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There are loads of places in Yorkshire where the Visual Arts have found a home. The Yorkshire Sculpture Park near Wakefield is one of Europe's leading open-air art organisations displaying modern and contemporary work by leading UK and international artists. They attract over 300,000 visitors every year and have an established education and community programme.
The Henry Moore Institute in Leeds is a unique resource devoted exclusively to sculpture with a programme comprising exhibitions, collections and research.
Sheffield's Persistence Works, designed by award winning Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects, is the UK's first purpose-built fine art and craft studio complex.
Sheffield also draws on its past of excellence in metalwork, with The Academy of Makers providing accommodation space to bring together small commercial businesses associated with the metal and crafts industries in the historic Butcher Works. The city's annual festival, Galvanize Sheffield, celebrates the city's vibrant metalwork creative industry.
Up to 2011, 109 projects in Yorkshire and the Humber region will receive a total of £81million of funding from Arts Council England. Successful projects cover a wide range of arts activities and beneficiaries include The Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Impressions Gallery in Bradford, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre in Scunthorpe, Crescent Arts in Scarborough and Pavilion in Leeds.
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Arts Council England, Yorkshire
Arts Council England is the national development agency for the arts in England, distributing public money from Government and the National Lottery. Visual arts introduction, featured projects, information sheets, useful links, press and news items. Their Yorkshire pages give useful information sheets on funding, touring and media contacts for the region and also include a list of their current visual arts projects in the region.
Creative Industries Development Agency (CIDA)
The development agency for the creative industries, CIDA specialise in helping to strengthen the contribution of the creative industries sector to the economy at all levels. There is a CIDA Facebook group for those with an interest in this area.
Creative & Cultural Skills Council
The Skills Sector Council for creative and visual arts. Their site has information about career choices and apprenticeships.
Useful creative portal for Yorkshire's creative industries with the aim of building a creative community. Information provided can be searched by sub-region too. There are also some useful questions and answers about Arts in Yorkshire.
Digital Yorkshire is the Yorkshire Forward cluster for the creative and digital (CDI) industries. Their website includes a section on music, visual and the performing arts.
Keep up-to-date with the art highlights in the region as highlighted by Dig Yorkshire.
Use their map to find out about Open Studio events in the Yorkshire region.
Project which started in 1998 and has run every 5 years since with visual art displays situated between Liverpool and Hull, including sites in West, South and East Yorkshire.