Monday, September 8, 2008
The British Tapestry Group goes global.....
Jennie MoncurThe British Tapestry Group goes global.....
BTG has decided to open up its membership to international tapestry weavers. You can join simply by visiting the BTG website, http://www.thebritishtapestrygroup.co.uk/, although please be patient whilst we get our PayPal account sorted out. Membership fees for the current year, to April 2009, will be posted on the site.
Membership Benefits include:
· Access to the restricted members’ area on the website
· Access to the new BTG online Forum
· Create your own gallery page
· Subscription to the BTG Newsletter
· Member discount for the Tapestry 08 catalogue
· A range of members’ only exhibiting opportunities
· Reduced fees for Conference, Seminar and Workshop events
The new BTG Management Committee are also looking to forge links with international tapestry weaving groups, as well as individual weavers, so opening up our membership is our first step in this new direction. We’re already in the initial stages of organising an event for 2009, and the next major juried show, which we hope to tour to galleries around the UK.
2008 has certainly been a landmark year for the worldwide community of tapestry weavers with the Tapestry 2008 Symposium and events in Australia; BTG’s exhibition, conference and workshops in the UK; the American Tapestry Alliance’s Convergence events and exhibitions in the US; as well as the opening of the European Tapestry Forum’s second major touring show.
Add the British Tapestry Group website – http://www.thebritishtapestrygroup.co.uk/ - to your favourites list and keep yourself up-to-date with what’s happening in the UK.
Jane Freear-Wyld – Chair, the British Tapestry Group
BTG has decided to open up its membership to international tapestry weavers. You can join simply by visiting the BTG website, http://www.thebritishtapestrygroup.co.uk/, although please be patient whilst we get our PayPal account sorted out. Membership fees for the current year, to April 2009, will be posted on the site.
Membership Benefits include:
· Access to the restricted members’ area on the website
· Access to the new BTG online Forum
· Create your own gallery page
· Subscription to the BTG Newsletter
· Member discount for the Tapestry 08 catalogue
· A range of members’ only exhibiting opportunities
· Reduced fees for Conference, Seminar and Workshop events
The new BTG Management Committee are also looking to forge links with international tapestry weaving groups, as well as individual weavers, so opening up our membership is our first step in this new direction. We’re already in the initial stages of organising an event for 2009, and the next major juried show, which we hope to tour to galleries around the UK.
2008 has certainly been a landmark year for the worldwide community of tapestry weavers with the Tapestry 2008 Symposium and events in Australia; BTG’s exhibition, conference and workshops in the UK; the American Tapestry Alliance’s Convergence events and exhibitions in the US; as well as the opening of the European Tapestry Forum’s second major touring show.
Add the British Tapestry Group website – http://www.thebritishtapestrygroup.co.uk/ - to your favourites list and keep yourself up-to-date with what’s happening in the UK.
Jane Freear-Wyld – Chair, the British Tapestry Group
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
American Tapestry Alliance New Project
"Inspiration & Creativity," curated by Mary Lane.
Inspiration & Creativity, a project hosted jointly by the American Tapestry Alliance’s Web Exhibition and Educational Articles programs presents the viewpoints of four internationally recognized artists: Peter Horn (Germany), Murray Gibson (Canada), Kay Lawrence (Australia) and Joanne Soroka (United Kingdom). Each artist has generously offered his or her perspective on the creative process through an essay published as an Educational Article. Each artist’s work is featured in the concurrent, and eponymous, Web Exhibition.
Inspiration & Creativity
Inspiration & Creativity, a project hosted jointly by the American Tapestry Alliance’s Web Exhibition and Educational Articles programs presents the viewpoints of four internationally recognized artists: Peter Horn (Germany), Murray Gibson (Canada), Kay Lawrence (Australia) and Joanne Soroka (United Kingdom). Each artist has generously offered his or her perspective on the creative process through an essay published as an Educational Article. Each artist’s work is featured in the concurrent, and eponymous, Web Exhibition.
Inspiration & Creativity
Peter HornLighter Than Air
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Friday, August 1, 2008
Selling Yarns 2: Conference 2009
The website has been launched of the 2009 conference Selling Yarns
Selling Yarns 2: Innovation for sustainability is a conference that addresses contemporary Indigenous craft and design practice. It draws on the outcomes of the first Selling Yarns 2 conference held in Darwin in 2006 that looked specifically at contemporary Indigenous textile practice
The conference is supported by the Australian University Research School of Humanities, Australian University School of Art , Craft Australia and the National Museum of Australia
Selling Yarns 2: Innovation for sustainability is a conference that addresses contemporary Indigenous craft and design practice. It draws on the outcomes of the first Selling Yarns 2 conference held in Darwin in 2006 that looked specifically at contemporary Indigenous textile practice
The conference is supported by the Australian University Research School of Humanities, Australian University School of Art , Craft Australia and the National Museum of Australia
Craft Australia publishes a free online newsletter
716 craft·design
Subscriptions to 716 are free.
Sue Lawty's V&A Blog
The Vicotria and Albert museum ( V&A ) have publish Sues' first blog enrty on the their website about the Tapestry2008 conference, Concealed, Discovered, Revealed
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