Category: Open Calls

Reminder: Golden Fleece Award Application Deadline is Friday

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The mission of the Golden Fleece Award is to provide resources for practising contemporary visual artists and makers to innovate and develop their artistic vision. In the previous year, only 20% of the applications received for the Golden Fleece Award were made by craft practitioners. Let’s change that this year!

The annual award supports artists working in all forms of visual, craft and applied arts at critical junctures of their careers. Applicants should reside in, or originally from, the island of Ireland.

Two €10,000 awards will be made in 2025, one in each of the two categories: Visual Art and Craft + Applied Art.

The submission deadline is 5pm on Friday, the 29th of November, 2024.

Note: Just over 240 applications were received for the 2024 Golden Fleece Award – 197 for Category 1: Visual Art and 45 for Category 2: Craft + Applied Art! (This is a much smaller number than applicants to the Arts Council of Ireland’s Agility Award. According to their Twitter/X, “We received a record number of 3,279 applications for our 2024 Agility Award”). 

One can also read the past Golden Fleece Award applications to understand the judging better.

For more information, visit the Golden Fleece Award’s website – https://www.goldenfleeceaward.com/

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Open Call: Dwell Here – Two Residencies at IMMA

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The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) welcomes expressions of interest for TWO residencies—Dwell Here: One Month Residency and Dwell Here: One Year Residency. These residencies are for practices based in Ireland or internationally to reside and practice for up to a month/one year at the museum. This opportunity invites practices working across disciplines of the visual arts, design, architecture, curation, and related humanities fields.

Dwell Here offers participants a simple proposition: to commit to this time and place while thinking deeply about its urgencies. Together, we are curious to learn what can be activated or challenged through the process of dwelling.

Application deadline: 18th of Sept 2024.

For more information about the One Month Residency, see this page on IMMA’s website – https://imma.ie/whats-on/dwell-here-one-month-residency/

For more information about the One Year Residency, see this page on IMMA’s website – https://imma.ie/whats-on/dwell-here-one-year-residency/

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Open Call: Loewe Foundation Craft Prize

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The prestigious Loewe Foundation Craft Prize is now open to applicants. It seeks to acknowledge and support international artisans of any age (over 18) or gender who demonstrate an exceptional ability to create objects of superior aesthetic value. The Foundation aims to highlight craft’s continuing contribution to our time’s culture by identifying work that reinterprets existing knowledge to make it relevant today.

Deadline: 30th of October.

For more information, visit their website – https://craftprize.loewe.com/en/craftprize2025

For inspiration, visit the impressive archive of the award’s past finalists and winners – https://craftprize.loewe.com/en/craftprize2024#archive

There is an interactive online exhibition site with behind-the-scenes images for last year’s finalists and winners – https://craftprizeexhibition.loewe.com/

Lastly, other than basketry, there aren’t that many textiles among the past finalists. However, in 2023, Liam Lee was awarded for his needle felted furniture – https://craftprize.loewe.com/en/craftprize2023#craftprize2023

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Open Call: Presenters Needed for Textile Talks

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The Surface Design Association seeks innovative proposals from artists who want to present at one of SDA’s 2025 recorded Textile Talks.

Videos of past talks can be found here – https://vimeo.com/user116604186

The deadline is the 30th of September, 2024.

For more information, visit this webpage – https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSemOoOivfM_iFK-rC1a0eu-n8TG7HgH0efCbzJcrC0zVZU9HQ/viewform

Textile Talks partners also include @QuiltAlliance, @InternationalQuiltMuseum, and @saqaart

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Open Call: Applications for Irish Design Week 2024 – DCCI

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The Design and Crafts Council Ireland (DCCI) is delighted to announce that applications are now open for Irish Design Week 2024.

From workshops to panel discussions, your event can play a key role in making this year’s Irish Design Week truly aspirational. This year’s theme is ‘Imagination for Opportunity’.

Funding is available for selected events that are looking to be part of the story.

Application deadline: 1st of September, 2024.

For more information, visit their website – https://www.dcci.ie/whats-on/irish-design-week/about-dcci-design-week/

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Open Call: Innovative Materials Collaboration and Residency – Indonesia

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Design Matters Lab seeks product and material-related designers from Indonesia and Europe to collaborate with micro-factories and co-create groundbreaking solutions by utilising alternative materials, creating meaningful products, and enhancing sustainable production systems.

Editor’s note: The prospectus does not directly mention wool, but perhaps there is an opportunity within the ‘Agro waste materials’ option.

  • Mycelium-based materials
  • Coffee ground-based materials
  • Agro waste materials
  • Concrete-based materials
  • Food waste leather-like materials

Deadline: Friday, the 9th of August 2024.

For more information, visit the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland’s website – https://www.dcci.ie/opportunities/design-matters-lab-open-call/

The actual application is through another organisation and can be found here – https://airtable.com/appfJWAzAGgtqM541/shrDjKSZaEC9JFSuZ

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Open Call: Artists Residencies – 14 Henrietta Street

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The Dublin City Council Culture Company is seeking to appoint two Artists in Residence for 14 Henrietta Street. Museum – a social history museum of Dublin life.

They seek creative and collaborative individuals who share their belief in connecting people and communities through culture and conversation.

They are seeking two artists to develop a creative response to 14 Henrietta Street. This could focus, for example, on the building itself, our oral history collection, the museum artefacts, the visitor experience or the museum’s way of working. Previous artist responses and projects have included poetry, photography, theatre and music. The Museum would particularly welcome applications that focus on the unique quality of the museum and how stories are told and gathered. Much of the existing artist responses focus on the tenement era of the house, so applications which include other periods within the 300-year history of the house are of interest.

The deadline for submission of proposals is Monday, 22 July 2024.

For more information, visit their website – https://14henriettastreet.ie/news-and-stories/open-call-for-artists-in-residence-at-14-henrietta-street/

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Open Call: Sensory Tools Competition – Europe

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The European Wool Exchange (EWE), in collaboration with the IAIA Association, seeks to promote the therapeutic and well-being effects of creating fibre crafts, especially those made with natural fibres.

They have a call for a competition to create sensory tools that are created with natural fibre. These include the following items –

  • Sensory Sleeves
  • Elongated Sensory Sleeves
  • Sensory Mats

Amongst the awards are Best Sensory Tools made with 100% European Wool.

Other categories of awards include the following –

  • Best sensory tools made with natural fibres other than wool
  • Special Award to best sensory tool crafted by men
  • Special Award to the most senior person participating
  • Special Award to the youngest person participating
  • Special Award to the most active country determined by pro rata of population
  • Public’s Choice Awards / The best sensory tools will be chosen based on the technique: Crochet, Knitting, Weaving, *Felting* or Mixed Techniques.

All the sensory tools will be donated to institutions that care for patients.

Deadline: Sensory Tools must be received in Spain by the 10th of September, 2024.

For more information, visit their website – https://www.ewe.network/wool-4-health

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Open Call: ARTwear – Fiber Art Now Magazine

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The magazine Fiber Art Now has an open call for wearable art for an upcoming print publication.

They seek artful, wearable pieces made with fibre and/or constructed using fibre or textile techniques. And, yes, jewellery and accessories are included in this call. Remember that cool hat, unique scarf, crazy-cool earrings you created? They want to see them.

Juried artwork will be featured in the Fall 2024 issue of Fiber Art Now, and selected works will be eligible for the onsite exhibition at Visions Museum of Textile Art in San Diego, California, on view October 18, 2025, through January 10, 2026.

The deadline is soon – the 30th of June, 2024.

For more information and to apply, visit the CaFÉ website – https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=13577&_kx

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Open Call: International Paper & Textile Art Biennial – Belgium

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Image from the 2022 Biennial.

Artists, designers and researchers mainly working in the medium of Paper and/or Textile art are invited to respond to an open call for participation in the International Paper & Textile Biennial 2024 (IPTB24) – Kunststichting Perspektief vzw, which runs from the 5th to the 13th of October 2024.

The deadline is the 15th of July.

Location: Cultural Community Center “Den Breughel”, Wespelaarsesteenweg 85, 3150 Haacht, Belgium.

For more information, visit their website – http://www.artksp.be/IPTB24.html

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