Arts

Co-ordination of the arts on a more day-to-day basis is mainly carried out by the ARTS COUNCIL, which arranges a huge range of performances, exhibitions, movies, galleries and workshops. The Island has a thriving artistic community of highly successful painters, sculptors, crafters and photographers - too numerous to mention individually - but many of them exhibit regularly at venues such as the manx Museum, the Courtyard Gallery at St Johns, a number of small galleries and the all-Island Easter Art Show. Some artists feel our cultural development is being held back by a lack of practical encouragement and public viewing arenas but in general, things have moved on dramatically since the early twentieth century.