Inspire me
Coming soon!
Here are some websites we like, to keep you inspired until then…
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- Andrea Lord
- Andrea is a very gifted textile artist based at the Manchester Craft Centre. She has run fabric cup-cake workshops for WEA.
- Axis Graphic Design
- Axis design the most beautiful art and photography books you're ever likely to see. They also designed this gorgeous website for us.
- Cornerhouse
- Art, film, books, food, drink. And very good educational courses on art, film and politics.
- Creative Review
- Creative design at its best.
- Creative Tourist
- Manchester's guide for the creative tourist.
- Dazed and Confused Magazine
- This is the digital site of the seminal Dazed and Confused magazine.
- Etsy
- The place to buy and sell all things hand-made.
- Fred Aldous
- Based in the Northern Quarter, here you can buy buy all the weird art and craft stuff you could ever need, under one roof. They also sell Lomos!
- Hot Bed Press
- Hot Bed Press is a not-for-profit, open access print workshop, dedicated to supporting anyone with an interest in printmaking.
- Lucy May Schofield
- Lucy makes delightful hand-made books. She has also run various, and popular, book-making workshops for WEA.
- Manchester Digital Laboratory
- The Madlab is a community space for people who want to do and make interesting stuff - a place for geeks, artists, designers, illustrators, hackers, tinkerers, innovators and idle dreamers.
- Mslexia Magazine
- Mslexia is an independent publishing company that provides information and inspiration for published and unpublished women in the UK and beyond.
- People's History Museum
- Because 'there have always been ideas worth fighting for'.
- Peripheral Vision: Diary of a Project
- Our latest project: We're so excited about our latest WEA Creative project, that we've decided to keep a diary!
- Selvedge Magazine
- Bi-monthly textiles magazine - for the fabric of your life.
- Spiritoso: Tell me that story
- Bernie Kennedy's blog
- Tate Liverpool
- How lucky are we to have this fabulous gallery in the North West?
- The Encyclopaedia of Informal Learning
- This site will be of interest to those wishing to learn more about the thinkers, ideas and practice in informal education.
- The Modernist
- If you love the 20th century architecture and design, from Cheshire to Cumbria, Blackpool to Blackburn... Manchester, Liverpool, Preston and the rest, the modernist magazine is just the ticket.
- The original WEA Creative blog.
- The blog that started it all! Why not see if our famous roundup of the latest creative news for the North West, can inspire you to take the first step on your own learning journey.
- The Public Reviews
- Theatre reviews by you, for you. Some of our learners have written for this influential site.
- Whitworth Art Gallery
- Home to some of the UK's finest collections of art and design including modern and historic fine art, prints, textiles and a rare collection of wallpapers.