Call for Events: Spirit of London📢 Apply by 10am (GMT) Monday 6 January 2025 https://lnkd.in/d8Yt5pnX Calling all emerging cultural practitioners! Submit your event proposal exploring themes of community, celebration and cultural preservation for an opportunity to make it happen with Autograph's support. The event will take place as part of the public programme for Autograph’s current exhibition, Abi Morocco Photos: Spirit of Lagos 🔹 This opportunity is intended to support emerging cultural practitioners of any age. We understand ‘emerging’ to cover people with less than 3 years of experience working in the arts or events programming, which includes those who have not developed an event of any kind before 🔹 The successful applicant will receive a £400 programming fee and have a budget of £600 for the event Event proposals could focus on, for example, a theme within the exhibition or the artists featured. They could also connect with Autograph's mission: to highlight issues of race, representation, rights and social justice. The format of the event might be a workshop, book launch, talk, panel discussion or lecture. We also invite proposals that feature dynamic events with varied formats

📅 Save the date for our photography book and print sale, a fundraiser to support Autograph's work 💫

Book Launch 🌟 Eight Weeks by Baroness Lola Young https://lnkd.in/dJS4Kw5K Eight Weeks is a memoir that tells the remarkable life story of Baroness Lola Young of Hornsey, from her childhood in foster care, to becoming one of the first Black women in the House of Lords. In this compelling book Young sites her care records, fragments of memory, and imagination to create a vivid portrait of a childhood in a system that often made her feel invisible and unwanted. Alongside glimpses into her life as a peer, activist, and campaigner for social justice, Eight Weeks tells the powerful story of her resilience and determination. Join us to celebrate the launch at our gallery 📅 Thursday 28 November 6:30pm 🎟️Book tickets on Autograph's website

New Teachers workshop 💡 Join us to unpack the different ways the student-teacher dynamic can spark imagination and creativity 💫 https://lnkd.in/dsG6GUwv How can we centre the word artist in artist teacher? This session will look at the role students play in inspiring the artistic practice of teachers, unpacking the different ways the student-teacher dynamic can spark imagination and creativity. The evening will be led by writer Hannah Lowe who, for over a decade, taught London sixth formers. Her award-winning book The Kids contains compassionate and energetic sonnets that are fictionalised portraits of the students she nurtured. Lowe will read a selection of poems from The Kids, while sharing how her students have inspired her. We will then move into a discussion and workshop with prompts, sharing and reflection as a group. All materials and refreshments will be provided. This event is part of Autograph's teachers’ programme, and specifically programmed for primary and secondary teachers in England. 🎟️Book a free ticket on Autograph's website