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Civic and Place: framing the role of cultural development in Art and Design Working Paper
We are please to launch a working paper arising from the event in April 2025: Civic and Place: Exploring the Role of the Civic in Art and Design which brought together researchers, educators, practitioners and community stakeholders to examine how art and design can shape, sustain, and animate civic life.
The paper is co-authored by:
Dr Rowan Bailey, Director of the Centre for Cultural Ecologies in Art, Design and Architecture, University of Huddersfield.
Evelyn Wilson, co-Director of National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange
Dr Rhiannon Jones, Associate Professor (Civic Practice). Head of Civic and Communities, University of Derby.
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Explore the Journal of Visual Art Practice
20th Anniversary Edition
The Journal of Visual Art Practice marked its 20th anniversary in 2021, and its current issue (Vol. 20, Issue 4) offers both reflection on the journal’s rich history, but also its forward going vision and commitment to an international and diverse approach. The issue includes, for example, reflections from the founding editor Iain Biggs, and a survey article on contemporary drawing pedagogy by Howard Riley. Looking ahead, the issue also includes a review of Lauren Fournier’s book on autotheory as feminist practice, and an essay by artist and Nahem Shoa, whose exhibition, Face of Britain, brought together...