About Community Exhibitions @Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
The purpose of the Community Gallery is to encourage communities to actively participate in culture. It provides a resource to community groups where they can display the outcome of their projects, whether they are of an artistic, historical or social context. Community groups are able to create their own exhibitions, lend their voice and share their stories with visitors to the museum.
There is a programme of 3 slots a year; each exhibition lasting for 3 months. Our first exhibition in the Community Gallery, which launched in March 2009, was:
Nature Nurture and Cocoon - 14 Mar 2009 - 28 Jun 2009 Abstract objects, jewellery and photography.
An inspiring exhibition exploring themes on parenthood, family and relationships.
Nature Nurture and Cocoon brought together jewellery designer maker, Rita Patel with families at St Thomas’s Children’s Centre. The group created handmade pieces of abstract objects and jewellery inspired by their visit to the Lickey Hills, their family stories, experiences and the relationship between parent and child.
Currently showing is a multi-media exhibition entitled Connect Through Art - 'Standing on the Mirror's Edge' - 18 July - 1 November 2009.
This exhibition has been created in partnership with Full Potential Arts and is a unique and innovative exploration into self-image, identity and perception. The group have created photographic images influenced by the challenges they have experienced as young adults facing mental health issues.
Coming later in 2009 is Home By Six - 21 November - 7 February 2010 in partnership with Multistory.
A visually exciting and diverse exhibition, seeking to collect and re-tell stories written by local communities, across Birmingham and the Black Country. Based on the themes of ‘home’ and ‘journeying home’, visitors and communities will compose stories of six words to create an interactive and innovative exhibition linking the Wolverhampton to Birmingham metro line.
If you are interested in displaying the outcome of your project and you feel it would lend itself well to an exhibition within the Community Gallery then please contact the lead officer for the Community Gallery via email: jose_forrest-tennant@birmingham.gov.uk
http://bmag.org.uk/
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