Welcome to the Power Drawing Newsletter – from the professional development programme of the Campaign for Drawing.

Specialist Schools and Academies Trust Conference
Eileen’s presentation Drawing: It Makes You Think! at the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust Conference at Kenilworth in January prompted senior managers and teachers to consider how drawing can support learning in a range of subjects across the secondary school curriculum.

Power Drawing courses
Courses at Four Dwellings School, Birmingham, Ninelands Primary School, Leeds, St Mary’s Primary School, Great Dunmow and Frances Bardsley School, Romford focused on drawing across the curriculum. Museum and gallery educators, teachers and community workers discovered drawing techniques for interpretation and expression at Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens. At Urban Vision in Stoke-on-Trent artists, designers, teachers and community workers explored drawing as a tool for design.

Drawing: A Tool for Design workshops
We are pleased to be working in partnership with the Architecture Centre Network to deliver free workshops, supported by the Happold Trust, exploring the role of drawing and creativity in design and construction, and its place in built environment education. Workshop dates: 13 and 25 May. Find out about Power Drawing courses.

Creativity, Culture and Education
The government’s Creativity, Culture and Education initiative has invited Power Drawing to deliver courses for teachers and artists in ten areas in England as part of its Find Your Talent project, which offers children and young people involvement with arts and culture. Starting in May, courses will run over nine months and their basis will be the recently published: Power Drawing: Active Learning and its sequel: Drawing: It Makes you Think. To find out more and to book a place, email emma@campaignfordrawing.org

Take a look at our publications
Active Learning looks at a programme involving 15 schools and shows how drawing can be used across the primary curriculum; sponsored by ArtForms Leeds and CCE. Drawing: A Tool for Design explains how engineers, architects and landscape architects use drawing; funded by Arup Foundation. To find out more and order, visit Power Drawing publications on the Campaign for Drawing website.