I make things in schools, you can too (emf2026)

If you remember me from "I gave up investment banking to become a digital artist", you'll know that I've spent the last 17 years being an artist. Over that time I've worked in a lot of schools doing making activities: concrete relief casting in a nursery, constructing willow Fibonacci towers with secondary maths students, designing paper mushrooms in a primary, writing haiku about water, organising giant multi-school lantern parades. My experience is that young people are increasingly struggling with the confidence and basic skills to make. Primary schools are becoming art-free zones, with limited resources and teachers struggling with their own confidence. It sounds bleak, but the exciting news is that you can make a huge difference in a young person's life by getting involved. I'm going to talk about what's going wrong and how we all might fix it. Licensed to the public under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ about this event: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2026/280-i-make-things-in-schools-you-can-too