{"id":2027,"date":"2020-01-20T16:02:46","date_gmt":"2020-01-20T16:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/arts-at-unisouth\/?p=2027"},"modified":"2020-01-21T09:13:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-21T09:13:47","slug":"new-arts-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/arts-at-unisouth\/2020\/01\/20\/new-arts-coordinator\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing Jen Harris, our new Coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Jen Harris (right) and Liv Fontaine at HA HA Gallery. Image credit: @peanutkaiser<\/a>. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

What is your role at\nArts at University of Southampton?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My role is Arts and Culture Coordinator, working with Louise Coysh, Associate Director (Arts and Culture), to help facilitate all the exciting things that Arts at University of Southampton has to offer. I\u2019ll be working with colleagues across the University and beyond to promote our world-renowned arts offer to students and the wider community, including our concert hall Turner Sims Southampton<\/a> , John Hansard Gallery<\/a> and our associate organisation Nuffield Southampton Theatres<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our current team of student Arts Ambassadors, Molly, Kate and Thea will also be working with me getting stuck in to share the best of Southampton and Winchester\u2019s art scenes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alongside all this, I’ll be working with the wider Arts UoS team to deliver some big, city-wide projects we\u2019ve got lined up for 2020\/2021! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tell us about your\nbackground. What did you do before you came to the University?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I studied Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts, graduating in\n2012. Since then I\u2019ve done a whole host of different things, with the first\nthree years after graduating mainly consisting of casual and freelance work for\na variety of organisations and people. I worked for a few different artists and\nvolunteered or worked for several Southampton organisations, including our very\nown John Hansard Gallery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During that time,\u00a0 I also ran an artist run-space in Southampton called HA HA Gallery<\/a> with my good friend and artist Liv Fontaine. Liv and I first met at a John Hansard Gallery event during their show Anti Academy<\/em> and we bonded over the fact that we had both not long graduated from Chelsea. The Gallery was born shortly after in an empty shop on Old Northam Road in St Mary\u2019s and we quickly developed a reputation for a dynamic programme of shows, exhibiting artists from around the country and the world as well as showcasing Southampton talent. Highlights included a six-week season of shows funded by a Kickstarter campaign in 2015 and a commission to run a programme of activity as part of the British Art Show Fringe in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’M SO EXCITED exhibition opening at HA HA Gallery. Image credit: @peanutkaiser<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Since 2015, I\u2019ve worked at Jane Austen\u2019s House in Chawton,\nHampshire. It\u2019s the cottage at which Austen lived for the last eight years of\nher life and where she wrote, revised or had published all her novels. I\nstarted as Collections Trainee, moving on to a become Marketing and Brand Officer,\nfinally finishing up as Marketing Manager, covering for my colleague\u2019s\nmaternity leave. Being a small team, you ended up doing a bit of everything\nwhich was a real joy and a great way to gain experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What excites you most\nabout your new role?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m most excited by the prospect of (hopefully!) positively\ninfluencing the lives and experience of students here at the University.\nOpening up meaningful access to the arts for as many people as possible and\nfacilitating enriching cultural experiences are my goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m also particularly eager to get started on our new project, Connecting Culture<\/a>, funded by Arts Council England. The project seeks to embed the role of children and young people at the heart of cultural activity in Southampton, giving a voice to our cultural leaders of the future. Read all about it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m interested in\ngetting more involved in the arts at the University – how do I get in touch\nwith you? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019ve got any questions about Arts at University of\nSouthampton, please do get in touch! You can reach me on arts@soton.ac.uk<\/a> or\nvisit southampton.ac.uk\/arts<\/a> for more information. My normal working days are\nMonday-Wednesday and I\u2019ll get back to you as soon as I can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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