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Engage is the lead advocacy and training network for gallery education
With the aim of sharing good practice and promoting understanding of the visual arts, our resources can be downloaded for free and used to inspire and support gallery education practice throughout the sector. In this section, you will also find our Careers advice pages and case studies published on behalf of our members as part of Sharing Practice.
Engage Scotland has joined forced with the Scottish Contemporary Art Network and the Scottish Artists Union to create a 19 point manifesto focusing on workers’ rights and diversity in the visual arts
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Engage publication
Discover the world around you through looking, discussing, making and exhibiting. In 2017 Turner Contemporary, Engage, and the Young Art…
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Teachers’ pack
Group: Laura Aldridge, Polly Andrews, Rachel Ayrton, Katherine McAlpine, Naomi Shoba An investigation into best practise using co-production to create and…
Group: Caroline Muirhead, Rowena Hillel, Heather Cassidy & Owain Rhys — Creative Leadership and Young People Our area of enquiry…
In spring/summer 2015 Engage Cymru worked with four galleries and arts services in Wales to deliver a second round of Momentum: innovative, visual arts based projects for vulnerable young people
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Evaluation report
Group: Alton Brown, Nicola Gilcreest, Kate Self, Fiona Smith, Kamina Walton — Peripatetic As part of the Extend Leadership Programme…
Go & See (2012–14) supported individuals working in creative organisations across the arts in Scotland to go and see good practice in delivering equality and diversity in the arts
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Project report
Engage Cymru worked with the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Oriel Myrddin, Denbighshire Arts Service and Conwy Arts Service to deliver a range of innovative creative interventions with hard to reach or NEET young people in 2014
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Evaluation report
An evaluation of the 2013 Engage Cymru pilot professional development programme for visual artists and makers in Wales
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Evaluation report
Group: Ros Croker, Kithmini Wimalasekera, Rachel Thibbotumunuwe, Rikki Payne and Andrew Vaughan — You Produce Space As part of the Extend…
This case study is one of a growing number of action research projects managed by Engage Cymru focusing on engaging new audiences in art and gallery activities including within intergenerational projects.
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Case studies
This case study is one of a growing number of action research projects managed by Engage Cymru focusing on engaging new audiences in art and gallery activities included within intergenerational projects
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Evaluation report
The Engage Cymru project described here is a step on the way to demonstrating one type of intervention that might improve the life of older people living with severe mental health problems
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Project report
The Everyone project explored and supported the development of access and disability equality in galleries and visual arts venues in Scotland.
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Case studiesFilmsPowerpoint presentation
Gallery and teacher partnership case studies case studies from Watch the Space 3–7
Gallery educator and artist educator case studies from Watch the Space 3–7
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Case studies
A series of briefing notes from the enquire programme about how gallery education is addressing key issues in arts and education policy
Briefing notes with case studies taken from the final phase of the enquire programme