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Museum of Contemporary Craft: Design with the Other 90%: CITIES

August 17, 2012 – January 05, 2013

Curated by: Cynthia E. Smith, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

For the first time in history, the majority of the earth’s approximately seven billion…

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Added by Brigitte Martin on November 6, 2012 at 12:01pm — No Comments

Technology is the way forward for arts orgs in the Millennial age

Technology is the way forward for arts orgs in the Millennial age

playwright Gwydion Suilebhan on his blog, 10/1/12



We are living in a time of immense and painful transformation in the arts. All across the country, many of our biggest arts institutions are facing extinction. Meanwhile, artists have been totally marginalized. And at the same time, audiences are diminishing. Only the digital art forms are doing somewhat well...because almost all of our leisure time in America is… Continue

Added by Brigitte Martin on October 11, 2012 at 11:30am — No Comments

Arts center to add VIP area, like sports luxury boxes, to lure 'drag along' patrons.

At concert halls and theaters across the country, the best and most expensive seats in the house typically are located in the balcony, orchestra section or near front and center.



The Broward Center for the Performing Arts wants to add a new section to that exclusive list: Club Level, a VIP area with wider…

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Added by Brigitte Martin on October 5, 2012 at 9:09am — 1 Comment

Community-Supported Art: New Orleans Arts Org Brings a Locavore Model to Collecting

Miss Pussycat, another artist participating in The Drop's first round.
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Added by Brigitte Martin on August 30, 2012 at 9:32am — No Comments

Call for Artists: Pittsburgh Filmmakers/Pittsburgh Center for the Arts

PF/PCA Call for Artists

Deadline: 
August 17…
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Added by Brigitte Martin on July 18, 2012 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Working at the Crafts Council UK: Trustee

Working at the Crafts Council: Trustee

London

The Crafts Council is the national development agency for contemporary craft; an independent charity established by Royal Charter and funded through a combination of earned and raised income and government funding.

We wish to appoint a new Trustee who will share our belief in the value of craft and its contribution to the nation’s cultural, social and economic agendas. This person will help us to achieve our goal of making…

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Added by Brigitte Martin on May 19, 2012 at 8:31am — No Comments

Where will the next potters come from?

by LOUISE PSYLLIDES, The Sentinel

 

THE ceramics industry is facing a chronic skills shortage that could threaten its future, according to company bosses.

That was…

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Added by Brigitte Martin on May 19, 2012 at 7:54am — No Comments

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Modern Craft at the Crafts Study Centre

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Modern Craft

Crafts Study Centre

University for the Creative Arts

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

Introduction

The Trustees of the Crafts Study Centre wish to make available a post doctoral Fellowship in Modern Crafts to be located at the Crafts Study Centre, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, Surrey, England.

It is intended that the research will align the interests of the researcher with the collections of the Crafts Study…

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Added by Brigitte Martin on May 19, 2012 at 7:50am — No Comments

Call for Artists: American Craft Today @ The Bascom: A Center for the Visual Arts





American Craft Today

The Bascom: A Center for the Visual Arts

323 Franklin Road, Highlands, NC, 28741





APPLY TO THIS CALL



BACK TO PARTICIPATING CALLS

CONTACT…

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Added by Brigitte Martin on April 30, 2012 at 2:16pm — No Comments

Announcing The Craft Report's "Your Art on Our Cover" Facebook contest!

Announcing The Craft Report's (TCR) "Your Art on Our Cover" Facebook contest!…

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Added by Brigitte Martin on April 30, 2012 at 1:52pm — No Comments

Call: Collaborative Works: Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? ALL MEDIA !

Call For Entries -- 2012 Conference Exhibition

The Furniture Society and Maine College of Art present an exhibition of collaborative works: Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? is an exploration of work in all mediums by…

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Added by Brigitte Martin on December 6, 2011 at 10:12am — No Comments

On the Edge: NCECA Conference 2012, March 28-31 in Seattle, WA

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keynote:  

TROUBLESHOOTING: Adventures in Archaeology and the Culture of Nature - Mark Dion



The distinguished American artist Mark Dion will talk…

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Added by Brigitte Martin on November 29, 2011 at 11:08am — No Comments

Outside/Inside the Box - Call for artists - Fiber Philadelphia 2012

Juried Exhibition…

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Added by Brigitte Martin on October 3, 2011 at 2:29pm — No Comments

Call for Texts: Tchotchkes in the White Cube: Exhibiting Craft and Design in the 20th century

Tchotchkes in the White Cube: Exhibiting Craft and Design in the 20th century


Conventional art institutions such as museums and galleries have had problematic relationships with three-dimensional utilitarian objects since their inception. As several scholars, including Ruth Phillips and James Clifford, have argued, conventional displays deprive objects of their…
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Added by Brigitte Martin on August 31, 2011 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Niche Marketing from SNAG PDS 2011

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Added by Brigitte Martin on July 24, 2011 at 11:30am — No Comments

Job Opp: Guest Editor at THE STUDIO POTTER magazine



ABOUT THE STUDIO POTTER

Published twice a year, THE STUDIO POTTER has been the independent voice of ceramics since 1972. Based in first- person narrative and studio practice, the journal has fostered thoughtful writing

on such themes as the environment,…

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Added by Brigitte Martin on March 21, 2011 at 12:20pm — No Comments

Caring for Your Introvert - The habits and needs of a little-understood group

Caring for Your Introvert…

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Added by Brigitte Martin on November 9, 2010 at 5:10pm — 14 Comments

JEWELRY & OBJECTS 2011 - Submission Form



Added by Brigitte Martin on October 10, 2010 at 12:21pm — 3 Comments

A Paper Craft Castle On the Ocean (Artist: Wataru Itou)

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Dear crafthausers:

This comes to you from TOKYOBLING, a Japanese blogger. Thought you would enjoy this too. SOURCE: http://tokyobling.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/a-paper-craft-castle-on-the-ocean/


I had the immense opportunity to see…

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Added by Brigitte Martin on February 9, 2010 at 11:54am — 9 Comments

Deadline to apply: August 15, 2013

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