National Arts Education Archive @ YSP

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Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Lawrence Batley Centre
West Bretton
Wakefield
England
WF4 4LG

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Telephone: 01924 830 690

Email: leonard.bartle@ysp.co.uk

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The Archive was established at Bretton Hall College in 1985, as a response to the perceived need for key collections of materials relating to developments in arts education to be brought together in one place and used in the development of teaching, learning and research

Housed in the purpose-built Lawrence Batley Centre that includes storage vaults, the Bramley Reading Room and NAEA Gallery, the Archive is both a repository and research centre with a full exhibition and education outreach and professional development programmes. The Archive is an integrated part of YSP programming. Its reach has been extended to develop work with teachers' groups, regional and national universities and a network of community organisations and art galleries. The Archive runs a number of continuing professional development and outreach activities suitable for individuals and groups

The Archive holds over a hundred individual and institutional collections (see link to list below) with a core focusing on revolutions in Child Art through the Barclay-Russell and Sir Alec Clegg collections, the Continuing Process through Basic Design and specialist collections from UK and elsewhere, including Learning through Drawing, the graphic designs of A.E. Halliwell and the work of Franz Cizek

  • A list of collections is available online
  • For a list of all collections contact Leonard Bartle

    • ARCHON code: 1400

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    Collections information

    Organisations (1)

    Persons (5)

    Paper catalogues available to view at The National Archives - (1)

    Accessions

    These are selected lists of new or additional collections that were acquired by this archive during a specific year. If a date is not displayed there are no accessions for that year.

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