The World Crafts Council Europe in collaboration with the Design & Crafts Council Ireland is offering a 6 week intensive online course on how to grow your craft & design enterprise.The course is comprised of 6 modules with one-on-one mentoring sessions and a final pitch day, all designed to help you to advance your small business or craft enterprise and grow in the areas where you need it most!
The deadline is soon – the 3rd of May.
For more information, visit their website.
Earth Rising is a four-day event of eco-related programming showcasing the most exciting innovators in the field of eco-citizen science, design & creativity, empowering audiences to become agents of change. This Eco Festival will occur at IMMA from 21 – 24 September 2023. An Open Call for applications is now open for participating artists. To see last year’s offerings visit HERE.
The application’s deadline is tomorrow, Friday, the 28th of April 2023 , at 5 PM.
For more information, visit IMMA’s website.
After three years of virtual training events, The Heritage Council is pleased to announce that in April 2023, two training & networking events will take place. These events are aimed at anyone who is thinking about organising a National Heritage Week event. The events will occur on 20th April at the Talbot Hotel Clonmel in Co.Tipperary and 27th April at the Tullamore Court Hotel in Co. Offaly. Each event will feature the same schedule of speakers, so you can choose which location is most convenient for you.
(While the first event has already passed, perhaps there are spots at the second event).
Deadline: very soon!
Visit their website to learn more.
A new education programme designed for pairs of master artisans and recent graduates, the Homo Faber Fellowship facilitates the transmission of craft skills. The programme seeks to make crafts culturally, economically and socially relevant for students of applied arts and crafts. The seven-month Fellowship incorporates a month-long entrepreneurial and creative masterclass certified by ESSEC Business School at Joana Vasconcelos’ studio, and a six-month sponsored placement in the workshop of a master artisan.
The deadline is the 4th of June, 2023.
For more information, visit their website.
The Arts Council, in partnership with Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Galway, and Creative Europe Desk Ireland, will present the Festival Makers Conference (formerly Change Makers) on Thursday 11 and Friday 12 May 2023 in Galway City.
The conference will provide opportunities for festival makers, festival stakeholders and artists making work in a festival context to exchange ideas, share, map sector developments and discuss practices relevant to festivals in Ireland.
Free Conference Tickets for Artists are available.
For more information, visit their website.
VENUE: CIE Sports and Leisure Hall, INCHICORE Dublin 8. Eircode D08X525
DATE: 7th of May, 2023
TIME: 10:30-12:30
By starting promptly at 10.30 AM, we hope to have the formalities of the meeting completed in good time, so we can listen to our Guest Speaker, our founder Elizabeth Bonnar, give a short account of ‘Our Guild’s Beginnings’ and glimpse some of her fantastic work.
We hope to have an unofficial launch at the culmination of our brilliant research project, our wool book – Exploring Irish Wool for Feltmaking.
Refreshments will follow – please bring some Home Bakes for us to sample. We always appreciate goodies with our cuppa.
You are welcome to bring one piece of your own work from the last 20 years – new members, too, please – to display around the room.
(Please label your piece clearly and securely, and please, please, please bring the piece home with you).
While we are delighted to announce that we will be giving one lucky member a whopping €250 to put towards any workshop either in person or online, from any international tutor of your choice.
Anyone whose 2023 membership is paid up before May 1st will be eligible for the draw at the AGM on May 7th.
If you still need to renew your membership, please contact Fiona – allmembers.feltmakersireland@gmail.com
NB: Motions for the AGM MUST be submitted in writing, to the Committee, 14 days before the AGM. This is to allow time to circulate all members in advance of the meeting.
Each year, the Surface Design Association’s International Exhibition In Print showcases the breadth and depth of contemporary artists and designers working with fibre and textile-based materials, methods, and techniques. The work of selected artists will be featured in the Fall 2023 issue of Surface Design Journal. The Journal is read by artists, gallery owners, curators, scholars, and enthusiasts nationally and internationally.
Surface Design Journal invites artists to create original fibre-based work that leaves a lasting impression. How will you use the unique medium of textiles to create an artwork that resonates for years to come? What do you hope to capture about our present for future generations? Will you share your story through the application of colour or pattern, a fibre technique, historical materials, or an emotion evoked by your design—these are just a few things that come to mind.
Deadline: 15th of May
For more information, visit CaFÉ.
The annual Irish Made Awards by Irish Country Magazine, supported by Guaranteed Irish and Design & Crafts Council Ireland, are back and open for entry. Celebrate the best home-grown products in Ireland. There are 14 categories, including Textiles.
Deadline: the 30th of May
For more information – https://irishcountrymagazine.ie/irishmade/
During the last week of July, there are two feltmaking workshops with Elina Saari and Oona Jakku. The first class is focused on creating an unusual ‘button’ textured felt, while the second class is focused on felting hats. The classes are three days each and run consecutively.
For more information, visit the FeltFaction website.
The World of Threads Festival 2023 in Ontario, Canada, is open to submissions of artwork from all countries, made between January 2019 and April 2023.
Synchronistic Curating
World of Threads
Something that’s different about World of Threads Festival is that we let the art guide us. Festival Curators Gareth Bate and Dawne Rudman don’t have predetermined curatorial ideas or impose their concepts on the artists. Each new festival is a blank slate. Shows develop entirely out of the submissions received.
Deadline: 14th of May, 2023.
For submission information, visit their website.
