Social Artists for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion - SAFEDI

该奖学金支持社会艺术家和来自代表性不足社区的人挑战将这两个群体排除在视觉艺术之外的问题。研究表明，艺术无法接触到全球大多数人、残疾人、被性别/性取向排除在外的人和/或社会经济背景较低的人，以及这些特征的交汇点。它还表明，视觉艺术没有利用英国多样化的人才，与代表不足的社区合作的艺术家本身也没有得到适当的支持。该奖学金建立在申请者2015年关于社交艺术家如何获得认可的研究的基础上，并扩展和增强了申请者与Axisweb的研究伙伴关系(2017-2020年)产生的社交艺术家认可的新模式。尽管社会艺术家每天与英国一些代表性最低的社区合作，但他们的技能和专业知识没有得到足够的认可，在关于视觉艺术的辩论中，社区成员的声音也没有被听到。这位研究员和合作伙伴的目标是将社会实践重新定位为EDI在视觉艺术领域的主要冠军。这样做的目标是在与观众的对话中改善对代表不足的社区的文化提供，发展对社会艺术家的令人满意的支持，并与视觉艺术部门的其他部门分享学习。鉴于当前的民权运动促使英国文化组织审查他们的收藏和政策，看看这些收藏和政策是否反映了殖民和种族主义的历史问题，这笔奖学金是紧迫的。鉴于艺术机构对公民社会的定义具有代表性和象征性，这一点在艺术机构中得到了突出体现。由于新冠肺炎的紧急情况，大型艺术组织希望通过参与性计划来恢复观众，但没有一套道德和保障方面的指导或标准来帮助他们实现这一目标。该奖学金认识到这些交叉情况的紧迫性，并致力于在社会艺术/艺术家和主流视觉艺术世界之间架起知识的桥梁，使两者受益，确保社区的声音在这个过程中得到集中重新定位、尊重和倾听。为了建立实现这一目标的方法，英国不同地点的六个艺术项目将与艺术家、来自代表性不足的社区和合作组织的人合作，更好地了解文化和创造力的障碍。ART项目的创造性成果和成果将根据参与机构的平等、多样性和包容性(EDI)政策进行审查。将对这些文件进行修订，以反映对社区和社会艺术家的文化和创作需求的了解。来自较大组织的工作人员也将参加，向较小组织、艺术家和社区成员学习如何制定“常青树”EDI政策。随着文化和社会的发展，关于平等、多样性和包容性的政策将通过不断更新的过程来反映这些变化。支持该项目的合作伙伴是Axisweb(Axis)和社会艺术网络(SAN)，Axisweb是拥有+5000名成员的国家艺术家数字会员慈善机构，社会艺术网络(SAN)是英国艺术家领导的倡议，致力于实现艺术和社会实践领域的知名度和机构。英国艺术理事会研究主任安德鲁·莫拉也将参与其中，在奖学金期间两次与研究员和团队会面，讨论进展和与政策相关的学习。

This fellowship supports social artists and people from under-represented communities to challenge the exclusion of both groups from the visual arts. Research shows that the arts are failing to reach people from the global majority, those who are disabled, excluded by gender/sexuality and/or those who are from lower socio-economic backgrounds, and the intersections of these characteristics. It also shows that the visual arts do not make use of the diverse talent in the UK and that artists who work with under-represented communties are themselves not properly supported. The fellowship builds on the applicant's 2015 research into how social artists receive validation and extends and augments a new model of validation for social artists resulting from the applicant's research partnership with Axisweb (2017-20). Although social artists work daily with some of the most under-represented communities in the UK, their skills and expertise are under-acknowledged and the voices of community members under-heard in debates about visual art. The fellow and partners' aim to reposition social practice as lead champion of EDI in the visual arts. In doing this the ambition is to improve the cultural offer to under-represented communities in dialogue with audiences, develop satisfactory support for social artists and share learning with other parts of the visual arts sector. The fellowship is urgent given current civil rights movements which have prompted UK cultural organisations to review their collections and policies to see if these reflect historical issues around colonisation and racism. This is highlighted in arts institutions, given their representational and symbolic power around definitions of civil society. Due to the covid-19 emergency, large arts organisations want to recover audiences through engagement programmes but do not have a set of guidance or criteria on ethics and safeguarding to help them achieve this. The fellowship recognises the urgency of these intersecting situations and sets out to bridge knowledge between social art / artists and the mainstream visual art world, to benefit both, making sure community voices are centrally repositioned, respected and heard in the process.To establish ways to achieve this, six art projects in diverse UK sites will work with artists, people from under-represented communities and partner organisations to better understand barriers to culture and creativity. Creative outputs and outcomes from the art projects will then be reviewed against participating organisations' equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) policies. These will be revised to reflect what has been learnt about communities' and social artists' cultural and creative needs. Staff from larger organisations will also take part, learning from the smaller organisations, artists and community members how to create 'evergreen' EDI policies. As culture and society evolve, policies on equality, diversity and inclusion will reflect these changes through a constant process of renewal.The partners supporting the project are Axisweb (Axis), the national artists' digital membership charity with +5000 members and Social Arts Network (SAN), a UK-wide artist-led initiative, committed to achieving visibility and agency for the field of art and social practice. The Director of Research at Arts Council England, Andrew Mowlah, will also be involved, meeting with the fellow and team twice over the course of the fellowship to discuss progress and policy-related learning.