The Jerwood Foundation’s ethos has emphasized education in its widest sense from its beginning. Creating a vibrant and well-used resource for the local community is an important part of the vision for the new Jerwood Gallery. The building will include a large and well-equipped education space that will act as the base for a range of community and education activities, both bringing the local community into the gallery for activities and learning, and also taking the benefits of the gallery out to local schools, colleges and community groups.
Jerwood intends to collaborate with local organisations, ensuring that they are welcomed into the gallery and that their expertise and connections are not duplicated or replaced, but are used, enlarged and built upon. There will be strong links with the other outreach and education activities that will be taking place on the Stade, in the new community facilities to be built on the other side of the new public space, and on the public space itself. Within the gallery, expect to find activities for all age groups, artist talks and lectures, even film screenings, musical events and poetry readings. School groups will be welcomed and will be able to use the education space as the base for their visit.
Hastings, UK
