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。研究表明，艺术未能触及全球大多数人，残疾人，因性别/性取向而被排斥的人和/或社会经济背景较低的人，以及这些特征的交叉点。它还表明，视觉艺术没有利用英国的多元化人才，与代表性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人2015年对社会艺术家如何获得验证的研究基础上，并扩展和增强了申请人与Axisweb（2017-20）的研究合作伙伴关系所产生的社会艺术家验证的新模式。虽然社会艺术家每天都在英国一些代表性最低的社区工作，但他们的技能和专业知识在关于视觉艺术的辩论中没有得到充分的认可，社区成员的声音也没有被听到。该研究员和合作伙伴的目标是重新定位社会实践，成为视觉艺术中EDI的主要倡导者。在这样做的时候，我们的目标是在与观众的对话中改善对代表性不足的社区的文化提供，为社会艺术家提供令人满意的支持，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其收藏和政策，以确定这些是否反映了殖民和种族主义的历史问题，该奖学金是紧迫的。这一点在艺术机构中尤为突出，因为它们在民间社会的定义方面具有代表性和象征性权力。由于新型冠状病毒肺炎（COVID-19，即2019冠状病毒病）的紧急情况，大型艺术机构希望通过参与计划来恢复观众，但没有一套关于道德和保护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，并着手在社会艺术/艺术家和主流视觉艺术世界之间架起知识的桥梁，使双方受益，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合作，来自代表性不足的社区和伙伴组织的人们，以更好地了解文化和创造力的障碍。艺术项目的创意产出和成果将根据参与组织的平等，多样性和包容性（EDI）政策进行审查。将对这些标准进行修订，以反映对社区和社会艺术家的文化和创作需求的了解。来自大型机构的员工也将参加，向小型机构、艺术家和社区成员学习如何创建“万年青”EDI政策。随着文化和社会的发展，平等、多样性和包容性的政策将通过不断更新的过程反映这些变化。支持该项目的合作伙伴是Axisweb（Axis），一个拥有5000多名成员的国家艺术家数字会员慈善机构，以及Social Arts Network（SAN），一个由英国艺术家领导的倡议，致力于为艺术和社会实践领域实现知名度和代理权。在艺术理事会英格兰研究主任，安德鲁Mowlah，也将参与，会议与研究员和团队在奖学金的过程中两次讨论进展和政策相关的学习。

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.