About our mission

By the community, for the community

All Access Arts is an online social platform tailor-made for the arts and humanities.

In our view, accessibility in this day and age is about beyond the traditional methods of the study and consumption of the arts and humanities and prioritise open conversations, sharing narratives and embracing perspectives. It should also welcome the innovations of the digital world and its ability to engage people with the world around them.

In simple terms, All Access Arts encourages the arts and humanities community to come together to share knowledge, through its social functionality and educational platform.

Our Values

Inclusive

Innovation

Collaboration

Authentic

Affordable

Inclusive

Innovation

Collaboration

Authentic

Affordable

Our History

In July 2020, against the backdrop of graduating University, Covid-19 and the Black Lives Matter movement, We developed and founded an ambitious project called Art Attaché to address significant social inequities in the art industry and recognised the potential to address these problems through an educational lens.

Our Founder, Ravi Shah, created Art Attaché after completing his History of Art Degree and graduating from the University of Warwick. During his three years, he began to realise the inherent elitism that revolves around the art industry and that access to it is limited and is based around who you know. He believed that Art Attaché would be a solution to this problem. Providing a designated social network for the arts, students, artists and industry professionals is connected with ease.

During its development, he saw the opportunity to tackle social and cultural issues plaguing the arts sector by establishing it as a Global Platform to promote diversity and inclusivity through social learning.

2020 was a challenging year for us all and significantly highlighted the problems with the traditional education system, and the type of content we learn. Whilst the focus was always to address these issues within the art industry, it becomes apparent that our mission is synonymous across the arts and humanities. In January 2021, we decided to completely rebrand, refresh and address all the arts and humanities head-on, to create an inclusive platform that is the first of its kind.

As our community grew, so did our team and with that came new ideas and fresh perspective and a call for expansion. In January 2021, we set out our revised direction, cementing our purpose and identity to set the future course.

All Access Arts represents our vision for the future and builds upon the ethos and values of Art Attaché.

Our long term mission has always been to be a universal online platform for all areas of the arts and humanities. With our new name, redesigned platform and expanded team, we have the opportunity to thrive as the first-ever, dedicated arts and humanities social learning platform.

We are continually improving, evolving and perfecting. Our story has only just begun, and the future is promising and exciting.

Thank you for all the support and love so far, the best is yet to come!

Our Managing Team

Ravi founded All Access Arts (Formerly Art Attaché) in July 2020 as a response to growing demands for change within the Art Industry. He saw a the potential for a truly digital art centre – one that was inherently global. He Graduated History of Art from the University of Warwick and has a profound interest in Inuit Art and Postcolonial Art Theory. He hopes to leave his mark on the arts sector.

Giuliana is currently finishing her undergraduate degree in Art History and Arts Management at Carleton University. Her studies have focused on topics in Italian Renaissance art. She is also interested in Postcolonial Theory and marketing of Arts and Culture in an increasingly globalised and interconnected world. She hopes her involvement with All Access Arts can contribute to inclusivity in art.

Jade is a final year student at the University of Warwick studying History of Art. In 2016 she started studying History of Art at A-Level at one of just two state schools that offer the course. With All Access Arts, Jade wants to support students throughout their education of History of Art. In doing this, she aims to make the subject more accessible and appealing to students and schools across the UK. Her own academic interest is focused on Indian artists from the 18th Century.

Kafayat is an Art Law master’s student with a background in the History of Art at the University of York. Her interests surround eighteenth and nineteenth-century English art as well as contemporary African art. For her undergraduate dissertation, she focused on the representation of people of colour in western portraiture and the decolonization of the art historical canon. She joined All Access Arts to further the discussion with other scholars and researchers to increase the accessibility of diverse histories within the art world.

Lou recently graduated from the University of Warwick studying History of Art. She is interested in the Italian Renaissance, 19th-century French paintings, and passionate about Orientalism and its intricacies. She joined All Access Arts to be part of a team of intelligent, interesting and like-minded people. Having written her Undergraduate dissertation on the imperialist and colonialist motives behind Harem and Odalisque paintings, she is particularly interested in creating an Arts culture that is diverse and accessible.

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