READ | Venture Arts’ Annual Review 2017-2018

2017 -18 heralded big changes for Venture Arts as we scaled up our staff team and artist development programme, and started to gain increasing influence on a regional and national stage. Read our annual review here to find out what we got up to: Designed by Naomi Davies https://issuu.com/venturearts1/docs/annual_review_2017-18

The Conversations Series new website documents a five-month long artistic collaboration which began by looking at how artists see themselves, how the art world sees them and the tricky area of labelling of art genres   https://www.conversations-series.com/   Conversations Series is a programme of four artistic projects and residencies delivered by Venture Arts aimed at creating new work in … Continued

    We’re excited to announce that Venture Arts have received a grant for £25,000 from The Garfield Weston Foundation that will help us to continue our core studio programme – Nurturing the artistic talents of learning disabled artists.    Our dynamic artistic programme provides a social and stimulating environment for learning disabled people to … Continued

Jennie Franklin: Well Done Good Draw Bury Art Museum 5 March – 28 April   We’re delighted to announce that studio artist Jennie Franklin will have her first solo exhibition at Bury Arts Museum in March. Marking Jennie Franklin’s first solo exhibition, Well Done Good Draw brings together a new series of drawings on different … Continued

Venture Arts’ Creative Producer, Jennifer Gilbert, begins her new year by returning to the Outsider Art Fair in New York.   Taking place at the Metropolitan Pavilion from January 17-20, 2019, in it’s 27th edition, Jennifer Lauren Gallery will be championing and exhibiting the visionary works by a selection of self-taught and overlooked artists who create art … Continued

PERSPECTIVES in Contemporary Art Thursday Lates | The Whitworth 29th November 2018   Thank you to everyone who came to PERSPECTIVES in Contemporary Art on Thursday 29th November for our Thursday Late event at The Whitworth, our penultimate event in the PERSPECTIVES series. Visitors were presented with a wealth of knowledge through talks and presentations from … Continued

This Christmas, your money can buy happiness. Please donate to our Christmas Appeal   Venture Arts is good for people. Every year we help learning disabled people from Manchester to achieve great things through the arts. With us, people make great friends, make fantastic art and enjoy good times.    Donate today – just look how happy it makes us all!   … Continued

      Venture Arts Christmas Fair | Friday 7th December | 6-8:30pm | Studio 53   We hope that you can join us at our Venture Arts Christmas Fair. There will be refreshments including mulled wine and mince pies to enjoy while you peruse gifts and crafts from a number of Manchester artists and … Continued

VENTURE ARTS BLOG | Disability Arts Online   ”Each PERSPECTIVES exhibition celebrates not only the hard work of the artists featured but also the workshop leaders, carers and supporters of the participants. It was a real pleasure to enable these individuals to express themselves.”   Artist Hamble-Rose Dean shares her experience of supporting learning disabled artists … Continued

We hope you can join us on Thursday 29th November, 6-9pm, at The Whitworth for Thursday Lates: Perspectives in Contemporary Art.   This event seeks to open up conversations about the visibility of learning disabled artists within contemporary art and how this relates to both the world of outsider art and the disability arts scene. We’ll be talking … Continued