“The workshop was the most useful teaching experience I have had so far, it really re-fuelled my enthusiasm.”
Lucy Pawlak, Workshop leader

Workshops are led by current students and alumni and ReachOutRCA offers them a supported, vocational teaching experience. Workshop leaders take part for a variety of reasons: to extend or test their practice, to develop their communication and confidence, to gain professional experience and work with a new audience. They consider not only the practicalities of their workshop but also the wider questions of how they apply their creative process and personality in an educational context.

Post-RCA, many practitioners build careers involving education, whether through lecturing, residencies or wider arts education and ReachOutRCA aims to prepare them for this. We wish to raise the status of working with young people. As artists, designers and makers we are part of a lineage and must consider our responsibility to the achievement of a younger generation. In particular ReachOutRCA looks to encourage designers into schools, and highlight to pupils, teachers and parents that pathways to becoming a creative practitioner are varied and challenging but ultimately rewarding.