Creative Graduate Mentoring Space recognises the leap from graduating university to working within the creative industries and aims to support recent graduates with sessions run in collaboration with West Yorkshire Print Workshop in Huddersfield.
- Have you graduated in 2023 or 2024 from a creative BA course and class yourself as an illustrator, printmaker, surface designer or illustrative graphic designer?
- Feeling daunted by a freelance career and wish there was a place of support?
- Are you based in West Yorkshire or can commit to commuting to the region periodically over the next 10 months?
Successful applicants will receive 8 onsite sessions and 8 online catch-up/mentoring sessions with a professional already working within the arts; from printmakers, lettering artists, illustrators/designers all who are seasoned professional freelancers.
Further details of how to apply
There's a simple application process. Successful applicants will receive 8 onsite sessions based in West Yorkshire and 8 online sessions, delivered remotely over Zoom all free of charge from November 2024 to August 2025.
You will also be granted free membership to WYPW to help develop your work outside of these sessions, although some session fees and materials may be chargeable.
This is part of a research program developed by the researcher Nikki Farrar and so WYPW and University of Huddersfield through research funding will cover the additional costs associated with administering this scheme as part of our remit to support new and diverse talent.
The deadline to apply is 11pm on 30th September 2024
How to Apply
Please send us a PDF including the following:
- Your name, date of graduation, name of course and university
- Up to 5 images of your work
- One or more links to your website and/ or social media account
- No more than 500 words on your work, how you would benefit from the mentoring, and
your career aspirations for the next year - Your PDF should be no larger than 10MB. Please make sure that it is web resolution.
We would like to use this mentoring opportunity to support those who are currently underrepresented in the industry. We therefore welcome applications from graduates who are Black, Asian or people from the Global Majority. Graduates who are LGTBQIA+, self-identify as disabled or neurodivergent or from lower socio-economic backgrounds.
We will be scoring the applications based on your professionalism, the quality of the work and how much you would benefit from the mentoring, so please take that into consideration when preparing your application.
Deadline for applications: 30 September 2024, 11pm
Any further questions, email Nicola Farrar Nicola.Farrar2@hud.ac.uk
