In 2024, Creative Black Country solidified a meaningful partnership with whg (Walsall Housing Group) to launch a new artist-in-residence initiative. Hosted across their recently opened over-55s wellbeing schemes, Lockside Pointe in Walsall and Nightingale House in Wolverhampton…

From May 2024 to May 2025, Art Road Trip – the National Gallery’s travelling art studio – visited 18 locations across the UK. In March 2025, the colourful mobile studio rolled into the Black Country for two lively weeks of creative activity in Walsall and Wolverhampton.

In early 2022, Wolverhampton became a vibrant hub of artistic expression through Offsite 9, a programme initiated by Creative Black Country as a local response to the visiting British Art Show 9. Running from January to April, Offsite 9 showcased an array of creative works that transformed city spaces into immersive art experiences. ​

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After a 12-month project focused on regenerating a forgotten area of Wolverhampton using multiple arts interventions including; light, sound, sculpture, murals, AR, and a community garden, Asylum Art Gallery are ready to unveil the final artist’s work in the Chapel Ash island underpass.

Final briefing as the team get ready for the volunteer Open Morning at the Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton.

Some of Wolverhampton’s brightest young creative talent had chance to show off their skills at this year’s Same Difference festival in the city’s West Park.

In the Dining Room at Wightwick Manor with today’s deaf and hard of hearing guests finding out about volunteering.

Since developing CBC’s pilot project ENTER as part of Cultural Bridge in 2021, a partnership programme between UK and Germany, CBC have been rediscovering the importance of building European relationships in the Black Country, and how we do this differently.  

Getting crafty at Wolverhampton Art Festival 2023 in Victoria Street in the city centre.

In this podcast we talk to Artist, Producer and Creator of Jambo Cinema Dawinder Bansal.

A film produced by Jack Smallwood portrays the emotions expressed by D/deaf people via a new short BSL poem. The poem tackles the concept of dual identity with D/deafness in relation to selfhood and features people who are deaf/hard of hearing and are born, raised and live in Wolverhampton.

Photo Gallery: Imagine Wolves was a collaboration between artists Leanne O’Connor and Ewan Johnston born out of discussions and research in to re-imagined futures and ways of togetherness for Wolverhampton and its people.

Photo Gallery: To round off the Offsite9 activities musician and composer Ni Singh invited people to join him for an evening of immersive sounds, visuals and performance at Newhampton Arts Centre.

Audiences were invited to follow Rudie, Maria, Jeevan and Scott as they aimed to make their own journeys to Wolverhampton, all in different eras, experiencing Windrush, Brexit and the "really hostile environment" in the new performance called Wander.

Photo Gallery: A Euphoric Happening aimed to capture euphoric moments through dance, music and visual media embracing themes of healing and togetherness in a double bill event of Euphoria and Visions at Arena Theatre in Wolverhampton City Centre.

Photo gallery and Video: Sahjan Kooner’s work for Offsite9 explored the relationships between migration, technology and lineage through a new video installation titled Frozen Archive for MOON/ish.exe.

Artist Sukhjeven Chumber displayed a series of photographs at Light House which were taken at a Black Lives Matter protest at West Park, Wolverhampton during the first Covid-19 Lockdown in 2020.