Providing opportunities for creativity shouldn’t be at the expense of the person delivering them. It’s time to pay att…

Toma McCullim, artist in residence in Skibbereen’s Ludgate Hub, describes a project reconnecting diaspora and reinventing tr…

Some organisations and funders do not see freelancers as an intrinsic part of the sector. The Museum Freelance network is advocati…

Freelancers have a lot to offer arts organisations – and a lot to learn from them too. Carla Kingham considers what is neede…

Patrick Towell explains why underpaying or under-employing workers can never be in an organisation’s long-term interests and…

Edinburgh Fringe is full of people making obscene amounts of money on the backs of artists who are bringing everyone to the city i…

The project-to-project style of artists’ work makes it difficult for them to claim welfare benefits so the Irish government…

If your first and preferred language is British Sign Language, what challenges do you face as a Deaf freelance artist – and…

Climate change, activism, funding constraints, policy priorities… How can museums and heritage organisations adjust their p…

How do policies and prejudices around religious belief affect the cultural workforce? People of faith tell Martin Cox how they fee…

National Theatre partnerships with theatres around the country are creating an opportunity for them to share and compare experienc…

Arts organisations that schedule European tour dates could be faced with a bigger National Insurance bill if there’s no Brex…

Mahogany Opera Artistic Director Frederic Wake-Walker looks back at the people who taught him to make art like you're making h…

As new customers are more likely to buy high price tickets than existing customers, can we expect Pay What You Can schemes to deve…

The tourism sector talks of aviation and inbound tourism as a way forward for rural areas, but could the cultural sector offer a r…

Research suggests that people living in ‘more deprived’ areas are less likely to engage with cultural activity. But is…

Patricia Lovett makes the case for protecting and promoting historical crafts – an industry larger than British textiles.

Forty years after founding Artsadmin, departed Director Judith Knight has just one regret: “it’s the most boring…

This year Jerwood Arts published a toolkit for cultural organisations, designed to encourage greater socio-economic diversity in t…

Asking questions about someone’s social class may feel uncomfortable, but people are less sensitive than you might think. Ma…

Helping artists make new work is important, but building longer and deeper relationships with them brings greater rewards for all,…

Intuition can take you only so far. You’ll be more successful at retaining audiences and reviving lapsed attenders if you us…

Victoria Edwards details a plan to attract students with previously low arts engagement to the Royal Central School of Speech and…

As part of a fundraising strategy donation boxes consistently fail to fulfil their potential, but does it have to be this way? Ber…