Gallery educators work in a variety of ways, for example as:

• creative catalysts - working with artists, curators, and the community to create new projects to help people work with practising artists
• audience champions - representing schools' and communities' needs and expectations in the gallery or museum
• access and education experts - understanding and planning for the needs of different users, including different learning styles and cross-curricular opportunities
• advocates and project managers - promoting and delivering projects and programmes

Gallery education includes:

• unlocking creativity - stimulating people to explore their own creative potential, to make art themselves, and to pursue careers in the creative industries
• cultural empowerment - building people's confidence with and understanding of artists, galleries, arts centres, art museums.

Gallery education can:

• give young people the chance to re-engage with art and culture
• enable people to meet live artists and develop careers in the arts
• reach out to community groups to build renewed contact with culture