Fri 25th April, 11:45 - 13:30
Join Dani Admiss for an engaging online Masterclass designed for artists who care about the climate crisis and want to explore how their creative practice can inspire change
Taking place in Spring 2025, the PROTO Masterclasses are a series of expert-led online sessions designed to provide UK artists based in the North with a unique opportunity to engage with and learn from a diverse range of international artists, cultural leaders, and creative professionals.
If you are an artist that cares deeply about climate change but are not sure what action you can take in your work, this masterclass with creative climate leader, independent curator and educator, Dani Admiss is for you.
The Climate and Nature Emergency presents complex challenges about how to create a lighter, greener, and fairer society, for all. Artists play an important role in the coming adaptation. They can inspire people, create hope, and imaginatively communicate actions, ideas and stories. In ‘How to be an artist in the climate crisis’, we explore what it means to be a green artist in the North West today, and experiment with how to create our own pathways to move forward. Together, we will LEARN why being a green artist is about more than solely making low-carbon decisions, DISCUSS how our own journey in a way that can also inspire others, NAME our desires and superpowers, and CREATE our own wayfinding vision tree, laying out what steps we can take next.
Please bring a notebook, colour pens, paper, or a device for drawing and note taking with you to the session.
Event Details:
Date: Friday, April 25th
Time: 11:45 – 13:30
Cost: FREE
Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes (with break)
Registration is essential, click the below link to go through to the booking page.
Dr Dani Admiss is an artist, curator and educator. Her work is a journey of learning to live well with others within limits. She champions community-based learning and uses her role of ‘curator’ as a shared space for collective inquiry, story building and meaning making, often working with a coalition of agitators, dream weavers, growers and caregivers. Together, they have created a holistic decarbonisation plan for art workers (Stanley Picker Gallery), designed immersive game-environments that unwittingly extract data in exchange for public services (Furtherfield), formed a Bill of More-Than-Human Rights (Porto Design Festival), and set up an alternative ethics committee for eco and social conservation (MAAT, Lisbon).
Under the name of the Sunlight Liberation Network, she is currently creating an ethical learning program for ‘greener’ and fairer art practices (Arts Catalyst) and running a slow “companion-planting” working group (Creative Scotland) exploring regenerative cultures and alternative configurations of working in the arts. Admiss has created numerous exhibitions, conferences, workshops, and edited books, in the UK, the EU and internationally.
PROTO is a groundbreaking new programme designed to nurture and encourage the growth of artists looking to enhance their digital creativity through skill development, digital learning and networking, brought to you by FutureEverything.
Our ambition is to establish an end-to-end opportunity pathway for artists to progress through the PROTO programme. By providing access to high-quality resources, expert advice, and a vibrant community of peers, PROTO seeks to empower artists to achieve their full creative potential and make a meaningful impact within their arts community.
PROTO is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and is part-funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
