Open Call for Associates Programme 2025-26

Open School East: Open Call for Associate Artists 2025-26

Friday 20 June 2025 ~ Open Call for Associates Programme Ends

Monday 14 – Thursday 17 July 2025 ~ Interviews for Prospective Associates

The Associates Programme runs from September 2025 – July 2026.

Open School East is seeking applications from emerging artists and practitioners to join the twelfth year of our independent and outward-facing artist development programme.

𖤣 The Associates Programme is a free development programme that offers a critical, informal and non-competitive environment in which you can develop your practice and expand your networks. The programme is run according to principles of collaboration, experimentation and openness, and welcomes those who engage with these notions in different ways.

𖤣 OSE’s programming cycle for 2024-26, titled Home is where the garden is, explores the garden as a metaphor for spaces of cultivation, rooting, and unexpected encounters. The cycle follows three research strands: Civic Space, Material, and Produce, and will develop artworks, public events, exhibitions and resources with invited guest artists, community partners, associate alumni and our next cohort of associate artists.