In February 2020, Courtauld Educator Dr. Julian Freeman led an Art History for All workshop with East Sussex Coast College, which included a visit to Hastings Contemporary. Julian invited Ben Fairbrother – who took part in our programme at the college in 2015-16, and now works at Hasting Contemporary – to work with this year’sRead more

Art History Summer University is a free week-long course for Year 12 students who are interested in Art History and thinking of applying to university. Over five days, 30 young people from non-selective state schools and colleges took part in lectures, seminars, and gallery visits to broaden their understanding of Art History as a subject,Read more

Based at our new campus at Vernon Square in Kings Cross, 18 young people from schools and colleges across London joined us for the Portraiture and Expressive Colour study day. Building on the colour day at The National Gallery last month, this workshop would look at colour from an emotive and expressive viewpoint, and focusRead more

Somerset House, constructed between 1776 and 1801, has provided the setting and backdrop to many of our young people’s events, and the Insights day on Saturday 9th March provided an opportunity to piece together the building’s fascinating architectural, political and cultural histories. In a seminar room, with original 18th-century decoration still in place, students participatedRead more

The Courtauld Institute of Art’s Regional Outreach collaboration with Access to Higher Education at East Kent College has moved into new territory. A workshop in Dover for Humanities students during October 2018 proved so positive amongst its participants that the college asked for more if possible. Would it be possible to pilot something similar forRead more

During Spring Half term we ran a popular Insights into Art History workshop on the theme of colour. The temporary closure of The Courtauld Gallery has encouraged us to make use of other world class collections around London and for this event we were kindly hosted by the National Gallery and Tate Modern. We metRead more

A new Insights into Art History study day in collaboration with the Queen’s House, Royal Museums Greenwich! On Saturday 19 January the Courtauld’s Young People’s Programme embarked on an exciting new partnership with the Queen’s House, Greenwich, in order to learn about remarkable royal women from history who used architecture and other forms of culturalRead more

On 8 November Access students following East Kent College’s Humanities / Social Sciences diploma took part in a Courtauld Institute workshop in Dover. It was the start of a pilot project, devised as a collaboration between the East Kent Access teaching team and the Courtauld’s outreach programmers, with the aim of using visual sources toRead more

Since 2014 adult students from Sussex Coast College in Hastings have had an annual date with art history specialists from The Courtauld. Each year Humanities students hoping to head for Higher Education take a unit in Critical Studies as part of their Access Diploma. This is basically a ten-week, fast and furious introduction to theRead more

We are very excited to announce that applications for Summer University 2018 are now open! Further information about the application process can be found on our website. The deadline for applications is Friday 25th May 2018. Summer University runs from Monday 16 to Friday 20 July 2018. This year’s theme is Art and Identity lookingRead more