Did you know that Horace our Ice Age Elk’s complete skeleton was found by accident in July 1970 when John Devine demolished an old bungalow to begin work on a new family home? 🦌

CALL OUT: Harris Youth Panel Artist

The Harris is looking for a graffiti artist, street artist, muralist, designer or illustrator

Expressions of interest by Tuesday, 30 April
Application Deadline: Friday, 31 May 2024

More info: theharris.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

The Harris is home to a wide range of exciting ceramic pieces!

This ceramic teapot commemorates Preston North End's victory against Huddersfield in the 1938 FA Cup Final. An estimated 80,000 people turned out to welcome the victorious club home ⚽

Today marks #NationalPetDay so we couldn’t resist marking the occasion by sharing this wonderful painting ‘Blacksmith at Work’ by Richard Holmes showing a blacksmith at work surrounded by animals. 🐶🐎

What pets do you have? 🐩 Let us know in the comments below 🐎

This week's #OnlineArtExchange theme is mythical creatures so we have chosen this painting from our collection named ‘Man Attacking a Dragon’ and if you look closely you can see the head of a dragon which a man attacks with a spear. 🐉

Art UK

Join Hanover Project and The University of Central Lancashire - UCLan for 'the in with in' exhibition that compromises of painting, sculpture, video and sound. 🎞️

📌It includes the first digital work acquired by The Harris, Lucy Gunning's Climbing Round My Room, from 1993.

#Exhibition #Preston #DigitalArts

Happy National Siblings Day! To celebrate this occasion, we’re sharing this #archive image of the Mooney Siblings, taken during the Juvenile Fancy Ball in 1897.

In this portrait, we can see Kathleen dressed as Pierette, whilst her brother Gerald is dressed as Pierrot 🤡

Great news! 🎉

Encounter Festival returns on the 21 - 22 September 2024 and you are invited to be part of it! This is a Community Participation call out to be part of the Torchlight Procession. Interested? Email [email protected] 📧

📸 Michael Porter

The 18th century saw the development of many new types of pottery, including this slipware cradle, likely gifted to a newly married couple to wish them good fortune 💖

To learn more about The Harris’ vast collection of ceramics, check out our website 👉 bit.ly/43dvKXB

Library assistant Janet has reviewed ‘When the Lights Go Out’ by Carys Bray as part of the North West Reads book series which celebrates authors from #Lancashire and the North West. 📚

🔗Read more: bit.ly/3JbKHAl

#Artist call out 📢

Call out for a graffiti artist, street artist, muralist, designer or illustrator 🎨

📌Deadline for expressions of interest: Tuesday, 30 April
📌Deadline for application: Friday, 31 May 2024

🔗 Find out more: bit.ly/3RM81YA

#CreativeJobs

This scene, captured in watercolour by the brilliant Edwin Robert Beattie (1845 - 1917), is called ‘The River Ribble Looking Towards the Docks and Penwortham Church’ ⛪

Painted in 1902, this piece was added to our vast Beattie collection in 1957.

We have zoomed in on an image of one of our collection items, but which one is it? 🔎🏛️

Let us know your best guesses in the comments and the answer will be revealed soon… 👀

📌© the artist

Join The University of Central Lancashire - UCLan for the 170th anniversary of The Great Preston Lockout.

📅14th May at 5:45pm
🎫 bit.ly/3U6mTUX

Looking stunning! Cannot wait to see the full results of the transformation if this is just a glimpse 👀🏛️