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Cartoon people looking at artworks and sculptures, listening to talks, and creating art on easels, on a pink and purple backgroung

For Students

Want to know what's happening for students? From events and exhibitions to work experience and wellbeing, here's everything you need to know about your Galleries on campus:

People drawing in The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery

Sketch Club

Drop in and draw every Friday afternoon.

A textile pattern in pink on white graph paper, over a blue and white patterned fabric of birds

Tuesday Treasure: Weaving histories – 150 years of textile education

Our popular lunchtime Tuesday Treasure returns with a special show and tell in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the School of Design.

People writing in Treasures of the Brotherton

Write on Wednesday

Drop in and write every Wednesday afternoon.

A person in a blue jumper holding a clipboard and drawing the artworks in a white gallery space

Sketch Club

Drop in and draw every Friday afternoon.

Sepia painting of a man in a suit with his hand inside his jacket over a handwritten form requesting the admittance of a patient to an asylum

Radical Politics/Radical Painting: Emma Novello’s portrait of Richard Cobden

This event investigates the radical context of Emma Novello’s portrait of the politician Richard Cobden, painted in Paris in 1861.