The new NSEAD Awards formally recognise and celebrate NSEAD members' amazing work, happening all over the UK.

The awards will identify and raise the profile of exemplary individuals, schools and learning teams who have championed our subject, pushed boundaries, empowered change and shown innovation within the sector.

Deadline for Nominations: April 22 2024

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Let's raise the profile of our community, our subject and its learners, together.

 

Award Categories

Presidents Award for exemplary practice

This award is for an individual, department or learning team that displays exemplary practice and a commitment to leadership in art, craft and design education. The successful nominee will demonstrate that they have made a difference to students, colleagues,…

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The Big Landscape Award for innovative curriculum design

This award is for an individual, department or learning team that represents exemplary practice and a commitment to leadership in art, craft and design education. The successful nominee will demonstrate practice that challenges orthodoxy with a confident,…

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Patron's Empowering Change Award

This award is for an individual, department or learning team who, through their work and projects, displays a clear intentional commitment over an extended period to empowering change. The successful nominee will demonstrate practice that makes a clear…

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Learning Innovations Award

This award is for an individual, department or learning team who is working in innovative ways in and beyond the classroom/studio. The successful nominee will demonstrate original and creative approaches to teaching and learning.

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Rising Star Award

The awards are open to all NSEAD members early in their careers.

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Meet the judges

Frances Akinde

Frances has been a qualified Art teacher for 20 years, working across a variety of settings/phases including primary, secondary, alternative, and special education.

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Mia Bano

Mia Bano is a primary class teacher and the art, craft and design lead at Arden Primary School in Birmingham. Being an advocate for the arts, she passionately shares her implementation of curating a powerful art, craft and design curriculum with her…

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Kevin Dalton-Johnson

Kevin is a Black professional artist, teacher and academic driven by an incredible passion for self-expression and decolonisation through art. His many artworks are often noted for their unique powerful style and technique. He has developed an innovative…

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Dr Sook-Kyung Lee

Dr Sook-Kyung Lee is Director of the Whitworth, The University of Manchester, UK. She was Artistic Director of the 14th Gwangju Biennale (2023), titled soft and weak like water, which explored themes of resistance, indigeneity, decoloniality and ecology.

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Bob and Roberta Smith

Who are Bob and Roberta Smith? Bob and Roberta Smith is the name of the British artist whose best known works include: ~ Make Art Not War, which belongs to the Tate collection; and Letter to Michael Gove.

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Marlene Wylie

Marlene Wylie is President of NSEAD and a creative education consultant. Having trained originally as a textiles designer she has taught art, craft and design in inner and outer London multicultural primary and secondary schools for over 20 years.

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Andria Zafirakou

Andria Zafirakou is a Vice Principal in the Swiss Cottage School Research and Development Centre.  Her specialist subjects are arts and textiles and for the last nineteen years has worked in some of the most marginalised communities in London.

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FAQs

This page includes frequently asked questions about the awards including key dates and links to the entry kit

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Prizes for NSEAD Awards 2024

We are delighted to offer this selection of prizes for art educators recognised by the NSEAD Awards.

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