Ruthin Craft Centre

Your vote for Ruthin Craft Centre will count !

Ruthin Craft Centre’s campaign to win the prestigious Art Fund Prize award for museums and galleries is entering its final few weeks and Denbighshire County Council is asking people to get online and vote.

The Art Fund Prize recognises and stimulates originality and excellence in museums and galleries in the UK, and aims to increase public appreciation and enjoyment of all they have to offer.

A single award of £100,000 is presented to a museum or gallery whose entry best meets the Prize criteria through a project completed or mainly undertaken in the previous calendar year.

To vote for Ruthin Craft Centre, please visit: www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign  or www.ruthincraftcentre.org.uk  The winner will be announced on June 18th.

Denbighshire County Council invites you to attend a special presentation of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) award for architectural excellence, which is being made to Ruthin Craft Centre tomorrow at 4.30pm.

The Ruthin Craft Centre was one of only two winners in Wales and the presentation will be attended by Chair of Denbighshire County Council, Councillor Joan Butterfield, representatives from architects Sergison Bates and Gavin Harris, Mayor of Ruthin Town Council.

The new Centre, which is all on the ground level, is set around a courtyard and gives Ruthin Craft Centre three new galleries, a substantial retail gallery, a café, six artist studios and educational and residency facilities.This innovative building, designed by the award-winning architects Sergison Bates, is itself an example of the finest craftsmanship and puts Ruthin yet more firmly at the centre of contemporary applied art.

Ruthin Craft Centre received a £3.15 million Capital Lottery Grant from the Arts Council of Wales, one of the largest grants of its kind in North Wales. The other funders are: the Welsh Assembly Government (Department of Economy and Transport), Denbighshire County Council, Ruthin Town Council and Cadwyn Clwyd.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Karen Allen

Swyddog Cyfarthrebiadau Corfforaethol / Corporate Communications Officer