Scarborough
Civic Society has been working to develop a significant heritage project to
celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012. Today, Scarborough &
District Civic Society has received an award of £9,900 from the Heritage
Lottery Fund (HLF) for an exciting project, “Paint the Town”.
Led
by volunteers from the local community, the project focuses on the glorious
heritage of Scarborough using paintings from Scarborough’s Art Gallery.
Local people will be able to choose the final selection of paintings.
With the support
of Scarborough Museums Trust and Scarborough Borough Council, high quality
replicas of some of the Scarborough
Art Gallery
collection will be displayed in outdoor spaces. Artists such as John Atkinson
Grimshaw who lived and worked in Scarborough
will feature in the heritage art trail. The Scarborough
Art Gallery
has a wealth of information about Scarborough's
heritage both in terms of places and people. However only a limited selection
of the population visit the Scarborough
Art Gallery.
This project will present our heritage to a wider audience when Scarborough will become a huge outdoor art gallery in the
summer of 2012.
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