What’s on in York: Felt Making – Felted spring flowers (wet felting)

York Art Gallery : Sat 21 May : 10:30am to 3:30pm :

£35 plus £3 for materials

May _21Feltedflowers Learn how to use simple wet rolled felting methods to roll and model the fleece into beautifully felted flowers. Finished items can be used to make brooches, hair accessories or decorations.

Taking inspiration from garden flowers, the tutor will demonstrate how to use simple wet “rolled” felting methods to roll & model the fleece into beautifully felted flowers. Finished items can be used to make brooches, hair accessories or decorations.

Book on Yortime.org.uk or call 01904 552806 or for further information contact york.learning@york.gov.uk

What’s on in York: The biggest exhibition of World War I art in nearly 100 years

Date : Fri 25 Mar – Sun 4 Sept
Time : See website
Venue : York Art Gallery
Cost : Free with YMT card

York Art Gallery : Fri 25 Mar – Sun 4 Sept : Free with YMT card

Truth and Memory: British Art of the First World War

Truth And Memory 25 Mar IWM London’s Truth and Memory is a major retrospective that comprises over 60 works and features some of the most iconic images to emerge from the First World War, including paintings by Paul Nash, Percy Wyndham Lewis, CRW Nevinson, Stanley Spencer and William Orpen.

The exhibition will assess both the immediate impact and legacy of British art of the First World War.

Comprised predominantly of works from IWM’s Art Collection, the exhibition will show how artists of all ages, traditions and backgrounds, strived to represent the unprecedented, epoch-defining events of the First World War, which ultimately helped shape the nation’s perception of the conflict and of warfare itself.

York is the only gallery other than IWM London to host the exhibition.

Entry is free with a YMT card or see www.yorkartgallery.org.uk

York Art Gallery refurbishment has £700,000 funding shortfall

Art Gallery remodeling

A report to a Council meeting next week reveals that the York Museums Trust still has to raise over £700,000 to meet the cost of its Art Gallery refurbishment project.

The £8m scheme is expected to be completed in 2015 with 60% more exhibition space, improved visitor facilities and a new Centre of Ceramic Arts.

The Museum Gardens were awarded a gold medal by Yorkshire in Bloom. The gardens to the rear of York Art Gallery are to be expanded with three new gardens established.

Richard III head

The Trust is also refurbishing the Debtors Prison at the Castle Museum following a successful £1.1m bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund. The first exhibition to be held in these new spaces will be 1914: When the World Changed Forever, a major changing exhibition on the social impact of World War One. This work will begin in November and will be open to the public in June 2014

Overall visitor numbers to York’s museums showed an increase of 2% this summer although much of that is put down to an exhibition of Richard III ‘s reconstructed head.