Are you new to AccessArt? Or would like to catch up with our latest thinking, news and opportunities?
The Viewpoints section shares articles to introduce you to our ethos and philosophy, and helps you dip your toes into the AccessArt resources, whoever and wherever you are.
The Current Education System: Too Much Beta, Not Enough Alpha
Paula Briggs, CEO & Creative Director of AccessArt explores how awareness of brain states could help us create a more balanced currciulum. Read more
The Language We Use Defines The Society We Create: Taking Control of the Narrative
Paula Briggs, CEO & Creative Director of AccessArt explores how the language we use to describe art education is vital to moving forward with strength and integrity. Read more
The Art & Design Curriculum & Oak National Academy
Paula Briggs, CEO & Creative Director of AccessArt shares AccessArt’s statement about Oak National Academy. Read more
Urgent Reform Needed in 11-16 Education
In December 2023 The Education for 11–16 Year Olds Committee published its report Requires improvement: urgent change for 11–16 education.
The report delves into the impact that a ‘knowledge rich’ approach has had on the educational system, which increased both curriculum content and exam-based testing. Read the post here.
The AccessArt Primary Art Curriculum – Impact & Evidence Autumn 2023
In the summer of 2023 we invited users to complete a survey to feedback their experience of using our Primary Art Curriculum in their school. We would like to thank the 447 teachers who responded on behalf of their school.
We are pleased to share the results of the survey.
The Art Now Report
The Art Now Inquiry commissioned by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Art, Craft and Design Education explores the current state of art and design education across the four nations. It was created in response to concerns about the reduction in opportunities for children and young people to access high quality art and design education across the primary and secondary phases of schooling. See the Report here
AccessArt Response to the Ofsted Curriculum Review in Art & Design
Paula Briggs and Trevor Horsewood from AccessArt attended the launch of the Ofsted Curriculum Review in Art & Design. Read our Response here
Returning to Our Bodies – Poised between the Slip and the Grub
What does AI mean for visual arts education (and our wellbeing)? Paula Briggs explores… Read the Post
Thinking About Art Education? Think Again…
On the 22nd February 2023 the long awaited Curriculum Research Review into Art & Design will be published. Before that day, and before we all embark on a discussion about its pedological intricacies, I wanted to take the opportunity to do what AccessArt always tries to do, namely to help us “open up and out” our thinking about art education and how we might best enable a rich creative experience for all. Read the Post
Opportunity for Artist Educators (February/March 2023)
AccessArt will be making a video which aims to celebrate all the skills and expertise artists bring to a wide range of educational settings, and we would like to invite artist educators to tell us in your own words what value and expertise you think artist educators offer pupils and teachers.
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What Does Success Look Like?
Why do we teach art? What do pupil’s get from making art? In this post, Paula Briggs challenges us to think more openly about how we monitor art in the classroom. Through making no assumptions about what art can offer us, we might be surprised by what we find… Read the Post
An Introduction into the New AccessArt Primary Art Curriculum
Find out what AccessArt’s new Primary Art Curriculum has to offer in this recorded Zoom Session – we discuss the aims of the curriculum and explain how the pathways can inspire your curriculum offering. Read the Post
AccessArt & 2023
As the days slowly lengthen, we can let ourselves feel a sense of opening outwards once again, and it is with that mindset that we’d like to share AccessArt’s aims and intents for 2023. Read the Post
Taking Stock: What a Game of Snakes and Ladders Made Me think About Art Education
How can we all learn from each other? Here’s what the snakes and ladders board made me think. Read the post.
Searching for the Opposite or Fragmentation and Contraction
What happens when we contract & fragment & how do we make ourselves & society whole again?
Can we re-imagine a society in which the notion that humans are inherently creative beings is accepted so readily that we do not need to defend the value or worth of creative thought and action? Read the post.
