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Torbay ArtsBase has always set out to try to recognise and celebrate what is good in the artistic community. The Annual Awards Ceremony is the clearest demonstration of this idea. So if we are to be seen to be championing artists, I think that is clearly what we do. We do ask to engage with the local artistic community / local creatives (call it/them what you may) and have offered the chance to meet up with others in the community on a monthly basis. This month we also asked for artists and crafts people to come along to engage directly with us to try to set up a peer-group evaluation process for the Awards. We can only invite people to such get-togethers. We cannot insist that they come. People who keen to exchange ideas with other like-minded people should take the oppportunity to come along and see who else might be there. Individually all of the committee members (who are all volunteers) are active in their particular fields, (I for example have regular contact with dozens of artists, have new exhibitions of work every four weeks, and make a point of going out to see other exhibitions and artists when I can) and in other areas of the local creative world too (all of us are regular supporters of music, theatre, poetry, art, and other events around the Bay). Due to a low turn out to September's meeting (many artists were probably involved with events such as Devon Open Studios), we are once again inviting members of the Visual Arts and Crafts community to come along to a meeting to discuss how we might be able to set up a peer-group evaluation process for the Visual Arts and Crafts Awards. This meeting will take place on Thursday 8th October at The Blue Walnut Cafe in Chelston at 7pm. 
I hope that Artsbase are able to engage with the artists it claims to champion |
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Torbay ArtsBase Awards revamped as a 'people's prize' for South West art
By PRSD, on Wednesday, September 2, 2009
In a comment on the People’s Republic of South Devon, Kevin Alexander, chair of Torbay ArtsBase, has outlined new proposals for the organisation and selection of the awards, which he announced will be postponed from October to Easter next year.
He told the PRSD: “We are inviting all Visual Artists to a meeting where we will ask for volunteers/suggestions for membership of a small panel that will evaluate all the nominations for the Visual Arts Award.
“This panel will look at the list of nominations in the category, short-list down to around four to six finalists and then decide on the winning person(s). This may take a series of two or three meetings which would take place during the second half of March and early April.
“Similar gatherings will look at Music, Literature, Theatre, Design and so on. By structuring the Awards decision-making process in this way – ie by using peer-group evaluation – we hope that the Torbay ArtsBase Awards will be valued and treasured by all recipients.”
The first gathering will be for Visual Arts and Crafts, on Thursday, September 10, 7pm at The Blue Walnut Café, Walnut Road, Chelston, when it’s hoped the panel for the Visual Art and Craft Awards will be put together.
Anyone who would like to be involved in this process should contact Torbay ArtsBase via their directory page in the CreativeTorbay.com website.
Online nomination forms are still available though the Creative Torbay site. The deadline for nominations will now be the middle of March 2010
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