Future Makers is a Design & Crafts Council Ireland (DCCI) initiative which recognises talent, potential and creativity. It aims to support the next generation of makers, designers and craftspeople to take the step from training into an enterprise. Divided into student and emerging practitioner categories and covering a wide range of disciplines, it is one of the largest prize-funded award programmes in Europe.
Note: Future Makers is the qualifying competition for the annual RDS Craft Awards, which provides 5 x €10,000 awards to makers at a formative stage in their careers. These five significant awards are for developing business and craft skills for those pursuing a professional career in the sector.
The exhibition recognises the creative talents and skills of a broad community of high-calibre artist and celebrates textiles’ rightful place amongst high art.
THIS AGM IS THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR OF OUR 20TH ANNIVERSARY.
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.
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Refreshments will follow – please bring some Home Bakes for us to sample. We always appreciate goodies with our cuppa.
SHARE ONE PIECE
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).
BURSARY AWARD
While we are delighted to announce that all members are eligible for the drawing of an award of €250 to put towards any workshop either in person or online, from any international tutor of your choice.
AGENDA
Address by Chair, opening of AGM (Breda).
Address by Secretary (Clare).
Treasurer’s Report (Annika).
Report of Wool Project Book (Copies may be available).
Election of Chairperson and Committee for 2023-34. The election of officers will be held at the 11th of June meeting.
Motions.
GUEST SPEAKER – Elizabeth Bonnar, the founder of Feltmakers Ireland, will address the meeting on the History of FI and may display some of her work.
Bursary Draw for €250 for all paid-up members will occur at the AGM. The award is to be used to attend a Felting Workshop (either in-person or online). Afterwards, a blog post reporting on the workshop/class would be most welcome.
Tea/Coffee Home Bakes.
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.
Future Makers is a Design & Crafts Council Ireland (DCCI) initiative recognising talent, potential and creativity. It aims to support the next generation of makers, designers and craftspeople to take the step from training into enterprise. Divided into student and emerging practitioner categories and covering a wide range of disciplines, it is one of the largest prize-funded award programmes in Europe.
Emerging maker category criteria:
Currently in post-graduate studies in a craft or design discipline or graduated from full-time study between 2-6 years ago at the date of entry to Future Makers. And/or have established a craft or design enterprise in the past 6 years. Proof of education history, self-employed status or company incorporation will need to be supplied.
Design & Crafts Council Ireland’s Future Makers Awards is the qualifying competition for the RDS Craft Awards. RDS Craft Awards offers five x €10,000 bursaries for emerging Irish craft makers. To be eligible to apply for the RDS Craft Awards, emerging makers must have received a Future Makers Award in the preceding year.
For more information, please visit the RDS website
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, it is also a membership renewal reminder.
Anyone whose 2023 membership is paid up before May 1st will be eligible for the draw at the AGM on May 7th (more details about the AGM will be sent out soon)
Contact me, Fiona, your friendly membership secretary!
Thank you to all those who’ve signed up already, and good luck to everyone.
Fiona and the committee
{Work featured in the image are from left to right: tutor Nancy Ballesteros, Feltmakers Ireland member Doris Reinisch, who previously won a bursary and attended a Molly Williams course, and tutor Fiona Duthie. }
The Leitrim Design House wishes to invite makers, artists & designers around the Island of Ireland to respond to the theme of reused sustainability. The winner will be presented with €2,500 & a solo exhibition in 2024 for the best overall submission. A specially commended prize of €1,000 will be awarded to a runner-up.
To offer our members something for 2021 we are running a draw. The draw will take place on 5th March…. all membership renewals as well as new members will be entered into a hat ( all membership renewals up until 3rd march will be entered).
One lucky winner will be chosen at random- and offered a bursary up to the value of €200- paid for by Feltmakers Ireland… for use on an online workshop course- of their choice. Its a great prize, a lovely offer of hope and learning as we face into another year. We would hope that the lucky winner might write up a little blog article of their work or their workshop experience. Not giving away any valued techniques of course but more a “what I learnt and how I managed online” diary piece. Good luck everybody!
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