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During Unravelling Threads, ESCALA is offering a promotion on its textile gifts. These include 20% off our limited artist editions by Jaime Giliand Florencia Guillen and 10% off our beautiful silk ties and scarves by Alex Gama.

Over 17,000 people have visited ESCALA's inaugural exhibition Southern Press: Prints from Brazil, Paraguay and Chile since firstsite opened 25 September 2011. The selection, from the ESCALA Collection, focuses on the works of thirteen printmakers from the 1950s, 60s and 70s.

The dates for ESCALA's first exhibition, Southern Press: Prints from Brazil, Paraguay and Chile, at firstsite in Colchester have been extended until Sunday 12 February 2012.

As well as supporting the development of ESCALA’s new website, Santander Universities has offered to sponsor the Collection with another £15,000 over three years from 2011 to 2013. This generous donation will support the Collection’s continued investment in a sustainable future as it develops plans to create a permanent home in the Hexagon building at the Colchester Campus. ESCALA hopes to develop the Hexagon for the University’s 50th anniversary in 2014.

ESCALA has been awarded a £2,999 grant from the Effective Museums Programme to document artworks in the Collection.

On Sunday 25 September 2011, firstsite's new building opened to the public.  Designed by Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly, the gallery features a dedicated exhibition space for ESCALA. The University's space in firstsite will enable us to make works from the Collection far more accessible to the public.