Voicebox: Arts Inspiration
Interviews, reviews and features about the arts, culture and creative people - a good starting point for your Arts Inspiration research section of Arts Award.
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4 January 2018
An Xiao Mina, visual and digital artist with MozFest Artist Open Studio
An Xiao Mina, one of the artists in this year's MozFest Artist Open Studio spoke with me about her work in exploring the role of memes in today's internet culture and culture-at-large.
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3 January 2018
Want My Job? with Dave Darch
Dave Darch from A Little Learning (among other places) sits down to talk about the many hats he wears in the creative world but particularly the one which led to him getting young people to teach adults how to code at MozFest 2017.
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3 January 2018
Want My Job? with Katie and Cheryl
Hear Katie and Cheryl talk about their work with Helix Arts and how their experience working with young people brought them down to MozFest to deliver a workshop around Social Media and expression.
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3 January 2018
Want My Job? with Shelby Johnston
Shelby Johnston, together with Sarah Longfield, both of See Think Make, have put together an accessible workshop to engage young people with digital creativity at Mozfest. We spoke to Shelby about her work with See Think Make.
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1 January 2018
Interview with artist Philip Gurrey
Joanna Bailey speaks to British contemporary artist Philip Gurrey about his experimental portraiture work, and what advice he would give to aspiring artists!
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6 November 2017
Where are they now? with Julie Southam
We caught up with Julie Southam, who did her Gold Arts Award ten years ago, about how her portfolio informed the work she does now at Havas Lynx in Manchester.
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30 October 2017
What goes on at... St. Anne's-Belfield School?
We hear from some technology innovators who work at a primary school in Virginia in the US and are coming to MozFest to bring their novel approaches to teaching to this side of the Atlantic.
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28 October 2017
Cosplaying: Kristi O’Connor
I had a chat with Kristi O'Connor, a regular cosplayer and brilliant artist, in my prep for Comic Con October 2017
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24 October 2017
Want My Job? Sally Zabroski, theatre practitioner & projects organiser
I interviewed my friend and colleague Sally Zabroski about her career so far - by day, she is a Projects Coordinator for Unit Twenty Three, a social enterprise and arts firm based in South Norfolk. But by night, she is an experienced Theatre Practitioner delivering projects and youth groups left, right and centre. Here's what Sally had to say!
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25 September 2017
What goes on at... Carousel?
We caught up with Carousel, one of the 2017-2018 Arts Award Good Practice Centres to see how they use Arts Award so well that they earn the title.