PROJECT

Visible Practice Residency

2024 – 2027

In partnership with The Photographers’ Gallery, with Freelands Foundation support

What

An annual residency that supports an Artist Teacher to create a new body of work within and beyond the school environment


Why

To promote the value of Artist Teachers from global majority backgrounds in delivering arts education and showcase new approaches to practice in teaching

Who

During the project Autograph will work with with three Art & Design teachers in secondary schools

ABOUT THE project

The Visible Practice Residency is a three-year project to support and expand the personal practice of art and photography teachers from global majority backgrounds, elevating the teacher as artist and artist as teacher. This is a collaborative project between Autograph, The Photographers’ Gallery and three schools.
In response, the Visible Practice Residency project offers:

• Three global majority Artist Teachers investment to develop their practice and research through a series of well resourced, six-month-long residencies located in each of their schools.
• A professionally curated public presentation of the work created by the Artist Teacher in both a gallery and digital space.
• A public events programme to share learning and best practice.



In 2017, the Department of Education recorded that children in UK schools (of whom 31% were “minority ethnic”) were introduced to visual art by teachers who were 94% white

Visualise: Race and Inclusion in Art Education, The Runnymede Trust

project aims

one

VISIBILITY

Co-design a visible artistic practice in three schools, each with a teacher from a global majority background
two

INSPIRE

Inspire young people from global majority backgrounds to consider the arts and teaching as a career option



NEW APPROACHES

Showcase new approaches to practice in teaching




first artist teacher resident

The first artist teacher resident for the project is Dianne Minnicucci, Head of Photography at Thomas Tallis School, Greenwich.


When this project came through, it made me think it could be a blueprint for not only how teachers are artists but how we educate and how we show students what to do. We must do it alongside them, we cannot stand behind the desk. We need to be involved in the process as well.

Dianne Minnicucci

coming up

3 ARTIST TEACHER RESIDENCIEs

A residency each year

600 STUDENTS

Will engage with the project

3 PROFESSIONAL SHOWCASES

Of work produced during the residencies

3 CELEBRATORY EVENTS

Marking major milestone

12 TEACHER NETWORK SESSIONs

Peer-to-peer networking and learning

1 MAJOR SYMPOSIUM

Will take place in London

1 FILM COMMISSION

Documenting the project

2 OPEN CALLS

Recruiting new schools to take part

supported by

in partnership with

Banner image: Courtesy Autograph, London