“Kinfolk Families are great to work with and really broadened our understanding of working with parent/carer artists as an organisation. I can’t recommend their consultation services enough. They are thoughtful and thorough.”
Consultation & Mentoring
Delivered by Rebecca Livesey-Wright
Rebecca draws on their diverse and unique experience from over 10 years working in the arts both as an artist and across programming, coordination and curation.
In the last 7 years, they have focused on accessibility and inclusion in the arts for parents and marginalised caregivers. As well as considering practical access points, Rebecca is enthusiastic about psychological barriers, specifically as they arise across intersectional lived experiences.
Kinfolk Families will work with you with generosity and kindness to identify barriers, strengths, pivot points, creating context and a deeper understanding of your work.
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Dedicated to making your space and programme inclusive and accessible for parents and people with caring responsibilities? We work with you to understand your strengths and areas for improvement, with particular focus on psychological barriers.
We will tailor an approach which best suits you, selecting from options such as:
an audit of current provisions
conversing with current and past artists and other freelancers you've worked with
review of policies and plans; suggested reading and other media and
contextualisation and framing of accessibility methodology.
Minimum: ~1 day, split over meetings, independent review and presentation of recommendations.
Rates per day
Solidarity: £250
Standard: £350
Pay It Forward: £450 -
We provide sensitive, person-centred mentoring to support artists who are parents or caregivers to navigate the art world.
Our offering differs from other arts mentoring in that we focus on the specific challenges working in the arts with care responsibilities poses, building on and towards self advocacy.
We can also help to contextualise your work, curate a portfolio and streamline project ideas e.g. for funding application.
N.B. Your practice does not have to align with our overall themes and vision - being a parent or caregiver artist is enough! Likewise, you do not need to be a parent or caregiver to access mentoring with us - we can mentor any artist working along themes which align with outs (radical care, matricentric feminism, expanded notions of family and community).
Minimum 1 hour
Rates per hour
Solidarity: £25
Standard: £45
Pay it Forward: £65 -
Email hello@kinfolkfamilies.info to arrange a free call to discuss your needs.
For Glasgow-based organisations and artists we are happy to travel to you.
We can also provide consultation & mentoring via video call & other online platforms to accommodate those further afield and those with varied needs.
“One day as I am holding baby and feeding her, I realize that this is exactly the state of mind and heart that so many male writers from Thomas Mann to James Joyce describe with yearning—the mystery of an epiphany, the sense of oceanic oneness, the great yes”
— Julie Phillips, The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem