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As part of Welcome Week activities\ , the Arts &\; Humanities Society has invited journalist and lecturer Ann-Marie Michel to give a talk focused on art and the working class. For many people\, art is seen as a luxury for the rich that has little to do with their own workaday lives. Historical and social forces have conspir ed to keep art in the hands of a privileged few\, and this talk outlines the reasons while also exploring a long tradition of British artists and British art critics calling for a broader conception - art for the workin g class. From John Ruskin to Banksy\, we look at the struggle to reclaim art and bring beauty to everyone.

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Ann-Marie Michel has written extensively on art themes for magazine articles and radio documentaries i n Europe and the United States\, and now lectures in the UK. Her work exp erience includes three years as writer-in-residence at HMP Lancaster Cast le before it closed as a prison in 2011\, and she is now part of the Regi onal Heritage Centre at Lancaster University.

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