GrowinG Future innovators - ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative ...

‘Good Vibrations’
caravan. Photo courtesy
of the Museum of
Contemporary Art
In order to provide a fuller, comparative
picture, ten contemporary art institutions
were also interviewed in England, as the
UK has supported a range of ambitious arts
education programs and innovation discourse
initiatives. These organisations were:
Arnolfini, Bristol
(Helen Davies, Head of Education and Jill
Nicol, Head of Interaction)
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art,
Gateshead
(Helen Burns, Schools and Colleges
Programmer)
Battersea Arts Centre, London
(Alexandra Tomkinson, Participate
Director)
Camden Arts Centre, London
(Anna Vass, Education Project
Programmer, and Ben Roberts, Program
Coordinator)
Contact Theatre, Manchester
(Baba Israel, Artistic Director, and
Suzie Henderson, Head of Creative
Development, with Seda Jackson-
Smith, youth leader and Uwe Grõschel,
researcher)
FACT: Foundation for art and creative
technology, Liverpool
(Angela Cowan, Education Manager, and
Anna Kronenburg, Education Coordinator)
Serpentine Gallery, London
(Sally Tallant, Head of Programmes)
Tate Britain, London
(Felicity Allen, Head of Learning, and
Harriet Curnow, Head of Young People’s
Programmes)
Tate Modern, London
(Anna Cutler, Head of Learning)
Whitechapel Gallery, London
(Selena Levison, Schools Curator)
Semi-structured interviews with each
organization triggered discussion across a
range of subjects, including: the institution’s
curatorial remit and if there was an implicit
or explicit objective to be innovative; the
institutions’ perception of their more
innovative programs for schools and the
relationships of those programs to school
curricula; ways in which those programs
were thought to model or impart skills for
innovation; barriers or inhibitors to innovative
programming, and the partnerships that
offered leverage in overcoming these
challenges. Unless otherwise cited, quotes
within this section are taken directly form
these interviews.
Ideas and events discussed in the interviews
have been selected and organised around
the seven key themes that emerged from
the project’s findings. It found that that
contemporary arts institutions can connect
schools to innovation though their cultivation
of: content, methods, skills and dispositions,
pedagogies, partnerships, institutional
practices, and contexts.
Growing future Innovators: a scoping study 39