EMBASSY Membership
EMBASSY membership structure. 🧑🎨
EMBASSY Membership is open to artists and art students above the age of 18.
Three price points, same benefits, pay what you can! 💸
Annual membership costs for 2024 are as follows:
£2 – Low Income
£8 – Waged
£15 – Solidarity
How to become a member
- See ‘Join as a member’ page to pay.
- Fill in our ‘equalities monitoring form’.
By signing up as a member you will then be able to be involved in the range of opportunities listed below!
EMBASSY membership benefits
These opportunities include showing work in the annual members show, free* access to our gallery via the Community Takeover programme and access to member specific open calls such as our Members Fund!
Members show and performance night.
The EMBASSY members show is a non-selective, salon style show in which we hang all work submitted. The members show is a part of our yearly recurring programme and it is a direct way to support and showcase our members. The show offers an open and welcoming environment to exhibit work and a chance to share performance or live works in front of an audience. The show usually takes place at the beginning of the year however dates vary from year to year!
Community Takeover Programme
As an EMBASSY member you have the opportunity to apply to use our space for free, we welcome proposals in a variety of formats but recommend you keep it to less than 500 words and 3-5 images. Please send your proposals to us via email! – We cannot guarantee that we will be able to host your event –
Our space can also be used for any non-permanent art making or project, such as filming, painting, dancing, documenting, performing, or whatever you can think of!
EMBASSY gallery has a selection of plinths, projectors, screens, media players, and headphones which can be made available upon request.
*if you are an organisation, collective or individual in receipt of sustained funding please get in touch to see our fair hire rates.
Members Fund 💰
A micro-bursary of £500 to support the practice and/or research of our members. This grant has been set up to support our members who are emerging artists & identifying with any of the following; working-class, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, care experienced, caregiver or disabled. This no-strings-attached bursary can be used in any way you like – be that rent, bills, subscriptions, travel, materials or research! We will be selecting 5 members this year and hope to keep this up as a recurring annual opportunity! See ‘members Fund‘ page
Emerging Strategies, An artist development programme 🏫
A 9 month programme of artist workshops, talks and participatory sessions exploring professional practice with a selected co-hort. The basic idea is that it will be what art school never gave us and what emerging artists really need. We will cover everything from art activism, creative criticism, collective working, curation, getting projects off the ground, hands on skills and freelancer basics. We will also, in most likelihood, go to the pub. We are currently accepting applicants to join our 2025/5 programme that will run October 2024 – July 2025. Full info, eligibility and dates here