Yesterday someone politely asked if we had a policy in terms of who gets to take part in Cultivate shows, I think the person was asking (on #BlackoutTuesday) about the skin colour of the artists who actually take part in our shows, about the ethnic background of our artists. Generally, in terms of open calls…
#BlackoutTuesday #Theshowmustbepaused – Tokenism I know, but all black lives do matter, community matters, these things matter …
CULTVATE Presents (And with good) Reason – opening night Thursday June 18th, 8pm, same place as last time and the time before that for there is good reason to do it all again.Whatever the Art Council might think about us not really needing emergency funding while others who do far (far) less that us in…
well after a number of slightly annoying e.mails from them yesterday, we just got a phone call from Art Council England for which we say thank you. Clearly they are now trying to reach our a little more than they have done over the last nine years of Cultivate, clearly the blogs and the social…
We did get a reply yesterday from the grandly titled “Senior Manager, Compliance & Improvement” at the Arts Council, we were told to expect a reply by whoever rums the Arts Council Facebook page, we were told that someone was “preparing a response”, the ” “prepared response” came though a couple of hours later, his…
The two clear and obvious messages we’ve managed to gather from our mostly failed attempts to communicate with the still rather aloof Arts Council England over the last couple of weeks are, whatever you do don’t ever try to be in any kind of way “self-sufficient” and please don’t attempt to stand on your own…
Just got an e.mail from an artist, a very reasonable request, clarity is always a good thing, for the sake of clarity and to keep you all far far away from the turmoil, here is where we stand right now… On 18/05/2020 12:08, an artist we won’t name wrote: > Hi Sean, > > hoping…
The exhibition is now open and ready to be viewed, hosted on the Organ website via this link ORGAN: Cultivate presents (Far from the) Turmoil, an on-line art exhibition…
Opening on Thursday evening, 8pm UK time, Thursday 14th May, following on from the success of the #43Artists exhibition, an eighth on-line show and the 155th in all from Cultivate, hosted on the Organ website, watch this space The ongoing matter of showing art, opening doors, engaging, involving, evolving. (Far from the Turmoil will…
Art in these times of lockdown and social distancing and galleries with doors even more firmly closed than they so often were in the time before the virus. virtual Journeys on line and zooming around and what we look at dictated to by whoever is holding the camera doesn’t really work. Badly lit virtual tours…
CULTIVATE... Artists doing it our way 