Rural Arts Appoints New Director
Organisation welcomes back former colleague, Max May Angela Hall in front of the Rural Arts Processions banner commissioned by Artichoke Trust and made in 2018 to celebrate 100 years of votes for women. Angela Hall, who founded Thirsk-based Rural Arts over 25 years ago, is stepping down as Director of the organisation. The position will be taken up by Max May, the organisation’s former Communications and Engagement Officer and a past intern at Rural Arts, who returns to his home town of Thirsk from London. May is appointed with immediate effect. Angela Hall, who set up Rural Arts in 1993 with the support of the Rural Communities Council (renamed Community First Yorkshire), leaves the organisation to focus on her own creative work, with exhibitions planned later this year. Angela explains: “Rural Arts reaches the people other organisations can’t – I’ve run workshops in fields, set up dark rooms in people’s toilets, and worked in army tents with only fairy l