Art Now Inquiry

The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Art, Craft and Design in Education (APPG) has published the Art Now Inquiry. The report is a collation of three years of evidence gathering and identifies why, increasingly, policies in education are impacting on the provision of the subject.

The report includes:

• a large-scale subject-specific survey
• testimonies of art educators, leadership teams, and parliamentarians
• national and international art educator research
• findings and recommendations that are timely and essential, as recently published data indicates that the pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis are impacting on teachers, on our subject, and in turn, on a generation of young people

Members of the APPG group who coordinated the survey are:

• Professor Pat Thomson, Professor Education and Convenor for the Centre for Research in Arts, Creativity and Literacy
• Maddy Gilliam who is currently undertaking an AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Partnership between the University of Nottingham and Tate

Find out more about the enquiry and read the report.