We’re delighted to share a glimpse into Outside In, the beautiful immersive experience created by Gazebo Theatre as part of their journey on the Black Country Digital Firsts programme.

As the first cohort of groups taking part in Making our Mark has now ended, it feels like the right moment to pause, reflect and celebrate the creativity, care and connection that has been unfolding across Walsall.

What makes a city more than bricks and buildings? The people. We Are Wolverhampton is a photographic portrait project capturing the soul of the city, one face and one conversation at a time.

Tucked behind bamboo blinds at The Ruskin Glass Centre in Amblecote, The Limpetarium is a hidden Dudley gem, a contemporary cabinet of curiosities devoted to limpets that quietly reframes these humble sea-snails as poetic symbols of the town’s deep and unexpected connection to the sea.

This April, creativity takes flight at Glebefields Library as families are invited to step into a world of imagination, invention and play.

We’re inviting Walsall-based creatives, community groups and heritage organisations to apply for Walsall Beyond, a new £18,000 digital commission delivered in partnership with The Space as part of Making Our Mark.

Wolverhampton-based artist and illustrator Kanj Nicholas brings her nature-inspired, multidisciplinary practice to children’s publishing with Imagine If We Could Fly, a vibrant debut book that blends delicate watercolour and heartfelt storytelling to encourage young readers, and the adults around them, to create freely and without fear.

Wolverhampton-based multidisciplinary artist Victoria Murrain is embracing a long-delayed creative path, using ceramics and painting to chart a powerful story of reinvention, self-belief and the freedom to begin again at any age.

Odette Campbell is well known for her community-rooted crafting and crochet work, but a recent shift in her practice has seen her embrace a strikingly bold and rhythmic technique from the past, Bargello.

Creative Black Country is inviting proposals for an exciting new commission that will help shape how we understand, measure and share the impact of creativity across Sandwell.

Working under the name Bag Lord, Wolverhampton-based artist and activist Ewan Johnston channels instinctive, politically charged poster art into the city’s streets, using humour and confrontation to question power, respond to local and national issues and imagine what else might be possible.

From childhood sketches of fungi to bold industrial tape artworks that celebrate overlooked architecture, Claire Buckerfield’s creative journey is one of reinvention, resilience, and pride in place.

After arriving in Wolverhampton as a refugee from Ukraine in 2022, Natasha Stoianovska transformed grief and displacement into a powerful multidisciplinary practice, using painting, poetry, and storytelling to explore trauma, resilience, and the connective force of art across borders.

Through support from the Creative Black Country’s Creative Communities strand, the Creative Moms Support Network recently delivered a series of creative wellbeing sessions designed specifically for mothers of neurodivergent and SEND children across the Black Country.

This March, Gazebo Theatre invite audiences to do just that with the premiere of a new immersive projection experience ‘Outside In’ inspired by nature and the changing seasons.

In February, Wild Earth Movement hosted a free Weekend Wellbeing Workshop at Merry Hill, inviting people to step away from screens and spend a calm, creative morning learning the art of junk journalling.

Artist Jo Essen facilitated 4 workshops in Bilston at the latter end of 2025 supported by our Creative Communities strand of work. This is Your Crafternoon at Bilston Library was all about collaboration, co-creation and community.

On a cold February afternoon, Glebefields Library was transformed into a pocket of colour and creativity as part of Three 15’s growing programme in Tipton.

Inside Voices Pls! Is an evening of performances showcasing female identifying experience all around ‘Resilience’ for International Women’s Month held at Wolverhampton Arts Centre.

Are you a creative business or creator in the Walsall area? If so, applications for the brand-new Guildhall Incubation Programme are now open!