No Jobs in the Arts equips early-career creatives with skills, opportunities, and a platform to champion their voices. They support early-career creatives in the visual arts.
The team programmes disruptive cultural activity, from the Midlands, UK, creating professional development opportunities for early-career creatives, working in the visual arts. The programme aims to address environmental issues, and to support those underrepresented in the sector.
The public projects No Jobs in the Arts delivers includes events, workshops, educational activities, exhibitions, and publications – always delivered by, for, or with early-career creatives. Through these projects, they put work by emerging creatives into regional and national collections, such as The Tate’s Library and Wellcome Collection.
No Jobs in the Arts deliver support enabling creatives to make new artwork, like this commission illustrating why plastic straws are not evil (‘Disabled people are nature’, Henry Dow); and, highlight the experiences of inclusivity, accessibility, and self-empowerment in the arts by people of colour (In Conversation – Interview Series, guest curated by Priya Chopra).
The team work nomadically, collaborating online and in-person, with creative spaces, places, and people, to support early-career creatives, namely emerging curators and artists at the beginning of their career. Highlights include delivering a festival with UK New Artists, contributing to a programme at the Royal College of Art, and receiving several rounds of investment from Arts Council England.
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NO JOBS IN THE ARTS CIC is a not-for-profit, community interest company, registered in England and Wales, with the company number 14220745.
Creatives commissioned
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Commissions paid
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Collections ft. our projects
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