The Community Art Project

The Community Art Project (CAP) is part of Darlington Borough Council’s Day Opportunities within the Adult Learning Disability Service.

It provides an opportunity for people with learning disabilities to try out and pursue various visual arts activities with guidance and encouragement from a professional artist.

CAP is open to anyone who has an interest in trying out arts activities even if they have never done so before.

It's geared towards each person’s needs and interests and aims to encourage people to make their own choices and decisions, to work at their own pace and the best of their abilities.

Those involved can explore painting, drawing, printing, photography and digital art, and can make work in various media. It aims to facilitate as far as possible, whatever ideas artists there generate and express.

CAP regularly share exhibitions locally, in the North East, nationally in Brighton, London, Glasgow, and overseas in Munich and New York.

Artists from CAP won first and second prizes in the 2019 Outside In National Open Exhibition – judged by Grayson Perry amongst others.

Having previously met at Darlington Arts Centre, then the Bridge Centre for Visual Arts, CAP is now based at Links and Foundations in Darlington, full addresses below.

Links
Brinkburn Road
Darlington
DL3 6DY

and

Foundations
Salters Lane
Darlington
DL1 3DT

To contact the community art project:

• telephone 01325 468877
• e-mail [email protected]
• got to the community art project page to find out more