In the case of the 2013 Summer School that the Tate Schools and Teachers Team commissioned Offeh to curate, the ‘Response’ of Offeh’s ‘Call and Response’ methodology resonated with the Tate Schools and Teachers Team long after Offeh’s work on the project had concluded. Offeh’s project became a catalyst for a series of changes which the Schools and Teachers Team at Tate put in place to attract more diverse candidates to join their team, to attract more diverse teachers to the Schools and Teachers programme, and to find ways of supporting and exploring difficult conversations about race and cultural difference in the gallery and the classroom. The Tate Schools and Teacher’s team instigated new research, created a new Audience Action Plan, and made changes to how they recruited workshop artists; finding new innovative strategies for recruitment which would ensure more diversity amongst the workshop artists they worked with. Reflecting on the impact that Offeh’s curation of the 2013 Summer School had on the Tate’s Schools and Teachers Team’s thinking and practice, Leanne Turvey, Schools and Teachers Programme Curator, reflected, ‘‘it really has transformed our team practice, from recruitment of staff, to how we programme, who we work with, how we can diversify what artists we share, which artists we work with … he did have a real impact.’
Offeh continues to make work using a ‘Call and Response’ approach to participatory arts practice, and the significance of his work was recognised in 2019 when Offeh was awarded the £60,000 Paul Hamlyn Visual Arts Award.