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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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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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Open Call: Apply to the DCCI Irish Business Design Challenge

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The Design & Crafts Council Ireland (DCCI) launches this year’s Irish Business Design Challenge (IBDC) for micro, small and medium-sized businesses to apply and showcase their commitment to sustainability through innovative design and circular and ethical practices.

In its fourth year, IBDC celebrates businesses that add value, repurpose products, develop eco-friendly processes, enhance efficiency, and tackle societal and environmental challenges through sustainable design.

This year’s challenge has a prize fund of over €50,000.

Examples of Sustainable Design Strategies:

  • Designing for minimal waste.
  • Prioritising durability in design.
  • Utilising safe, renewable, and recycled materials.
  • Championing ethical production practices.
  • Reducing chemical impacts through design.
  • Implementing energy and water-efficient designs.
  • Drawing inspiration from nature’s designs.
  • Dematerialising products and developing sustainable systems and services.

For more information, visit their website – https://www.dcci.ie/ibdc

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Open Call: DCU Visual Artists in Residence in collab with Fire Station Artists’ Studios

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Dublin City College (DCU), in collaboration with Fire Station Artists’ Studios, is offering an artist residency for two professional visual artists. The selected artists will have access to a studio space on DCU’s All Hallows campus in Dromcondra, Dublin for 12 months and additional opportunities to support their career growth and development.

Deadline: 12 PM, Friday 14th of June.

For more information, visit their website – https://www.dcu.ie/dcuartsandculture/open-call-dcu-visual-artists-residence-collaboration-fire-station-artists-studios


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Open Call: Land to the Hand – Galway Wool Coop’s Meitheal

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The Galway Wool Co-op, with Artist-in-Residence Michelle Hickey Legge, is delighted to announce the coming together of art and earth—‘Land to the Hand’. This unique exhibition of art through the medium of Galway Wool will take place this year at the annual Galway Wool Meitheal, Athenry, Galway.

The Coop invites artists on the island of Ireland working in all disciplines, age groups and abilities to engage with themes and concepts that connect the Galway Sheep Breed to the Irish landscape and the rich historical heritage of the Galway fleece. Artists who took part last year are also welcome to apply.

When: The Meithal is Saturday, the 20th of July, 2024, for one morning only.

For expressions of interest, direct message Michelle Hickey Legge via Instagram – @michellehickeyart before midnight, the 31st of May.

For more information about Galway Wool, visit the Coop’s website – https://galwaywool.ie/

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