Tue 22nd April, 11:45 - 13:30
How to Make Networks of Solidarity in the New Normal is a participatory session exploring how artists can cultivate meaningful and supportive networks, led by Dani Admiss
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.
join artist, creative climate leader, independent curator and educator, Dani Admiss for a special participatory Masterclass session designed to equip you with a renewed sense of agency to build and nurture creative, supportive networks.
Networking is an essential part of being a professional artist. By building and maintaining good relationships with a range of people, networking can help you find opportunities, build a community, and gain exposure, leading to collaborations, opportunities and sales. But what happens if you have limited access to cultural infrastructure, you can’t find your tribe, or are looking for more meaningful connections? In ‘How to Make Networks of Solidarity’, we explore how artists have experimented with networking to create community, share resources and strive for creative liberation. Together, we will LEARN how artists have created networks for different purposes and with varied outcomes, DISCUSS how networking is changing in uncertain times, IDENTIFY our own circle of relationships, and EXPLORE how we can harness our surroundings to build strong, supportive and creative communities moving forward.
Please bring a notebook, colour pens, or a device for drawing and note taking with you to the session.
Event Details:
Date: Tuesday, April 22nd
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.
Follow the link to learn more about the PROTO programme, the activities and opportunities on offer.
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.
