About mima friends

mima friends is a registered charity that supports the development and promotion of mima. As a mima friend you will have unique access to mima and you will be the first to know what is happening at the gallery. As well as enriching their enjoyment of the arts, mima friends also have the opportunity, if they wish, to actively support the gallery.

As well as enriching their enjoyment of the arts, mima frien ds also have the opportunity, if they wish, to actively support the gallery.





mima friends membership benefits
  • Invitations to mima private views
  • The opportunity to attend artist and curator talks
  • 10% discount in mima's shop and Cafe Prego
  • Exclusive art trips, social events and behind the scenes collection tours
  • News updates

Choose a mima friends membership for yourself or as a gift!
Latest News

re launch

Thankyou to everyone who came along to the re launch of mima friends on thursday 15th of November.
 
Welcome to the new members, we look forward to seeing you at the Previews and events
 
thankyou to the volunteers from Cleveland College of Art and Design, University of Teesside, Teesside Hospice.
 
 

Metadomestic

  • Join one of mima's curator's for a discussion about Metadomestic: contemporary design & craft exhibition.

    Places are FREE but booking is essential for all talks. Call mima reception on +44 (0)1642 726 720 during gallery opening hours or email mimabookings@middlesbrough.gov.uk

    Artwork pictured: Thomas Mailaender, Cathedral Cars, 2004

public talk

Question and Answer public talk with Kate Brindley, mima Director
on Thursday 11 October at 5.30pm.
please meet in mima cafe which is now run by Teesside University.
apologies this has been cancelled.

Anish Kapoor

Book signing & meet the artist
Thursday 20 September
12.45 -1.30pm, mima

Anish Kapoor will be signing copies of his book
Temenos. Copies can be bought from mima shop
priced £10. No booking required. Just turn up on
a first come first served basis.

Can you help us with our visitor surveys?

Dear mima Friends

mima is now carrying out a three year programme of exit surveys to our visitors, to find out more about them and their experience of the gallery.

In order to ensure we get enough surveys we really need your help. If any of the mima Friends would be willing to come in and volunteer for a few hours a week to carry out a few surveys for us and support our very busy gallery assistants, we would be delighted to welcome you. It's also a great way to engage with our visitors more and find out what they think, what we are doing well and what we can do to improve our offer.

If you are interested in getting involved or just finding out more contact Kim Gowland Tel 07725269069 Email k_gowland@middlesbrough.gov.uk

mimas Fifth Birthday

mima's 5th birthday celebrations went with a bang last Saturday. mimafriends were engaged in meeting and greeting throngs of excited young children (and their parents) with stickers and balloons, birthday cake and giant cookies. The noise levels were nearly explosive as kids jostled to decorate fairy cakes and queued the length of mima's atrium to have their faces painted. The atmosphere was joyful, exciting and vibrant.

The mima staff and mimafriends volunteers were thrilled with the turnout which, in itself, demonstrates the positive role mima now plays within the community. Visitors of all ages swarmed the galleries as the steel band kept things bouncing in the atrium. The Friends extend a special thankyou to Amy, our departing administrator-volunteer, and Sarra who bravely turned up on the day to help out.

Another Friend, Meena, suggesting resuming our social coffee mornings. These seem to have petered out due to poor uptake but we've recently been kindly donated lots of coffee and specialist beverages by Ringtons so perhaps we should try again. If anyone is interested in a regular get-together, let us know and we'll set up a date for you to meet up and Meena can take it from there!

Events

A Special Event For Friends 12.30pm Friday February 10th at mima

Many of you will have seen the current mima exhibition, What Friends have done for Middlesbrough, which charts the amazing work of the friends of Middlesbrough Art Gallery, started by Lady Crathorne, through its archives and acquisitions purchased for the gallery in the 1950s and 60s. The exhibition has been sponsored by mimafriends as part of the fifth birthday celebrations and, though we say it ourselves, has received a lot of praise from visitors far and wide. Much of the interesting story of this time is told through letters and other documents which from part of the archival material of the Crathorne family.

As a special event for mimafriends Lord Crathorne, Lord-Lieutenant of North Yorkshire, has offered to give a short introduction to the show followed by a talk through the exhibits from curator James Beighton, who researched the archives and organised the work on display. This is a great opportunity for mimafriends to get together over a glass of wine and enjoy a fascinating insight into our second sponsored exhibition.

Do come along and support your event!
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