Education
LPW runs an extensive education programme which positions participation, engagement and learning at the heart of LPW and promotes skills development, collaborative and collective making, community wellbeing, and the development of long standing valued local partnerships through printmaking. We can bring our presses, inks and artist printmakers into various community settings including schools, street festivals, libraries, community centres, youth groups, elderly care settings and religious institutions, and can also offer inhouse bespoke courses or tuition for individuals and groups.
Working closely with families, schools and teachers, young people and neighbouring communities and initiatives, we offer artist-led workshops, drop-in activities, and tuition inside and outside our venue.
Schools & Colleges
Our schools programme is open to schools and colleges across all key stages, as well as early years settings. We work with schools to design something suitable for your pupils and curriculums, whether that’s turning the classroom into a print workshop, a specific artist-led project or providing expertise and kit for a specific technique you don’t have the facilities to experiment with. We’re open to all sorts of collaborations so please get in touch with us.
One to one tuition
If you’d like dedicated tuition from one of our lovely team of expert artist printmakers, we can arrange one to one tuition for a specific technique, technical experiment or anything you’d like to learn.
Professional development for teachers, educators & technicians
We can provide specialist training in a range of printmaking processes to support your curriculums at all Key Stages of Art & Design. We can help design activities appropriate for a wide range of equipment you may or may not have, which will support you to develop activities for students to experiment, develop ideas, generate material and to understand how to manipulate materials through printmaking.
Children & families
LPW runs a rich and exciting programme of printmaking activities for children and families. Free drop-in, artist-led workshops take place on the second Saturday of every month as part of Cultural Quarter Earlies and are open to all. They provide an engaging, fun and informal space for families to explore printmaking together. Cultural Quarter Earlies is a series of free family activities in the Cultural Quarter, taking place on the second Saturday of every month.
Community
We value collaborative thinking and action to learn from our many different local cultures. LPW builds sustained relationships with local community organisations through participatory art and research projects to create productive partnerships.
Cultural Collabs
LPW shares resources, knowledges and skills to strengthen the cultural ecology of Leicester and we advocate for the vital role of contemporary visual art and cultural institutions in the development of our city. We’re open to any and every collaboration with cultural partners, just get in touch!