Editing Stoke-on-Trent (section)

===Visual art===
The major art gallery is The [[Potteries Museum & Art Gallery]], located in Hanley. It contains a collection of fine ceramics, a rotating programme of exhibitions and a permanent collection. In 2010, it became one of the permanent homes of the [[Staffordshire Hoard]], the most important collection of [[Anglo-Saxon]] gold yet found.

The city's Cultural Quarter in Hanley contains the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, the [[Regent Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent|Regent Theatre]] and the [[Victoria Hall (Hanley)|Victoria Hall]]. There are also smaller elements, including the independent Dazed Gallery<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.creativestoke.org.uk/03-interview.html |title=Setting up & running an art gallery :: interview |publisher=Creative Stoke |date=26 September 2004 |access-date=2 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140503093633/http://www.creativestoke.org.uk/03-interview.html |archive-date=3 May 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and AirSpace, the city's only contemporary art gallery, artist-led and artist run.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.airspacegallery.org/2007/|title=airspace|access-date=7 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100612114621/http://www.airspacegallery.org/2007/|archive-date=12 June 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Artbay Gallery in Fenton<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.theartbay.co.uk/ |title=Theartbay Gallery & Fine Art Publishers - Home of The UK Children's Fine Art Exhibition |publisher=Theartbay.co.uk |access-date=2 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502201526/http://www.theartbay.co.uk/ |archive-date=2 May 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref> has a contemporary range of original works as well as limited editions.

Edwardian [[Burslem School of Art|School of Art]] in Burslem has been refurbished with £1.2&nbsp;million, and is now run without a public subsidy. The Hothouse Centre for Ceramic Design and the Roslyn Works complex of craft studios operate in Longton. Also based in Burslem is the Barewall Gallery,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.barewall.co.uk/ |title=Original Art Work from Unique Talent &#124; Artists Work for Sale |publisher=Barewall |date=25 November 2011 |access-date=2 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502201336/http://www.barewall.co.uk/ |archive-date=2 May 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref> which has a large collection of work by local artists including original art by [[Arthur Berry (playwright)|Arthur Berry]] (The Lowry of The Potteries), Jack Simcock, and by new emerging Potteries artists.

Stoke-on-Trent is the birthplace of several artists including [[Arthur Berry (playwright)|Arthur Berry]] (also a novelist, playwright & poet), [[Glenys Barton]] (sculptor), [[Arnold Machin]] (sculptor, coin & stamp designer) and [[Sidney Tushingham]], A.R.E.