Assunta and Lou Art Club
Assunta and Lou’s After School Art Club is a mobile, intergenerational art project developed by artist Assunta Ruocco in collaboration with her daughter Lou. The project emerged from their ongoing collaborative practice and from Lou’s desire to share the ways they make work together with other children and families.
Centred around a transportable quilted print studio, the Art Club creates open-ended spaces for making, intergenerational collaboration and experimentation in libraries, community centres and art spaces. Children and adults are invited to explore drawing, digital print and collaborative installation through methods developed within Assunta and Lou’s shared studio practice. Sessions prioritise process, play and collective attention, allowing participants to work at their own pace and to shape the activity together.
The project reflects Ruocco’s wider research into care, access and artist–parent working conditions, and responds to the limited visibility of collaborative, child-inclusive artistic practice within cultural institutions. Since 2024, Assunta and Lou’s After School Art Club has been delivered through workshops, exhibitions and research activity across the UK, and was supported by Arts Council England through a Developing Your Creative Practice grant in 2025.
For updates and upcoming workshops, visit assuntaandlouafterschoolartclub.org.