Teesside Art Studio Suite · Silver Arts Award · Silver Unit 1D · Arts Practice, Careers & Pathways
| Key Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Unit 1D | Practice, careers + pathways research serving the challenge |
| Paying question | One whose answer changes the making |
| The 'so' line | Research converted to decision |
| Ecosystem | The roles between artwork and audience |
| Named route | A real local pathway with a first step |
| Fit-note | Honest self-placement in the ecosystem |
Name: ____________________ Class: __________ Date:
How can practitioner, career and opportunity research sharpen my challenge and future direction?
your pathways dossier + the practice-informs-challenge note (Unit 1D).
1) Say your challenge sentence.
2) Name three creative jobs.
3) Name one route into creative work from here.
4) Why does Silver include careers research?
1) What made your statement believable?
2) What does 1D ask for?
3) Why must the research serve the CHALLENGE?
4) Sourced facts + admitted gaps — whose rule is that?
1) Read a shrink-line from your risk register.
2) Map the roles between an artist and a hung exhibition.
3) What's a portfolio career?
4) Name ONE research question whose answer changes your Week 3 making.
Key Question: Between an artwork and its audience stands an ecosystem: curators, technicians, printers, funders, teachers. Your challenge sits inside it — who in it could you learn from THIS week?
🔧 Print technician, 🖼️ Curator, 📐 Framer/fabricator, 🧑🏫 Gallery educator, 📋 Creative producer, 💷 Funder/commissioner
Draw lines to match:
❓ Paying question · 🔍 Sourced finding · ➡️ The 'so' line · 🛤️ Named route · 🪞 Fit-note · 🕳️ Admitted gap
Named source, your words · Real, local, first-step findable · Bronze honesty, carried up · Honest self-placement, doubt allowed · Research → changed decision · Its answer changes the making
question, source, found, so, route, step
"Q: ___ / Source: ___ / Found: ___ / So: ___"
Findings ×3 (Q→source→finding→so) → Routes ×2 (named + first step) → Fit-note (honest).
"Role: ___ would ask: ___" | "Answered by ___ / flagged" | "Consulting ___ before W4 about ___"
Pathways Dossier (framed)
Row 1 (Q/source/found/so):
Row 2:
Route + first step:
Arts organisation — name + what it does:
Full Dossier
Three rows complete □
Route 1 + step / Route 2 + step:
Fit-note:
Arts organisation — who they are, what they commission or show:
Dossier + Ecosystem Map
Standard items □ Map attached □
The role I'll consult + about what:
The funder's question, answered for my challenge:
Every arts organisation my shared series touches — and what each would ask of it:
Research only counts when it changes something. A fact that changes nothing is biography. Fill the middle and right columns and your practitioner research becomes Silver Unit 1D evidence.
| What they DO (a visual method) | The DECISION it offers me | Where it will show in MY work |
|---|---|---|
| e.g. works to a fixed weekly quantity, not to inspiration | e.g. set myself a weekly output rule for my challenge | |
Supported: one row. Standard: three rows in your own words. Stretch: three rows plus the rejection below, argued.
The one thing I am deliberately NOT taking, and why:
My arts / cultural organisation: ____________________ — and one way it could put work like this in front of an audience:
Silver Unit 1 research covers practitioners AND arts organisations.
1) What must every research question do?
2) Name one route + its first step.
3) Read one 'so' line.
1) Instrumental research — one line.
2) Which ecosystem layer does your challenge need most?
3) What makes a fit-note trustworthy?
1) Read one role's question from your ecosystem map.
2) Which role are you consulting before Week 4, and about what?
3) How did 1D change your Week 3 plan, concretely?
Space → Voice → Audience → Influence. The adult’s first job is Space: regulate before you educate.
| Space | Research routes are yours: source-pack table, careers shelf, the call/em‑ail corner for approved outreach — self-directed entirely. |
| Voice | One paying question gets sent OUT this week — to a practitioner, venue or course contact (approved list). Questions travel; answers return. |
| Audience | Dossiers join the studio careers library beside Bronze's files — written for next year's Silver class as much as the adviser. |
| Influence | The routes you name build the studio's live pathways board — and the most-requested contact becomes Week 4's invited voice if diaries allow. |
Closing the loop: this one ends on paper — your own hand, or your words scribed by an adult. Saying it aloud starts the loop; writing it is what closes it. Pass is always allowed.
What I said, and what it changed:
Keep with your sketchbook / portfolio.
| Pupil name: | Date: |
| WWW (What Went Well): | |
| EBI (Even Better If): | |
| Level worked at: Supported / Standard / Stretch | Arts Award evidence filed: Yes / Not yet |
| Authorship — what I chose or decided myself: | |
| Support given — prepared / scribed / modelled / hand-over-hand: | |
| Pupil response — my next step: | |