[Retlaw]

Originally Posted by garinda

If the gallery is attracting a poor, however that's decided, visitor count, that is down to bad promotion, and as I said earlier, an uninspiring curatorship. It certainly wasn't the case thirty years ago, when it was in more imaginative hands.

In the linked thread you informed us that funded by the council tax payer, H.B.C. employs a team of four salaried 'arts development' officers.

Either the people that gave them the job aren't very good at deciding who to employ, or the four people they employed aren't particularly good.

http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f...s-18809-5.html

Perhaps if we employed fewer people, but someone of a higher caliber, who is more able to promote a very beautiful gallery, which has a collection of world reknown, then the place would be buzzing.

I know you don't have much knowledge of the cut and thrust and reality of the business world, but with the right product, promotion, and price, which in this case is free, people come flocking.

Garri the staff at the Haworth are restricted on what they can do by their bosses, they do try to put on exhibitions, they do run workshops for schools on a regular basis.
Accrington Photo Club regularly exibit their work, and they recently ran an exhibition of electronic art, I know it sounds daft, but it kept me entertained in its complexity.

Retlaw.