Art Gene is seeking a Programme Associate to join their small, friendly, award-winning team.
This new senior role is central to Art Gene’s approach to programming new visionary arts projects that engage people in their social, natural and built environment – and to ensuring a legacy for the work they have supported and delivered in recent years.
The post-holder will work on Art Gene’s REAL Barrow programme, examining the collisions of art, industry and nature, and engaging artists and communities in the uniqueness of this place, from the high street to the island landscapes.
The successful candidate will manage a suite of art and engagement projects – studio- gallery-, and landscape-based – with a focus on artists working alongside the communities of Barrow and Furness in an engaged way.
They develop projects, exhibitions, and events across both sites with freelance artists and other historic or natural environment specialists.
This role will be undertaken by an organised, confident, self-starter who brings significant experience of:
- designing, planning and managing arts projects and engagement activity;
- supporting artists and mounting high quality exhibitions;
- in the context of artist promotion, legacy and funder accountability, writing up and showcasing artists’ work online and in print, including in dedicated catalogues.
- Lead on the writing and production of at least two substantial digital/physical publications, one summarising the Re:discover Barrow High Street Heritage project and one celebrating 25 years of Art Gene.
- Proactively manage the artist, project and exhibition pages of the Art Gene website, writing copy on each project as it develops, and on completion.
- Retrospectively write up and/or edit Art Gene projects delivered 2020-2023 to ensure they are properly represented on the website.
Please see their website for full job description and to apply:
https://www.art-gene.co.uk/work-with-art-gene-programme-associate/
Closing date: 3 July