Call for Entries Opens: August 1, 2016

Deadline: September 15, 2016

As the third juried member online exhibition in the We Are SNAG series, (Up)Setting the Stone is an exhibition looking for your interpretation of…

The Baltimore Jewelry Center is partnering with Google for an online exhibition, Body of Work, that will be an ongoing part of their Cultural Institute website (…

A shortish post, despite a busy week with the (almost) full compliment of staff back at the School of Jewellery and preparing for the new intake of students. I can't quite believe that it is a whole year since I started there. What a whirlwind!

I have written before of my friend, Carrie Fertig (…

CCCD Announces New Materials-Based Research Grant Opportunity

Craft Forms 2016

22^nd International Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Fine Craft

December 2, 2016 – January 28, 2017

Juror: Stefano Catalani, Director of Art, Craft & Design at the Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA…

"Present Tense" featured speaker #OttoVonBusch has a question to get your gears turning for #ACCpt16. Thoughts?…

Cerámica Contemporánea LCG - ceramic works by extraordinary artists

To get a good shot of inspiration, we recommend visiting the Facebook page for Cerámica Contemporánea LCG. You’ll find really exceptional art by cutting-edge ceramicists. Ceramic clay and polymer clay are so similar in their applications. You just can’t help but imagine the textures,…

Today I made a visit to deepest Wales on a spur-of-the-moment response to a Tweet by one of my favourite artists, Brian Eno.…

Primal Pottery Project: Head (Ears)

Ole Jensen…

What is good advice for how to deal with a client who refuses to pay for design work because of obviously false/irrational reasons?

The most popular CreativeMornings talk of all time, Mike Monteiro gives valuable advice on how to get paid for the work that you…

Five Artists Reflect on their Waning Powers. Paul Spooner, 1983

A Curious Turn, an exhibition by Crafts Council at Habitat, explores the resurgence in automata making over the last 30 years and features works by the leading makers of these amazing moving mechanical…

The London Design Festival is an annual event, held to celebrate and promote London as the design capital of the world and as the gateway to the international creative community. The next Festival will be held 17-25 September 2016.

Go to Festival's website…

Back to work today and straight into preparations for the coming year, both academically - for the new and continuing students - and in terms of my own work.

The holiday was relaxing and fairly uneventful. On the back of my political fury of the last few months, I had been planning to go to Brighton's "Pride" event, something I've shunned since the early 1990s when the event ceased to be political and became no more than a corporate, money-spinning festival of…