Children’s Art Day
“Children's Art Day has created a new focus for celebrating achievement in the visual arts.”
Sir Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate Gallery
“Art is the ultimate playground: a place for fun, adventure and innovation. Seeing art at first hand can
be hugely beneficial to children and families, whether it's through working with an artist in the classroom
or visiting one of the UK's brilliant museums and galleries. Children's Art Day is a vital way to engage children
and young people in something which will help them learn and bring them lifelong pleasure.”
Loyd Grossman OBE
Children's Art Day 2011
Regrettably engage will not be running Children's Art Day in 2011 as we have not been able to secure sufficient funding to run
the event this year. We know that the event is greatly valued by colleagues, supporting and promoting the work of galleries
and artists with children and young people. The programme in 2010 involved some 37,000 participants in over 200 events across
the UK. You can read more below.
engage will work to secure funding to run the event in Summer 2012. For more information please check back here in Spring
2012 or contact info@engage.org.
Children's Art Day is the UK-wide programme encouraging children, young people,
families and teachers to engage with the visual arts. In 2010, over 200 events took place across the UK between 12-18 July,
click here for a full listing.
Organisers across the UK received support from engage to devise, run and publicise their participatory events.
New for Children's Art Day in 2010 was a visual arts competition 'Look Out London' for London schools, which invited schools to use
drawing as a basis for developing art and design projects through a variety of media. The competition, in partnership with
The Big Draw was
backed by Boris Johnson, Mayor of London, who is a keen draughtsman and champion of drawing.
Find out more here.
Children's Art Day 2010 was managed by engage and supported by the Clore Duffield Foundation and the Mayor of London.
Image Gallery
Click here to see a selection of images taken at Chilldren's Art Day events in 2010.
Past events
In 2009, over 230 events took place across the UK as part of Children's Art Day. To find out more
click here.
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