Arts Award on Voice

If you’re feeling overwhelmed and disillusioned by your career, or you’re just about to enter an art career and want a balanced approach to enable a long and stable career, here are my top five tips to avoid burnout in an arts career.

Doing any project, qualifications, work or life in general can be taxing. It’s important to look after yourself and avoid burnout or break down!

You've organised an event? Great job! But now you've actually got to promote it. Don't worry! Let me show you how to make the best graphics out there using Photoshop Elements 15.

A career in the arts is challenging, hard work and really rewarding. Work placements and training opportunities are a great way to test out your desired career, meet people in the industry and develop your skills and experience.

Doing your Arts Award is great fun but you must spend time organising everything and making sure nothing is missing from your portfolio. That's where Voice comes in with help!

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This is a broad estimation of the situation, but the fundamental part of it is, while the adage 'once you get your foot in, you're set', is true, you need to make sure your footprint is big enough.

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Keeping yourself safe online is important. It fosters respect, a comfortable space and the ability to have fun. It also allows you to get the most out of your online interactions and use the internet for research and sharing your views.

This part of the Bronze Arts Award is notoriously sticky. Passing on an arts skill can be difficult for all sorts of logistical reasons but there's little more rewarding than teaching, so they say.

It's daunting, the prospect of writing a 500(ish) word essay, especially when you don't know what to write about, or even how to start it.

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