Art and craft workshops start on Friday 23 May at Skyeworks Gallery in Portree.

Glenfiddich has announced details of the artists who will take part in the eleventh year of the Glenfiddich Artists in Residence programme.

An Talla Solais, Ullapool, until 20 May 2012.

North Rock Gallery run by photographer Mark Sinclair and his partner textile designer Suzanne Shearer is supporting Craft and Design Month May 2012.

Kilmorack Gallery, by Beauly, Inverness-shire, until 9 June 2012.

Giant robot birds in Shetland, huge toppling towers in Ayr, a festival of fire in Fraserburgh, local myths turned into dance extravaganzas in Dumfries and Galloway, and a theatre takeover of Falkirk’s new central park space – UZ Arts is delighted to announce the launch of Roofless, Scotland’s biggest, most ambitious outdoor arts programme.

An exhibition of paintings by the artist Kenneth Dingwall will be presented at the Pier Arts Centre later this month. The exhibition in Stromness will run from 12 May to 14 July 2012 in the Centre’s ‘project space’.

Filmmaker Mark Jenkins was appointed artist-in-residence last year through a venture funded by the Scapa Flow Landscape Partnership Scheme (SFLPS) and coordinated by the Pier Arts Centre. A short film, The Imaginary Worlds of Scapa Flow, is nearing completion and the Stromness filmmaker is inviting members of the public to view work in progress at the Pier Arts Centre next week when he sets up a temporary editing suite in the Centre’s reference library.

This May 2012 the HI-Arts Hit Team visit Argyll for two days of professional advice and training for Argyll’s cultural, creative and heritage professionals.

Inchmore Gallery, nr, Beauly, Inverness, until 30 May 2012