As we head towards the end of 2019, here are my work highlights from a busy past year:

Arts Evaluation - I started doing more evaluation of education projects during 2019 with new clients the Whitechapel Gallery (focusing on their Voices that Matter Women’s project) and Little Angel Theatre (interviewing staff at ten theatre venues across the country along with teachers at their local primary schools for their Take Flight touring programme). I also began the third year of evaluating the DEVELOP Young People’s Programme at The Photographers’ Gallery, writing the annual evaluation report of the Public Engagement Programme for Art on the Underground, and working with new client the Empathy Museum to collate their existing evaluation into a report presenting future recommendations;
Arts Education - I continued to deliver arts education activity for Art on the Underground with a family event, a poster project for LSBU and tours of Linder’s commission The Bower of Bliss at Southwark tube station for local colleges and community groups. Alongside this, I delivered CPD for arts educators at the Courtauld Gallery, and primary teachers at Little Angel Theatre. I also wrote two teachers’ resources for the Royal Academy focusing on ‘Stories’ for Key stages 1-2 and ‘Sculpture’ for Key stages 3-5 based on artworks in their permanent Collection, in line with their building redevelopment;
Progression Routes for Young People - I continued my formal mentoring in 2019, this time with an amazing Young Freelancer from the London Transport Museum, alongside continuing catch ups with my previous mentees. I shared my experiences of setting up paid traineeships at a Youth Programming Symposium hosted by The Photographers’ Gallery, as well as at a session on the Alternative Models for Arts Education module for the Art & Design in Education MA at the Institute of Education. In addition, I joined the Engagement Advisory Board at the Horniman Museum as their youth specialist, and I ran a training day for the Museums Partnership Reading to support them in actioning their Youth Engagement Strategy and working towards developing a Youth Manifesto. This was also the year I did a call out at the engage conference for arts organisations to come together to share and support each other on employment progression routes for young people into the arts sector but instead found out about and joined the Routes In Network hosted by Tate which led to becoming employed by them to co-lead some network sessions, and I’m currently beginning to carry out some research to help them decide on their next steps.

I’m looking ahead to 2020 working with both existing and new clients, so watch this space…