Art / Alison Bevan
RWA awarded Museum Resilience Fund Grant
The Royal West of England Academy has been awarded an Arts Council England Museum Resilience grant of £124,000, over three years, to develop the gallery and organisation. The grant will be assigned to projects which include improving the RWA’s digital platforms and presence, increasing diversity in its audience and forging new partnerships with businesses.
Arts Council South West area director Phil Gibby said:
“We are delighted to be supporting the RWA with an award of £124,050 through our Museum Resilience Fund. The venue presents an outstanding programme of British art that attracts a wide audience and, by investing in their ambitions to create new partnerships and stronger business models, we will be helping to secure a stronger future for the organisation.”
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The three year project begins in 2015 and is funded by the Arts Council for the first two years. The project includes developing a new website for the RWA which includes all aspects of the RWA’s work and a new online submissions system for the Open Exhibition and a searchable database of all artworks in the permanent collection.
The grant will also fund a business development manager role and a project which aims to diversify the RWA audience, this will include a significant survey exhibition of Caribbean art in 2016 which the RWA hopes will encourage greater engagement, at all levels, with people from Bristol’s BME communities.
RWA directir Alison Bevan said:
“The award of Renaissance Strategic Sustainability Funding in 2014 has been the catalyst for a step change in the RWA’s fortunes. As England’s only regional Royal Academy of Art, we have been self-supporting for over 160 years and, like all organisations, we need to adapt and change to ensure a sustainable future.
“We believe that the Museum Resilience Fund Grant will enable us to complete the transformation of our business, enabling us to fulfil our vision of being the South West’s leading centre for the exhibition, exploration, tuition and practice of visual art.”
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