Hi everyone,

The AA2A Students Newsletter is available now! Whether you're an artist, student or college we need your help letting students know about it; tell students about the newsletter in college, encourage them to join the student mailing list or if you're in contact online, email or message them with this link:

http://aa2a.org/newsletters/studentsnews1

Highlights include this year's AA2A Student Reps, AA2A's Graduate link, Voting 2013 and last year's winners and more...

Best wishes

Georgia and the AA2A team

Hi AA2A artists and fans,

Please can you help us spread the word about AA2A, whether you've been on the scheme and would recommend it to others or if you might apply yourself:

We now have application deadlines for all our 33 AA2A host institutions. To get all the information in one page go to our web advert

Map and list of our 33 schemes   Follow us on  Twitter  and  Facebook

The AA2A project offers artists & designer makers the opportunity to undertake a period of research or realise a project using art college facilities eg. workshops, IT facilities, lending library, & lecture programme.  AA2A schemes aim to benefit students and Colleges through their interaction with practising artists.

FOR FULL ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA AND DETAILS OF HOW TO APPLY   aa2a.org/apply

Access is free, for at least 100 hours, between Oct 2012 and April 2013 and a materials/travel grant of £220 is usually available.
Closing dates for applications vary but all are in September 2012.
Applicants must have at least one years professional practice and should be able to work with minimal technical support.
Artists on AA2A schemes run from 2009 to 2010 or before can now reapply. 
To see current AA2A artists' work go to http://aa2a.biz or read previous artists' stories here.
AA2A particularly welcomes applications from applicants with disabilities, from culturally diverse backgrounds and non-graduates.

APPLICATION PACKS ARE ONLY AVAILABLE DIRECTLY FROM THE COLLEGES TAKING PART

If you'd like to join the mailing list email georgia@aa2a.biz

Hi AA2A artists,

2011-12 Artists - you should have received emails from us about the 'AA2A Artists Evaluation' Please could you contact us if you have not received this: georgia@aa2a.biz

We've had a good response so far, so to all those artists who've completed it; thankyou very much! We really appreciate your feedback about the scheme and your experience, it genuinely makes a difference to how we run the scheme in future.  If you have yet to complete your evaluation please can you do so as soon as possible.

Many thanks

Georgia

Hi AA2A Artists,

Have you voted for your favourite AA2A artist of 2011/12?

- Voting is easy: every artist's profile page on this site has a link to 'vote for this artist' or you can go directly to the voting page here: http://aa2a.org/artistvote

- Voting closes at the end of May

- You can vote for any of this year's artists from any college, whether it's because you like their work in college or online or just that they are good at involving students and communicating their knowledge and enthusiasm.

- The winning artists will be promoted on our Websites and Pages, and the Students’ choice will have their project featured in London at the AA2A College Briefing Day.

- The student vote is for students at participating AA2A colleges (there's also a 'Public Vote' for students from other colleges or members of the public - including artists and college staff).

If you've already voted, please encourage your friends!

Thanks

Georgia

We have produced our first attempt at a 'screencast' aimed at helping new Dotbiz users get started using the site.

We now have RSS feed available on all blogs on Dotbiz! RSS (Really Simple Syndication) allows you to easily read blogs in a standardised format and you can also subscribe to an RSS feed.

From any Dotbiz user's profile page (whether artist, student, college or AA2A staff) you'll see under their blog posts on the right hand side 'RSS' - selecting this will take you to the RSS feed for this Dotbiz user and may also give you options to subscribe.  You may want to use this to promote your blog by suggesting people subscribe to your RSS feed.

Best wishes

Georgia

Hi AA2A artists, students and other project fans!

Just to let you know we now have three different AA2A newsletters:

• Artists newsletter  (currently for artists on the scheme now also available as a podcast!)

• Students newsletter  (news on reps, student voting and artists/student interaction highlights)

and just out we have the:

• General newsletter  (going out to our mailing list with a biannual roundup of project news)

Enjoy and don't forget to keep us updated on your news!

Georgia

Hi AA2A Artists of 2011-12

We're working on the latest Artists newsletter and will be emailing it out to you within the next week. As well as the latest project news the newsletter has an update on fundraising, info about scheme length, claiming artists budgets, voting, student reps and more...

If you haven't received the newsletter from us within the next week please get in touch (you can message me through the site)

Georgia
AA2A National Coordinator