Free Young People’s Workshops (16-18)

Are you aged 16-18 and passionate about art, architecture, art history and visual culture? Join the Courtauld’s Young People’s Programme and take part in our free workshops!

You will collaborate with artists, curators, art historians and other young people interested in the arts to explore world famous artworks in the Courtauld Gallery Collection, uncover new research, experiment with new materials and discuss different approaches to understanding and making art – as well as learning more about the diverse career paths available with art history.

These workshops are free and open to students attending UK state schools and colleges. Some workshops are online, others are in-person, please check before booking.

Booking is essential due to popular demand.

Insights Into Art History | Autumn Programme

Public Programmes, Young People

Women in Art: feminisms art histories (online)

5:30pm, 10 Dec 2024

How can art history help us to think through questions of gender, subjectivity and ideas about ‘greatness’? This free online workshop will explore modern and contemporary artworks in a variety of mediums and consider how feminist art history helps us...

Past events | Further reading and resources

painting of a woman bartender looking straight ahead

Young People

Reworking Manet

Join us as we explore Edouard Manet's world famous painting A Bar at the Folies-Bergere, to consider how radically the Impressionists captured their experiences of the city, and explore contemporary parallels to question what the city means to us tod...

Artist self-portrait wearing a blue hat and green coat with bandaged ear

Young People

Van Gogh | Exploring Self

What is a self-portrait? How do artists reveal their identity through self-portraiture? Join us online to celebrate our The Morgan Stanley Exhibition: Van Gogh. Self-Portraits...

Young People

Public Art | Who decides? 

10:00am, 9 Mar 2024

Art is all around us, and we are told that it is for 'us', but who decides what statues should commemorate, or which artworks are on display in art galleries....

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