Degree shows now/soon: Northumbria University BA Fine Art Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (22 – 26 May; PV 22 May) and Northumbria Uni (22 – 27 May (PV 22 May); Emerging Talent 📷Teesside University (until 17 May); Exposure pythongallery (until 25 May). See all here: anne.art/event/degree-s…

Events upcoming: Communities of Practice 📷 Newcastle Contemporary Art (18 May, 2 – 5pm); Bottle of Notes Roadshow Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (18 May, 11am – 3pm); The Late Shows, across Newcastle & Gateshead (17 – 18 May; see anne.art/event/the-late… for individual events)

The North East Emerging Artist Award exhibition is open now @SeatonDelavalNT — good luck to all shortlisted artists.

Opening soon in the North East: Lena Archbold: Felting Connections ACW (23 May – 29 Jun); Eternal Ascent: Bentley Beetham and the 1924 Mount Everest Expedition Durham University Things To Do (24 May – 15 Sep); Lowry and the Sea 📷 @MaltingsVA. Full info at anne.art/whats-on

Events upcoming: Education in Crisis 3: Creative Industries Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (23 May); Sarah Jenkins: The Wandering and the Madness 📷@N_B_Project (24 May); Tees Zine Fest Navigator North (25 May) Lowry and the Sea with Jonathan Horwich Maltings Berwick (26 May).

Addenda: also upcoming across the North East: Lesley Hicks: Between Here and There @platfmagallery 📷(24 May – 4 July; PV tonight); 'Rooted' panel discussion Dovecote Street Arts (25 May); Michael Rakowitz: The Waiting Gardens of the North Closing Celebration (25 May) Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art

Opening soon in Newcastle: Colour Field: Kirsty Adams, Jill Campbell & Katie Mawson at Gallagher & Turner, 31 May – 6 Jul (PV tonight); C.Mae Bloom: 'A picture of space with the stars cut out, pasted over a window, in full daylight' at 36 Gallery 📷, 1 – 9 Jun (PV 31 May)

Opening soon in Northumberland: 'Field' at The Boatshed, Berwick-upon-Tweed, 1 – 9 Jun; 'Hagg' at Duke’s Hagg Wood, Prudhoe, 📷1 – 2 June. See these and more at anne.art/whats-on

Last chance! Closing Sat: Wildlife Photographer of the Year Sunderland Museum; 'She Shall Be Called Woman' & 'Dressing Room No.1' Bishop Town Hall; 'Songs of Place and Time', Gateshead Library; Hexham & District Photographic Society & Photo Open Queen's Hall Arts, Hexham; 'Rooted' 📷 Dovecote Street Arts

What’s the academy for? After van-loads of police removed students from Newcastle University's campus last week, the university closed its Fine Art degree show to its own graduating students last weekend, half-way through its run. Read our editorial: anne.art/whats-the-acad…

We're seeking international experts to join the Contested Desires Ethics Advisory Group to help guide the programme through ethical considerations - please share with your networks, thanks! >>>d6culture.org/contested-desi…

Opening soon in Newcastle & Gateshead: 'Motherother' @N_B_Project (8 Jun – 10 Aug; PV 7 Jun); 'Artful Struggles: Contemporary Art From Sri Lanka', Gateshead Library 📷(8 Jun – 27 Jul); Newcastle College degree shows Newcastle Contemporary Art (6 – 8 Jun) & Assembly House (8 – 20 Jun; PV 7 Jun)

Opening soon / just opened in Northumberland: 'Lost and Found' Queen's Hall Arts, Hexham 📷(5 – 22 Jun; launch event 8 Jun); Christy Burdock: 'Labour of Love' VARC (8 – 9 Jun). Full details of these and more: anne.art/whats-on

Events upcoming: School of the Damned: Ephemeral Art, Enduring Collective 📷 @TheLubber (8 Jun); Bottle of Notes Vox Pop Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (8 Jun); Botanical walk and drawing workshop, Killhope Lead Mining Museum (8 Jun). Full details of these and more: anne.art/whats-on

Opening tomorrow in Newcastle & Gateshead — Hannah Perry: 'Manual Labour' 📷 Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (22 Jun – 14 Jan); Eleanor Cully Boehringer & Craig Stewart Johnson: 'Nothing but the blurb', 36 Gallery 36 Lime Street (22 – 30 Jun)

Opening soon — Matt Denham: 'Hot Contents' 📷 Crown Street Art Gallery, Darlington (20 Jun – 18 Jul); Summer Exhibition 2024, The Old School Gallery, Alnmouth (25 Jun – 1 Sep); Sonic Arts Week, across Middlesbrough, by The Auxiliary (22 – 29 Jun). See more: anne.art/whats-on

Events upcoming: Art + Social No. 17 📷 Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (tonight, 5 – 7pm); Crits at the Dovecote Centre (25 Jun, 7 – 9pm); Writing Art Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (26 Jun, 6 – 8pm)

In this weekends Financial Times FT Weekend ‘The middle of somewhere. Massive thank you to Josh K Lustig Really lovely to see the work / story of rural class out there. Currently on Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art until November 17th.

Our 'Writing Art' event tonight with Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art and Lesley Guy Corridor8 has sold out. If you're keen to hear about future iterations, or to be first to know if spaces become available for the rest of the six sessions, sign up to our mailing list at anne.art

📢 You can now sort exhibitions on our website to see what's opening or closing soon. Cool, huh? Here's what's opening in the next week: anne.art/whats-on/?_eve…