Thirty secondary school pupils from around twenty schools across the country were selected to take part in this programme, created in 2007 by the Culture & Diversity Foundation to help them prepare for entrance exams to art and design schools.
During this first week-long course at the School, the artistic practice workshops invited participants to develop a piece based on a work from Beaux-Arts de Paris collections. Each studio head involved developed a specific proposal related to this work, combining an original approach with reflections informed by art history.