Outset Family was a framework of support for a range of projects running between 2010-2015, raising roughly £280,000 over five years.
Outset Education Circle was delighted to support Camden Arts Centre, a contemporary visual arts venue in North London with a long and rich history of exhibitions and education outreach programmes and their Get the Message project which has been running since 2002.
Supported from 2011-2015 an innovative project in which artists - in partnership with teachers – developed new approaches to working with young people with profound and multiple learning disabilities. Activities placed an emphasis on communication, self-expression and creative skills through encounters with contemporary art practice and challenged the notion of disability through collaborative activities which championed all forms of communication through artists’ workshops at the gallery. Every year CAC brought in a new cadre of students with severe learning disabilities from three schools. The Bridge School, Jack Taylor School and the Village School for a series of workshops based on performance, architecture or visual arts. The year would always end with an exhibition which would run three days in the summer for the students and their families.
The project was cited as a best practice example in a recent national study, Re-imagine: Improving access to the arts, galleries and museums for people with learning disabilities (Lemos & Crane, 2015) and the project's influence on the wider cultural sector continues to grow, with representatives from Whitechapel Gallery, South London Gallery, Tate, Baltic and The British Library all attending the project's Access Forum at Camden Arts Centre on 17th July 2015.
Get the Message - Exhibition and Symposium - Wednesday 6th July 2011 5.00pm - 7.00pm
Outset Education Circle has supported the programme for the academic years 2010/11, 2011/12, 2012/13 and 2013/14.
Outset Family support: £15,000/year.
