Job Description
Creative Opportunity for Young Artists to Judge an Arts Competition!
Hours 10 am to 4 pm on one day between July 1 and August 15
Benefits A small stipend is available to help cover the costs of travel, lunch, and judges’ time for those who would otherwise be unable to volunteer to judge the Awards.
Volunteering Location London, in East Acton on the grounds of HMP Wormwood Scrubs
Koestler Arts is the UK’s best-known prison arts charity and runs the annual Koestler Awards for people in the criminal justice system. The competition receives over 8000 creative entries each year, including visual arts and crafts, writing, and music. We have 52 categories for entrants to submit artwork into, including Poem, Hip Hop, Watercolour and Gouache, Flash Fiction and Short Story, and Textile Art. Each summer, we invite external artists, writers, and musicians to review the entries and give out the awards.
We are excited to announce that, for the first time, Koestler Arts is welcoming expressions of interest to join us as a volunteer Koestler Awards Judge! Each year, hundreds of young people in custody share their creative work with us. In an effort to further inspire our youngest entrants, we are looking for artists, musicians, and writers aged 21-25 to help us judge the Koestler Awards this summer. Young Judges recruited through this process will be paired with a more experienced Awards judge. Past judges have included photographer Robert Taylor, artist Jeremy Deller, the late poet Benjamin Zephaniah, and ceramicist Rich Miller.
Main Duties
Volunteer judges spend time looking at the entries in their category, select their award winners, allot the prizes, and handwrite feedback for top award winners.
What will the volunteering role offer the student and what will they learn while they are with you?
In addition to benefitting from access to thousands of incredible artworks, judging is an opportunity to play a key role in inspiring people in the criminal justice system to continue expressing themselves through art. Young judges will be paired with an experienced artist/writer/musician and thus benefit from a professional development opportunity. They will have the chance to apply their unique creative skills for positive community impact.
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