Jo has developed and co-ordinated arts and creative projects for 20 years, across a wide range of contexts including galleries, museums, hospitals and health settings, Dockland warehouses, cathedrals, bus shelters and a Wiltshire field.

As a freelance project coordinator she delivers the education and outreach programme for Rook Lane Arts Trust, Frome; for 2016 this is the Heritage Lottery funded project ‘Home of our Delight’ which explores the impact of the First World War on home life in Mells and surrounding villages in Somerset.

She has worked with individual schools and education clusters, Local Authorities, Acute and Mental Health teams, public art teams and developers, across Somerset, BANES and Gloucester.

Jo is also currently coordinating Generation ART: Young Artists on Tour; an ACE Strategic Touring funded project celebrating and inspiring visual arts and young people led by engage (the national association for gallery education) in partnership with Turner Contemporary, Margate, New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Soft Touch Arts and the Spark Arts for Children, Leicester, and Quay Arts on the Isle of Wight.

Jo is passionate about the power of the arts to encourage, support and inspire learning, for all ages, and is particularly interested in the crossover of this with what are traditionally seen as the non-creative STEM subjects of maths, technology, engineering and the sciences.

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