Arts Derbyshire

Visual Arts Development

Arts Derbyshire ran a digital visual arts project called D:Lab from 2015 to 2018. Find out more about how this project brought digital artist practitioners and the local community together in our D:Lab project page.

Please see this page on our website that has lots of links to useful visual arts resources.

D:Lab Digital Art Gallery

D-Lab was a visual arts project from Arts Derbyshire that ran from 2015 -2018, aiming to bring new digital art to Derbyshire.

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Visual Arts Resources

We have pulled together lots of organisations who work locally, regionally and nationally in visual arts development. We hope you find this a useful resource.

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Artists & Visual Arts Related News

New Mills Art Trail 2024 Open Call is now live.

New Mills Festival is delighted to announce the return of the Art Trail for 2024. which will take place across the town from the 13th to the 29th September. The Art Trail is an integral part of New Mills Festival; a special time in the town’s calendar.

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Creative health: regather / Arts Derbyshire New Horizons. 15th May, 10-1, Doe Lea Centre

Creative health work operates in the spaces in between.  This is both its strength, and its weakness.  Its strength because it touches the people and ideas that exist in the in-between…the margins, the interstices, the fuzzy, ambiguous, complex, fluid melting pots.  These are often the places of greatest need and biggest gaps… but also the places of greatest possibility.  What are we best at? Who are we helping, and how? Where can our skills be better put to use and how can we get there?

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 Your chance to win some exciting raffle prizes!

When you join Arts Derbyshire on 25th April, in the historic Masson Mills, for a fabulous evening of entertainment, food and drink, you’ll also have the opportunity to enter a prize raffle!

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Derbyshire Creative Networking Events

Create growth programme are bringing you all a chance to meet up with other Derbyshire Creatives over a coffee to share ideas and find out about new opportunities. Thanks to funding from the Create Growth programme, via the University of Derby, DCC have been able to support existing and emerging creative networks throughout Derbyshire.

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Foundation Derbyshire Funding Surgery

On Tuesday 7 May, Foundation Derbyshire will be hosting their first 2024 Funding Surgery at their offices in Belper.

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Moving more for our mental health in Mental Health Awareness Week 13th-19th May 2024

This year’s Mental Health Awareness week theme is "Movement: Moving more for our mental health". The week will take place between 13th – 19th May. See link for more details. Mental Health Awareness Week | Mental Health Foundation

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