Make Room For Art Online Exhibition 2022
Artworks from our Room For Art outreach programme showing alongside works from our Collection of contemporary Scottish Art. Part of The Scottish Mental Health Art Festival 22 The festival runs from 4th – 24th of May…
Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival 2022
The Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival 4-24th May 2022 iWe will be hosting an online exhibition of artworks from the Room for Art workshops alongside selected works from our collection of contemporary Scottish Art. The exhibition will be on our website and will run for the duration of the Art Festival in May 22….
How does art help health and wellbeing?
Some of our artists and participants tell us about how taking part in art workshops can contribute to improving health and wellbeing…
Great Edinburgh Map Project
The Great Edinburgh Map Project 2021 from ‘Room for Art’ The Edinburgh map project was designed as part of our Room for Art programme to run over the summer 2021 when we took a 6 week break from our online visual art workshops. It was a way to encourage people to continue to be creative at home through a very difficult time and to keep us connected with them….
Evaluation Support Scotland Case Study
We recently took part in a programme run by Evaluation Support Scotland with other projects affected by the Covid19 crisis to evaluate and learn about our response to the crisis….
Art and Minds – Taking Room for Art a step further
This blog looks at what we’ve learnt and what the impacts have been of our Art Therapy Pilot that we’ve undertaken this year to support participants that are part of Room for Art….
Poster for Voluntary Health Scotland Conference
We have recently submitted a poster for the Voluntary Health Scotland conference looking at the impact and learning of our Art Therapy Pilot this year….
New blog for creative activities, ideas and inspiration
We are gathering all our online activities into blog posts so they are easier for people to access….
Art Therapy for Men at Redhall Walled Garden
We have recently been successful in receiving funding from Edinburgh University’s Local Community Grants Scheme. We are using this to work with the wonderful SAMH at Redhall Walled Garden and deliver a set of Art Therapy sessions.
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Going back to in person workshops!
Our Room for Art workshops are going back to in person in community venues next week after 18 months….
Room for Art online exhibition
Come and see our second Room for Art online exhibition ‘Positive Places’. …