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The Association for Contemporary Jewellery is devoted to the promotion, representation, understanding and development of contemporary jewellery in the United Kingdom and abroad.
Website: http://www.acj.org.uk/
Location: UK
Members: 67
Latest Activity: Oct 11, 2020
is devoted to the promotion, representation, understanding and development of contemporary jewellery in the United Kingdom and abroad.
Founded as a membership association in 1997 and registered as a Limited Company in 2006, it recognises a need to foster discussion, debate and critical review and interaction amongst its members. To this end we organise conferences, lectures, seminars, workshops and an annual general meeting for our members. Our regular newsletter, findings, features reviews, information, comment, book offers and discounts and is of benefit to both our members and the wider public. We also produce a monthly e-bulletin featuring news and opportunities.
We welcome as members practising jewellers, associated designers and crafts people, educators, students, gallery owners and retailers, museum curators, critics and collectors - indeed, anyone with an interest in contemporary jewellery.
The Association for Contemporary Jewellery
PO Box 37807 London SE23 1XJ United Kingdom
Telephone: + 00 44 (0)20 8291 4201
Fax: + 00 44 (0)20 8291 4452
Email: enquiries@acj.org.uk
WHAT WE DO
• promote greater understanding of contemporary jewellery
• support jewellers’ creative and professional development
• develop audiences for this lively field of contemporary craft and design
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Dear All Members, Followers and Likers of our Network pages.We are currently streamlining our pages at the moment and have found that fewer people are now following and using twitter and crafthaus to find out about jewellery events, exhibitions, opportunities, seeing new work and generally chatting about jewellery.If you use these, please head over to our other pages on other platforms: -Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Association.Contemporary.Jewellery/Linkedin Group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3628898/Linkedin Business page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/association-for-contemporary-jewellery-limitedInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/acj.org.uk/and of course, our main website…Continue
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Dear Rebecca,
We would like to remind you that there’s only one more week for your students to apply for the 2015 Deutsche Bank Awards for Creative Enterprise.
By submitting an application, they are in with a chance of winning:
— £10,000 start-up capital.
— 12 months business mentoring.
— Small business training.
— Access to new networks and audiences.
— Deutsche Bank endorsement.
— A fast track to success.
Take a look at why they should apply here.
Five prizes are offered in five broad categories that the business plan can fit into:
— Fine Art
— Design
— Film and Photography
— Music
— Performance
Their application should consist of a business plan for a project or enterprise that they wish to pursue. The plan should support the applicant’s long-term career goals.
We’re looking for originality, feasibility, clarity and conciseness… and for it to be financially sound.
But it’s worth reminding your students that impressions count; make our judges want to read their business plans!
Check here to see if your college / university has already registered. If not, you’ll need to do so in order for them to apply. It’s free and easy, and takes no longer than a minute.
Once you have done so, then please do encourage them to submit an application by forwarding this link: Click here to access the guidelines and application form
Deadline: 17.00, 31 March 2015.
And don’t forget to check out the resources on our website, including the questions and answers from this year’s #DBACE Live session.
If you have any questions, then please do not hesitate to contact me on the email below.
Many thanks, regard and best wishes
John Kundu
The DBACE 2015 Team
info@dbace.uk.com
SECOND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS AND REGISTRATION ANNOUNCEMENT
We would be grateful if colleagues can forward through appropriate notice boards, peer networks and associates; with full apologies for the receipt of cross-posts.
MAKING FUTURES
CRAFT AND THE (RE)TURN OF THE MAKER IN A POST-GLOBAL SUSTAINABLY AWARE SOCIETY
WEBSITE AT: http://makingfutures.plymouthart.ac.uk/
Making Futures will be held on Thursday 24th and Friday 25th September 2015 within the magnificently sited Mount Edgcumbe estate on the River Tamar opposite the city of Plymouth, Devon, UK.
The CALL FOR ABSTRACTS is open and the closing date for receipt is 18th May 2015. Building on the success of its three previous editions, Making Futures invites proposals for papers and presentations that address the main conference topic, thematic fields and workshops. Making Futures seeks to be broad and inclusive, and invites a diverse range of response, from artists, craftspeople, designer-makers, Fab Lab and maker-movement enthusiasts, campaigners and activists, curators, historians and theorists.
ON-LINE REGISTRATION OPEN: registration is open with an ‘early bird’ offer on two-day conference tickets until the 17th May 2015.
CONFERENCE AIMS: Making Futures investigates what it means ‘to make’ and its future significations - personally, collectively, artistically, economically, politically… Its impact on sustainable agendas, its subversion of mass consumption, its relation to new technologies, its contribution to community and 'place-making', and to the possibilities of new political economies…
Embracing contemporary craft and making as instances of thought in action and convinced of their transformative potential at individual and social levels, Making Futures envisages the “(re)turn of the maker” as a project capable of generating new progressive possibilities, and of contributing to new social and economic futures.
THEMATIC FIELDS: proposals might address one of six themes:
Lifecycles of Material Worlds (Sustainability in Practice)
Craft in an Expanded Field
Critical Perspectives on Producers & Consumers
Translations Across Local-Global Divides
Materials & Processes of Making
Making Thinking (Crafting Education)
WORKSHOPS: the call also requests proposals to three workshops:
Digital Crafting – Defining the Field in collaboration with the School of Materials, The Royal College of Art.
A Western Jugaad? Makers & Frugal Innovation in collaboration with the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, and Fab Lab Barcelona.
Place-Making-Space: tools and methods for ‘crafting communities’ and ‘making places’ in the post-global era in collaboration with the Community21 Sustainable Design Research Group at the University of Brighton.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATION FORMATS:
Practice-led presentations and case studies: projects that engage the conference themes, and which might typically connect to practitioners, processes, products, projects, enterprises, collectives, institutions, agencies, ideas and allied movements, campaigns, initiatives, and curatorial practices and strategies.
Historical and theoretical papers: rooted in examinations of the broader contextual formations and critical discourses connected to the conference programme. To include perspectives derived from historical, technological, social-cultural, philosophical aesthetic, anthropological, and/or political and economic models of enquiry
FOR FULL DETAILS PLEASE VISIT WEBSITE AT:
http://makingfutures.plymouthart.ac.uk/
The Colour Group (Great Britain) is proud to announce that the Turner Medal 2015 will be awarded to the Kinetic-Optic artist Carlos Cruz-Diez
Since 1941, stemming from the Physical Society, The Colour Group’s mission is to promote the study of colour and to assist the dissemination of colour knowledge in all its aspects.
Every two years, alternating with the Newton Medal rewarding scientific contributions, the Colour Group presents the Turner Medal to a distinguished artist in recognition of their outstanding contribution towards understanding colour in the Visual arts. This year, the Colour Group is honoured to present the Tuner Medal to Carlos Cruz-Diez.
Carlos Cruz-Diez with his Physichromie 500 at the exhibition “Radical Geometry: Modern Art of South America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection”, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2014
Carlos Cruz-Diez (Caracas, 1923)
Franco-Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez has lived and worked in Paris since 1960. He is one of the great figures of kinetic-optic art. He is a contemporary theorist of color whose artistic proposal is based on four chromatic conditions: subtractive, additive, inductive and reflected condition. His research has brought art a new way of understanding the phenomenon of colour, greatly expanding its perceptual universe.
Cruz-Diez’s work revolves around color conceived as an autonomous reality, devoid of anecdotes, progressing in space and real time without past or future, in the perpetual present. In his works the colour appears as a reality that can exist without the help of form and even stand unaided.
MEXICAN WEEK
Colourful and spicy, this week focuses on inspiration from Mexican culture, both traditional and contemporary, with a mix of tutors who are either native to Mexico or whose working practise is influenced by Mexican aesthetics.
Click on the links below for more information and to book.
Painting in egg tempera: make vibrant pigments and explore techniques
MAZ JACKSON
October 18–23 Five Days £571
Suitable for all 5D5675
Painting inspired by Mexico: dreams and miracles
CHRISTOPHER CORR
October 18–23 Five Days £520
Suitable for all 5D5676
Experimental printmaking
DEMIÁN FLORES
October 18–23 Five Days £569
Intermediate 5D5677
Inspired by Mexico – make resin jewellery
SOPHIE SIMONE CORTINA
October 18–23 Five Days £564
Suitable for all 5D5678
Make papier-mâché boxes, masks and figures
BORIS SPIDER
October 18–23 Five Days £559
Suitable for all 5D5679
Freeform pattern cutting and garment making with Mexican panache
CARMEN RION
October 18–23 Five Days £539
Intermediate 5D5680
Chris Corr
Vibrant silk painting – inspired by Mexico
HILARY SIMON
October 18–23 Five Days £539
Suitable for all 5D5681
Mexican appliqué art textiles and crafts
KATINA RIBA
October 18–23 Five Days £539
Suitable for all 5D5682
https://www.westdean.org.uk/CollegeChannel/ShortCourses/MexicanWeek...
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