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Engaging Audiences Through Transportation

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“Everyone has the right to freedom of expression”

Artist educator roots

Why We Need Artist Educators To Take Centre Stage

AccessArt Tiny Art School

How Tiny Art Schools Grow

Still and dynamic drawing

Can Labour Show It Really Understands The Power Of The Arts To Transform Lives?

Scenery for a production of Jean-Philippe⁠ Rameau’s opera, ‘Dardanus’. The Palace of⁠ Fontainebleau, 1783

The Current Education System: Too Much Beta, Not Enough Alpha

Shadow puppets on sticks held high

Oak National Academy & The Art & Design Curriculum

Cityscape by Phil Dean

Sketch Your World: Drawing The Details

Featherstone Building by Phil Dean

Sketch Your World: Perspective

Dietcoke by Phil Dean

Sketch Your World: Choosing Subject Matter

Drawings of Pens by Phil Dean

Sketch Your World: Materials

Urban Sketch by Phil Dean

Sketch Your World: Sketchbooks & Composition

Cityscape Drawing by Phil Dean

Sketch Your World: The Basics

Group Of Teenage Students In Uniform Walking Between Classrooms

Urgent Reform Needed In 11-16 Education

How Large Is Your School

The AccessArt Primary Art Curriculum – Impact & Evidence Autumn 2023

Glueing shapes onto a circle of paper.

Angry Cat, Calm Cat

Finished Group Sculptures Inspired by Nnena Kalu by Lorna Greenwood

Adapting AccessArt: Playful Making Inspired by Nnena Kalu

Art Now Report

The Art Now Report

Ofsted Research review art & Design

AccessArt Response to the Ofsted Curriculum Review for Art & Design 2023

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Returning to Our Bodies – Poised Between The Slip and The Grub

Common snipe, illustration from Bijutsu Sekai (1893-1896) by Watanabe Seitei, a prominent Kacho-ga artist.

Thinking about Art Education? Think again

Hanging the Laundry out to Dry (1875) painting in high resolution by Berthe Morisot.

AccessArt and 2023

Sculpture of a Bird by Ellie Daly

Start The Year With The AccessArt Primary Art Curriculum

Year 4, Sheffield High School

Introducing the New AccessArt Primary Art Curriculum

Introduction to the new AccessArt primary art curriculum zoom

An Introduction to The New AccessArt Primary Art Curriculum

Johannes Vermeer’s The Lacemaker (ca.1669–1671)

What Does Success Look Like?

Art is a Unique Subject to Teach

Why We Need To Allow Art To Be The Unique Subject It Is…

Storyboard of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Exploring A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Recounting the Story

A range of small pencil drawings.

Exploring A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Making Magic Spells

Adding textured and twisted paper to a collage.

Exploring A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Creating a Forest Collage Part Two

A close up of a paper collage of a forest.

Exploring A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Creating a Forest Collage Part One

A wall display of costume designs for Bottom from A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Exploring A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Costume Design for Bottom

Drawing a portraits of a figure from Ancient Greece.

Exploring A Midsummer Night’s Dream Through Art: Ancient Greek Dress Portraits

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Exploring Macbeth Through Art: Storyboards

Using red water colour as 'blood on hands'

Exploring Macbeth Through Art: Out Damn Spot!

An illustrative poster for Macbeth.

Exploring Macbeth Through Art: Light and Dark Posters

A pencil drawing of Macbeth.

Exploring Macbeth Through Art: Macbeth Portraits

Adding paint to ripped sugar paper.

Exploring Macbeth Through Art: Witch’s Capes

Creating a sense of place when drawing with charcoal.

Exploring Macbeth Through Art: Heath Landscapes

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How Do Non-Specialist Teachers Teach Art?

What Is Sculpture

What Is Sculpture?

What is a drawing tool?

Basic and Budget Friendly Art Materials for Primary Schools

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Introduction to the AccessArt Progression Plan

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An Introduction to the AccessArt Exemplar Curriculum Plan

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Exploring, Associating & Connecting – a Sketchbook Exercise

Assessment and Progression in Primary School

Rethinking our Approach to Assessment & Progression in Primary School

Constructing without being limited by creating a permanent sculpture

Mind the Gap Between the National Curriculum in Art for Primary Schools & Ofsted

Using thick and thin lines to create rhythm

The AccessArt Drawing Journey for Primary Children: Aims and Intent

Developing Wild Things

Key Concepts for Primary Schools in Drawing for ages 5 to 7

Cross hatches

Key Concepts for Primary Schools in Drawing for ages 7 to 9

Oil Pastel and Graphite Drawing of Feather by Child

Tools & Questions for Assessing Drawing for ages 5 to 7

Drawing a wolf

Tools & Questions for Assessing Drawing for Ages 7 to 9

Children designing letters

Tools & Questions for Assessing Drawing for Ages 9 to 11

Detail of photocopied and enlarged engraving marks (taken from George Cruickshank's illustrations for Oliver by Charles Dickens)

Key Concepts for Primary Schools in Drawing for Ages 9 to 11

What is a Drawing tool?

What Is A Drawing Tool?

Mel Woo Saatchi London Grad Exhibition Intallation

How Do We Look At Contemporary Sculpture: Mel Woo

Perpetual Decomposer Saatchi London Grad Exhibition Installation Victoria Rotaru Image By John Sachpazis

How Do We Look At Contemporary Sculpture: Victoria Rotaru

sketchbook from found book

What Is The Purpose of Drawing?

What is Drawing, Image by Tobi Meuwissen for AccessArt

What Is Drawing?

Sketchbooks are places for

Sketchbooks Should Be…

Curtis Holder

Curtis Holder: Art & Education

Making medals out of recycled materials by Jan Miller

Scaffolding Projects

snakes and ladders board for art educators

Taking Stock: What a Game of Snakes & Ladders Made Me Think About Art Education

Row of Sleepers 1986 by Henry Moore. Reproduced by the Henry Moore Foundation

Henry Moore’s Shelter Drawings

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Searching for the Opposite of Fragmentation & Contraction

showing differences in colour and tone with mark making

Movement Maps

A participant comic

Creating Comics Inspired by Museum Collections

Inspired by Anglo Saxon architecture

A Sketchbook Pathway: Anglo Saxon Architecture

Using sketchbooks and Looking at Cupid and Psyche a Renaissance painting by Del Sellaio and making feathers

A Sketchbook Pathway Step 5: Keep The Sketchbook Handy

peeling paint on wall

A Sketchbook Pathway Step 4: Celebrate Individual Journey & Personal Discovery

small wave bowl

A Sketchbook Pathway 3: Let Go Of Expectations & Let Things Collide

Painting a Storm

Sketchbook Pathway Step 2: Energy of the Group

Missing You - Pavement piece by Rowan Briggs Smith during #lockdown 2020

A Sketchbook Pathway Step 1: Open Out & Give Permission

The AccessArt Sketchbook Journey

Key Sketchbook Concepts

Making an Artist's Book by Paula Briggs

What Are Sketchbooks & What Can They Offer Us?

Sketchbook spaces and places

Making Spaces & Places in a Sketchbook

Simple Folded Sketchbook

Making a Simple Folded Sketchbook

An elastic band sketchbook

Making a Hole Punch Sketchbook

Making a Backwards Sketchbook

Making a Backwards Sketchbook

sketchbook mark making and collage

Making Time for Sketchbooks in Schools

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