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Art for Wellbeing

Art for Wellbeing

1.30pm – 3.30pm, free Art activities to release your creative energy! Set in the beautiful surroundings of York Art Gallery’s Studio space, this 2 hour workshop gives opportunity for discovery and time to explore a variety of art materials and inspiring themes designed to promote wellbeing. Enjoy the company of others, creating art with gentle guidance […]

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Sketchbook Circle at York Art Gallery

Sketchbook Circle at York Art Gallery

11th January, 1:30pm-3:30pm, £5 per person Book tickets here. Fill your sketchbooks at this regular informal drawing group for Adults (16+ only). Take inspiration from our collection at York Art Gallery and enhance your drawing skills with the help and support of a community artist. Sessions will also run on one Wednesday each month as […]

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Life Drawing – Model as Muse

Life Drawing – Model as Muse

Join us at York Art Gallery for life drawing workshops; whether you are a regular participant, would like to hone your skills, or try life drawing for the first time, these regular two-hour immersive Saturday sessions, led by Rob Oldfield, are a wonderful way to experience life drawing in a supportive and friendly environment.

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Thinking-through images

Included in exhibition admission  21 January 2023 10:15am, 11:15am, 1:15pm, 2:15pm, 3:15pm  ‘Thinking-through images’ is a live dance intervention from Creative Producer and dancer Tala Lee-Turton and Creative Photographer Xenia Bakshinskaya in collaboration with and in response to Zara Worth’s installation Think of a door (temptation/redemption). Over the course of the day Lee-Turton and Bakshinskaya […]

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Free Online Talk – Adam Parker: Toil and Trouble: Magic, Roman Britain, and the Ryedale Hoard

Free Online Talk – Adam Parker: Toil and Trouble: Magic, Roman Britain, and the Ryedale Hoard

26 January, 4:30pm Free online Talk / Streamed live on YouTube and Facebook Sign up here for talk reminders and links sent to your inbox The Ryedale Hoard is a new and interesting group of objects from Yorkshire buried in the 2nd century AD. The reasons for their burial remain a mystery, but one possible explanation is that […]

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York Ice Trail – Museum Gardens

York Ice Trail – Museum Gardens

We’re thrilled to be hosting one of the sculptures from the York Ice Trail this year! It will be based on the 13cm bust of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius which is part of the Ryedale Hoard, one of our most significant acquisitions in recent years. The objects were found by metal detectorists James Spark and […]

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Art for Wellbeing

Art for Wellbeing

1.30pm – 3.30pm, free Art activities to release your creative energy! Set in the beautiful surroundings of York Art Gallery’s Studio space, this 2 hour workshop gives opportunity for discovery and time to explore a variety of art materials and inspiring themes designed to promote wellbeing. Enjoy the company of others, creating art with gentle guidance […]

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Viking Saga Telling

Viking Saga Telling

11, 12, 16 and 17 Feb –  performances at select times throughout the day Suitable for all ages, come and listen to the saga of a real Viking!

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Marvellous Breakfast

Marvellous Breakfast

Enjoy a family breakfast, the most important meal of the day, at Sketch, before immersing yourself into the Marvellous & Mischievous exhibition here at York Art Gallery.

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Life Drawing – Model as Muse

Life Drawing – Model as Muse

Join us at York Art Gallery for life drawing workshops; whether you are a regular participant, would like to hone your skills, or try life drawing for the first time, these regular two-hour immersive Saturday sessions, led by Rob Oldfield, are a wonderful way to experience life drawing in a supportive and friendly environment.

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