Canva is a creative online program that you can use to create any graphic you need - a film poster, a book cover, Facebook cover images, and even logo designs. It’s very easy to use, so it’s great if you’re a graphic design novice!

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!

To help us explore the best ways to form and express an opinion we got in touch with one of the most opinionated people around: Rants N Bants. 

Looking for help and inspiration for young people doing Arts Award? Arts Award Voice offers ideas and support that you and your groups can access any time. It's free and has fresh content from young people who've been through it all themselves.

There are lots of features on Voice that can help you complete your Arts Award portfolio from sharing your blogs and reviews to finding arts events. 

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!

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.

Like Quince says in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', "Come, sit down, every mother's son, and rehearse your parts!" I'll try and make that rehearsal period a bit smoother.

How do you review something that can be so contentious?

Talks, Q&As, roundtable discussions. Reviewing can be tough at the best of times but how do you review a talk?

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.