Chris Webb Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

Various

Critical Friend consultancy packages tailored to suit the needs of individuals and teams looking for external insight through facilitated workshops, programme observation and evaluation. - Institute of Making - leadership support with team development and culture building across expansion to UCL East (ongoing)- Southbank Centre - support in strategy development, evaluation and feasibility report writing (ongoing)- William Morris Gallery - support with review of content hierarchy as key messages as an audience advocate (Autumn 2024)

Undertaking an engagement consultancy, as part of National Lottery Heritage Funded ‘Craft for the People’ programme. Engaging young people, makers and craft organisations in shaping a road map for future use of the Crafts Council's collection.

London

Consulting with Cockpit to devise, develop and deliver youth and community programmes with a focus on the public opening of Cockpit Deptford in Autumn 2023.

- Undertaking a strategic review of Craft School, leading discussions with Crafts Council staff, partners, teachers, and artists to identify and recommend programmatic and thematic opportunities for Craft School 2025-27- reviewing and refining content and resources for launch of Craft School Material World Year 2 - reviewing teacher resources, writing the pupil handbook, producing new film content and programming teacher CPD events

Specialist mentor for the Future You Project, acting as 'critical friend' through pedagogical support around engaging 11+ audiences through 21st Century Skills, contributing to action learning sets and observing project activity. Supporting on the development and delivery of programming, including facilitating 'A Summer Quest' - an escape-room style immersive skills quest at the Acton Depot.

London, England, United Kingdom

Developing an oral history training and recording programme, working with volunteers and Pink Singers members on their 40th Anniversary: Sing it Loud, Sing it Queer programme.

Developing a pilot programme for a place-based arts provision in collaboration with Ark Schools. Scoping and planning cultural education programme pilot to be launched with Ark Schools in Hastings, as part of a funding partnership between Ark and Clore Duffield Foundation. This work included: - Developing a brief for, and recruiting an artist in residence to work with teachers and pupils - Developing CPD sessions to support creative practice in schools- Convening an advisory group of teachers and senior leaders- Connecting with local artists and arts organisations to match and develop offers to meet school needs

Lazy Crafternoons is a small arts enterprise which I run in my spare time: facilitating skills swaps, delivering workshops, and creating opportunities for makers to connect online. My own projects include handmade bath and body products, patchwork projects, quilts and laser cut objects. Wider project includes 52 Weeks : 52 Crafts in 2012 and 52Quilters social media project started in 2015.

London, England, United Kingdom

Leading the Programmes & Exhibitions team responsible for live programming, exhibitions and displays across UCL's museums and cultural spaces. Developing work connected to UCL research and contemporary themes in the Grant Museum of Zoology, the Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology, the UCL Art Museum, the Bloomsbury Theatre and our cultural spaces across campus. Connecting audiences, participants, artists and researchers through co-production and collaborative programmes, and cross-disciplinary exhibition making.

London

Leading on the Cultural Sector support offer, including delivering peer support, live events and resources under A New Direction's Reset Programme. Overseeing AND's SEND Network and the delivery of I Am Festival celebrating the creativity of D/deaf, disabled, and neurodivergent children and young people.

London

Managing the Creative Programmes team within Barbican Guildhall Creative Learning. Managing a team of seven Producers and Engagement managers, with responsibility for a programmes team of fourteen including Assistant Producers and Apprentices. Oversaw the creative direction and strategic development of programmes and new cross-arts projects. Directly reporting to the Director of Creative Learning and sitting on the departmental senior management team. Lead on development and delivery of key projects including Squish Space (under 5s artist residency), Creative Careers & Young Enterprise Lab, Design Yourself and other cross-arts learning programmes. Team lead for centre-wide projects and programming, including commissioning public space projects and content linked to Barbican's annual themes.

London, United Kingdom

Leading and delivering the Barbican’s Visual Arts learning programme and producing cross arts projects. This includes devising Creative Learning activity for Barbican's exhibition programme, overseeing Young Visual Arts Group and working with artists and teachers to deliver the annual Barbican Art Box and publication.In this role I have developed schools, family and wider programming for exhibitions including The Vulgar, The Japanese House, Basquiat: Boom for Real, Another Kind of Life, Dorothea Lange: The Politics of Seeing and Vanessa Winship: And Time Folds. My work has included activity bringing the voices of Young Barbican members into the programming including, centre-wide events like Too Young For What? and working with young people to develop new ways of reading and delivering tours in the gallery. Additional projects include commissioning cross-arts installations, exhibitions and projects including curating the 'Basquiat's Brain' glitch art project/commission from Antonio Roberts which was displayed in the Barbican Foyers from January to March 2018, as well as programming Guildhall's Summer Arts Camp and working on centre-wide initiatives such as OpenFest and Young Barbican Private Views.

London, United Kingdom

Managing the delivery of Crafts Council's learning and participation initiatives, linking to Crafts Council exhibitions and programmes for schools, families and new audiences. Including work on Acts of Making (2015), Build Your Own (2015), Twelve Tall Tales (2016) and A Curious Turn (2016). Managing the team that delivers our learning programme including full and part-time staff and freelancers. Working with partners to bring new life to dormant programmes and create new innovative learning projects.Developing and delivering national events and programmes that raise the profile of craft and making including Make:Shift:Do, Make Your Future and Craft Club.

South Gloucestershire

Delivering the development phase of the Know Your Place archive's extension to the West of England region (including Gloucestershire, South Gloucestershire, Bath and North East Somerset Somerset and Wiltshire). This work included delivering a pilot digitisation of tithe maps and scoping for the large scale digitsation across five regions. Managing relationships with partners across six county councils, including local archives and the British Library. Building and maintaining a steering group made of up community partners including local history groups, museums and archive groups. Developing public interpretation and activity to support the project activity plan, including scoping for a digital exhibition. Writing the activity plan and full second stage application for the Heritage Lottery Fund which was successfully awarded £379,800

Bristol

Developing and delivering the Museums and School Project as funded by Arts Council England and the Department for Education. Duties include working with project partners to engage Bristol schools in the programme, and developing new workshops, online resources and self-guided activities for participating schools. Delivering summer transition events to support primary to secondary school transition.

Centre For Oral History Research

Working to explore holistic and collaborative approaches to recording oral histories within multicultural communities, while looking at how migratory and transnational experiences inform the making of local identity in Huddersfield. Creating and delivering the "Greenhead Stories" community heritage project.

Huddersfield

Developing and delivering sessions for undergraduate and MA level courses including teaching oral history skills, theory and methodology of oral history, history and memory, podcasting and digital storytelling skills.

Delivering a range of workshops including handmade bath and beauty products and patchwork and quilting classes.

Various National And Local Museums And Archives

various pieces of freelance work with museums, archives and schools running hands on learning historical workshops and oral history projects. Including The Hunterian Museum, Imperial War Museum North, London School of Economics Archives, The Centre for Oral History Research at the University of Huddersfield, The SS Great Britain, The British Empire and Commonwealth Museum,

Imw London And Iwm North

Freelance work on various community education projects including, Journeys of Change 2 & 3, Their Past Your Future, Moving Minds 6 and others. Connecting young people, schools, and local community groups to museum collections through facilitating historical and creative arts workshops. Working with a diverse range of communities in Southwark and Lambeth including partnerships with schools, after school clubs, housing associations, and other community and third-sector organisations. Developing, delivering and presenting outreach work through online showcases and exhibition panels.

Community development and recording oral histories to support the 'Frames of Mind' exhibition. Building relationships with staff and artists working at Bethlem Studios, recruiting potential interviewees and soliciting feedback on exhibition themes and content. Recording a range of testimony to support the exhibition from interviewing a diverse range of artists and occupational therapists.

Education intern supporting the delivery of the musem's learning provision, as well as work on special projects including the Brunel 200 tourts and loan boxes.

Kingston, Ontario

Researching and producing a research manuscript which surveyed the 'VD epidemic' faced by the Canadian military in both the First and Second World War. Identifying collections from local, private and national archives and surveying the social history behind public health and social hygiene campaigns.

Master Of Philosophy (Mphil), Oral History

Ma, Life History Research

Ba, History, English Language And Literature