About Culture&
Culture& is a Black-led independent arts and education charity based in London. For over 30 years, Culture& has worked in partnership with leading arts and heritage institutions and artists to develop programmes that open up and promote diversity in the workforce and with audiences. Culture& through its entry level training strand, New Museum School, enabled 134 young professionals to obtain a Level III Diploma in Cultural Heritage, providing access to a sector that is historically challenging to enter. 74% of New Museum School trainees secured employment in the arts and heritage sector within 6 months of graduating.
Building on this work, the New Museum School moved into postgraduate training in collaboration with the University of Leicester School of Museum Studies in September 2021. Culture& is providing 30 fully funded studentships from 2021 – 2024 that will enable young arts professionals to gain postgraduate qualifications from PgDip to MA level, with the aim of supporting their upward progression within their organisations. Culture& continues its work to diversify the UK’s workforce with a pioneering partnership with Sotheby’s Institute of Art which launched in 2023. The Cultural Leaders Programme aims to accelerate diversity in the art world by offering scholarships to young people from diverse backgrounds from 2023 – 2025 to pursue one of the Institute’s prestigious MA courses.
About Sotheby’s Institute of Art
Sotheby’s Institute of Art traces its foundation to 1969 and the establishment of a training programme for young auctioneers at Sotheby's auction house. Since then, the Institute has educated future leaders across all sectors of the art world and now has 8,000+ alumni in prestigious positions across the globe. Sotheby’s Institute alumni can be found in all sectors of the art world and beyond. Part of the BrandEd group of colleges, its London campus is a higher education provider fully recognised by the UK's Office for Students (OfS); its degrees are awarded by the University of Manchester, a member of the Russell Group of leading UK universities, with whom it has been working for over 25 years. It also has a campus in New York, multiple online offerings, and a varied and growing number of international partnerships.
The Institute offers educational programmes for postgraduate students, pre-college audiences and professionals seeking expertise in art business, contemporary art, fine and decorative art and design, and luxury business and allied fields. Institute faculty are experts and leaders in these areas, bringing a wealth of practical knowledge from their professional experiences as well as an impressive academic grounding to all students. The MA programmes are unique in their combination of intensive, experiential learning, academic rigour and vocational and research-based emphases.
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Image credit: Yvadney Davis, 'One Finger Cyaa Catch Louse', 2024, courtesy the artist, Culture&, and Sotheby's Institute of Art