Strange Exchange is an artist-led library and community learning space in the East End of Glasgow.
Strange Exchange is led by artists Coral Brookes and Kiah Endelman Music.
Strange Exchange Library
Strange Exchange Library is an artist-led library and community learning space in the East End of Glasgow. We share publications and other resources related to arts education, play and collaboration from across Scotland, the UK and further afield.
Collecting materials from artist educators, creative learning projects, and artist-run and alternative education programmes, we aim to make the work of arts workers, educators and practitioners more widely accessible and facilitate the exchange of ideas and practices around creative learning.
The library is free to visit and open to everyone. We want it to feel like a relaxed environment to explore, reflect and exchange ideas. If you have any thoughts or specific requirements, please get in touch.
Donate Resources
We would love to hear from artists, educators, DIY and artist-led projects, alternative education programmes, galleries, youth organisations and community projects, anyone with ideas or resources they would like to share, to help co-shape our library and learning resource.
We are particularly looking for publications, project documentation, syllabi, artworks and other materials from artist-led, alternative education and engagement programmes.
To donate, fill in our donation form, which helps us catalogue your materials and understand how you would like them to be accessed.
If you have suggestions for things we could collect but do not yet, use our suggestions form.
Reading Groups
Reading groups at Strange Exchange are community run events facilitated by and for local artists, educators and other members of our community. Offering up free use of the space, reading groups meet weekly for around 6 weeks to engage with a book, topic, artist, author or resource, getting to know each other and their topic in a sustained way.
Saturday Sessions
Strange Exchange Saturday Sessions is a free series of open creative workshops for adults and families, currently supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Each session is led by an artist, educator or writer working with repurposed materials or experimental approaches to creative learning, sparking conversations around materials, spaces, heritage and storytelling.
These are playful, drop-in sessions. No booking required. Come to make something, meet people, and get to know the space.
Check the what's on page for all upcoming workshops and activities.
Forum
Strange Exchange Forum is a free series of workshops for and by artists working with education and creative learning. Each invited artist leads a session drawing on their own research and practice, asking what it means to learn and teach as an artist, and exploring process-led, generative and collaborative approaches to making and coming together.
The first iteration ran in late 2025, exploring queer nature, embodiment and collective learning with workshops led by Rabi Bhose, Sophie Chapman and Carle Gent.
The second iteration currently running (Spring/Summer 2026) focuses on alt and artist-run educational practices with workshops by Max Alexander, The Other MA and Sean Roy Parker.
Common Room
A space for recent graduates and others outside formal education to make, share and learn together.
Common Room is for recent college graduates and alumni, and anyone interested in arts practice and creative learning who isn’t currently in formal education.
Leaving education can mean losing the structures that helped you make work: a shared space, regular contact with peers, and people to think things through with. We are running a couple of sessions to explore how we could create that space together at Strange Exchange, for making, peer support and learning together.
These first sessions are about listening. We want to hear what would be useful to you and what you’d like to try, so that Common Room is shaped by the people who use it.
Cohort
We are aiming to open applications for Cohort in early 2027. Cohort is a free 11-month artist development programme for 10 early-career practitioners in Glasgow. The programme offers structured, peer-led creative development centred on what it means to make, teach, organise and think as an artist outside institutional frameworks.
Organised across three blocks, Cohort combines intensive group workshops, reading groups, one-to-one tutorials, mentorship, visits to artist-run spaces and public programming.
Cohort is open to artists, arts workers, curators and community organisers at an early or returning stage of practice. We take an expansive view of who the programme is for, and actively welcome applications from those who have faced barriers to other development opportunities.
Visit us
Find us in the Barras area of Glasgow's East End. Click here for more info on location, hours, access.
Get Involved
Workshops, reading groups and more. Click here for whats on
Donate
We are always open to donations. We would love to hear from anyone with ideas or resourcesthey would like to share.
Get in touch here.
Contact Us
Telephone: +44 141 554 0563
E-mail: strangeexchange@strangefield.org
Address: 62 Moncur Street, Glasgow, G40 2SL
Strange Field is a registered Scottish Charity SCIO number SC052132
