The Creative List

April 21, 2021
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By VCUarts Qatar's Strategic Engagement: The Community & Continuing Education Program

Welcome! This platform will present a carefully curated list of subjects that VCUarts Qatar alumni, and graduates working in the creative field in Qatar and outside can use. The topics here include, and range, from starting a creative business, directory of facilities to use for your creative projects in Qatar, directory of contemporary art museums/galleries, programs to get involved in, and so much more!sts and Family

Creative Entrepreneurship

Interested in starting your own business in the creative industry? This section will provide you the with tools to starting, growing, and maintaining your own creative business. Including support and self-help sources to refer to.

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Scale7

A business incubator for innovative entrepreneurs in the country.

Scale7 aims to create and cultivate an innovative and artistic ecosystem to incubate and promote Qatari entrepreneurs, SMEs, and groundbreaking emerging industries in the fields of fashion, design, and technology.

Bedaya Center

A joint initiative between Qatar Development Bank and Silatech, provides Qatari youth access to a wide range of services including career guidance, self-assessment, employability skills development, employability and entrepreneurship, mentoring opportunities, volunteering, practical training, networking activities, and lecturers programs. Silatech’s Employability and SME Development programs work together to offer their services to the Qatari youth in close cooperation with Bedaya Center.

Dedicated to innovation and entrepreneurship in the nation’s growing fashion and design industry. M7 offers a lot of development opportunities for young and upcoming artists and designers.

Toolkits

Creative Enterprise Toolkit

Starting a business can be daunting. That’s why Nesta created the Creative Enterprise Toolkit — a practical resource to help you plan, build, test, communicate and launch your new creative business.

An Artist’s Guide To Starting An Art Business

Being a professional artist involves more than being skilled with paints or clay—you actually become a small business owner!
So, where do you begin? By creating a business plan, of course! That’s why we’ve come up with an outline for artists to follow, so you can better understand your art business and develop a step-by-step strategy for success.

Strengthening the Creative Industries for Development

The second UNCTAD Creative Economy Outlook and Country Profile report (2018) demonstrates not only that there has been significant growth in the creative economy but also that the sector can make a valuable contribution to the achievement of sustainable development goals. Despite the difficult years during and post the 2008 financial crisis, the creative economy has been robust, demonstrating resilience and in some instances growth, indicating it is a sector with considerable potential for current and future investment

Artists

We support artists trying to make it in the Art world, we understand the struggles they go through, we have curated and provided a list of resources that they can use. Sources that aim to guide you over the contemporary visual arts scene in Qatar, how to get involved in it, and self-support tool kits to help you improve your creative skills.

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Fire Station: Artist in Residence

Fire Station is a contemporary art space committed to supporting artists through its artist in residence program as well as engaging the local communities in Qatar by providing opportunities and events, which include exhibitions and public programs.

Fire Station provides facilities, production support, mentorships, and curatorial support. Residents are selected through an Open Call application process, after which a jury convenes to make a final selection of up to 20 artists.

VCUarts Qatar: Fanoon Teaching
Artist Fellowship

The Fanoon Teaching Artist Fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar is a 9-month printmaking publishing and teaching residency for emerging to mid-career teaching artists.

During the academic year, fellows will design and co-teach a two-semester Master Class in the Painting + Printmaking Department, which introduces undergraduate students to critical topics and cross/multi-disciplinary approaches within the expanded field of contemporary print media. Residents will be given a studio space and the opportunity to further develop their art practice, and work with faculty members, students, and visiting artists, to create a community of artists engaged in scholarly activity and research.

Culture Resource (Al-Mawred Al-Thaqafy)

Culture Resource (Al-Mawred Al-Thaqafy) is a regional, non-profit organization founded in 2003 that seeks to support artistic creativity in the Arab region and to encourage cultural exchange within the region and beyond. The work of Culture Resource is based on an appreciation of the value of the diverse cultural heritage within the Arab region, and a belief in the critical role of culture in the development of civil society, the importance of access to culture for all, and the rights of artists to freedom of expression.

Culture Resource seeks to fulfill its mission to support artists from the Arab region and cultural organizations and the cultural sector throughout the region with a range of services and programs. These activities include support for independent artists to create new work and to travel and tour these works, capacity building and training programs and publications in Arabic aimed at developing cultural managers and organizations, cultural policy research, support for artists at risk, and supporting the sustainability of cultural industries in the region, without undermining the value of culture as a public good and a basic human right.

Toolkits

Artmaze Mag

Art Maze Magazine is an independent artist-run and ad-free international print and online publication dedicated to showcasing and promoting experimental and progressive contemporary art, which reflects modern society and its environment, provokes conversation and action. There you can also find different useful interviews.

Artsy Shark

This website contains hundreds of articles on the business of art. You can find here marketing and sales tips, inspiration, out-of-the-box ideas and opportunities to grow as a creative entrepreneur.

Artists Toolkit

This simple toolkit was created in response to a perceived need, by both early career and student artists and non-arts project commissioners, for some simple project guidelines and information to help build better projects.

Families

Creativity starts from a young age! We have collected a list of resources for the family to enjoy and ignite the path for the little ones. This is for creatives that would like to get their families involved in art, whether for workshops, classes, and/ or educational toolkits to help in learning about art. We have them under this tab.

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DADU - Children’s Museum of Qatar

DADU – Children’s Museum of Qatar, recently launched by Qatar Museums will strive to enrich the lives of our children and their families by providing an unparalleled space for learning through open-ended play, exploration and experimentation.

There are plenty of ways you can take part in lots of other activities with the museum.

VCUarts Qatar 's Community Education
Summer Program

The Community Education program offers two programs for children and and high school students.

The Children’s Program enhances technical skills such as sketching, shading and painting, and introduces 7–9-year-olds to art appreciation and art history.

The High School Summer Program 2021 is an intensive three-week program with an optional week of portfolio classes. It is structured to allow students to design their own educational journey by providing them with an introduction to the different majors being offered and then making them choose one discipline in depth.

Qatar Museums: Teachers and
Family Resources

A vast array of educational materials for all ages that can be used in the classroom or at home. These include teachers’ guides and activity sheets about modern visual arts and culture, exhibitions and historical art movements. Within our “Knowledge in Action” brochures, you will find information on the classes and various educational programs being offered by our educators throughout the year.

Toolkits

National Saturday Club

The National Saturday Club gives 13–16-year-olds the opportunity to study subjects they love at their local university, college or cultural institution, for free.

Activities and Masterclass briefs developed by Saturday Club tutors and industry experts which you can take part in at home.

Across Art & Design, Fashion & Business, Science & Engineering and Writing & Talking, there’s a whole range of projects to explore.

Museum of London: Early Years Toolkit

Whether you’re thinking of developing early years activities for the first time, or looking to enhance existing provision, you’ll find something to meet your needs.

The toolkit offers a wealth of content. Watch our captivating film showing children’s learning in action at the Museum of London Docklands and discover a range of inspiring case studies from across the UK. You’ll also find our top tips for working with young children, articles by early years specialists and a sample of our practical resources to download.

MoMA online Family Workshops

List of online programming offered by MoMA museum.

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