Making It Happen! Developing Projects for the Cultural Sector 2022
MAKING IT HAPPEN! DEVELOPING PROJECTS IN THE CULTURAL SECTOR. COURTESY NTU CCA SINGAPORE
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Discovery Series

Making It Happen! Developing Projects for the Cultural Sector 2022

Wednesday, 18 May 2022 - Friday, 20 May 2022 · 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Course Details

Date: 18 – 20 May 2022 
Time: 9am – 5pm
Location:NTU CCA Singapore, The Seminar Room, Block 37 Malan Road, Singapore 109452
Standard Course Fees: $2247 (full fee), $674.10 (Cat-A SSG Funded Courses), $254.10 (ETSS and MCES)

Register here.
For enquiries, please email ntuccaeducation@ntu.edu.sg

About this course 

Developing projects in the cultural sector comes with distinctive considerations unique to challenges in the field. Some examples of cultural sector projects include exhibitions, performances, festivals and other public presentations. 

In this 3-day programme designed for cultural practitioners and arts administrators, participants will develop the competencies and skills for planning and controlling art projects from ideation to completion. The course will examine the project management life cycle and address issues that drive or derail successful project outcomes. Participants will learn to define project parameters, identify and enrol stakeholders and use effective project management tools to plan, organise and track progress. 

Cultural sector projects often involve multiple, complex sources of funding. The processes involved in receiving the funds may not follow a regular schedule and subsidies sometimes are received after an event is over.  These issues can create uncertainty in the financial management of cultural sector projects. Project managers need to be agile in the both areas of budgeting and financial management in order to enhance project outcomes. 

This programme will also cover grant writing, an important aspect of project development and management. With the understanding that every grant application is evaluated at various stages, participants will learn how to tackle the different aspects of a grant application. Through hands-on writing practice, participants will navigate grant procedures, regulations and evaluation criteria and most importantly, favourably position their projects and increase their chances of receiving funding.

Who Should Sign Up

Arts Managers, Artists, Art Administrators, Curators, Researchers, Arts Educators, Production Managers, Cultural Workers, Arts Enthusiasts

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify key issues in project development life cycles specific to the arts.
2. Write a basic project proposal, timeline, and budget.
3. Identify potential funding sources including grants
4. Present and discuss proposals in a clear and persuasive manner.
5. Understand the current landscape of project development in the Arts in Singapore.
6. Navigate project development in times of crisis and force majeure.

Your Course Instructor 

  

 

 

 

 Dr Karin Oen is Principal Research Fellow at the Centre for Asian Art and Design; School of Art, Design and Media at Nanyang Technological University, and was recently Deputy Director, Curatorial Programmes for NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore. Prior to that, she was Associate Curator of contemporary art at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, where she played a pivotal role in the growth of the museum’s contemporary collection.
Dr Oen holds a PhD in History, Theory and Criticism of Art and Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an MA in Modern Art History, Connoisseurship and Art-Market History from Christie’s Education and a BA with honours in Urban Studies, Art History minor, from Stanford University.

Deeply engaged with the intersection of art, technology and culture, and the migration of people and ideas, Dr Oen is a global modernist whose curatorial practice spans the art and architecture from 19th through to 21st century.

As a curator, scholar and educator, one of Karin’s notable achievements is her role as the curator for 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘓𝘢𝘣: 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘺, a digital immersive exhibition that brought together over 400 people including programmers, designers, and animators. Karin also co-authored the book, 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘓𝘢𝘣: 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘪𝘵𝘺 , which is a collection of essays, interviews and photographs exploring both the presence of teamLab’s installations and the ideas and processes behind them with a focus on the development of their work.

 
Contributors
Karin Oen
Karin Oen
Curator, Staff
United States, Singapore, United States

Karin G. Oen is Deputy Director, Curatorial Programmes, at the NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore. She received her PhD in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Art and Architecture from MIT. A global modernist, she has recently focused on curatorial projects that explore transmediatic, transcultural, and transhistorical discourse. Oen is the curator of the forthcoming exhibition, teamLab: Continuity, at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, where she was a curator from 2015-2019.