Creators Rights Alliance
A coalition of major creator led trade associations, unions and groups which exist to promote, protect and further the interests of authors and artists of creative works. Campaigns on fair contracts, pay, working conditions and intellectual property.
Producer Gathering
Insights and resources for independent producersin the arts. Includes free resources, learning opportunities for independent producers, discussion and writings. Producer Gathering aims to support and encourage independent producers at all career stages. Their free to access website includes:
Book Works
Studio offers a services to artists, designers, galleries, and businesses. Binding, prototypes and specialists in unique book artworks, boxes, and portfolios. Commissions and supports new work by emerging artists.
Artfairmag
Database and calendar of hundreds of art fairs around the world.
Arts marketing Association freelance directory
Directory of ferelance members of the Arts Marketing Association, working in press, PR, marketing and promotion in the arts.
Res Artis
Worldwide network of artist residencies, including searchable open calls and listings.
Men’s Sheds Association
Men’s Sheds are community spaces with facilities for men to take up practical hobbies. They’re about making friends, learning and sharing skills. Sheds are often run by volunteers.
Fab Labs
A Fab Lab, or digital fabrication laboratory, is a workshop for electronics and computing. Fab Labs provide access to the skills, materials and technology to anyone anywhere to make (almost) anything electronic. See international listing of labs and…
Open Workshop Network
Network of open access workshops across London and the home counties, including an assortment of Makespaces, Fab Labs, Hackspaces and Men’s Sheds. Wide range of facilities for amateurs or professionals.
Hackspace Foundation
A non profit community organisation promoting and co ordinating hackspaces in the UK. A hackspace is a community operated workspace where people with common interests can meet, socialise, and collaborate. Common areas include computers, machining, technology, science, digital…
London Renters Union
Member led campaigning union and taking action to make sure all Londoners have a decent, affordable and secure home. Many renters are seeing their rents increase, with LRU members reporting rises as much as 50%. Includes fact…
Paying Artists Campaign
Launched to secure payment for artists who exhibit in publicly funded galleries. Consulted nearly 2,000 artists, curators, funders, arts producers, museums, galleries, local authorities and other public commissioners since 2014. Includes advice and information for artists and…
Art Not Oil
Art Not Oil mobilises against Big Oil cultural sponsorship, doing so since 2004. A coalition of autonomous organisations united around the aim of ending oil sponsorship of the arts, sharing resources as the Art Not Oil Coalition.
Afterall ArtSchool
A forum to discuss teaching and learning art. Including art students and scholars, critics, artists and others. Programme includes essays, discussion groups, reading lists, and A/V references. A collaboration between Afterall, Central Saint Martins and the Museu de Arte de São Paulo…
Larkhall Art Club
Not for profit international life drawing club. Models and performance artists pose over Zoom with members around the world. Open to all levels of artists and free to join, with donations encouraged.
Taking Care: Ethnographic and World Cultures Museums as Spaces of Care
Project to include ethnographic and world cultures museums as ways to understand and challenge the interlinked crises in climate, decolonisation, democracy, and global inequality. The project explores the potential…
International Curators Forum
International peer to peer network for professional development founded by artists and curators. Aims to improve equality and inclusivity within the arts. Projects include commissions, exhibitions, projects, publications and events.
The Museum of British Colonialism
Network and platform for conversations about British colonialism and its legacies. Events, discussion and projects to publish suppressed and marginalised histories. No physical collection: the Museum instead creates, shares, and holds digital resources that highlight…