Call for Proposals - engage 39: Visual Arts and Wellbeing

• LocationInternational
• Type
• Salary
• Artformmuseums, visual arts, galleries
• Contactailbhe.maceoin@engage.org

Description

Proposals are invited for engage 39, which will focus on the theme of Visual Arts and Wellbeing. Deadline for proposals: 10am, Monday 15 August 2016.

Click here to view an outline with links to numerous resources on the theme, stimulated by a discussion with the Journal Editorial Advisory Board.

Or click here to download a PDF containing full details of the Call for Proposals for this issue.

We are interested in contributions from colleagues in the UK and worldwide in relation to questions that include:

1. What are the current social, economic and policy contexts for arts in health and wellbeing in the UK and internationally?

2. How have they changed over recent years and since the publication of engage Journal 30: Arts and Health, in summer 2012?

3. In an expanding understanding of wellbeing, what aspects can visual arts organisations, galleries and museums most effectively target?

4. How has the work of visual arts organisations, galleries and museums responded to health and wellbeing agendas in recent years?

5. In what ways do the visual arts, gallery and museum sector contribute to health and wellbeing?

6. What do visual artists bring to projects in health and social settings?

7. In what ways can engagement with works of art, exhibitions and collections affect wellbeing?

8. What frameworks are useful when planning and evaluating arts in health and wellbeing initiatives and projects?

9. How can effective work be evidenced?

10. What partnerships have been developed for visual arts, gallery and museum work with the health and social sectors? Please click here to view the other questions and outline of the theme.

If you are interested in contributing to this issue, please send an informal proposal of no more than 300 words, your job/freelance title and contact details to ailbhe.maceoin@engage.org by 10am on Monday 15 August 2016.

Contributions may take the format of articles, interviews, collaborative pieces, conversations, photo essays or discussions, and engage welcomes those which take advantage of the Journal’s online format, through the use of sound or video clips, film and html links to digital content. As a guide, final articles lie between 1,500 and 4,000 words.

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Call for Proposals - engage 39: Visual Arts and Wellbeing