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?
Valley Kids
2 ‒ 12 April 2025
Rhondda Cynon Taff
Art Road Trip is now working across Rhondda Cynon Taff as we partner with Valleys Kids who work with people of all ages across the area. Over the next two weeks, we are excited to collaborate with local communities, schools and art groups through a series of creative workshops and community events. We will celebrate the beautiful landscape of the Rhondda Valley and make personal connections with paintings, specifically landscapes, in the National Gallery’s Collection.
Valleys Kids work closely with their communities to support children, young people, families and adults. We will be holding two community events, one at Penyrenglyn Community and Family Hub on Saturday 5 April, and another at SOAR, Penygraig Community and Family Hub on Saturday 12 April. We are delighted to be collaborating with Artist in Service for Rhondda Cynon Taff, Rhys Slade Jones and Valleys Kids Artist in Residence Anne Culverhouse Evans to co-produce these events which are open for everyone. We will also be running workshops during the week with Anne’s art groups, exploring floriography in the National Gallery’s collection through Gelli printing and pigment workshops.
We will work with seven Primary Schools across the area, delivering Take One Picture, our national programme for Primary Schools, which aims to inspire a lifelong love of art and learning.
Valleys Kids have been in operation for over forty-five years and have remained a consistent point of support and encouragement. Their work is driven by the belief that everyone has the right to lead a fulfilling life; that opportunities to experience and learn new things, with the support of strong families and communities, are the most powerful means of enabling people of all ages to realise their potential and live safe and happy lives. They aim to foster lasting connections, enhance skills, and inspire a sense of belonging within the community. For more information on the work of Valleys Kids, visit their website here.
