Engage (visual arts)
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engage, National Association for Gallery
Education, is based in the United Kingdom
and promotes the visual arts through gallery education. engage's work helps galleries encourages people to participate in and enjoy the visual arts and become confident users of galleries and museums. engage is the leading international membership association for gallery education working with arts and education professionals. engage has over 1,000 members including gallery educators, teachers and arts professionals from across the UK and in 15 countries.
Professional Development - engage provides opportunities to promote good practice, support diversity
and accessibility
and helps practitioners develop their careers in gallery education and arts education, including an international annual conference, briefing days and an international summer school.
Communication - Exploring the latest ideas and issues surrounding gallery education through the twice-yearly engage journal and sharing findings from research programmes and projects through publications, including toolkits, briefing notes and research findings.
Support - engage Scotland, engage Cymru and the nine Area Groups in England provide peer support, networking and professional development. engage shares good practice, ideas, jobs and opportunities through its website and publications.
Projects - Working in partnership with members and key organisations, projects encourage gallery education practice which is accessible and diverse. Projects include a range of people from at risk and disadvantaged young people through envision, to deaf and disabled gallery visitors with Explore.
Research - Initiating research programmes with galleries and key partners such as higher education institutions and schools to develop understanding of gallery education and engage with new audiences. enquire is researching how young people learn with artists and contemporary art as part of the Strategic Commissioning Programme for Museum and Gallery Education.
Advocacy - Working to build wider recognition of the value of gallery education with decision makers, to influence policies and resourcing for gallery and arts education. engage is involved in key policy making groups on arts education and the visual arts.
engage is organised as a professional membership organisation, constituted as a company limited by guarantee with charitable registration and is governed by a Board and a Council elected by the membership.
The funding of the organisation comes from various lottery and charitable funds, namely: the Arts Councils of England, Scotland
and Wales
. engage is runs the enquire programme which is funded by the DCMS
and the DCSF
as part of the Strategic Commissioning Programme for Museum and Gallery Education.
Art gallery
An art gallery or art museum is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.Museums can be public or private, but what distinguishes a museum is the ownership of a collection...
Education, is based in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
and promotes the visual arts through gallery education. engage's work helps galleries encourages people to participate in and enjoy the visual arts and become confident users of galleries and museums. engage is the leading international membership association for gallery education working with arts and education professionals. engage has over 1,000 members including gallery educators, teachers and arts professionals from across the UK and in 15 countries.
Professional Development - engage provides opportunities to promote good practice, support diversity
Multiculturalism
Multiculturalism is the appreciation, acceptance or promotion of multiple cultures, applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place, usually at the organizational level, e.g...
and accessibility
Accessibility
Accessibility is a general term used to describe the degree to which a product, device, service, or environment is available to as many people as possible. Accessibility can be viewed as the "ability to access" and benefit from some system or entity...
and helps practitioners develop their careers in gallery education and arts education, including an international annual conference, briefing days and an international summer school.
Communication - Exploring the latest ideas and issues surrounding gallery education through the twice-yearly engage journal and sharing findings from research programmes and projects through publications, including toolkits, briefing notes and research findings.
Support - engage Scotland, engage Cymru and the nine Area Groups in England provide peer support, networking and professional development. engage shares good practice, ideas, jobs and opportunities through its website and publications.
Projects - Working in partnership with members and key organisations, projects encourage gallery education practice which is accessible and diverse. Projects include a range of people from at risk and disadvantaged young people through envision, to deaf and disabled gallery visitors with Explore.
Research - Initiating research programmes with galleries and key partners such as higher education institutions and schools to develop understanding of gallery education and engage with new audiences. enquire is researching how young people learn with artists and contemporary art as part of the Strategic Commissioning Programme for Museum and Gallery Education.
Advocacy - Working to build wider recognition of the value of gallery education with decision makers, to influence policies and resourcing for gallery and arts education. engage is involved in key policy making groups on arts education and the visual arts.
engage is organised as a professional membership organisation, constituted as a company limited by guarantee with charitable registration and is governed by a Board and a Council elected by the membership.
The funding of the organisation comes from various lottery and charitable funds, namely: the Arts Councils of England, Scotland
Scottish Arts Council
The Scottish Arts Council is a Scottish public body that distributes funding from the Scottish Government, and is the leading national organisation for the funding, development and promotion of the arts in Scotland...
and Wales
Arts Council of Wales
The Arts Council of Wales is a Welsh Government sponsored body, responsible for funding and developing the arts in Wales.Established by Royal Charter in 1946, as the Welsh Arts Council , when it merged with the three Welsh regional arts associations...
. engage is runs the enquire programme which is funded by the DCMS
Department for Culture, Media and Sport
The Department for Culture, Media and Sport is a department of the United Kingdom government, with responsibility for culture and sport in England, and some aspects of the media throughout the whole UK, such as broadcasting and internet....
and the DCSF
Department for Children, Schools and Families
The Department for Children, Schools and Families was a department of the UK government, between 2007 and 2010, responsible for issues affecting people in England up to the age of 19, including child protection and education...
as part of the Strategic Commissioning Programme for Museum and Gallery Education.
External links
- engage website
- engage Scotland website
- engage Cymru website
- Gallery Finder searches for galleries and arts venues in the UK
- enquire programme - exploring the benefits of learning in galleries
- envision programme - creating youth friendly galleries
- Watch this Space helping build links between galleries and schools
- Explore disabled and deaf people engaging in galleries in association with Shape