Art Doctors’ Toolkit for Gallery Visits

Arts Together is a group of arts and community organisations who are working together to ensure that the arts in Leeds and beyond are as welcoming and accessible as possible to groups of people who might usually have barriers to engaging with them.
Art Doctors is an Arts Together initiative through which are created a series of short films that showcase the activities from their Toolkit for Gallery Visits, a silly and irreverent take on making art galleries more fun for grown ups. Together with the Leeds Art Gallery community and the Arts and Minds Network, Art Doctors have been wearing art specs and slippers, finding places to sleep, writing stories, making mini-sculptures and listening to music. The films are aimed at people who may not feel comfortable in cultural institutions, or who may not feel ownership of them, and there are now 11 short films to to watch on YouTube. The Art Doctors hope the films will encourage people to visit galleries again now that they are open, and to experience the buildings and the art works.