Art Administration
The course Art administration was a 6 weeks course for art students at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts held in 2012.
COURSE DETAILS
Credits / ECTS: –
Participants: MA students (MFA)
Teachers: External teachers
Language: Danish
DURATION
Course/workshop: 6 lessons of 6 hours, in total 36 hours
LEARNING GOALS
There was not described any learning goals for the course.
APPROACH
Kurset tilgang var kompetencedrevet med afsæt i de studerendes personlige kunstneriske projekt.
EVALUATION AND GRADING
There was no one.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The course Art Administration consisted of five different themes:
1. Fundraising & Sponsorship
A good fund application is based on a unique idea and is easy to make accounting and report afterwards. The course presented the fund tools as background for paper work and budgets.
Finding a sponsor requires hard work, compensatory and good communication skills. The course focused on how to approach a sponsor and provided examples of compensatory measures.
2. Copyright & Agreements
Klaus Pedersen from Artists’ Association went through relevant parts of the copyright and IPR and gave examples of the use of others’ material in own art productions.
Written agreements are always preferable, but often seems somewhat confusing. The course demystified the contract and made it a natural tool for example an exhibition or art sales.
3. Internet & financials
The internet constantly opens new communication and presentation platforms. The course visited relevant platforms for the presentation of art.
The course looked at financial management and simple bookkeeper tools like spreadsheets, annex handling, bank accounts and budgeting to separate private and art economy and create economic overview.
4. VAT & taxes (in two sessions)
What is VAT and artist VAT? When to register for VAT? And what about tax and foreign tax? The rules were disseminated through various guidelines and the course gave instructions on how to avoid the VAT and tax shock.
5. A-kasse, KKART or self-employment?
The choice after the art academy is difficult. Should you sign up for unemployment insurance, the artists’ cooperative KKART, be freelance or start self-employment?
Jan Balling and Karin Meisl from KKART and Gitte Nielsen from AJKS gave presentations, which ended with a general discussion about the various options and their impact on artistic activity and economic conditions.
Date
2012
Language
Danish
Project owner
Kunstakademiets Billedkunstskoler
Contact person
Lena Rodgers