ABSTRACT
The National Arts Education Archive (NAEA) at Yorkshire Sculpture Park might be seen as a significant continuation of Sir Alec Clegg’s work in recognising and promoting a central role for the arts in the school curriculum and in young people’s education. Internships, placements, personal research support, lectures and seminars are provided for student teachers and art students, and regular exhibitions attract an audience of visitors to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. A research facility with over a hundred catalogued collections, the NAEA documents the development of art education nationally and internationally from the Child Art Movement of the 1930s and 1940s onwards. An active advocate for the future of art education, the NAEA has an important role to play, especially at a time when art education is neglected by new educational policies in the United Kingdom.
