Discover! Creative Careers Week

18th November 2024

bedminster-down-67

Making the Future: Bedminster Down School in Bristol by Judith Parkyn Photography

It’s Discover! Creative Careers Week and we’re celebrating the many possible routes into craft through a series of events. Craft careers can take a variety of forms — our 800-strong Alumni family is a testament to that — with puppeteers, embroiderers, stonemasons, thatchers, to name just a few of the 130 craft disciplines we’ve funded since our founding.


Craft Careers with Novus

Working with Novus, who have more than 20 years’ experience in prison education, we will be introducing young people at HMYOI Wetherby to the career journeys of Robert Walker (pictured), QEST Scholar and Signwriter, and Chris Cockburn from K L Langton Decorative Plasterwork. With hands on activities and demonstrations we will show how the young people’s current curriculum choices could lead to interesting and fulfilling careers in the craft sector.  

Making the Future: Crafts in STEAM

Together with Education & Employers, we’re kicking off Making the Future for this school year with an online session on Crafts in STEAM, celebrating the intersection of creativity and innovation.

QEST Scholars Lulu Harrison, Zena Holloway (pictured) and Jonathan Wright share their fascinating career journeys.

Making the Future: Live at Ark Kings Academy Birmingham

Over 100 students will have the chance to meet with QEST Alumni in an interactive event. We will showcase a wide range of career opportunities in craft and conservation, giving young people the opportunity to hear directly from professionals about their experiences and career journeys. Makers include Ben Hudson (pictured), Christopher Hanson, Lilly Deeming, Anna Lorenz, Adam Greenwell, Ana Del Rio Mullarkey and Lizzie Jarvis.

National Saturday Club

Young people from Craft&Making Clubs will visit cultural institutions in London and Manchester and see their self-portraits exhibited for the first time! QEST have partnered with NSC to give 13–16-year-olds the opportunity to try their hand at a wide variety of crafts, including jewellery making, printmaking, woodworking, embroidery, bookbinding and glassblowing, and to meet professionals to find out about careers in the craft and manufacturing sectors. The Craft&Making Clubs are generously supported by Howdens.

We encourage you to share your story or tell the story of a craftsperson you admire — who knows which future maker you might inspire!

Read more about and get involved in our Crafting Tomorrow programmes here.

Subscribe to our Newsletter

We don't share your details with third parties. Please check our privacy policy.

Subscribe to our Newsletter

We don't share your details with third parties. Please check our privacy policy.