The Welcome Arch has been longlisted for the Riba Journal MacEwan Award!

12th December 2024

Small Business Day 2024 – Our Indie Picks!

4th December 2024

Celebrate Lancashire Day 2024

26th November 2024

Art in Manufacturing Open Call for an Artist Residency with Darwen Terracotta & Faience

31st October 2024

Vote for us in the 2024 UK Festival Awards!

10th October 2024

2025 Festival Dates Released!

11th July 2024

Art in Manufacturing: Extended Exhibition Opening Times

11th July 2024

We want your colour! Join Margo Selby’s Living Colour Chart

10th July 2024

Designer-Makers Dual Works Announced for Pendle Festival of Culture and National Festival of Making Co-Commission

24th April 2024

Blackburn Urban Food Futures

26th March 2024

Basket Weaving Workshop with Cherry Chung

21st February 2024

Tufting Workshop with Alena Ruth Donely

21st February 2024

Future Makers Challenge – Live Brief 2024: Calling all students and tutors!

18th February 2024

Opportunity: Creative Alliance Internship

15th February 2024

Opportunity: Bookkeeper and Administrative Role

15th February 2024

Pajaki Making Workshop with Karolina Merska

5th February 2024

The Hobby Cave: Hetain Patel and Artangel invite the public to join the loudest presentation of our quiet pastimes.

24th January 2024

Art in Manufacturing Open Call for Artist Residency with Standfast & Barracks. A Co-Commission with the National Festival of Making and British Textile Biennial.

19th January 2024

Open Call For New Festival Commission: A Co-Commission with the Festival of Culture and National Festival of Making

19th January 2024

Tell us about your hobby and join the loudest presentation of our quiet pastimes.

5th December 2023

Small Biz Day 2023 – Our Maker Picks!

27th November 2023

Days out in the North of England with us…for free!

1st November 2023

The Art of ‘Manufacturing’ Strong Community Ties in Blackburn

1st November 2023

Vote for us in the UK Festival Awards!

3rd October 2023

Art in Manufacturing Season 5 Artists Revealed

19th May 2023

We’re Hiring! 4 New Opportunities To Join The National Festival Of Making Team

20th April 2023

Open Call for Artist Residencies with Cardboard Box Company and SWS UK

9th March 2023

National Festival of Making + Studio Critical: Spoon Carving Workshop

1st March 2023

Open Call Opportunities for the National Festival of Making 2023

20th February 2023

National Festival of Making + byUMBERTO: Sign Writing Workshop

10th February 2023

Clayful: National Festival of Making + Hollie Cooper Pottery Workshop

26th January 2023

Festival of Making Community Interest Company joins Arts Council England as a National Portfolio Organisation

4th November 2022

Assembly: Contemporary Sculpture Workshop with Maisie Pritchard

22nd September 2022

Chair of the Board of Directors: Jamie Holman

3rd August 2022

2022 Festival Dates Released!

24th January 2022

Adorning with Clay: Ceramic Jewellery Workshop Series

13th October 2021

The National Festival of Making are recruiting Event Hosts

30th July 2021

Inspired and Inspirational – Four New Board Members Revealed On International Women’s Day

8th March 2021

Creative & Cultural Skills – Live Brief

11th January 2021

Apply to join our Board of Directors

11th November 2020

Join artist Sarah Hardacre in an online collage workshop

16th October 2020

Graduate Micro Commissions Revealed

14th October 2020

The National Festival of Making work with partners to deliver activity boxes transforming to desks to Pennine Lancashire Children

14th September 2020

Lancashire Emerging Artists: Open Call for Graduate Micro-Commissions

13th August 2020

Blackburn Art School’s Degree Show Goes Digital

3rd June 2020

Building Big Ideas: Tim Denton joins Art In Manufacturing Season Four

1st April 2020

Postponement of the National Festival of Making

18th March 2020

We have taken the difficult decision to postpone the National Festival of Making, due to take place on Sat 6 – Sun 7 June 2020, due to the developing situation

Hannah Leighton Boyce takes up residence at Darwen Terracotta for Art in Manufacturing

30th January 2020

Art in Manufacturing Season Four – first commissioned artist revealed

26th September 2019

Call for Expression of Interest – Art in Manufacturing Season Four

2nd August 2019

The National Festival of Making and Super Slow Way are inviting Expressions of Interest from Artists for Season Three of Art in Manufacturing

Disrupting the everyday – reflections on Art in Manufacturing

15th July 2019

INDUSTRIALISED: Art in Manufacturing in the Gallery

16th May 2019

Art In Manufacturing Q&A: Dan Edwards and The Senator Group

3rd May 2019

Get to know our Street Food Traders for 2019!

3rd May 2019

Art In Manufacturing Q&A: Amy Pennington and Heritage Envelopes

2nd May 2019

Art In Manufacturing Q&A: Anna Ray and Forbo

1st May 2019

Art In Manufacturing Q&A: Liz Wilson and Spiroflow

30th April 2019

Art In Manufacturing Q&A: Daksha Patel and Blackburn Yarn Dyers

29th April 2019

Press Release: The Maker’s Market Returns for 2019

26th April 2019

Our carefully curated market of food, fashion, arts and crafts returns for this year's festival.

Press Release: Art in Manufacturing Artists and Factories Revealed

12th April 2019

National Festival of Making Receives Arts Council England Funding for both 2019 and 2020

8th April 2019

Open Call. Industrialised; Art in Manufacturing in the Gallery

4th February 2019

Artists Exhibition Open Call

STOP PRESS! Lancashire looks forward to the new June 2019 Festival of Making

27th November 2018

Call Out for Expressions of Interest from Artists for Season Three of Art in Manufacturing

27th November 2018

Artist Open Call

Festival of Making Gallery Now LIVE

7th June 2018

Relive a magical weekend of making

Listen to Martyn Ware’s Church of Rare Souls Soundscape

17th May 2018

His exclusive piece for the National Festival of Making is now available to download

The First Pictures Are Here!

12th May 2018

And they're BEAUTIFUL

Podcast masterminds Arrest All Mimics meet Nicola Ellis

8th May 2018

The first in our specially commissioned podcasts!

GET READY TO MAKE!

4th May 2018

Download the full programme now!

MAKE PLANS for The National Festival of Making!

30th April 2018

over 140 making activities announced for 2018!

Get High-Tech and Hands-On with STEAM

21st April 2018

Dismantle a virtual jet engine, wrestle with robotics or get hands-on with cutting-edge technologies

Martyn Ware Seeks Memories of Tony’s Ballroom

12th April 2018

Dancing the night away - send us your memories, mementoes and music from Tony’s Empress Ballroom

Amazing Makers at the National Festival of Making

12th April 2018

The best in lovingly-made street food, fashion, arts and crafts.

Lancashire Makers and Memories Wanted

9th April 2018

for The Making of a South Asian Wedding

Performance at the National Festival of Making

2nd April 2018

Vaiven Circo, The Urban Arts Experience and much more!

The National Festival of Making Returns

1st February 2018

Following an incredible 2017, the second edition of the National Festival of Making will return to Blackburn, Lancashire, on 12 and 13 May 2018.

(The National Festival of) Making a Difference in Blackburn

19th January 2018

Blackburn town centre played host to the first National Festival of Making in 2017, but what impact did it have for the town?