Studios. Creativity. Community.
Who we are
We have been running artist studios and pioneering community arts programmes for 50 years.
Latest news
A Flourish Manifesto: valuing what we do and why we do it
Flourish is ACAVA’s free family art programme launched days before the Grenfell Tower Fire and has since been defined by that event. Seven years later, our colleagues Lisa Nash (Curator, Social Practice) and Isabella Niven (Head of Social Practice) sit down to reflect on the core Flourish values of Authenticity, Discovery, Exploration, Play and Wellbeing and wrote a Flourish manifesto.
We run free programmes co-created with communities
Programmes
Grenfell Memorial Community Mosaic
Co-created by different community, resident, faith and school groups along with individual participants under the guidance of mosaic artists Emily Fuller and Tomomi Yoshida, the project has enabled people to connect and to memorialise the Grenfell Tower fire
We provide studios for over 400 creative practitioners
Join our creative community at one of 15 studios in London, Essex and Stoke-on-Trent