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New Gallery partners for 'in'

Outside IN was the pilot phase for DASH’s wider visual arts programme ’in’. In 2012 to 2015 the DASH will be partnering with five galleries and commissioning five Disability Arts practitioners.

The new partners:

mac Birmingham


Today mac's programme concentrates on the contemporary, showcasing artists across the full range of arts practice: film, theatre, dance, literature, visual arts, music and comedy. mac retains a particularly strong reputation for work with and for children, families and young people, while continuing to welcome people of all ages and cultures to its diverse programme 363 days a year. There is also a strong emphasis on participation, with around 120 arts courses running for people of all ages and abilities each week.

“mac Birmingham are delighted to be part of the second phase of in, sharing the journey with DASH, other partner galleries and the along the way with the wider sector. We are keen to identify new artists or work differently with known artists, whilst equally taking a look inside the organisation to explore how we might develop our practice & approaches so that we more productively engage and support disabled artists and the potential audiences for their work.”

Amanda Roberts, Arts Development Director, mac Birmingham

 

The Herbert
Mission

To enable exploration of the collections we hold in trust, collecting, safeguarding and making them accessible.


To create and present work of quality, daring and accomplishment offering a diverse mix of entertainment, learning and aesthetic enjoyment.


To offer our buildings, collections , knowledge, skills & experience as a resource to our audiences, working in active partnership with business, education, community and arts organisations, and other service providers to maintain and extend the range and reach of our work.


To expand the services offered to existing & potential customers by developing the building as a venue.

The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry, is looking forwards to a major project with a disabled street artist. This will connect powerfully with our existing audience for Street Art, who revel in its political and radical content. The project will be a highlight of our creative programming over the year, as well as part of the wider impact of the in project.

 

We have already benefited from DASH's common sense and encouragement, and see this as a huge chance to learn more from them and improve how we serve and represent disabled people and Vermin (the artist's name).

 

Arnolfini

 

A Space for Ideas

In a fantastic waterside location at the heart of Bristol’s harbourside, Arnolfini is one of Europe’s leading centres for the contemporary arts, presenting innovative, experimental work in the visual arts, performance, dance, film, music and events, accompanied by a programme of educational activities. Five exhibition spaces, a theatre/cinema auditorium, Reading Room and Light/Dark Studios are housed in the Grade II listed, fully accessible building. The converted warehouse also contains one of the country’s best arts bookshops as well a café bar.

 

The Public

 

Creative place, inspiring art, changing lives

 

We programme works and exhibitions which have both local appeal and which interest a national audience such as Mnemosyne by John Akomfrah and Martin Parr’s Black Country Stories, but always with excellence at their core. Our partnerships with other galleries and arts organisations help us to achieve inspiring art but also demonstrate our community focus, both in terms of the region and the arts more widely. Alongside professional artists we support young and emerging artists, providing a place where not only can they showcase their work but which they can use as a testing ground to gain feedback and develop their practice.

The Public have chosen to use their commission to create a permanent exhibit.

 

Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery

 

A New Museum & Visitor Centre for Shrewsbury

 

Between 2007 and 2009, Shrewsbury & Atcham Borough Council planned and financed an exciting and innovative new museum, gallery and Visitor Information Centre at the Music Hall in Shrewsbury. The Music Hall, a major complex of historic buildings in the Council’s ownership, became vacant with the opening, in February 2009, of the town’s new Shrewsbury Theatre Severn. It includes the mediaeval Vaughan’s Mansion, currently inaccessible to the public, and the concert hall of 1836. The new venue will extend public access to these historic buildings and will offer considerably larger and more flexible spaces for display, plus opportunities for programming, visitor facilities and services completely unavailable in the existing museum. It will open in 2013.