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BLOG | The importance of a diverse workforce
CELEBRATING OUR ARTISTS | Learning Disability Week 2021
CELEBRATING OUR VOLUNTEERS | National Volunteers’ Week 2021
BLOG: Artist Louise Hewitt reviews The Portico Library’s latest exhibition
Virtual Work Experience Programme Launched
Creative partnership with Studiotech launches with Manchester Flower Show installation
BLOG: Artist Spotlight: Louise Hewitt
Assistive-tech company Barry Bennett raises £2,000 for our Warm-hearts Winter Challenge as the campaign wraps up
EXHIBITION | Venture Arts Trustee, Tutor and Artist exhibit work in MCR Sew Social Exhibition
EVENT | Artist Open Studio with Anne-Marie Atkinson
BLOG | Exploring the place of learning disabled artists in contemporary art: part 2
BLOG | “I feel inspired by what these women went through to make things change”.
Venture Arts Joins Forces with ActionSpace and Project Ability On x3
BLOG | Exploring the place of learning disabled artists in contemporary art
BLOG | Amber’s 7 tips for maintaining wellbeing during the pandemic
Horace Lindezey’s artwork presented at London Art Fair 2021
SHOP | Explore original Venture Arts artwork for sale
BLOG | Warm-hearts Winter Challenge artist talks to us about his art
WARM-HEARTS WINTER CHALLENGE: Up for a feel-good challenge this winter?
ART AT HOME: Artists collaborate to design and make dream dress at home
We’re a Co-op Local Community Fund cause
NEW CITY ART TRAIL | 50 Windows of Creativity
BLOG | Joshua Brown – Lockdown Artist
ANNOUNCEMENT | Amy Ellison to exhibit in ‘The Lights’ at Grundy Art Gallery
Manchester Histories DigiFest 2020
HOME’s Future 20 collective launch ‘Last Place on Earth’ 
On Sale Now: Limited Edition Venture Arts Masks
BLOG | Amber Okpa-Stother: “We need to celebrate difference”
Help our artists return to their studio – safely
BLOG | Emlyn Scott: “The new iPad gave me so many things – hope, routine, communication”
BLOG | Louise Hewitt: Life as a lockdown artist
Photography Competition | Winner announced
CELEBRATING OUR ARTISTS | Learning Disability Week 2020
CELEBRATING OUR VOLUNTEERS | National Volunteers’ Week: 1 – 7 June
Our Artists invite you to colour in their creations
From Artist to Cycling Hero
Our Artistic Manager, Katherine Long, is Cotton on MCR’s ‘Manc of the Month’
Apart – but together – our online social programme for participants is launched
Will you help us combat isolation?
BLOG | Artist Tina Dempsey ‘Conversations’ with the universe
Conversations Series II – Other Transmissions, Grundy Art Gallery, 7 – 21 March
BLOG | Dominic and Liam talk about being part of Manchester Open Exhibition
Venture Arts artists describe their Manchester Open highlights
MMU students create a fashion-meets-art fundraiser for Venture Arts
Team Venture Arts – running 10k to raise £10k at the Great Manchester Run
OTHER TRANSMISSIONS: Conversations with Outsider Art at the Whitworth and Grundy Art Gallery
COMING SOON | Leslie Thompson to feature in Monochromatic Minds | Lines of Revelation in London
ANNOUNCEMENT | Venture Arts secure major funding from The National Lottery Community Fund
ANNOUNCEMENT | Fourteen Venture Arts Artists Selected for Manchester Open Exhibition at HOME
Help Venture Arts fly high – join our Christmas eco balloon race!
READ | Getting the inside on outsider art at Venture Arts | The Mancunion
ANNOUNCEMENT | Coming soon ‘Thumbs Up’ Exhibition at Castlefield Gallery 2020
EVENT | Venture Arts Festive Fair | 5 December
ANNOUNCEMENT | Venture Arts wins a Manchester Culture Award for Inspiring Innovation
ANNOUNCEMENT | Venture Arts are finalists in two categories for Manchester Culture Awards 2019
EVENT | Tabletop | A VA Collective & Social Art Network Event | 7 November 2019
The Business Magazine | ‘Assmann and Venture Arts collaborate to display work of learning disabled artists’
Venture Arts Show Space Partnership Launch Event | 24 October | Assmann Manchester
Venture Arts Return to The Manchester Contemporary | 11-13 October 2019
ANNOUNCEMENT | Venture Arts Artists Selected for Outside In Open Art Exhibition ‘Environments’
ANNOUNCEMENT | Leslie Thompson to feature in Glasgow International Festival 2020
OPPORTUNITY | Applications Now Open for Exchange 62: Northern Disabled Artists Exchange
READ | Manchesters Finest’s Richard Morris’ first encounter with Venture Arts
FOLLOW | 10 Phenomenal Artists: their stories continue…
ANNOUNCEMENT | Venture Arts artist Barry Finan amongst UK’s leading ceramicists at British Ceramics Biennial
Short Film ‘Sea and Sky’ by Amy Ellison Selected for Oska Bright Film Festival | Brighton 23 – 26 October 2019
EVENT & EXHIBITIONS | Manifest Arts Festival & Hulme Is Where the Art Is | 13 July 10am-5:30pm 2019
EVENT | Barry Finan’s Art Party | Look Club and Thursday Late at the Whitworth
ANNOUNCEMENT | Exchange 62 Artist Exchange Awarded Co-Creating Change Commission
READ | Venture Arts 10k Runners and 10 Clay event raise £5,734
ONE-OFF EVENT | Conversations Series II: Other Transmissions Arrives Paradise Works | 28 June 2019
EXHIBITION | Terry Williams to Exhibit at The Residency Show at Project Ability | 7 June – 13 July
ANNOUNCEMENT | Barry Finan selected for headline AWARD 2019 exhibition at British Ceramics Biennial 2019 Festival
EXHIBITION & WORKSHOP | Artists present ‘Grow’ for Hey Clay! 2019
EVENT | Manchester 10-Clay event to coincide with the Simplyhealth Great Manchester Run 10k
READ | 10 Phenomenal Artists
READ | The Fourdrinier – Sara Jaspan reviews Jennie Franklin’s solo exhibition ‘Well Done, Good Draw’ at Bury Art Museum
World Autism Awareness Week 2019 | Amber’s Journey so far…
Conversations Series II launches ‘Other Transmissions’ as a TATE Exchange event before touring nationally
The Great Manchester Run 2019
READ | Venture Arts’ Annual Review 2017-2018
ANNOUNCEMENT | Venture Arts’ School Project has received £17,790 from People’s Postcode Trust
NEW WEBSITE | Conversations Series Website is Now Live | 1/02/2019
ANNOUNCEMENT | Venture Arts receive £25,000 funding from Garfield Weston Foundation | 29/1/19
NEW EXHIBITION | Jennie Franklin: Well Done Good Draw | 5 March – 28 April
ART FAIR | Jennifer Gilbert returns to the Outsider Art Fair New York January 2019
READ | 13/12/18 | Saoirse Akhtar-Farren reviews PERSPECTIVES in Contemporary Art at the Whitworth
Venture Arts Christmas Appeal
EVENT | Venture Arts Christmas Fair | 7 December 6-8:30pm
EVENT | Thursday Lates: PERSPECTIVES In Contemporary Art | the Whitworth 29 Nov 6-9pm
READ | A Volunteers Insight into Supporting Learning Disabled Artists by Hamble-Rose Dean
PERSPECTIVES | Take part in our coinciding event and workshops this November | 2018
EXHIBITION PREVIEW | Elizabeth Gaskell’s House 1 Nov 5:30-7:30pm
Spilling Out: Castlefield Gallery and Venture Arts at The Manchester Contemporary 2018
Manchester Culture Awards | Venture Arts are Finalists in Two Categories | 10 Oct 2018
Spilling Out: Castlefield Gallery and Venture Arts at The Manchester Contemporary | 12-14 Oct 2018
Conversations Series II | Artists Announced
PERSPECTIVES | Fred Aldous Live Site-specific Drawing | 1-2 October 2018
Coming soon… | Perspectives | October 2018
NEW RESIDENCY ARTIST CALL OUT | Conversations Series II
Introducing our new Creative Producer | Jennifer Gilbert
READ | Clive Parkinson | Arts for Health Blog
FUNDING | Venture arts receives 3 years of funding to continue successful Cultural Enrichment Programme
Learning Disability Week 2018 | #ColourinCorrie
WORK WITH US | Individual Giving Officer Vacancy
EXHIBITION | Transcript | Barry Finan & Rosanne Robertson | CHARLIE SMITH GALLERY
MMU Students Fundraise £675 for Venture Arts through Tiki Event | 23/04/18
MAKING THE CASE | SYMPOSIUM | 25 MAY 2018
WORK WITH US | We’re seeking a Creative Producer | Maternity Cover
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY | ‘Space Astronaut’ Limited Edition Print by Leslie Thompson
EXHIBITION & EVENTS | HEY CLLAY PRRIVATE VIEW – Hey Clay! Crafts Council
CONFERENCE | Venture Arts to Present at EOAA Conference 2018
Joe Hartley Workshop | Making, a Life: The Peter Hodgson Retrospective with Peter and friends
READ | Venture Arts presents review by Chris Connolly – Corridor 8
OPPORTUNITY | PhD – Challenging Outsider Art
WATCH | Liam’s Art Jam Exhibition Highlights
EVENT | Venture Arts Christmas Fair
WATCH | Justin Lees Award Winning Animation
READ | Venture Arts showcase learning disabled artists at Manchester Contemporary Art Fair
NEWS | Justin Lees Winner of Youth Buzz Awards
EXHIBITION | Art Jam by Young Peoples Art Club and Five Primary Schools
EVENT | THIS IS HUMAN at HOME Manchester
READ | OutsiderXchanges Evaluation Report
READ | Venture Arts Annual Review 2016
EVENT | The Manchester Contemporary 2017
PURCHASE | ‘Trongate 103’ Print by Leslie Thompson
READ | Creative Minds North: A Case Study By Arts Council England
READ | Venture Arts Patron Michelle Ackerley’s Journey to Success
FUNDING | Venture Arts are proud to be entering Arts Council England’s National Portfolio!
EVENT: Creative Minds North: An arts conference with a difference
EVENT: We’re delighted to host Creative Minds North