We’re taking art and creativity on the road, across the UK.
From May 2024 to May 2025, our travelling art studio programme, Art Road Trip, is visiting 18 places across the UK.
We’re going to be working with 24 local arts organisations to create community-led arts projects. In each location, we’re designing events for people with the least access to creative opportunities and the arts.
Over the year, our mobile art studio will host around two hundred public events and work with thousands of people to bring art and ideas inspired by the National Gallery Collection right to where they live.
Where is the Art Road Trip now?
Creative Black Country
19 ‒ 30 March 2025
Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton
Art Road Trip is now working across Walsall and Wolverhampton as we partner with Creative Black Country. Over the next two weeks, we’re excited to collaborate with local communities, schools, and colleges through a series of creative workshops designed to foster connection in developing communities and enhance well-being.
Partnering with Creative Black Country allows us to focus on bringing creative experiences to residents in social housing, with a special emphasis on those living in older people's schemes and the surrounding community. These workshops aim to build creative confidence, reduce isolation, and improve mental well-being. By engaging with the National Gallery collection participants will draw inspiration from the Gallery’s collection and their local environment, exploring how art can reflect and reinterpret everyday life.
This partnership leverages CBC’s extensive network and expertise in arts delivery, ensuring meaningful experiences for all involved. Through activities like Gelli printing, collage, and discussions on the emotional and therapeutic aspects of the colour blue in art, participants will use paintings from the collection as a starting point and discover new avenues for self-expression and creativity.
With local residence and community groups, Art Road Trip and CBC will explore the transformative power of art in everyday settings. Together, we aim to foster lasting connections, enhance skills, and inspire a sense of belonging within the community. CBC work with communities in Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton to explore and develop new creative projects with local people in the places where they live. CBC has been working with local communities in the Black Country since 2014 and has a strong network of strategic partners in the public, private and voluntary sectors, including a huge number of community groups, arts organisations, artists and creatives across the region. To learn more about Creative Black Country visit their website here.
