8 Values That Have Helped Shape AccessArt
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AccessArt’s organisational values are important at every level. Their meaning is enriched by context: they guide how we work as a team, shape the work we deliver, and influence our relationships with users. These values not only reflect how AccessArt aims to exist in the world, but also express how creativity can best be nurtured. We hope these values resonate with you, the user, and inspire how you enable creativity in yourself and those around you.
To share and celebrate our ethos, we will be commissioning 8 artists to illustrate our values.
Please share how our core values resonate with you #AccessArtCoreValues.
Beliefs
AccessArt Value #1: Growth is Driven by Ideas, Opportunities, and Reflection
Illustrated by Yu-Ching Chiu
What kind of growth makes us feel stimulated and fulfilled? As individuals, what drives us to keep creating? As communities, what makes us fair, inclusive, and forward-thinking? Find out more
AccessArt Value #2: Enthusiasm is Infectious and We Can all Play a Role in Fuelling or Stalling the Creative Potential of Others
Illustrated by Lizzie Lovejoy
What is our individual responsibility to those around us? What do we do to encourage or interrupt positivity? How might we enable a more curious and playful approach? Find out more
AccessArt Value #3: Having the Confidence to Hold Ideas Lightly, Enables us to Create Space for Everyone to Reach their Potential
Illustrated by Jagoda Sadowska
How can we always aim to open out our thinking so that it embraces more possibilities? How can we balance structure and freedom so that we feel safe yet free? Find out more
Actions
AccessArt Value #4: Through small acts of understanding we can enable big thinking.
Illustrated by Rachel Ng
How can we create small stepping stones of experience which enable us to explore complex ideas and experiences? Find out more

The intentions behind even the smallest actions are important. Incrementally, these intentional actions create impact.
(Call for commissioning TBC)
How can we be enabled to act with clarity? How can we avoid overwhelm and at the same time empower? How can we see every action as a jewel?
Relationships

We can be our most brave and creative selves when we feel safe and valued. To help others feel valued, we need to be kind.
(Call for commissioning TBC)
How can we cultivate a space in which we feel safe enough to show our true selves? How can we show compassionate understanding that enables individuals to feel understood and enabled?

We all have something to contribute that is of value to others. There is strength in shared experience, which empowers us all.
(Call for commissioning TBC)
How can we learn to recognise what we have to offer to others, perhaps outside our usual sphere of influence? How can we feel supported by others in our community? How can we be energised by encounters with those experiences and ideas outside our comfort zone?

Frances D
April 13, 2023 @ 7:26 am
These are wonderful values. I wish leaders in the wider world shared them. Thank-you for expressing and sharing them so well.
Veronica W
April 26, 2023 @ 12:36 pm
These values resonate with me on a variety of levels. I am glad a parent recommended AccessArt to me.
Maddy
February 14, 2024 @ 1:40 pm
I think highly of all these values and they resonate strongly. They speak of generosity, bravery and community, with creativity treated with sensitivity and openness. Thank you for sharing.
Sabrina Garrett
March 9, 2024 @ 6:00 pm
These are lovely values and would make every workplace so much better. Working would be so enjoyable for us all.
Polly
March 13, 2024 @ 12:59 pm
These beliefs and values are so powerful and inspiring. The world could do with much more of this mindset!
Kirsty Griffin
September 17, 2024 @ 6:28 pm
As an owner of a TAS @no.17artclub, I am so excited to read this! I ran a club previously as part of a franchise which operated in a closed & paranoid manner re. ideas and ownership of them! I think Access Art is a wonderful, open, generous and inspiring resource & I wish to share thoughts/ ideas too.
Rachel
September 23, 2024 @ 9:17 am
Thank you Kirsty! We really appreciate your kind words!