Leeds Visit

Today we went to Leeds. We filmed many spots around Leeds. But the main reason we went to Leeds was to visit the Leeds Art Gallery and interview Amanda Phillips the Educational person at Leeds Art Gallery: These are the questions and answers we asked her and she answered;

1. what type of audience do you appeal to? well we have many types of audiences, including people who are confident with art, but also frequent visitors and schools and colleges. We also have people who just come to our cafe.
2. How do you go about pleasing them? We aim to inspire them, entertain them and challenge them. But we also hold special events and we change our exhibitions every so often.
3. How has technology influenced how you work at the art gallery? It has its bad sides and good sides, its made communication faster and its easier to collect art and store work.But its made it harder because artists are getting more technical with there work and its more expensive to hold there work.
4. Have you introduced new ways of advertising in recent years, for example Facebook and Twitter sites? yes, we use Twitter but we ave found over the years that word and mouth is much more effective . 
5. How do you connect to different community's within Leeds and beyond? we used to have international relationship but over the years that bond has given up. Now only 30 pieces of art go international a year. But we work with Arts Link to develop audiences.
6. The gallery is free, how do you fund the gallery and its project? We sometimes hire spaces out like the conference rooms, but the council pay the salary's of the workers. We also have a donation box for any money.hat creative process is involved in creating an exhibition? well all of our workers are creative and we all stick together to create projects, but what is creative process?
7. How do you contact the artists? They contact us and there are lots that do want to put there art in our gallery.
8. What space do you decide on for a project? Well it all depends on the size of the room, how important it is,the theme of the project, the practicality of the project and any-other ideas we have.
9. What merchandise do you have and how do you promote it? We don't promote the stuff we have because... well its all down to money.
10. Do you have a age limit? No we let anyone into the workshops old or baby's.
11. How do you know when a exhibition is a success? we never know, we have comments books so that people can say what they liked or disliked about the exhibition.
12. What do you class as a failed exhibition? We don't , we can never tell.