Current projects
ACAVA has developed and delivered innovative educational and community projects since the 1970s. In 1984 it was registered as an educational charity to enable artists to engage their creativity and skills for the benefit of people of all ages, and within the statutory system, community groups and those drawn together at ACAVA studios.
Projects aim to promote individual expression and the recogition of and respect for cultural diversity, to develop visual skills in relation to curricula and beyond, and to provide work experience.

Young Artists Programme
ACAVA’s Young Artists Programme is a weekly term-time programme for 7 to 11 years old in North Kensington delivered over the course of the school year. Each term, a small cohort of young people co-create with a visiting professional artist and...

Resilience in Motion
In partnership with Grenfell Health and Wellbeing Service, ACAVA are delivering ‘Resilience in Motion’, a six-week stop motion animation project for families in North Kensington. The programme aims to address, through storytelling, the difficulties...

KAA Visiting Artists Programme
The Visiting Artists Programme at Kensington Aldridge Academy launched in 2017, at a time when the Academy was temporarily re-located as a consequence of the Grenfell Tower fire. The programme introduces students to professional artists through...