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Welcome to our new-style Newsflashes
Here's this week's News & Opportunities, gleaned from a variety of sources, and brought to you in a bite-sized chunk! For the complete list of opportunities available, check out our Virtual Venue. There's a filter system set up on the Opportunities' page which should make searching for a specific Opp easier.
As before, you can just get in touch to add your own news or an opportunity, and as we continue to develop new content for the website over the coming months, we'd love to hear your views on it.
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The devolved grants' scheme, of which First/Next Steps (and Fife Opportunities' Grants) are part, is changing from April 2015. This means that the last deadline for First/Next Steps at the moment is Friday 14 November. If you are a Fife based artist and are considering applying, please read the guidelines on FCA&C's website and phone us for a chat beforehand.
We also hope to have one last round of Opportunties' Grants with a deadline likely to be in February. An update about this will be posted here shortly.
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A Christmas Art and Craft Fair will take place on Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 November at Kirkcaldy Art Club, Hot Pot Wynd, Dysart, Kirkcaldy from 11am to 4pm. A wide range of items will be on offer including pottery, paintings, glass, jewellery, cards, notebooks, and so much more - perhaps that unique original Christmas gift you have been looking for. Further information can be found on our Facebook page and on our website, http://kirkcaldyartclub.org.uk
The exhibition runs from 20 October to 19 December at the FifeSpace Gallery, Rothes Hall, Glenrothes, Fife.
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South Parks residential home in Glenrothes are holding a Christmas Fayre to raise monies for outings for the residents. We are looking for creative and interesting stalls and would love you to be part of our day. Our events usually attract not only the residents and their families but also families from the local community so it should be a busy few hours.
The Fayre is on Sunday 30 November from 11am - 3pm . The cost is £15 per table.
You might even get to meet Santa!!
Please contact marysia.lachowicz@btopenworld.com for further details and feel free to pass on to anyone else who might be interested.
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Artist Jaclyn Stuart is looking for an office-type space where she can keep all her office info for the classes she runs and also all her materials. She also wants to use it as an art studio for her own art practice. If anyone knows of a suitable space in the St Andrews area, please contact her via 07890 716543 or email jaclynstuart@hotmail.com.
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VAS are now accepting online submissions for their 2015 Annual Exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy, VAS:T 2015.
For the first time in VAS history an online submission process will enable the most ambitious, intriguing and innovative submissions from long time and first time open exhibitors, and from VAS members. The selection panel will seek out contemporary art and design works which consider and challenge the boundaries between fine art, design and applied arts. Artists, designers and makers are challenged to consider how their submissions might command the gallery space or be juxtaposed with other art forms and media by the curators to challenge the conventions of mixed exhibition displays. VAS;T 2015 will showcase how traditional media, techniques and skills, along with new and emerging technologies, inform visual ideas and contexts, and extend practices to make a distinctive eclectic show with a sense of drama, mischief and vitality.
Important Dates:
• Deadline for submissions midnight, Monday 17 November 2014 • Notification of primary selection 5 December 2014 • Hand in day for selected works Sunday 1 February 2015 • Notification of final selection Tuesday 3 February 2015 • Exhibition opens Sat 7 February 2015
See full details of the exhibition including our exciting programme of invited artists at http://www.visualartsscotland.org/?p=1377
Read the full rules and regulations and apply online at http://www.visualartsscotland.org/?p=1563 or http://www.regvisualartsscotland.org/
Deadline for submissions in 17 November 2014
Please note all submissions must be made digitally via the dedicated submissions system at http://www.regvisualartsscotland.org/
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In Edinburgh & Glasgow, 8-9 Nov 2014
Etsy is an online marketplace for handmade and vintage. Our Community Programmes team is heading to Scotland for a weekend of maker events, 8-9 November 2014.
We will be holding free maker events on Saturday 8 Nov (The Gayfield Creative Space in Edinburgh) and Sunday 9 Nov (The Lighthouse in Glasgow) to introduce Etsy as an accessible and supportive route to market for Scottish designer-makers. Our wonderful Etsy 'Teams' (self motivated community groups of Etsy sellers) from Glasgow and Edinburgh will come along too, to meet newbies who might be interested in joining their local network.
Each meeting will feature three events:
1pm – Start on Etsy: Thinking about opening an Etsy shop? Get inspired and learn the keys to success with Etsy admin and local sellers.
2:30pm – Cake and chat: Join Etsy staff and local seller groups for cake and chatting! Meet other Etsy sellers in the area and find out about events and opportunities for the coming year.
3:30pm – Seller Meet Up: Existing sellers on Etsy are invited to stay for an hour of Q and A, discussing 2015 plans and how to optimise your existing Etsy shop.
Check out this blog post for more info and to reserve your place: http://etsy.me/scotland
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Applications are invited for designer-makers, qualified since May 2012 to apply for one of ten only, fully sponsored exhibition spaces, at A Festival of Living Crafts held at Hatfield House in Hertfordshire on 7 to 10 May 2015.
This opportunity is sponsored by Craft&Design Magazine. All disciplines welcome, including glass, textiles, wood, ceramics, forged metal, silver/goldsmiths etc. Work must be original, authentic and handmade in Great Britain. Hi resolution photographs of your work are absolutely essential.
The show, held for the last forty years at Hatfield House, attracts approximately 15,000 craft enthusiasts during the four day event. There is no charge for the exhibition space, furniture or power if you are one of the lucky ten chosen.
How to Apply:
To be considered for a place, please see further details at http://www.livingcrafts.co.uk/emerging.php.
Any queries please contact angela.bartlett@livingcrafts.co.uk.
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Art in Action is a 4 day event around the skills and work of artists and craftsmen born to increase the public’s appreciation of art and to provide a platform for new artists. The 36th anniversary of Art in Action will be held from 16 -19 July in the grounds of Waterperry House and Gardens in Oxfordshire.
Approximately 25,000 visitors attend the event every year to learn, buy and enjoy, exhibitions, classes and performances of 400 demonstrating artists, teachers, musicians and performers.
The organisers are currently calling for artists and craftsmen to take part in in the 36th edition in one of the following ways:
1. Demonstrate your art in one of our dedicated marquees.
2.Participate as a stallholder in the designer maker Market Tent accommodating 100+ stalls.
To be eligible to apply as a demonstrator you should be able to demonstrate your chosen art or craft and engage with the public so they can gain real insight into the skills and procedures necessary in creating your work. You must show work created by yourself and you must generate income from your art/craft.
Participation is subject to a selection procedure. If you are selected to demonstrate, there is no fee but Art in Action will take 30% commission on all sales made as a result of the event.
The Market Tent at Art in Action is a place for designer makers or craftsmen to sell their products. To take part you should showcase work created by yourself and you should have enough stock for 4 days’ worth of sales. Participation includes a stand fee, but no commission is taken over sales.
For more information visit the website
Deadline is 5 December 2014
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Applications from practising artist book makers are invited for the second annual Research Residency in Artist’s Book Making at ECA Library. The Residency is supported by the ECA’s School of Art, and the University of Edinburgh Library & Collections Division of the University Information Services unit. The residency will last four weeks, and must take place between January and March 2015, during the ECA’s second semester in the academic year 2014-15.
More details about how to apply can be found on the attached information form:
Artist book maker residency advert 2014 2015
Deadline for applications is Friday 14 November 2014 at 12 noon
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This engaging symposium invites makers and attendees to question how craft practice connects to new forms of consumption, the rise of the creative city, digital process and hybrid practices.
Chair - Mike Press (Programme Director, Design and Craft, DJCAD)
Conversation - Mike Press | James Donald | Angus Ross | Laura Spring
Speaker - Sarah Drummond (Snook)
Thought Pods - Polly Collins | Jessica Howarth | Anaïs Paulard | Naomi Mcintosh
Selected Symposium: Making Connections
Monday 1 December 2014 12pm-7pm, Dovecote, Edinburgh
£15 student/senior | £20 general admission
Includes lunch on arrival, refreshments and wine at the close of the event
For further information, please contact lilivajda@dovecotstudios.com (Lili Vajda), or call +441315503660, or visit http://dovecotstudios.com/whats-on/event/76/selected-symposium-making-connections
Deadline is Monday 1 December 2014 at 10:00am
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The idea for this exhibition began with a dissertation topic on the subject of textiles in 16th and 17th century Britain in which textiles were valued in the highest possible respect and boasted by all as a symbol of status.
Famously, Charles I paid more for his clothing in ‘The Great Peece’ showing himself, his wife Henrietta Maria and their two children than he paid Van Dyke, the artist in a whole year.
Since that period, textiles practice has born descriptions such as craft and even ‘women’s work’, while art forms such as painting and sculpture have overtaken textiles in terms of prestige within the world of art. And yet, beyond traditional art, the high fashion industry is a beacon of wealth and status. But with the rise of technology and globalisation and with textile production occurring en masse though cheap labour and new machinery we beg to question where do textiles fit into our modern culture?
- How do we value their worth and the worth of material in our culture.
We are welcoming works from all disciplines, and are not restricted to textiles. Furthermore, we want to push the boundaries of textiles as a medium so contemporary and adventurous textile pieces will be very well received.
This will be an exhibition that evokes and answers questions but which also provokes thoughts and discussions on the place of material within our history and our even more importantly, our culture.
Download the submission form here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3i41oymre1ou1sa/The%20Material%20Culture%20submission%20form.doc?dl=0
or else contact us at info@kalopsia.co.uk
For further information, please contact info@kalopsia.co.uk (Reidin ), or call 07925843290, or visit http://kalopsiacollective.co.uk/
Deadline is Wednesday 7 January 2015 at 2pm
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