‘Moving beyond Instagram’s Black Square’: new £800,000 grant aims to support UK artists of colour

Residencies

Freelands Foundation

Black Lives Matter

diversity

Wysing Arts Centre in Cambridgeshire (its annual festival, pictured) will receive £500,000 from Freelands Foundation. 

How racist is UK art education? A new report aims to find out

Education

racism

Only 2.7% of the UK's art sector come from Black, Asian and ethnically diverse backgrounds. Picture: Drawing Act II: Pattern Performance Parade, with Alexis Teplin, 2020. 

Galleries and museums listen up—here are ten guidelines on how to not exclude artists with children

Parenting

Motherhood

International Women's Day

The Buck stopped here

Diary

Mary Cassatt's The Child's Bath,  (1893) 

Freelands awards MK Gallery and Ingrid Pollard £100,000—and releases annual report highlighting art world's glaring gender discrepancies

Freelands Award

MK Gallery

Ingrid Pollard

Ingrid Pollard will receive a solo show in 2022 at the MK Gallery in Milton Keynes as part of the Freelands Award 

Freelands Foundation awards £1.27m in diversity funding—including Windrush education programme

Philanthropy

Windrush

Funding

Arts funding

Funding matters

The New Art Exchange in Nottingham is one of the recipients of the Freelands Foundation diversity grants 

Extension to Freelands Foundation artist programme and £3m to support creative practitioners 

Freelands Artist Programme Symposium at Site Gallery, in Sheffield last year 

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