A one-day online conference exploring how artist-teachers create, negotiate, and sustain space for artistic practice, pedagogy, and research within adult community learning.
The conference will consider how space, physical, digital, temporal, and conceptual, is made, shared, and reimagined to support creative growth, inclusion, and professional identity.
Sub-themes:
Making Space for Practice: Exploring how artist-teachers sustain and integrate personal art-making within teaching contexts; balancing creativity, workload, and wellbeing.
Making Space for Pedagogy: Rethinking teaching approaches that foster learner autonomy, inclusivity, and experimentation in adult community learning.
Making Space for Research: Examining practitioner research, reflective inquiry, and arts-based methodologies as tools for professional growth and sector development.
Making Space for Communities: Considering how artist-teachers co-create spaces of belonging and collaboration through socially engaged and community-based practices.
Making Space for Change: Investigating how artist-teachers respond to policy shifts, digital transformation, and social challenges, shaping resilient and responsive learning environments.
This conference welcomes contributions from artist-teachers working in adult and community learning spaces, at all stages of their careers. The conference accepts contributions in several forms including, but not limited to paper presentations, poster presentations, workshops, and arts-based research.
Submit your abstract here
Register here
Standard ticket: £10
What is included in your ticket?
· Access to the full day conference programme including keynotes and creative workshop
· Access to keynote and workshop recordings
· Join a network of like-minded Artist Teachers working in adult community learning
· Plus a 20% discount pass for any NSEAD e-learning course
NSEAD is a membership organisation, trade union and subject association working to support and protect art educators across the UK. This means we rely on donations, fundraising and subscriptions to do our work.
To ensure this event is accessible for all, we are pleased to offer a number of complimentary tickets. To request a complimentary tickets please email [javascript protected email address]
No matter what your budget, we are delighted you’re joining us at this event and look forward to welcoming you soon.
Key Dates:
| Abstracts open | 18-Nov |
| Abstract deadline | 23-Jan |
| Registration closes | 18-Mar |
| Conference | 21-Mar |