{"id":480761,"date":"2026-03-17T18:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480761\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T18:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:06:08","slug":"sunderland-glass-centre-gallery-to-move-into-new-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/480761\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunderland Glass Centre gallery to move into new home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The site had been due to open in autumn 2025 but Sunderland City Council pushed it back in November to &#8220;the first half of 2026&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The University of Sunderland&#8217;s deputy vice chancellor of operations Andrea Walters said NGCA&#8217;s move to the Culture House would ensure the university remained &#8220;central&#8221; to the city&#8217;s &#8220;ambitious cultural landscape&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prof Kevin Petrie, the university&#8217;s strategic lead for creative practice research, said the team planned to bring a &#8220;diverse range of visual art&#8221; to the gallery&#8217;s programme. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also said they planned to use the space to teach students and get them experience working with curators and artists. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Labour councillor Beth Jones said Culture House was set to become a &#8220;real focal point&#8221; for Sunderland residents and visitors, bringing international artists and increasing footfall in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The site had been due to open in autumn 2025 but Sunderland City Council pushed it back in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-480761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}