Getting the most from your Membership!
Getting the most from your Membership!
Getting the most from your Membership!
Getting the most from your Membership!
The Friends of the Whitworth offers invaluable support to the Gallery. As a volunteer organisation we are able to use almost all the money we raise, apart from some very small administrative costs, to support the Gallery, helping with the purchase of art works to develop the collection, for example, or to sponsor new exhibitions. The Friends of the Whitworth has a particularly special relationship with the Gallery’s Collections Centre and were able to raise money for bespoke furniture which allows access to parts of the Whitworth collection in new ways. We hope you will see our logo on the walls there in the coming months, recognising our/your sponsorship of some new and exciting exhibitions.
As well as working with curatorial and other staff to support the work of the Gallery, however, the Friends of the Whitworth is also a lively organisation in its own right, one whose programme of events includes lectures, behind the scenes visits, social events and trips to other art galleries, museums, houses and gardens at home and abroad as well as the very successful Sunday concerts, in conjunction with the Royal Northern College of Music.
Recently, we have begun to add to an already very well established and popular programme of events and offerings. Late last year, we started to add to each of our programmes a practical workshop with an expert tutor. To date these have included screen printing and Chinese Brush Painting. In summer we will be outdoors in the Art Garden at the Whitworth with water colours and pencils. Our monthly Look Club-usually on the last Thursday of the month-is free to members and is a chance to get together and talk informally about a work of art on the walls or in the collection. We have also launched a small range of exclusive merchandise. The beautiful silk scarves, signed by Joanne Eddon, and inspired by the trees in the park, come in 4 different sizes and 4 different colour palettes, to reflect the Seasons. They can be found on stalls at events in the gallery, where you will also find a special limited edition Friends of the Whitworth T shirt, printed at Islington Mill in Salford by One69a, and based on Nathan Coley’s Gathering of Strangers, the work which looks out from the Gallery into the Park.
Not least, we are taking the Friends into the 21st century by beginning to explore how we can use social media to keep in touch with Friends outside the Gallery and join in with conversations that are taking place in the ether! You don’t have to subscribe to Twitter or Instagram, or even know anything about them other than their existence. Just go the the bottom of this website and, on the left hand side you will see invitations to visit our Instagram and Twitter pages. Click on either of these and you will find the latest news, photographs and other snippets, updated on a very regular basis.
Make sure you are enjoying all that the Friends of the Whitworth has to offer!
The Friends of the Whitworth offers invaluable support to the Gallery. As a volunteer organisation we are able to use almost all the money we raise, apart from some very small administrative costs, to support the Gallery, helping with the purchase of art works to develop the collection, for example, or to sponsor new exhibitions. The Friends of the Whitworth has a particularly special relationship with the Gallery’s Collections Centre and were able to raise money for bespoke furniture which allows access to parts of the Whitworth collection in new ways. We hope you will see our logo on the walls there in the coming months, recognising our/your sponsorship of some new and exciting exhibitions.
As well as working with curatorial and other staff to support the work of the Gallery, however, the Friends of the Whitworth is also a lively organisation in its own right, one whose programme of events includes lectures, behind the scenes visits, social events and trips to other art galleries, museums, houses and gardens at home and abroad as well as the very successful Sunday concerts, in conjunction with the Royal Northern College of Music.
Recently, we have begun to add to an already very well established and popular programme of events and offerings. Late last year, we started to add to each of our programmes a practical workshop with an expert tutor. To date these have included screen printing and Chinese Brush Painting. In summer we will be outdoors in the Art Garden at the Whitworth with water colours and pencils. Our monthly Look Club-usually on the last Thursday of the month-is free to members and is a chance to get together and talk informally about a work of art on the walls or in the collection. We have also launched a small range of exclusive merchandise. The beautiful silk scarves, signed by Joanne Eddon, and inspired by the trees in the park, come in 4 different sizes and 4 different colour palettes, to reflect the Seasons. They can be found on stalls at events in the gallery, where you will also find a special limited edition Friends of the Whitworth T shirt, printed at Islington Mill in Salford by One69a, and based on Nathan Coley’s Gathering of Strangers, the work which looks out from the Gallery into the Park.
Not least, we are taking the Friends into the 21st century by beginning to explore how we can use social media to keep in touch with Friends outside the Gallery and join in with conversations that are taking place in the ether! You don’t have to subscribe to Twitter or Instagram, or even know anything about them other than their existence. Just go the the bottom of this website and, on the left hand side you will see invitations to visit our Instagram and Twitter pages. Click on either of these and you will find the latest news, photographs and other snippets, updated on a very regular basis.
Make sure you are enjoying all that the Friends of the Whitworth has to offer!
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