Tag: International Exhibitions

Open Call: Fiberart International 2025

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The open call for the Fiberart International 2025 exhibition is now open.

Fiberart International is a series of juried exhibitions held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and is open to textile artists worldwide. It seeks to exhibit the best of contemporary art and invites submissions that reflect a wide range of works related to the fibre medium. The exhibition is recognized worldwide as a benchmark that documents trends and innovations in the field. It aims to include innovative work rooted in traditional fibre materials, structure, processes, and history, as well as art that explores unexpected relationships between fibre and other creative disciplines.

The exhibitions will be on view at Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, from May 30 to August 30, 2025, and at Brew House Arts from June 20 to August 30, 2025.

This call is open to artists at any stage of their career, who are located within the United States or abroad. All work must be either fibre in content or executed using a fibre technique.

Deadline: the 30th of June, 2024.

For more information, visit their website – https://contemporarycraft.org/opportunities/artist-opportunities/exhibitions/

Editor’s Note: Fiberart International is triannual – it happens every three years. In previous years, this show has drawn artists from all over the world. There are artists’ interviews and videos of the prior show here – https://fiberartspgh.org/fiberart-international-2022/

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Grants: Culture Ireland Application Due Soon

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Culture Ireland offers support to Irish professional artists, arts organisations and international presenters to present work by Irish artists at significant international venues and festivals. Applications are accepted from the artist/arts organisation or international presenting partner.

Culture Ireland also accepts applications for the presentation of work online to international audiences where an Irish artist/organisation is being presented by an international partner.

Costs for online events that Culture Ireland will consider include, but may not be limited to, technical and recording costs, venue hire, equipment hire, and post-production costs.

The next deadline for receipt of grant applications is midnight, 1st December 2023. Applications for funding to present work internationally from 15th February 2024 onwards must be submitted by this date.

For more information, visit their website – https://craftni.org/culture-ireland-grant-support/

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Open Call: Fiber Art Now – Fiber in 3D

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Fiber Art Now invites artists to apply to their juried exhibition Fiber in 3D. Selected pieces will appear in the spring 2024 issue of the magazine to be released in early April 2024. Selected artwork will be eligible for the onsite exhibition at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, Texas, from January 27th through May 4th, 2024.

Artists are invited to enter TWO innovative three-dimensional artworks of an original design that stretch the boundaries of fibre and textile techniques. The artwork must include a fibre component or textile technique.

Show us your sculptures, vessels, installations, wearables … all of your three-dimensional work!

Fiber Art Now

The application deadline is the 30th of November.

For more information, visit the website – https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=12433

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Exhibition: CraftHub International Exhibition at VISUAL Carlow

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VISUAL Centre of Contemporary Art & The George Bernard Shaw Theatre in Carlow is the Craft Hub International Craft Exhibition venue and is supported by Creative Europe & Creative Ireland. The exhibition commenced in Italy in April 2023, travelling to Greece, Germany, and Portugal, and has now arrived in Ireland!

The exhibition features work from across the whole spectrum of craft techniques and uses an anonymous selection process, giving emerging artists an equal opportunity to be selected alongside the established makers. Moving on to Wales, then Norway for the closing conference.

Craft Hub is a European project co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme focused on Craft in the context of cultural heritage and its continuing relevance in contemporary practice.

This show is only up for a few more days – until the 3rd of September.

Feltmakers Ireland member Nicola Brown has a piece in the show.

For more information, visit the website – https://visualcarlow.ie/whats-on/crafthub

Sculptor Martin Lyttle and Guild member Nicola Brown.

If you have news about exhibitions or teaching, please share it with the Guild!

Exhibition: Hair and Hairs in Paris

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Okay, this is not exactly felt, but it is ever so interesting! The Decorative Arts Museum in Paris has an exhibition dedicated to hair and body hair in the Western world.

The exhibition explores, through more than 600 works, from the 15th century to the present day, with themes inherent in the history of hairdressing and questions related to facial and body hair.

Even if one cannot travel to France, the website has many photographs and much information to enjoy.

The exhibition runs until the 17th of September.

For more information, visit their website – https://madparis.fr/cheveuxetpoils

Exhibition: QUO VADIS? 7th Riga International Textile and Fibre Art TriennialExhibition

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Responding to the motto of the exhibition triennial, QUO VADIS? (Where Are We Going?), the artists, through their works, partake in conversations about the evolution of art and this particular field today, as well as global geopolitical and social problems, engaging in self-reflection through the perspective of their time and art form. The artists highlight current topics – the brutal war in Ukraine, the global pandemic and its consequences, the climate change affecting our planet – and other sensitive and poignant social issues.

The expositions are arranged in the Great Halls of the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design (MDAD) and the Art Museum RIGA BOURSE (AMRB).

The triennial exhibition unites 79 artists from 30 countries, who were selected by an international jury from 237 submissions.

The show is up until 17 September.

For more information, visit their website – https://www.lnmm.lv/en/museum-of-decorative-arts-and-design/exhibitions/7th-riga-international-textile-and-fibre-art-triennial-quo-vadis-491

Awards: Loewe Foundation Prize

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The LOEWE FOUNDATION launches the seventh edition of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize, an international award celebrating excellence in craftsmanship.

The Foundation seeks to recognize uniquely talented artisans whose artistic vision and will to innovate set new standards for the future of craft.

The prize for the winning entry is 50,000 euros. The shortlisted and winning works will feature in the exhibition and accompanying catalogue in Paris in spring 2024.

The deadline is the 25th of October.

For more information, visit their website – https://craftprize.loewe.com/en/craftprize2024

Open Call: Excellence in Fibers Exhibition – Fiber Art Now Magazine

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This Excellence In Fibers is the magazine Fiber Art Now’s ninth international exhibition.

Artists are encouraged to push the boundaries in the areas of installations, sculpture, vessels, wall/floor works, and wearable art.

The exhibition will appear in the winter 2023-2024 issue of Fiber Art Now to be released in early January 2024.

Selected artwork will be eligible for an onsite exhibition at the Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum, March 5-June 1, 2025.

Deadline: the 30th of July, 2023.

For more information, visit their website – https://www.fiberartnow.net/calls/

Visit: Kaffe Fassett Exhibition in Edinburgh

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The Dovecote Museum in Edinburgh, Scotland, has a colourful exhibition of Kaffe Fassett’s work.

Kaffe Fassett is one of the most successful artists and designers working in contemporary craft today. His career spans over 50 years, with a prolific oeuvre encompassing knitting, needlepoint, mosaic, quilting, textile design, painting and drawing. His books and projects have encouraged millions to make and create, with his designs being used and interpreted by quilters around the globe.

The show runs until the 8th of July, 2023.

There is an online tour on the 6th of June. Tickets £5.00 – https://dovecotstudios.com/whats-on/online-tour-kaffe-fassett-the-power-of-pattern-1683649342

For more information, visit their website – https://dovecotstudios.com/whats-on/kaffe-fassett-the-power-of-pattern

Open Call: The Fine Art Textiles Award

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The Fine Art Textiles Award (FATA) returns for its fifth year in 2023.

Organised by The Knitting & Stitching Show, The Festival of Quilts, and the Surface Design Association, FATA is an international juried exhibition open to all amateur and practising artists using textiles as their medium, and offering a prize of £5,000 for the winning piece.

The exhibition recognises the creative talents and skills of a broad community of high-calibre artist and celebrates textiles’ rightful place amongst high art.

The deadline is the 22nd of May, 2023.

For more information, visit their website.