Education at the Bow Arts Trust offers an innovative programme of workshops, projects, residencies, training courses and events. These are delivered by professional, practising artists who are committed to developing creativity, artistic skills and imagination across a spectrum of different disciplines . These include all areas of visual practice and performance - poetry, storytelling, dance and music.

The programme serves a wide range of audiences by providing long term, high quality arts education experiences. Currently we work with 50 schools and community groups through a combination of outreach work and work that takes place in the gallery and studios.

The ethos of the education programme is concerned with helping people to recognise creativity across a wide range of subject areas and work disciplines and to value its impact on the learning process. As primarily a visual arts organisation we also focus on bridging the gap between classroom art activity and contemporary visual art as seen in galleries. Our schools programmes support and enrich classroom practice by providing opportunities for young people to experiment with new skills and materials alongside developing their knowledge and understanding of contemporary art practice.