Work history
Media and Communications Advisor
Amsterdam, NetherlandsInternship
The Amsterdam Fund for the Arts (AFK) invests in the arts which enriches the experience of life in the city of Amsterdam. The AFK encourages the quality, dynamism and diversity of the arts in Amsterdam, and contributes to the city's strong and richly varied cultural climate. The fund is available to all disciplines within the cultural sector, for cultural organizations and artists. The AFK supports both experimentation and proven quality, established organizations and those that are relatively new, the professional arts and amateur arts - from every district of the city.
As a metropolitan cultural fund, the AFK offers support to high-quality cultural activities, it functions as a booster for the arts within the city, and is an investor in a sustainable future for the cultural sector.
Subsidies and special activities
The AFK’s tools for implementing Amsterdam's cultural policy consist of schemes for multi-year grants as a component of the 2017-2020 Kunstenplan (Arts and Culture Memorandum) as well as schemes for one-off grants. In addition, the AFK initiates special activities which focus attention on proven quality and stimulate talent development and innovation within the sector, such as the Amsterdam Prize for the Arts and the 3Package Deal for outstanding international talent.
Education
Master Of Arts in Contemporary Art (research)
- Leiden, Netherlands
The Master’s programme in Arts and Culture (research) at Leiden University offers a unique two year programme, that integrates art history in media studies, literature and literary theory, since the study of cultural objects and cultural practices is founded on a shared theoretical and methodological framework.
Specialization in Museums and Collections with a focus on Contemporary Art and World Art Studies