Goldsmiths announced as Artsmark’s new national delivery partner

We are thrilled to announce that Goldsmiths, University of London, will be Artsmark Award’s new national delivery partner from the start of the 2023-24 academic year. Through this exciting partnership, Goldsmiths will develop high-quality support and training for our Artsmark schools and education settings, marking a new chapter of collaboration, innovation, and creativity.  

As the only creative quality standard for schools and education settings, Artsmark supports settings to develop and celebrate their commitment to arts and cultural education for all children and young people. Our flexible framework helps embed arts, culture, and creativity across the curriculum, and Goldsmiths’ will play a key role in supporting schools to reflect, evaluate and celebrate their arts provision through its national training and support offer.  

About Goldsmiths  

Goldsmiths, University of London is renowned for its research and teaching, celebrated both nationally and internationally as a vibrant hub for creativity, arts, and culture.  

Over its long history, Goldsmiths has trained artists, creatives, and educators, shaping the arts and cultural landscape with its distinctive approach. Its staff, students and graduates are deeply engrained in arts and cultural life; and whether as household names in the arts, classroom teachers, cultural and community leaders, their contributions make a difference.   

Goldsmiths’ expertise and experience in creative pedagogy and cultural placemaking will drive Artsmark’s support and training forward at a national level, and support Arts Council England’s ambition to ensure that all children and young people have access to arts and cultural education across the country.  

Richard Russell, Chief Operating Officer of Arts Council England said: 

The Arts Council is here to help every child experience creativity where they live, go to school, and choose to spend their free time. As part of our 10-year strategy, Let’s Create, the Arts Council has reconfigured how Artsmark’s support is provided, aiming to establish a cohesive, national offer for schools, building on the success of previous regional delivery partners. I’m delighted to welcome Goldsmiths to the Artsmark community and look forward to seeing how their understanding of both the educational and cultural landscapes will impact schools at all stages of their Artsmark journey.” 

Professor Frances Corner OBE, Warden of Goldsmiths, said:

We are delighted to be supporting the delivery of the Artsmark programme, bringing our distinctive expertise in the arts, culture and education to help engender a diverse, distinctive and inspiring arts and cultural education across England. This is timely and vital work in a context of economic uncertainty and evidenced inequalities in England’s cultural education landscape, and we are proud of the opportunity to make a difference, inspire ambition, and contribute to social mobility in and through the arts and culture. We can’t wait to begin this important work with Arts Council England, and the thousands of dedicated teachers, pupils and schools throughout England.” 

To find out more about this exciting new chapter, read the FAQs here.