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Comment by Rebecca Skeels on June 22, 2012 at 6:16am

A day just for JSN and ACJ members!

CUT IN CLERKENWELL
Friday the 13th July 10am to 6pm
There will be talks and demonstrations.
Bookings essential!
To book e-mail Griselda Bear at: office@griselda.freeserve.co.uk
With e-mail addresses and phone numbers and whether you belong to the JSN or ACJ.

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on June 21, 2012 at 5:57am

Invitation to apply for Hothouse

Application deadline: 31 July 2012

Are you looking for support and advice tailor-made for your contemporary craft practice? Are you within two years of setting up? Are you looking to develop a strong foundation and peer-group to help you make the best start?  

Now in its third intake, Hothouse provides forty emerging makers each year with a six month programme of business and creative development, complemented with 1:1 support. The programme includes: group sessions on developing business skills, market knowledge and creativity, a series of networking events which will bring together all Hothouse cohorts, support from a peer buddy and individual sessions with a mentor from the sector.  

'Hothouse has given us new ways to look at ourselves as creative people. I found it inspirational in making me want to move forward with my business. I feel happier in the knowledge that I am not alone and that support is there for me.' Hothouse participant.

For more information and to download an application pack, click here. 

Hothouse forms one strand of the Crafts Council Collective, a programme of CPD provision for makers enabling them to take control of their own professional development throughout their careers. 

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on June 13, 2012 at 4:08am

MAKING IT : Studio Opportunities
Making Space has received an Arts Council England grant for MAKING IT, a craft project which aims to reveal the process and relationship between the craft of hand and mind, between object and word and through learning and making.  It aims to demonstrate that craft is the tool to investigate wider ideology, which is active, participatory and implicit in every day lives and in creative development.   MAKING IT is a collaborative project with Alice Kettle, the Centre for Real-World Learning at the University of Winchester and Hampshire County Council.
 
As part of this project, Making Space is offering two rent-free studios for one year valued at £2,400 per studio. Successful applicants will also receive £1,000 for materials to support research and development.  The residencies are suitable for emerging makers who want to experiment or fuse different techniques with new materials; to be open to collaborations, gain from critical dialogue with other partners and reach new audiences. Selected makers will be expected to explore and address how their practice links to the key aims of the MAKING IT project.   

The deadline for applications:  Wednesday 4th July 2012  

   
    
For more information please download the application pack from http://www.makingspace.org font color="#0000FF">http://www.makingspace.org> or email admin@makingspace.org or call 023 92472491.

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on June 3, 2012 at 6:50am

Silver vessels by Thalen & Thalen    Special guests at the '2012 Festival of Silver'  selling exhibition -Thalen & Thalen Goldsmiths' Centre, Clerkenwell,  Tuesday 10 - Saturday 14 July. 9.30am - 4.45pm .       The very first silver exhibition at the new Goldsmiths' Centre features contemporary silver dealers, silversmiths and special guests Thalen & Thalen from Belgium. Father and son team Rob and Jaap Thalen have built an international reputation for exceptional silver vessels and sculptural silver objects. Rob, trained as a sculpture, has pushed the limits of silversmithing with pieces not normally seen at silver exhibitions. "Firstly we weld together two of the largest sections of silver the bullion suppliers can make, at a metre square each, and then Jaap and I can take up to three months to raise and finish a single vessel." Thalen & Thalen have exhibited mostly recently at the premier decorative arts exhibition SOFA in New York selling work at up to $150,000. Thalen & Thalen pieces are in private and public collections in the US, Europe and Africa. The first Goldsmiths' Centre exhibition of silversmithing will feature...

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on June 3, 2012 at 6:32am

The elements of the Olympic medals and the building blocks of Classical civilisation. To some, they brought riches; to others, ruin. What will they bring you?

This special late night event will have activities, talks, performance and live experiments happening all over the building.

A lustrous evening of myth, music, debate and messy play.

This event is free. Drop in anytime. 

Performance

• Settle down for a mythic story with Marina Warner and Vayu Naidu
• Enjoy our very own smashing, crashing Bronzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, as they explore the different sounds that these metals create.
• Enjoy science songs from Jonny Berliner.
• Operatic tenor Stephen Miles will serenade with songs of gold and silver.

 

Demonstrations, activities, experiment  

• Watch out for our gold assayer who will be ready to tell you if that precious ring is made of the real thing.
• Learn the intricacies of making silver wire with Jamie Hall.
• Meet Marcos Martinón-Torres, a modern-day alchemist.
• Find out how batteries work.
• Get an insight into one of Archimedes’ most famous experiments with Martin Coath.
• Find out how to cast tin with the Institute of Making.
• Meet a silversmith, David Clarke.
• Discover the role that colloids have in making stained glass.
• Make your own silver photogram.

 

Talks and debate – tickets available from 19.00 from the Information Point.

• Adventures in Greek and Roman metallurgy with Edith Hall.
• Join the UCL Debating Society as they argue the merits and human costs of metal mining.
• Chemical, physical and musical metals: live experiments with Andrew Szydlo.
• This event has been curated by Hugh Aldersey-Williams and Andrea Sella

 

Contributors:

Jonny Berliner, science troubadour

Bronzo Dog Doo-Dah Band

David Clarke, silversmith

Martin Coath, Public Engagement Coordinator and Post Doctoral Research Fellow at the Plymouth University Cognition Institute

Martin Conreen and Zoe Laughlin, Institute of Making, UCL

Ruth Fillery-Travis, UCL Institute of Archeology

Edith Hall, Professor of Classics at King’s College London

Jamie Hall, medieval metalworking specialist

Crispin Hughes, photographer

Marcos Martinón-Torres, Senior Lecturer at UCL Institute of Archaeology

Stephen Miles, tenor

Vayu Naidu, storyteller and Artistic Director of Vayu Naidu Storytelling Company

Andrew Szydlo, chemistry teacher and live demonstration expert

Andres Tretiakov, Science Technician, St Paul’s School

UCL Debating Society

Marina Warner, Professor of Literature at the University of Essex, author of ‘Stranger Magic: Charmed states & the Arabian Nights’

http://www.wellcomecollection.org/whats-on/events/elements-1.aspx 

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on May 27, 2012 at 3:44pm

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Invitation to apply for The Fifty:Fifty Programme
Application deadline: 8 June 2012

The Crafts Council is delighted to invite you to apply for a new round of its collaborative exhibition scheme, The Fifty:Fifty Programme. This follows its successful inaugural partnership with Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery to develop and co-produce Lost in Lace: New Approaches by UK and International Artists.

Through The Fifty:Fifty Programme the Crafts Council seeks to develop and support the production of ambitious exhibitions that challenge perceptions of contemporary craft and reach new audiences.

The Crafts Council wishes to work with a selected partner to co-curate and develop an exhibition for delivery between April 2014 and March 2015. Funds, ideas and resources will be joined and shared equally on a 50:50 basis, with an equal contribution of £50,000 by each partner. If you are interested in working in this way, we would like you to complete and submit a pre-application form by 5pm, 8 June 2012.

For enquiries about Fifty:Fifty or to request the related documents via email, contact Charlotte Dew, Exhibitions Project Officer, c_dew@craftscouncil.org.uk / 020 7806 2515.

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Comment by Rebecca Skeels on May 27, 2012 at 3:36pm

Dear Sir/Madam,

I’m pleased to introduce you to the next edition of AF-L’Artigiano in Fiera, the 17th International Crafts Selling Exhibition, to be held in the pavilions of Fieramilano (Rho-Pero, Milan, Italy) from December 1 to 9, 2012.

The last edition of AF-L’Artigiano in Fiera was also established as the most important and most highly visited international event dedicated to craftsmanship. The undisputed success of this event was confirmed by the ever increasing number of exhibitors and visitors, along with the continuously improved quality and beauty of the event, as shown by last year's figures: 3 million visitors, more than 2,900 exhibitors representing 110 countries throughout the world, in a space covering a total area of 150,000 m2.

You can find here attached the general information about the fair and a Participation Project devoted to UK area.

I’m at your disposal to go deeper into the main themes of the event and to check the ways and the costs of your possible participation.

I thank you for your interest and look forward to your kind response.

With best regards,

Roberta Roffi

Area Internazionale/International Department
AF-L'Artigiano in Fiera
Viale Achille Papa 30
20149 Milano – Italy
Tel. +39.02.31911961
Fax +39.02.70058857
Mail: roffi@gestionefiere.com

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on May 27, 2012 at 3:13pm

Entries Invited -   Summer Exhibition at Obsidian Art - 6 July - 5 August ______________________________________________________  Artists and makers are invited to submit entries for an unthemed selling exhibition to be held at Obsidian Art Gallery in Stoke Mandeville, Bucks  ______________________________________________________ Entry Deadline : Sunday 10 June The exhibition runs from Friday 6 July to Sunday 5 August. Hand-In dates for accepted work : Sunday 1 or Monday 2 July. ______________________________________________________  We want the exhibition to have a summery feel, but with a wide mix of styles, medium & subject including abstract work.  All media is welcome.   As ever we are also keen to ensure the exhibition shows a wide range of styles from traditional to contemporary. ______________________________________________________   We are always happy to discuss the suitability of work - so just give us a call or drop us an e-mail if you're in any doubt.   No entry fee or hanging fee. ______________________________________________________  The gallery commission is 45% on sales of original art and 50% on sales of reproduction prints & cards. All work must be for sale and the artist must be based in the UK.   As usual, we will be supporting a charity by asking visitors to make a voluntary donation - if you would like to nominate a chairy please let us know the details.

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on May 24, 2012 at 10:04am

Comment by Rebecca Skeels on May 24, 2012 at 10:03am

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