About Artsmark
Artsmark is the national programme that enables schools, further education colleges and youth justice settings to evaluate, celebrate and strengthen a quality arts offer.
A new focus of Artsmark is to support Arts Council England achieve it’s goal of ensuring every child and young person has the opportunity to experience the richness of the arts by promoting formal education institutions to deliver rich and high quality provision. It will deliver this by providing:
- a structured and in depth online auditing tool
- rigorous criteria against which applicants can benchmark their provision
- the support of arts education professional throughout the assessment process
- the creation of a network of organisations committed to high quality, broad and sustainable arts provision
Through completing the online, two part application required to achieve an Artsmark award, a school can gain an overall picture of its arts education provision
Artsmark is happy to be back with a new online application system and welcoming a wider range of educational settings including further education colleges and youth justice settings
Better and brighter! After 10 successful years and over 10, 000 Artsmarks, we're back!
Artsmark is proud to have the support of the following partners
Artsmark and Arts Award are complementary programmes which demonstrate commitment to arts education and young people’s achievement in the arts.
The Artsmark team do not have the capacity to monitor the Artsmark status of all settings in detail and cannot deal with complaints about an Artsmark settings’ arts provision. However the following rules do apply to a setting during the three years that they hold Artsmark status.
In order to support the development of Artsmark as an auditing and development tool as well as a school kitemark we have decided to introduce the term ‘Working towards Artsmark’ to replace not achieving.