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Waverley Council offers six places in its 2011 Waverley Artist-in-Residence Program. This program provides rent-free studio space for six months in the Bondi-Waverley School of Arts in Bondi. Applications are now open to Australian artists working in visual arts and craft, design and new media.
Applications close: 17 September 2010
EWES (Epping Weavers Embroiderers & Spinners) is holding a Tea Cosy and Tea Pot exhibition morning and/or afternoon Tea on Friday, 15 October 2010, 10-4pm in aid of Pink Ribbon Day, the Cancer Council's official fund raising day for breast cancer research. Tea Cosies are handmade by members. Wear pink if you wish.
Come to Epping Creative Centre, Dence Park, 26 Stanley Street, Epping, NSW for morning or afternoon tea or stay all day (bring own lunch). Bring your spinning wheel and join in spinning or whatever you like.
Raffle and Lucky Door Prizes. Entry $5. Entry fees and raffle proceeds go to Pink Ribbon Day.
RSVP and Enquiries: eade.ymg@bigpond.com
The showcase will be a parade of garments interspersed with song, dance and circus acts.
To enter the competition you must design and make a garment that fits the criteria of art that can be worn on the body. The festival's theme for 2010 is Stories of Land and Sea, while the theme of the show is past, present and future.
Please also try to arrange a model to wear your garment (this could be you!)
There will be four occasions when you, your model and the garment must be available:
The highlights of the fantastic 2009 WoW Wearable Art Awards in New Zealand will be screened at the RSL club on Wednesday, 18 August, 6.00pm. Anyone interested is welcome to come and see how stunning this kind of show can be. New Zealand is the home of wearable art and every year, an incredible 300 or so entries from all over the world are shown.
To enter, please return the entry form by 10 September.
Contact: libs@libbybloxham.net
This event is supported by Wollongong city council and Viva la Gong, and will take place at Port Kembla RSL club 8.00pm Friday, 5 November
Tickets: $25 ($20 concession) including supper and show (ticket purchase information not finalised at this stage)
Red Point Wearable Art Award - $500
Sustainability Award (for use of recycled materials) - $200
People's choice Award - $200
Student Encouragement Award - $100
(sponsorship is still being sought, so prize money may increase)
Entry Fee: $15 (including complimentary show ticket)
sydneyreef@gmail.com (Michaela Davies, Claire Conroy & Charlotte Haywood) are looking for a permanent home for the Sydney Reef, a satellite of the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef created by Margaret and Christine Wertheim of the Institute for Figuring, Los Angeles.
In the meantime In Stitches have decided to keep the crochet moving in an evolutionary state transforming it into a Collective Mind which will be a sculpture of the human brain made from the contributed crochet pieces. This sculpture aims to celebrate everyone's efforts of working together. As the Collective Mind suggests, all contributors will be acknowledged.
The Collective Mind will be exhibited as a part of the Sydney Fringe Festival 2010, at the Carriageworks, Eveleigh, 10-26 September.
Applications are now being invited for Sturt residencies in 2011. Applications will be considered from established professionals and recent graduates in the areas of woodwork, ceramics, weaving/textiles and jewellery/metalwork. Sturt maintains one of the largest craft based residency programs in Australia with places for up to eight residents each year to live, work and teach in Sturt's unique environment.
Applications close: 31 October 2010
Project Gutenberg has a new book available for free download that may be of interest to Guild members: Instruction book on ring spinning by Francis L Lincoln.
First published in 1885. The object of this little book is to give help and instruction to those who are engaged in this department of mill work. It imparts that knowledge which only years of thorough study and observation can give. It has been carefully prepared by an experienced Spinner, who has given years of study to it, in order to benefit and help those who are interested in the Spinning department.
Instruction book on ring spinning by Francis L Lincoln — Project Gutenberg