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Contribute to the consultation for Arts Council England’s Achieving great art for everyone.

Arts Council England have launched Achieving great art for everyone, a consultation paper designed to build on their work to define how they will work with artists and arts organisations to create positive change for the arts over the next decade.

According to ACE Chief Executive Alan Davey the consultation is intended to:

“outline how, over the next ten years, we will approach our mission of enabling great art to happen and great artists to make, develop and show their work; and how we will make sure as many people as possible can experience the challenge, provocation, understanding, insight and pleasure the arts can give.

However, this paper starts from the premise that none of this happens if the arts, if artists, are not able to follow pathways of discovery to take audiences to places they never knew existed – to show truths and insights rather than simply to say them. It also does not happen if there are physical, educational, attitudinal, economic barriers, or barriers of knowledge that prevent people from engaging with what the arts might offer them.”

ACE are asking for your thoughts on the way forward. Your views will inform their long-term strategic framework (to be published in late 2010) and their next set of investment decisions. The closing date for submissions is 14 April 2010.

To read more about Achieving great art for everyone and to register your comments visit www.artscouncil.org.uk/consultation/

First published: a-n.co.uk February 2010