SUBSIDISED STRATEGY SESSIONS
WHO ARE THE SUBSIDISED SESSIONS FOR?
Funded by Creative Scotland’s Open Fund, Jo can offer a 1.5-hour strategy session, free of charge, for 2 Scottish artists (born or based in Scotland) who are transgender/non-binary/gender-queer (or however you identify in and around this).
These sessions have set times and are on a first-come, first-served basis, and you can book directly at this link {opening soon}.
WHAT’S ON OFFER
Jo specialises in supporting artists in shaping their career development and reaching their artistic potential and goals. They offer regular strategy advice sessions, consultancy, and workshops for artists and people in the creative industries at all career stages, working across visual art, dance, theatre, and performance.
THESE SUBSIDISED SESSIONS CAN EXPLORE:
Budget, schedules and production planning
Fundraising consultancy (application planning, getting a project ready for application)
Goal setting and support for your art practice
…And all the sticky, indescribable stuff in between
WHO IS JO?
Jo is a white British person who identifies as non-binary, neurodivergent and disabled.
SPECIALISMS
Jo has built a career as an established producer and artist, working across sectors including visual arts, theatre and performance, sound, public events, and activism. They specialise in accessibility and disability, transfeminist ecology, and performance art and activism, collaborating with institutions nationally and internationally.
Jo has lived experience of disability and brings embodied knowledge of collective access practices to their work. They are especially skilled at active listening and supporting artists to develop, organise, and articulate their thoughts, strategies, and ideas.
EXPERIENCE
Over their 15-year-long career, Jo has worked with leading arts organisations to create, deliver and manage projects, artist bursary programmes, residencies, festivals and learning programmes.
Select clients include Scottish Sculpture Workshop (Aberdeenshire) where Jo recently worked for two years as Programme Manager, Battersea Arts Centre (London), Artsadmin (London), British Council (UK & Lebanon), Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Aberdeen Performing Arts, Unlimited (Wakefield), Yaraqa (Beirut), Dance Base (Edinburgh), Art Walk Porty (Edinburgh), Friends of the Earth (Scotland) and Embassy Gallery (Edinburgh). Jo has recently joined Creative Scotland’s cohort of Access support workers - a pilot programme to pair support workers with Artists to help them write funding applications.
Jo has worked with countless artists over the years whose work spans activism, public interventions, performance, film, sculpture, dance, education, sound art and research.
Jo has been selected to take part in several international labs, including the Cifas Producer Academy 2023 (Belgium), Artsadmin Imagine 2020 Summer Lab (London) and the 2018 Emerging Producers Development Programme at Edinburgh Fringe with British Council.