Events
Take your pick from our selection of special events.
Browse through our event listings or click on the following exhibition titles or themes to skip to the area you are interested in:
Studio Saturdays- monthly drop-in activities for children
stART Here
Workshops for Adults
Events for Adults brochure - new for 2008/9
Click here to download our new Events for Adults brochure which covers events up until August 2009 here at York Art Gallery, as well as at York Castle Museum and the Yorkshire Museum and Gardens.
Sashiko Symposium
An example of Japanese 'Sashiko' sewing. Sashiko will be the subject of a major exhibition at the gallery from October
18 November
10am - 4pm
The Hospitium, Yorkshire Museum Gardens
The museum will host a one-day symposium during which Michele Walker will talk about her three years of fascinating research in Sashiko (a style of Japanese textile-making).
Other speakers will include practitioners and experts in textiles and Japanese culture in relation to Western art.
Gallery of Pots
13 August
12.30pm - 1pm
Helen Walsh, Assistant Curator of Decorative Art, introduces our new installation, Gallery of Pots
stART here (workshops for 11 - 16 year olds)
Sea, Sand and St Ives
11 July
11am - 1pm and 2pm to 4pm
Linking to the St Ives Exhibition children can create a piece of environmental art inspired by the seaside as part of Children's Art Day. Use sand, shells, feathers and pebbles tomake a collage or sculpture.