Events

Look Again at Pioneer Projects

11–20 June 10am–4pm

Looking Well Studios
King Street, Bentham LA2 7HG
tel: 015242 62672

A selected exhibition of works by established and emerging artists connected with Pioneer Projects work in Arts and Community health. Admission free

Book Making

11 June 12.30pm–4.30pm

Looking Well Studios
King Street, Bentham LA2 7HG
tel: 015242 62672
email: julie@pioneerprojects.org.uk

You will learn to make a hard-back concertina book with personally designed covers and hand made ties. Joan is a member of the Society of Designer Craftsmen and a founder member of Textilia III. She specialises in working with paper and wax incorporating hand and machine stitch
Fee: £5 + £4 materials. Booking essential

Fabulous Sustainable Jewellery from Found Objects

19 June 10am–3.30pm

Dales Countryside Museum Station Yard,
Hawes DL8 3NT
tel: 01969 666210
email: Hawes@yorkshiredales.org.uk

Turn ordinary materials into wearable art and learn a range of jewellery making techniques such as saw piercing and texturing and combining materials together. Make a fabulous funky neckpiece or brooch and matching earrings.
No experience necessary. There will be a range of materials supplied. Please also bring additional items such as buttons, bottle tops, small pieces of wood, etc.
Fee: £10 + £7 materials Booking essential

FISSURE

Sunday 20 June 3pm

The Art Depot
Eshton Road,
Gargrave BD23 3SE
tel: 01756 748529
email: admin@artconnections.org.uk

Artist Louise Ann Wilson will be talking about Fissure, a major site specific theatre production she is creating in the Kingsdale area, near Ingleton, for May 2011. Fissure is a work made in collaboration with artists, neuroimagers, earth scientists, cavers, fell runners, archaeologists, farmers, scouts, and many other local people.

Perhaps you have local stories, myths, folk songs or specialist knowledge that you would like to contribute. Come and discover how to get involved. Fissure is a part of The Re-Enchantment, an art events project 2010-11, www.artevents.info/tre.htm supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation & the National Lottery through Arts Council England Fee: £3.50 (includes tea and cake!) Booking essential

Weather Vane

Slow Art Events

A Change in the Weather: Wind Vane Workshop

12 and 19 June 11am–4pm

The Art Depot
Asquith Industrial Estate,
Eshton Rd, Gargrave BD23 3SE
tel: 01756 749222
Email: chrysalis@artdepot.org.uk

Design and create a wind vane from sustainable materials. Activity suitable for adults and motivated teenagers.

Families are welcome to attend, but children must be accompanied by an adult. For the younger participants, materials and instruction will be available to make wind responsive paper birds.
Fee: £10 per adult, £2 per child. Booking essential

Slow Art Progress – Public Art Installation

The first of a series of public art commissions highlighting issues of sustainability and climate change. A collaborative project initiated by Chrysalis Arts
Venue: The Art Depot, Gargrave (see above)

Travelling Light – Outdoor Sculptural Installation Celebrating the Use of Public Transport

Artist: Steve Gumbley

Venue: Opposite the Buck Inn, Malham

Steve Gumbley is an artist who specialises in making artworks for specific locations, both indoors and outdoors, using a wide variety of techniques and materials.

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Inspired by Heritage

11 June–18 July

The Mercer Gallery, Harrogate HG1 2SA

Artists: Fiona Bowley, Tessa Bunney, Andrew Cheetham, Lynne Glazzard, Jackie Hunt and Serena Partridge.

This exhibition features work created by six contemporary artists and makers during residencies to produce new work inspired by six North Yorkshire heritage sites and collections. Admission Free

Midsummer Fire and Light

Untamed Energies: Midsummer Fire & Light

29 May–4 July

Rural Arts The Old Courthouse,
Westgate,
Thirsk YO7 1QS
tel: 01845 526536
email: janice@ruralarts.org

Textiles by Sally Greaves-Lord, ceramics by Remon Jephcott, jewellery by ( insert text addition) Marlene Mckibbin and etchings by Maria Pavledis.

Myths and fairytales have long been associated with midsummer. This exhibition celebrates the point in the year when the day consumes the night; when the air is filled with the heady scent of flowers, the maddening buzz of insects and the world burns at its brightest. Expect to see work in variety of media that celebrates the stories and energy of this intense time of year.
Curated by Lara Goodband.

Workshops

Direct Casting with Ailsa Magnus ARBS

12 June 10am–12.30pm
19 June 10am–12.30pm

Cygnus Works
Unit E, Riccall Business Park, Selby Road,
Riccall YO19 6QR
tel: 01757 248 071
email: ailsa@ailsamagnus.com

Make small direct plaster casts using found objects from simple clay or sand moulds. This is an easily accessible casting technique... you could liken it to printing in 3 dimensions! Fee: £5 + £1 materials. Booking essential, minimum age: 16

Into-the-cupboard-Etching by Maria-Pavledis

Enchanting at Midsummer

Two Adult Master Classes in Printmaking with Maria Pavledis

19 & Sun 20 June 10am–4pm

Rural Arts,
The Old Courthouse, Westgate, Thirsk YO7 1QS
tel: 01845 526536
email: janice@ruralarts.org

Using the printmaking techniques drypoint and collograph, explore the narrative and imagery of fairytales with exhibiting artist Maria Pavledis. This is a unique opportunity to work with a leading printmaker. These full-day master classes are suitable for both experienced printmakers and beginners.
Fee: £25 + £10 materials
Places limited to ten participants each day. Booking essential.

Silk Paper Making with Sue Harrison

20 June 10am–4pm

Number 3, The Old Workhouse
King Street, Pateley Bridge HG3 SLE
tel: 01423 712790
email: sue.l.harrison@btinternet.com

Responding to the installation, 'Flight', which is part of the 'Migration' Project based at no 3 Studios, King Street, you will learn to make silk paper taking inspiration from themes of 'flight and feathers'. Fee: £10 and materials (provided). Booking essential

Tessa Bunney

Photography workshop with Tessa Bunney

Sat 12 June 10am–12noon and 2–4pm

Mercer Art Gallery
Swan Road, Harrogate HG1 2SA
tel: 01423 556188
email: elaine.laker@harrogate.gov.uk

Learn photographic and digital techniques, design a postcard on computer, print it and post it to family or friends. Suitable for all ages, young children will need assistance. Fee £5 per session. Booking essential

Lynnne Glazzard

Inspired by Heritage Seminar Event

28 June

Mercer Art Gallery
Swan Road, Harrogate HG1 2SA
tel: 01756 748529
email: admin@art-connections.org.uk

This seminar will feature presentations about the residency programme from some of the artists involved and a series of presentations by nationally known speakers involved in contemporary art and heritage projects.
These include: Judith King, independent curator and visual arts advisor for English Heritage. whose projects include Belsay Hall, Angus Farquhar founder of Edinburgh environmental charity NVA, artist Kate Whiteford and Jenna Homes, Arts Officer for the Bronte Parsonage Museum. Haworth. Booking essential for seminar event

Installation by Vivien Mousdell

Sands of Time Art Installation

Artist: Viv Mousdell with art students from Whitby Community College and technical assistance from Simon Verhoef

June 11,12,13, 19 & 20 10.30am–5.30pm

Beach Huts 6, 7 & 8 on Whitby Beach
(Close to the cliff lift, Westcliff)
tel: 01947 811208 or 07500 281175
email: viv.mousdell@btinternet.com

Drawing direct inspiration from her surroundings, over five days Vivian Mousdell will be moulding shoes of sand that will repeatedly populate the shore to be then reclaimed by the sea.

From one of the beach huts, creative colleague Simon Verhoef will document their advance & retreat with time lapse photography while inside another, visitors can discover generations of holiday photographs & memorabilia buried & eroded by sand.

Vivien is hoping to involve art students from Whitby Community College in the creative process, she would also like to include copies of memorabilia from local people & visitors to Whitby.

If you have any family holiday snaps of Whitby beach that she can scan & safely return, especially from generations past, Viv would like to hear from you - also if you have any old shoes of all sizes about to be thrown out from which she can take a cast! Contact Vivian via the details above. Further information: www.domedombre.com

Knit Happens: A Celebration of the Art of Knitting

1–25 June 11am–5pm Mon–Fri

Woodend Creative Workspace
The Crescent,
Scarborough YO11 2PW
tel: 01723 384545
email: contact@create.uk.net

This exhibition challenges the view of knit as a traditional domestic craft to consider knitting as an experimental construction process which questions many assumptions about the function of knitted textiles. Curated by Elizabeth Gaston, University of Leeds. Admission free

Knit Happens: Picnic In The Garden

14–25 June 11am–5pm Mon – Fri

Woodend Creative Workspace (see above).

Artist Sara Adams will coordinate a Knitting Installation, creating a life size knitted picnic in a knitted floral garden setting. This is a community project and we invite all knitting enthusiasts to take part. A series of workshops will take place in and around Scarborough to contribute to this knitted feast. See www.create.uk.net for details of public workshops. Admission free

View from the Back: Journal of a Surf Trip

Artist: Kathryn Welford

5 June – 26 Sept Open weekdays 10am–4pm and weekends by appointment

Electric Angel Gallery
1 Museum Terrace,
Scarborough, YO11 2HB
www.electricangelgallery.co.uk
tel: 01723 363310
email: Rebecca@electricangel.co.uk

Exhibition of work inspired by a diary and a long trip in a VW camper around Europe and Morocco. Kathryn will be creating an installation in the Gallery to accompany her paintings.

Drawing is Fun!

Family art workshop with children’s author/ illustrator and cartoonist, Steve Weatherill

12 June 10am–12.30pm 19 June 1–3.30pm

Pickering Library
The Ropery,
Pickering YO18 8DY
tel: 0773 1019 566
email: steve@babygoz.co.uk

See how Steve draws his characters and draw and create your own. Hands on for all ages - Just bring your imagination everything else provided.
Suitable for children with an accompanying adult.
Fee £5 - Booking essential

Work by Serena Partridge

Mini Paper Shoes

with Serena Partridge

12 June 10–3.30pm

Helmsley Arts Centre
The Old Meeting House,
Helmsley YO62 5DW
Contact Jean Kershaw
tel: 01439 771109
email: jeanhelmsleyarts@yahoo.co.uk

In this fascinating workshop, textile artist Serena Partridge will help you to create a miniature pair of shoes using a variety of papers and tiny trims. Fee £5 - Booking essential

The Value of Knitting: Talk by Elizabeth Gaston

17 June 1.30–3pm

Woodend Creative Workspace (see above)

Bring along your own knitting, or needles and a ball of wool to learn, and you can knit whilst listening to this illustrated talk by Elizabeth Gaston, Senior Teaching Fellow in the School of Design at the University of Leeds.

Please arrive at 1pm if you wish to be taught to knit prior to the talk.
Fee £4 / £2 Concessions. Booking essential

Master Class: Perceptions of Landscape

11 June 10.30am–12pm

Yorkshire Coast College, School of Art and Design
Westwood Campus,
Valley Bridge Parade, Scarborough YO11 2PL
Contact Kane Cunningham
tel: 01723 361960
email: kbc@ycoastco.ac.uk

A discussion between Peter Hicks (painter) and Neil Hodson (photographer) will explore the specific differences and similarities in what they search for from what they see. Fee: £5. Booking essential