MADE has successfully applied to Arts Award to become a Welcome Organisation

MADE is the only Welcome Organisation in the region that focuses on architecture and the built environment, and offers creative development as part of Arts Award. 

Arts Award aspires to support any young person to enjoy the arts and develop creative leadership skills and is offered at levels 1, 2 and 3 on the Qualifications and Credit Framework.

Jane Puzey, Head of Cultural Programmes at MADE said: “We are able to offer advice, support and creative development for young people interested in a variety of creative careers such as architecture, public art, landscape design, and interior design.”

As a Welcome Organisation MADE’s priorities will be:

Meeting arts professionals
MADE events attract a wide audience of local authority officers, architects, designers, artists and other built environment professionals. As a Welcome Organisation, we will capitalise on events such as ‘GET LOST! Identity and Wayfinding in Schools’, part of the Learning Spaces Living Places 2 programme of artists working with architects and offer free places at most of these events to young people.

We facilitate access to the diverse and extensive network of professionals who work with us and who are able to work with young people either via placements or to offer professional advice. We can broker support from further and higher education, to provide advice and support to young people interested in a career in the built environment, offering advice on routes into design careers.

Showcasing young people’s work
Our new event and exhibition space places us in a new city-centre location and enables us to have a space to showcase activities. The new space is multi-functional and can be used for public events, workshops and other learning activities, exhibition and performance. Young people will be encouraged and supported to demonstrate their arts leadership in using this space for their own Arts Award activities http://bit.ly/gRwXut

Volunteering and work placement
MADE has successful ongoing programmes of work experience; for instance, engaging students aged 14-19 in our urban design summer school in 2010 http://bit.ly/gkYQeZ. We have also set up a small design studio with recent graduates who worked on two real-life design projects with the local authorities in Birmingham and Kidderminster.

Leadership and apprenticeship
MADE will offer opportunities to young people that develop their potential as arts leaders, through placements, apprenticeships, and to support a range of cultural and marketing activities. We can offer opportunities for arts leadership in curatorial projects, event management, model-making, landscape design and arts projects using the built environment as a resource.

If you are a young person working on (or thinking of starting) your Bronze, Silver or Gold Arts Award, an Arts Award Adviser needing support, or if you would like to discuss how MADE can develop a specific Arts Award programme – contact Anthony Ruck on 0121 363 0064 or email anthony@made.org.uk