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Ideas Foundation: eyes wide open

The Ideas Foundation provides opportunities for students in less advantaged schools across the UK to build creative and cultural capital through workshops and excursions. Their mission? To nourish a new creative generation.
6 Dec 2024 Heather MacRae
A wooden footbridge spans across a small, grassy ditch in a moorland landscape. Brown ferns and tufts of grass surround the bridge. Rolling hills are visible under a cloudy, dark sky in the background.
Feature

Loyd Grossman: secret sauce

New RSA Chair Loyd Grossman talks music, art and societal change, and why he thinks the work and mission of the RSA is more important now than ever.
6 Dec 2024 Nicholas Wroe
Man in a suit and tie stands against a colorful abstract background with shades of pink, blue, green, and black, set within an orange frame.
Lead Feature

VNCCII: Cosmic communities

What can VNCCII, the fictional intergalactic superheroine alter ego of Samantha Tauber, teach us about the creative communities that need nourishing today?
6 Dec 2024 Samantha Tauber
A futuristic humanoid figure with pink hair sits in a white, circular space pod, gazing out of a round window at Earth against a starry black background. The pod features sleek, minimalist design elements.
report

Creative Corridors: connecting clusters to unleash potential

This RSA report offers creative corridors as a mechanism for harnessing this growth. Our ambition is that creative corridors will stimulate economic growth by increasing linkages.
24 Oct 2024 Jolyon Miles-Wilson, Hayley Sims, Tom Stratton, Bernard Hay, Emily Hopkins
Abstract image with overlapping geometric shapes in red, orange, purple, and green on a black background. Symbols such as a light bulb, book, and gear are faintly visible within the shapes.
Press release

Landmark new report to unleash potential of UK as a creative superpower

The RSA, Arts Council England and the Creative PEC have launched a new report setting out a bold vision for the UK’s creative industries unlocking tens of billions of pounds in economic potential and cementing the UK’s reputation as a creative superpower.
24 Oct 2024
Five people seated on a stage, engaged in a panel discussion. There is a screen behind them displaying names and titles. The group consists of two men and three women, with microphones and glasses of water on the table.
Arts In The Spotlight

Performance without walls

Without Walls is a network of outdoor arts organisations across England helping artists and festivals meet their environmental and creative goals.
24 Sep 2024
A person wearing a fur hat with virtual reality goggles stands outdoors, holding a skull decorated with two horns. They are partially covered in dried grass and surrounded by branches. The background is dark, contrasting with the subject's attire.
Feature

Counting breaths

Environmental artist Andrea Polli creates artwork that gives stunning form to the air we breathe, the sounds we hear and the air that surrounds us all.
18 Sep 2024 Andrea Polli
A person walks a dog on a pathway lit by blue and green neon lights. The scene is at night, with a railing on one side and a partially visible globe map as the background design.
Feature

Now NATURE is officially an artist

The Sounds Right initiative is supporting conservation and restoration projects through royalties from artists who use the sounds from the natural world in their work.
18 Sep 2024 Gabriel Smales
A green globe with plants and a checkmark sits above the words "Nature: Officially an Artist" on a bright green background. A similar design with a yellow globe appears below, both on a world map backdrop. Text includes "Sounds Right" and "Museum for the United Nations UN Live.