We are please to launch a working paper arising from the event in April 2025: Civic and Place: Exploring the Role of the Civic in Art and Design which brought together researchers, educators, practitioners and community stakeholders to examine how art and design can shape, sustain, and animate civic life. The paper is co-authored by: Dr Rowan Bailey, Director of the Centre for Cultural Ecologies in Art, Design and Architecture, University of Huddersfield. Evelyn Wilson, co-Director of  National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange Dr Rhiannon Jones, Associate Professor (Civic Practice). Head of Civic and Communities, University of Derby. Professor...

Free Download here The FACE Race Handbook is a vital resource delivering cultural competency for our allies, whilst confronting anti-Blackness in our art and design institutions. Acknowledging that white privilege and race are rarely spoken about in the workplace and beyond, FACE encourages its allies to interrogate privilege and racial bias through regular meetings with Black and racially minoritised FACE colleagues. This practice has facilitated a growing network of culturally confident educators evolving together in anti-racist work that centres recruitment, progression, curriculum and culture. Compiled by FACE Members and Associates up and down the country, The FACE Race Handbook communicates...

This blog is the second in a series and has kindly been provided by Vanessa Corby Professor Theory, History and Practice of ArtYork St John University The State and art & design education in England: Part One, ‘Rip-Off Degrees’, the poverty of expectations for the discipline and neoliberalism When I say there is a poverty of expectations for art and design educational outcomes in this country, I’m not saying anything that the discipline doesn’t already know. The present impoverishment of the National Curriculum and its effects were foretold in Bob and Roberta Smith’s Letter to Michael Gove MP, 25 January...