Participate has been an Arts Award Centre, with advisors for Discover, Explore, Bronze and Silver Awards.

We have run 2 successful Summer Art School’s for up to 15 young people from several different educational backgrounds including home educated children.

These Art Schools offered a wide range of visual arts activity from printmaking to sculpture and model making through engagement with our Studio Artists and our network of collaborating Artist Studios, Museums and Galleries.

Alongside these practical activities participants worked with guest curators who helped them to explore ideas of curation through Participate Contemporary Artspace’s summer open exhibition.

From 2020 responding to the Covid 19 Pandemic we continue to offer Discover At Home, a fully online Arts Award programme.