Red Sand - Arts Management

YoMü Visual Arts Festival took place in York in August 07, featuring exhibitions, installations, artist talks and interventions around the city.

YoMü was an artist-led festival that supported the development of professional artistic practice and explored new ways of engaging with the audience. Working in diverse media, the festival artists represented a range of skills and experience. Some were recent graduates, others exhibit internationally.

Over the ten days of the festival around 40 new projects were created, including sudio work, interventions and installations.

Kirsty Halliday was on the management team for the festival and was the Workshop Manager throughout, overseeing the studio and exhibition spaces in the Guildhall.

Ten working studio spaces were set up and artists created new work on site and around the city over the ten days of the festival. There were also exhibitions by Yorkshire artists and designers, including Jake Attree, Chris Brace and Graham Martin and a small collection of Joseph Beuys photographs, objects and multiples, curated by Klaus Tesching.

Kirsty also oversaw the recruitment and coordination of the festival crew, a team of volunteer stewards, technicians and invigilators.