Last chance to book! ✂️ There's still time to grab a ticket for our Make It Social: Still Life Collage workshop! Join us for cosy crafts this evening 🍂 Exclusively for @universityofleeds.bsky.social students. 📍 Treasures of the Brotherton 📆 7 November, 17:30 - 19:30 🎟️ Book FREE here: bit.ly/3LinHEe

Could you be our next LGBTQ+ intern?🏳️‍🌈 We want a University of Leeds student who's passionate about sharing hidden voices.📣This internship will explore how we can invite researchers to view collections through an LGBTQ+ lens. 🔍 If this sounds like you, apply now! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

Lights! Camera! Action! 🎬 It’s Most Dramatic Works for @artdotorg.bsky.social’s #OnlineArtExchange. There’s nothing more dramatic than theatre. The energy of the crowd, standing ovations, laughter and tears - maybe even a heckle or two! Share your favourite memory of theatre in the comments🎭

Make It Social: Still Life Collage ✂️ A workshop designed exclusively for students. This event will teach you how to use paper collage to paint a still life! 🖼️ 📆 Friday 7 November, 17:30 - 19:30 📍 Treasures of the Brotherton Last chance to book your ticket here! library.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...

Fancy some Stitch Club? 🪡 Join us for some relaxed stitching and chatting in the small gallery space in the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery. A chance to slow down and enjoy the 'In Touch, with Nature' exhibition. 🌱🧵 Friday 7 November, 12:30 - 15:30 🕰️ Drop-in session, no need to book ✨

Challenge your expectations in this landmark group exhibition Coming next in The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery... 💛 [uz], [uz], [uz]: Artists from Working-Class Backgrounds 💛 Featuring over thirty modern and contemporary artists who were born in or have significant connections to Yorkshire.

Are you heading to a bonfire this Wednesday? 🔥 We've chosen this 'Peasant woman tending a bonfire' for our #MuseumJigsaw as we get excited for the 5 November celebrations. Play here: www.jigsawplanet.com/LULGalleries 🧩 📷 Jean François Millet, Peasant woman tending a bonfire, n.d. LEEUA 1923.065

We're delighted to be hosting... In Conversation: ‘Notions Of Care’ – A Response to Turner Prize 2025 Thursday 27 November 17:30 - 19:30 Treasures of the Brotherton library.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...

Who's your favourite Addams? 🖤⚰️ We're getting into the 'spirit' of Halloween with the stories of W.F. Harvey - the inspiration behind a member of the iconic Addams Family. Can you guess which one? #Halloween

There's still time...⏳ Are you a @universityofleeds.bsky.social student looking for a part-time job? We're looking for a Research Centre and Gallery Assistant. If you have outstanding customer service and an eye for detail, this role could be for you! Apply now! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Death has many connotations, positive and negative, for each culture. It’s fascinating to observe its vast representations! 💀 This has inspired our choice for this week’s theme #spookyart in @artukdotorg.bsky.social's #OnlineArtExchange 👻 How does your culture celebrate the dead and the living? 🩻

Midweek slump? 😴 This is your sign to take a ten min break and fill in our survey with the chance to win £100 in vouchers! 😄💸 Take a moment to explore part of our website and fill our short survey with your thoughts: uk.culturecounts.cc/s/6EscZf/spl... 💭

Last remaining tickets for Life Drawing! 🎟️ Join experienced art tutor Rob Oldfield for a two hour #LifeDrawing class. 🧑‍🎨 The workshop is open to all levels and all materials will be provided. ✏️ Treasures of the Brotherton Saturday 1 November 2025, 14:00 – 16:00 book here: bit.ly/LifeDrawing1...

Beat your Monday blues with our little pick-me-up for #MuseumJigsaw.🧩 In honour of Halloween, we've picked Canto XVI of Dante's Inferno, where Dante and Virgil travel to the seventh circle of Hell and meet those who have been violent towards God. 🔥 Play here: www.jigsawplanet.com/LULGalleries

If you're a @universityofleeds.bsky.social student with an eye for detail and great interpersonal skills, maybe we have the role for you! As a Research Centre & Gallery Assistant you'd provide a professional, friendly welcome to our spaces. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... Apply by 3 November

The leaves are turning orange, and the nights are getting colder. Today’s #OnlineArtExchange is autumn! 🍂🌠 We’re marvelling at the burnt umber colours of ‘A Beech Grove in Autumn’ and the beauty of oak leaves, perhaps England’s most iconic tree. Let us know your favourite tree in the comments🌳

How do you display a collection item so it hangs, as if by magic, in an exhibition case? They say a magician never reveals their secrets, but our Conservation Technician Ellen will let you in on the trick in our latest blog 🪄 leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/m... #BehindTheScenes

It's that time of month again! 📆 Pick up your pencils and get sketching under the wonderful guidance of Rob.✏️ Life Drawing with Rob Oldfield Saturday 1 November, 14:00 - 16:00 Treasures of the Brotherton £13.50. Book your place: library.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...

Got ten mins? We've updated the 'Visit' section of our website, with a focus on providing better access information, and we'd love to know what you think! Fill out our quick survey and be in with a chance of winning a £100 voucher 👇 uk.culturecounts.cc/s/6EscZf/spl... Prize draw closes 1 Nov

In case you missed it! Catch the recording of @rluk.ac.uk's latest Inclusive Collections, Inclusive Libraries seminar here: www.rluk.ac.uk/icil-on-dema... 📹 Listen to how our LGBTQ+ Intern Rosaleen Williams explored queer narratives in our Cultural Collections @universityofleeds.bsky.social

Last few days to apply for one of six Student Internships with our pals @dcch-leeds.bsky.social If you’re a 2nd or 3rd year student @universityofleeds.bsky.social and want to build digital skills while working with our Cultural Collections - apply by 20 October 👇 forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Don’t these photographs look hauntingly beautiful?✨ This week’s #OnlineArtExchange is ghosts and the ethereal in celebration of 'Ghost Objects: Summoning Leighton's Lost Collection' at Leighton House. Explore the collections to see what folktales and legends you can uncover this spooky season.👻🎃

Make it Social: Life Drawing with Rob Oldfield is a free student exclusive event! ✏️ Our beloved art tutor Rob will guide you through some afternoon sketching of the body. All levels welcomed 💪 Saturday 25 October, 14:00 - 16:00 Free! Book your place now: library.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...

We are super excited for our LGBTQ+ intern, Rosaleen, to share what she has been up to in the @rluk.ac.uk seminar on equity and inclusion! 🏳️‍🌈 Tune in to hear Rosaleen discuss her research of queer narratives within the University's Cultural Collections. 📖

And the winner is... At a packed prize-giving event, we announced Alice Boot as the winner of the Friends of University Art and Music Graduate Art Prize 2025 🏆 📷 Alice Boot, ‘Sweeping Fibre’, 2025. ©The Artist.

Only 6 hours until we find out who has won the 2025 FUAM Graduate Art Prize 🥁 Voting has now closed for the People's Choice Award - tonight we'll also be finding out who YOU chose If you're joining us later, do check your inboxes for a full schedule If not, best keep an eye on our socials...

🍂 University life is starting to slow in pace as students get settled in🧑‍🎓 To pay homage to new and old students alike, we’ve chosen the painting ‘The Procession of the Arts (aka Allegory of the Arts and Sciences) for today’s #MuseumJigsaw 🎨🧪 Play now: bit.ly/LULGJigsaws 🧩

Introducing... 'Missed Call' by SASHA 💛 [CW: sexual violence] Over the past year, an inspiring and important group of students made something incredible... inspired by our exhibition, and activism in the archives. [1/7]

"I'm looking for an LGBTQ+ power couple, with 19th century antiques, about 1700 handwritten index cards in sort of Argos catalogue style, and a gallery but it's inside a house?" Well we have just the thing! The newly catalogued Albert Dawson Collection: leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/c...

It's all things #glamour, fashion and stardom ✨ for today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange to celebrate the new Cecil Beaton exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. We think Will Dyson's etching captures the same opulence and drama as seen in Beaton's iconic portraits💎

Film premiere! 🎬 We commissioned SASHA (Students Against Sexual Harassment & Assault) to make an animation inspired by bit.ly/AnimatedActivism Now they invite YOU to be the first to see it, alongside an inspiring evening of art, history, and collaboration 🎟️ library.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...

Applications are now open for six Student Internships with our pals @dcch-leeds.bsky.social If you’re a 2nd or 3rd year student @universityofleeds.bsky.social and want to build digital skills while working with our Cultural Collections - apply now 👇 forms.office.com/pages/respon... Closes 20 Oct

May we present: the rap sheet of Richard del Ker 📜 Alright, not every entry on this Wakefield Manor Court Roll is about Richard, but he does appear an impressive 74 times in court documents between 1285-1325 Discover his *interesting* life on the blog leedsunilibrary.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/r...

Reminder to Vote for FUAM – the People’s Choice Award! 🏅 Vote in gallery or online via bit.ly/VoteFUAM2025 🗳️ YOUR winner of the People's Choice Award will be announced alongside the overall FUAM Graduate Art Prize winner at the prize-giving ceremony on 14 October.

You're invited to the launch of a new animation inspired by activism in the archives 🎥 [CW: mentions of sexual violence] Join SASHA (Students Against Sexual Harassment & Assault) for the premiere of ‘Missed Call’ Friday 10 Oct 17:00 - 21:00 Free and open to all library.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...

It's #celebrations for today's @artukdotorg.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange 🎉 We're spotlighting Mitzi Cunliffe - designer of the iconic BAFTA mask celebrating TV excellence since 1955, and creator of Man-Made Fibres for the #unveiling of a new @universityofleeds.bsky.social building in 1956.

Celebrate the artists of FUAM 2025! ✨ We welcome you to this year's Friends of University Art and Music Graduate Art Prize ceremony. We will announce the winner of the FUAM Graduate Art Prize and the People's Choice Award. Scroll down to have your say!

We were deeply saddened to learn of the death over the weekend of the great Leeds-born poet and dramatist Tony Harrison, at the age of 88. Born in Beeston in 1937, Harrison won a scholarship to Leeds Grammar School and later enrolled as a student at @universityofleeds.bsky.social in the late 1950s.

New to Leeds - or never visited us before? Get to know our current exhibition, with someone in the know! Farwa is a local artist, current staff member, and a previous student at @fahacs.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social ✨ Take her tour around the FUAM 2025 Graduate Art Prize 👇 [1/4]

Are you a cat person or a dog person? 🐱 🐶 We're asking the hard questions for today's #animals #OnlineArtExchange @artukdotorg.bsky.social Let us know in the replies 👇 📷 N.B., Cats in a Basket, n.d. GS/15/02/1985/1 @beamishmuseum.bsky.social 📷 J. Hepworth, Dogs in a Stable, 1835. LEEUA 2002.059

Researcher Opportunities!! Are you a researcher with a background in the arts and humanities? Are you interested in exploring and showcasing world-leading cultural collections? Do you have experience in both academic research and engagement? Last few days to apply for our 2025-26 Fellowships 👇

The vibrancy of a petal. The shape of a leaf. The trace of an artist’s finger. How does nature feel? In Touch, with Nature documents the experiences of a group of Leeds women as they explored art and nature on campus 🌻 [1/6]

Opportunity alert 📢 Are you a student looking to gain experience in museums & galleries? Would you like a paid, part-time internship, designed to fit alongside your studies? We're looking for a new group of student interns to support our exhibitions and events during the 2025/26 academic year 👇

Call us biased, but there's no #building more impressive than a well-stocked library Here's the columned reading room of Birmingham Reference Library alongside our very own Brotherton Library @leedsunilibraries.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social #OnlineArtExchange @artukdotorg.bsky.social

Fibres, fishing nets, and our final FUAM 2025 finalist... It’s Alice Boot! ⭐️ Explore scavenged sculptures, inspired by the seashore, as they explain the influences behind the artworks 🐚 It's a personal insight into creative practice and studying @universityofleeds.bsky.social @fahacs.bsky.social

Researcher Opportunities!! Are you a researcher with a background in the arts and humanities? Are you interested in exploring and showcasing world-leading cultural collections? Do you have experience in both academic research and engagement? Applications are now open for our 2025-26 Fellowships 👇

How can we explore the queer possibilities of the medieval past? Try our LGBTQ+ intern Rosaleen's incredible new deepdive 🌈 Her research traverses medieval manuscripts, stories, poetry and the lives of saints and historical figures... 🪶 Get stuck in! Read here: library.leeds.ac.uk/special-coll...

Visiting us this morning? Please note, we're a little late opening, as we carry out some essential maintenance. We hope to reopen as soon as possible, and will let you know here when we do! Thanks for your patience 🫶

Go behind-the-scenes of the curatorial process in this special conversation event with Leeds-based artist Sarah Roberts and curator RJ Wade Thursday 18 September, 17:30 - 18:30 Treasures of the Brotherton Free. Book your place: library.leeds.ac.uk/events/event... #BehindTheScenes

Paid student opportunities!! If you're a @universityofleeds.bsky.social student looking to gain experience in museums & galleries, or know someone who is, check out the links below: Exhibitions Interns - mycareer.leeds.ac.uk/leap/app/job... Events Interns - mycareer.leeds.ac.uk/leap/app/job...