Benedetta D'Ettorre
![](https://eaststreetarts.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/LURHardy141118-20870397-scaled.jpg)
PhD candidate Benedetta D’Ettorre is three years into her collaborative PhD research project. Developing concurrently to the Guild Program itself, Benedetta’s research engages with the themes and aims of Guild, Including how the program contributes to the development of sustainable artist-led spaces and their value and impact on the national cultural landscape. This PhD will research how the Guild Programme supports artists and their spaces through learning programmes that focus on; developing innovative operating models, embedding organisations into localities, and work directly with and as decision/policy-makers.
This opportunity represents an exciting opportunity for East Street Arts to continue developing its existing collaborative doctoral partnerships model, this time with a direct focus on the projects East Street Arts initiates and delivers. Leading to a deeper understanding of how academic research and organisational project planning/delivery can coalesce to strengthen each other’s outputs. This model is one East Street Arts would like to continue developing to support growth throughout the artist-led sector by ensuring the sector is recognised and researched within academic frameworks.
Benedetta’s Research interests are:
- Artist-run spaces and their impacts on the urban context
- Alternative business models for arts organisation
- The role of the audiences’ active participation in managing arts organisations
- Sustainability and sus
To find out more about Benedetta’s curation in the sector: https://www.antoniabeard.com/rca-18
To listen to Benedetta talk more about her research alongside other collaborators:
https://www.rca.ac.uk/students/benedetta-dettorre/
In 2020, she was awarded ESRC Impact Acceleration funding for a placement to study how arts organisations can support community resilient responses after environmental disasters. Benedetta is engaged in teaching at the University and has been accredited Associate Fellowship by the HEA, outside of academia she writes on contemporary art and works as a freelance curator.
Other things!
-
Artists
I'm Gonna Find You White Rabbit! by Silvia Liebig
Silvia Liebig's artist book I'm Gonna Find You White Rabbit!: Being Beeston Projekt 2019-2023 is now available to buy.
-
Event
Reproductive Futures: Creative Workshop
Join artist Herfa Thompson and academic Zoe Tongue to explore your reproductive health experiences, responding to the duo's Reproductive Futures exhibition, in this visual art workshop.
-
News
Welcome to our new trustees
We’re thrilled to welcome two new trustees to our Board following a recent round of open recruitment.
-
News
Artist selected for Taipei artist residency
Leeds-based artist James Thompson has been selected for a sought-after six-week residency at Treasure Hill Artist Village in Taiwan, from August to September 2024.
-
Commission
Making Public Art - a new interview series
We worked with some wonderful artists throughout 2023 to bring large-scale mural pieces to various locations across Leeds. We’ve been catching up with the artists, in a new series that looks at working with communities, sustainability, and their working process in creating public art.
-
Artist support
No Going Back: exploring the archives
Here are some of our favourite images from last month's No Going Back exhibition, for anyone who may have missed it.