Join artist Jacob V Joyce for an evening of conversation and creative exercises in this Continued Professional Development and Learning (CPDL) event for teachers.
Led by artist Jacob V Joyce, this CPDL evening invites teachers to explore how our bodies can guide engagement with contemporary art— and how these approaches can be applied in the visual art classroom. Taking place within Arpita Singh: Remembering, the session will explore ways into and synergies with Singh’s work, offering adaptable strategies for your teaching practice.
Jacob V Joyce’s practice spans afro-futurist world-building workshops, mural painting, comic books, and performance art. In this workshop, Joyce focuses on locating emotional, playful and sensory connections with contemporary art, using the body as a guide to developing anti-racist teaching methods.
Remembering is the first solo institutional exhibition of Arpita Singh outside India. Singh’s work draws from Bengali folk art and Indian storytelling, blending emotional and psychological insights with reflections on social upheaval and global conflict.
Designed for primary, secondary and alternative provision teachers at any stage of their career, this session offers time and space to reflect, connect and explore creative approaches to teaching. The workshop will focus on accessible and age-appropriate ways of engaging with Singh’s vivid visual language and storytelling.
Through the Teachers’ Study Evening we invite you to:
- Develop creative ideas and practices for your classroom in dialogue with contemporary art.
- Discover tools and strategies to support anti-racist and anti-ableist teaching.
- Explore how contemporary art can support and enhance teacher and student wellbeing.
- Meet a community of educators and reflect on teaching practices together.
Refreshments will be provided by Friends of Ours. To book a free ticket, please email [email protected].
This session is taking place at Serpentine North and the Magazine restaurant. There is step-free access to both buildings and an accessible toilet. You can find more information and a visual story here.
Childcare and travel bursaries are available. BSL interpreters are available on request. Please email [email protected] to book these options or discuss other access requirements.
Artist Biography
Jacob V Joyce is an artist, researcher and educator from South London. Their work is community focussed ranging from mural painting, illustration, workshops, poetry and punk music with their band Screaming Toenail. Joyce has illustrated international human rights campaigns for Amnesty International and Global justice Now, had their comics published in national newspapers and self published a number of DIY zines. Their work with OPAL (Out Proud African LGBTI) has gone viral across the African Continent and increased the visibility of activists fighting the legacies of colonially instated homophobic legislation.
Joyce was recently awarded a Support Structures Fellowship from Serpentine and a Westminster PhD research scholarship at C.R.E.A.M, (Centre for Research and Education in Art Media.) Previous recognitions include a collaborative residency at Serpentine Galleries Education Department with Rudy Loewe 2020, TFL (Transport For London) Public Arts Grant 2019, Artist Participation Residency at Gasworks London/East Yard Trinidad Tobago 2019, Tate Galleries Education Department Residency 2019, Nottingham Contemporary Community Artist Residency 2017.
Joyce is a non-binary artist amplifying historical and nourishing new queer and anti-colonial narratives.
Curated by Alex Thorp, Education Curator and Jemma Egan, Assistant Education Curator
Produced by Isobel Peyton Jones
