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Installation view of the Young Artists’ Summer Show 2021, Royal Academy of Arts, London

RA Exhibitions

8 months ago

“Many of your students will become better artists than you”: an art teacher on what her pupils have taught her

As we prepare to open this year’s Young Artists’ Summer Show, we asked schoolteacher Stephanie Cubbin what her art students have taught her about taking risks, sharing, and independence.
Paul Winstanley, Art School 35 (detail)

Opinion

< 7 years ago

Watch these spaces: the future of art schools

As Britain’s art schools experience an era of radical change, what do students stand to gain and lose? Anna Coatman explores the past, present and future of art education.
Paints in an RA Schools studio

Inside the Academy

7 years ago

New rules and new tools: life at the RA Schools

At the RA Schools, post-graduate students have three years to develop their ideas and work. Here second-year students reveal how the course is changing their art, as they prepare their first group show at the RA, Premiums: Interim Projects.