AccessArt Studio Project – Summary

The AccessArt Studio Project aims to inspire, enable, promote and support making through simple, effective and sustainable means. By working together, as a community with shared needs and interests, the Studio Project should help create opportunities for all concerned. The AccessArt Studio Project is about two inter-related elements: Studio and Community. In a nutshell, the [...]

For most people, grassroots is where relevant activity takes place

For the vast majority (audiences & those who facilitate/practice), grassroots is where it’s at. Whether the community local to you extends five minutes, twenty miles or round the corner, its the one to one relationships which feed you (or the lack of them which frustrate you), and the connections which sustain and support you. This [...]

AccessArt Studio Project Map: Help us Develop Community Clusters

View AccessArt Studio Project in a larger map Potential Lead Partners The following organisations have expressed an interest in being named as a lead partners. We would be particularly interested in hearing from other organisations (community groups, arts groups, cultural organisations, schools, community education, extended services, youth groups, recycling centres, businesses and individual creative practitioners [...]

“Local plus virtual”, NOT “local or virtual”

A virtual (non-geographical), shared-interest community is a very powerful entity. Sketchbooks in schools has illustrated how effective a platform for sharing practice across a wide range of users can be, in particular when the community it serves helps to create it. Effective virtual communities are dynamic full of generous (in their sharing), interested, driven individuals. [...]

What might an AccessArt Studio be?

Put simply, an AccessArt Studio is a place where AccessArt-inspired activity (and other creative activity) can be supported and enabled. We know lots of people use the resources on our website, and we want to help and enable even more people to use the resources, in a more supported, locally-based environment. Central to the AccessArt [...]

AccessArt Studio Project: The importance of community

Key to the concept behind AccessArt Studio Project, is the importance of creating and being sustained by community. The AccessArt Studio Project project will embrace a wide range of partners and audiences, including schools, community groups, local authorities, individual makers, cultural organisations, national agencies and business and industry. Vitally, the project centres around the idea [...]