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Connect and Activate toolkit is live!

Enjoy our toolkit and get started here!

In March 2023 we launch our Connect and Activate toolkit, which is designed to help museums and institutions think through why and how to work with artists to ensure that both collecting and collaboration have the best outcomes for artists, audiences, and institutions. It has been developed in partnership with CLiC partners Julie-Ann Delaney, Curator, and Liv Laumenech, Assistant Curator, at University of Edinburgh Art Collection.

Since 2020, CLiC has produced new resources to help museums and galleries understand how artists can work with them to inspire communities, generate new tools, allow hidden histories to surface, and imagine a better future.

The toolkit is a live document and we encourage feedback to help us shape it for your needs. So get fired in! Please use it, share it, and let us know how it could work better for you by following the feedback survey links on the toolkit pages.

Connect and Activate: a toolkit for working with artists in museums and collections is live here!

The Curatorial Leadership in Collections (CLiC) project is an action research and advocacy project that has developed a strong network of contemporary art curators who work in a wide variety of collections in Scotland across national, local authority, university and independent settings. Our most recent projects leave a legacy of a live toolkit and four fantastic case studies from some of our partners.

The project brings together a network of contemporary art curators from collections across Scotland and shared learning with the wider museums sector. The CLiC project was founded in 2017, our Connect and Activate Programme ran from 2020 to early 2023. CLiC supports a new generation of leaders to think about how collections can be both resilient and relevant in challenging times.

Curatorial Leadership in Collections is made possible through the generous support of Creative Scotland, Art Fund, Outset Scotland and Museums Galleries Scotland.

Case studies from CLiC project network partners are available to view and download.

The case studies

Curators Katie Bruce and Martin Craig at Glasgow Museums’ Gallery of Modern Art share their experience of collecting the work of Rabiya Choudhry during the pandemic, demonstrating how contemporary art inspires communities and future artists.

The Hunterian Art Gallery curator Dominic Paterson invites us to consider Jimmy Robert’s Tobacco Flower as an artistic intervention in the Hunterian Collection, showing us how artists can generate new tools and approaches.

The Team at Glasgow Women’s Library explore how working with artists can allow hidden histories to surface through Ingrid Pollard’s recent residency and exhibition No Cover Up.

Head of Creative Programmes at the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, Emma Nicolson, shares the transformative potential of Climate House in gathering art and science together to imagine a better future.

Snapshot of partners' current activities

Repeat Patterns Helen de Main & Mandy McIntosh at Gallery of Modern Art Glasgow

GALLERY OF MODERN ART, GLASGOW (GoMA)
Helen de Main & Mandy McIntosh, Repeat Patterns
Until 15th October 2023
Elizabeth Price: Slow Dans
Until 14th May 2023

THE HUNTERIAN ART GALLERY, GLASGOW
Elizabeth Price: Underfoot
Until 16th April 2023

CITY ART CENTRE, EDINBURGH
When the Apple Ripens: Peter Howson at 65
27th May to 1st October 2023

THE MCMANUS, DUNDEE'S ART GALLERY & MUSEUM
Recent additions to Dundee's Fine Art Collection
From 11th February 2023

CLIMATE HOUSE, ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS EDINBURGH
Living Soil
Until 29th May 2023

GLASGOW WOMEN'S LIBRARY
30 years of #IWD at GWL
From 8th March until 15th April 2023

SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY OF MODERN ART (MODERN ONE), EDINBURGH
Alberta Whittle: create dangerously
From 1st April 2023 until 7th January 2024

You can follow the project @ActivateMuseums on Twitter and Instagram

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