Perspective(s)

Arts Council of Wales in partnership with Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales is pleased to invite visual arts organisations (galleries, commissioning and presenting organisations), based in Wales, to apply to be part of this unique 2-year programme.

The opportunity will support seven visual arts organisations to work in partnership with seven Amgueddfa Cymru museums across Wales. 

A grant of £60,000 will be offered to the visual arts organisation to cover a two-year period from April 2023.

The purpose of the fund is:

• Develop narratives and ways of working creatively together that provide a balanced, authentic and decolonised history of Wales and a reflection of Wales today.
• New creative interventions and experiences that the public will both enjoy and that will challenge them.
• Funds and opportunities to work and get experience in heritage and the visual arts for creative professionals from culturally and ethnically diverse backgrounds.
• Reflect and acknowledge the perspectives, experiences, and stories of culturally and ethnically diverse communities, past and present.
• Make space and time for change so that artists, organisations, and communities can talk to each other and come up with new ideas and ways of working.
• Lift barriers and change cultures that currently prevent:
  • work being created,
  • access to artworks, collections and spaces
  • giving communities power.
• Make sure that the learning along with the new ways of working, become best practice for organisations to work more creatively in cooperation with individuals and communities.
• Tell the wider arts and heritage sector about what’s been learnt, so they too can get involved in the conversation and take action.