Become an AA2A Student Representative

Each institution has the opportunity to have one or two students as AA2A Student Reps. As you may know AA2A schemes host four artists placements allowing them to work on their own projects alongside students from October to April. AA2A Student Reps are set up with a profile on our networking website, affectionately known as 'Dotbiz'. Dotbiz has over 100 artists and designer makers regularly uploading and blogging about their projects. It uses the same principles as a social networking site.

This is a great opportunity for you to make significant contacts in the world of professional practice before you graduate. You would be registered on the site and given the same uploading and blogging privileges as the artists. You can use the site to document your own work during the year. The only requirements are that you make an effort to meet your four AA2A artists and try to represent/reflect on the AA2A project from a student perspective. Being an AA2A Student Representative will also provide a valuable addition to your CV. If you are interested in finding out more please contact your AA2A College Coordinator or Administrator.

What's required
Each month we will issue an 'AA2A Reps Challenge'. Should you choose to accept these challenges you will receive points which will go towards our 'Best Rep of the Year'. The prize for which will be a subscription to an art magazine. The rules will be one point for completing the task and a second point if we're impressed by your effort! We'd hope a student rep would also contribute to the Dotbiz site (by uploading or blogging) at least once a month throughout the scheme (November to May). Anybody who's used a social networking site should find this quite easy. Blogs can be short diary style entries, you need not write as much as some of the artists do and if you want to upload images these can be work in progress or images of students/artists working as much as finished work/exhibitions.

As for how much time this would take - you could spend as little as an hour a month on this. We hope you'd also want to find time to meet your artists in person and/or use Dotbiz to contact other artists if you find their work interesting - and this could be the sort of thing that you could write about in your blog. Also if you find out there is anything going on in college related to AA2A (e.g a talk, demonstration, exhibition) we'd like you spread the word and encourage other students to get involved.

We'd like the student reps to use this as an opportunity to find out more about the scheme, promote it to fellow students and to network and promote their own work if they wish. It will be quite informal and we'll be here to help if needed.