If you do a little maths on this you can work out that artists have a slightly better than one in a thousand chance of being directly funded in any single year. If one assumes a career duration of 30 years that means a slightly better than 3% chance of being funded by ACE at some point in your life. Variations on the "how many artists does it take to change a light-bulb" joke come to mind.
best Simon On 7 Nov 2011, at 11:45, marc garrett wrote: > Arts funding: why so many artists don't apply for the money. > > Dany Louise introduces a report she wrote on arts funding that reveals > some surprising statistics. > > "The key finding is that surprisingly few individual artists apply for > money in their own right and even fewer are successful. In England, less > than 5% of artists apply in their own name every year and of those, less > than 2.5% are successful. This means that there is little direct funding > being given to artists to pursue and develop their own projects, under > their own control: under 20% of available funding for the visual arts in > England, 14% for Northern Ireland and around 18% for Scotland and Wales > in 2009-2010." > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture-professionals-network/culture-professionals-blog/2011/nov/04/arts-funding-artists-dont-apply > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > Simon Biggs [email protected] www.littlepig.org.uk @SimonBiggsUK skype: simonbiggsuk [email protected] Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh www.eca.ac.uk/circle www.elmcip.net www.movingtargets.co.uk _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
