The Tiny Art School Movement: Spotlight.

Wednesday 12th February, 11.00am-12.00pm GMT.

Free for AccessArt Members.

Aimed at: Artists & Artist Educators

As part of the AccessArt Artist Educator Network, AccessArt is creating a body of work to explore, celebrate and promote the notion of “Tiny Art Schools” across the UK. Tapping into existing practice and innovation, we’ll be sharing how artist educators are working with their audiences, using community centres, village halls, and private studio spaces as art education labs to build creative and economic communities of all sizes.

At this online event, AccessArt will talk more about the importance of artist educators stepping forward to inspire communities. We’ll hear from Joe and Sarah Gamble from Art School Ilkley; and artist educator Inbal Leitner, who will share their inclusive and diverse offer to the art education community and their journey towards achieving this. 

This session is suitable for artist educators running or interested in running their own Tiny Art School. We also welcome educators working in all settings, including EYFS, Primary and Secondary Schools, Health & Community Care, Home Education, Lifelong Learning and Museum and Gallery Education.

Please note, that this event is free and open to AccessArt Members only. A Zoom link, accessible via logging into the AccessArt website, will be included in your order confirmation. Please ensure you can log in well before the event so we can help you with any log-in issues. Please contact andrea@accessart.org.uk if you have any problems.

This session will be recorded and available to AccessArt members a few days after the event.

Speaker Biographies:

Sarah and John Gamble run Art School Ilkley, an independent art school based in Ilkley, West Yorkshire. Starting in 2016, John and Sarah now run ten classes a week, teaching across ages, from young artists to adults.

Sarah enjoyed her career working as an art specialist secondary school teacher and latterly as a lecturer in PGCE Art and Design. She has a personal practice that centres around textiles, print and stitch. John completed his MA in Creative Practice from Leeds Arts University.
His work is intuitive, responding to memory, soundscapes and place. He allows himself the joyful freedom to erase, obliterate, remove and then to repair, whilst slowly shifting the drawings focus. 

Inbal Leitner - Inbal Leitner is a Cambridge-based illustrator. She studied Animation in Bezalel Academy of Art and worked as a classic animator. She is a graduate from the Illustration MA course at Cambridge School of Art, where she is now a lecturer. Inbal also runs a successful art club at a Cambridge Primary School.