In recent years, there has been a rise in career development programs for artists, including various types of mentoring programs. However, research on mentoring is scarce within the field of cultural policy. In this paper, we analyse mentoring as a tool for developing creative careers by investigating three different programs implemented in the Norwegian art field. The analysis is based on qualitative interviews with mentors, protégés, and administrators in the three programs, and survey data, applications, and reports from one of the programs. Building on studies that address the social and collective aspects of artists’ and other creatives’ work and using social capital and social resilience as theoretical lenses for our analysis, we argue that despite potential downsides and pitfalls, mentoring can offer a holistic approach to learning, and its activation of collective resources can contribute to resilience and sustainability in creative careers.

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通过指导实现可持续的创意事业：了解艺术领域的社会韧性


近年来，艺术家的职业发展计划有所增加，包括各种类型的指导计划。然而，在文化政策领域，关于指导的研究很少。在本文中，我们通过调查挪威艺术领域实施的三个不同计划，分析了指导作为发展创意职业的工具。该分析基于对三个项目中的导师、门生和管理人员的定性访谈，以及其中一个项目的调查数据、申请和报告。基于解决艺术家和其他创意人员作品的社会和集体方面的研究，并使用社会资本和社会弹性作为我们分析的理论镜头，我们认为，尽管存在潜在的缺点和陷阱，但指导可以提供一种全面的学习方法，并且它对集体资源的激活可以促进创意职业的弹性和可持续性。