Exhibitions & Events

Forthcoming Events

EXHIBITION | Other Transmissions: Conversations with Outsider Art | the Whitworth
EXHIBITION | Kindness of their Hearts: virtual exhibition of artwork by our volunteers

Past Events

EXHIBITION | It’s in the detail | Glasgow International Festival has been postponed
ONLINE EXHIBITION | Celebrating World Autism Awareness Week | 30 March – 5 April 2020
EXHIBITION | ‘Thumbs Up’ at Castlefield Gallery | 24 Jan – 8 March 2020
EXHIBITION: Monochromatic Minds: Lines of Revelation Jennifer Lauren Gallery | 25 February – 4 March 2020
EVENTS | Thumbs Up Events | Saturday 1 February 2020
The Art of Now | Young People’s Art Club & Outreach Exhibition | The Lowry | 9 November ’19 – 24 January ’20
EXHIBITION | Manchester Open | view works by Venture Arts artists
EVENT | Manchester Open Door Saturday Tour with Venture Arts | 18 January at HOME
EXHIBITION | Talking Sense at The Portico Library | view online ‘tour’
Environments | Outside In National Open Art Exhibition
Second Nature | The Portico Library | 3 October 2019 – 6 January 2020
Weazel Making Workshop with Dominic Bennett | Waterside Arts Centre | Friday 13 Dec
EVENT | Tabletop – A VA Collective and Social Art Network Event
Barry Anthony Finan at AWARD 2019 | The British Ceramics Biennial
Venture Arts at The Manchester Contemporary | Stand 114 | Barry Anthony Finan and Leslie Thompson
Conversations Series II: ‘Other Transmissions’
EVENT | Barry’s Art Party – Look Club and Thursday Late at the Whitworth | 18 July 2019
Insights | One Day Exhibition | Manifest Arts Festival & Hulme Is Where the Art Is 2019
Grow | An exhibition of ceramics in association with Crafts Council and Hey Clay! 2019
ONE-OFF EVENT | Conversations Series II: Other Transmissions Arrives Paradise Works | 28 June 2019
Jennie Franklin: ‘Well Done, Good Draw’ | Presents her first solo exhibition at Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre | 5 March 2019
EVENT | VA Collective 3 – An Introduction to NDACA | 6 March at Manchester Art Gallery
PERSPECTIVES
PERSPECTIVES | The Lowry | Young Peoples Art Club & Schools Exhibition 24 Nov 2018 – 24 Feb 2019
PERSPECTIVES | Final Exhibition at Manchester One | 28 Jan – 5 Feb 2019 |
Meet the Artist: Share your wedding stories with Horace Lindezey | 2 February 1-3pm 2019
PERSPECTIVES | Elizabeth Gaskell’s House | 1 Nov – 2 Dec 2018
the Whitworth | PERSPECTIVES Thursday Lates takeover | 29 November 2018
Family Friendly Drop In Art Workshops | Commonplace Bus | Outside The Lowry | 24 Nov 2018 2-4pm
PERSPECTIVES | Studio 53 Show 1 & Show 2 | 9-11 & 16-18 November 2018
PERSPECTIVES | Free Photography Workshop with Venture Arts | 17/11/18
PERSPECTIVES | Clay Workshop with Venture Arts Artists Barry and Michael | 15/11/18
PERSPECTIVES | Drop in and Draw with Leslie Thompson | 10/11/18
Spilling Out
Transcript | CHARLIE SMITH GALLERY | London
Amy Ellison | My Portrait Project | World Downs Syndrome Awareness Day 2018
MAKING THE CASE | SYMPOSIUM | 25 MAY 2018
European Outsider Art Conference 2018 | Outside In | Pallant Gallery
Hey Clay! HEY CLLAY PRRIVATE VIEW & Live Art Drop In and Events | 23rd & 25th March 2018
Art Jam
Radical Craft: Alternative Ways of Making
The Manchester Contemporary 2017
Leslie Thompson, the Superstar Artist Drawer
Techno-colour
OutsiderXchanges Art Party
Symposium: Collaboration in Practice
OutsiderXchanges