Deadline to apply: 25th July 2010

Express your individuality at American Craft Council Shows - now accepting applications for the 2011 season. It's an opportunity to exhibit and sell your handmade work across the country to thousands of craft buyers, collectors and enthusiasts. Gain national exposure, enhance your online presence and join a community of makers who have been juried into these prestigious events! With attendance and sales continuing to rise, NOW's the time to apply!

Who Should Apply?

If you produce original and handmade work in basketry, ceramics, clothing & accessories, decorative fiber, furniture & lighting, glass, jewelry, leather, metal, mixed media, paper, stone or wood.

2011 Show Schedule

• Baltimore wholesale: February 22-23
• Baltimore retail: February 24-27
• Atlanta retail: March 11-13 (Preview Party March 10)
• St. Paul retail: April 15-17
• San Francisco retail: August 12-14

Deadlines

• Deadline to apply: July 25, 2010
• Late deadline to apply: August 1, 2010 ($100 late fee will apply for any applications received between July 25 and August 1)

All applications will be reviewed under a rigorous jury process; results will be announced in September. Apply on-line at www.zapplication.org. A complete prospectus is available at www.craftcouncil.org/apply. And the Council staff is available to help with your application. Email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , or call at 800.836.3470 x276.

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2nd October 2010 – January 2011
(deadline for submissions 20th August 2010)

Through its annual open exhibition opportunities, Orleans House Gallery in Twickenham helps artists both locally and nationally to showcase their work in group exhibitions. Each year, over 500 individual artists (excluding those participating in Arthouse) exhibit work in a range of open exhibitions across three galleries - Orleans House and Stables Galleries, Twickenham and the Riverside Gallery in Richmond.

In 2010, we have further opportunities for you to submit artwork for an exhibition in Orleans House Gallery, Making It/Faking It. The theme of this exhibition is fakes, forgeries, homages and pastiches, or any works that explore the questions and notions of originality, influence and authenticity. Any media (prints, photos, paintings, objects, sculptures, film) and style are considered.

• Artists can submit up to 5 original works. Artworks must be submitted as high resolution jpeg files on a CD, with accompanying A4 sized photographic prints or colour printouts. Original artwork will not be accepted.
• Please clearly label each submission with: artist’s name, title of work, date, media, approximate size and price before commission if the work is for sale (the gallery adds 40% of the artist price for commission + VAT).
• In addition, please enclose contact details, an artist’s statement and CV.
• There is a £10.00 administration charge (which also contributes towards exhibition costs); £7.50 concessions (please include proof). Please make cheques payable to ‘L.B.R.U.T’. Your submission will not be accepted without payment.
• If you would like images returned, please enclose a stamped self-addressed envelope.

Successful artists will be contacted by email or in writing approximately two weeks after the deadline. Any queries, please email curator Mark De Novellis at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call 020 8831 6000.

Orleans House Gallery,
Riverside,
TWICKENHAM.
TW1 3DJ

4th December – February 2011
(Deadline for submissions 23rd October 2010)

Through its annual open exhibition opportunities, Orleans House Gallery in Twickenham helps artists both locally and nationally to showcase their work in group exhibitions. Each year, over 500 individual artists (excluding those participating in Arthouse) exhibit work in a range of open exhibitions across three galleries - Orleans and Stables Galleries, Twickenham and the Riverside Gallery in Richmond.

In 2010, we have further opportunities for you to submit artwork for an exhibition at Riverside Gallery, Picturing Science. Scientists use an abstract language of signs to visualize and explain the invisible forces, relationships and processes which make up our world. Artists similarly create images to transmit and analyse meaning. The theme of this exhibition is the collision, intersection and contamination of these two systems of representation. Any media (prints, photos, paintings, objects, sculptures, film) and style are considered.

• Artists can submit up to 5 original works. Artworks must be submitted as high resolution jpeg files on a CD, with accompanying A4 sized photographic prints or colour printouts. Original artwork will not be accepted.
• Please clearly label each submission with: artist’s name, title of work, date, media, approximate size and price before commission if the work is for sale (the gallery adds 40% of the artist price for commission + VAT).
• In addition, please enclose contact details, an artist’s statement and CV.
• There is a £10.00 administration charge (which also contributes towards exhibition costs); £7.50 concessions (please include proof). Please make cheques payable to ‘L.B.R.U.T’. Your submission will not be accepted without payment.
• If you would like images returned, please enclose a stamped self-addressed envelope.

Successful artists will be contacted by email or in writing approximately two weeks after the deadline.

Any queries, please email curator Mark De Novellis at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call 020 8831 6000.

Orleans House Gallery,
Riverside,
TWICKENHAM
TW1 3DJ

Herewith the call for exhibitors...

Harrogate International Centre, 3 – 5 December 2010

Simply Christmas 2010 in association with Yorkshire Life magazine is very proud and excited to announce that this year’s Simply Christmas show. By popular demand, we have decided to highlight what is good about Britain. We have created a special section of the show called “Designed in Britain”. This will give the opportunity to talented British Craftsmen and Designers to showcase their talents.

Stands are very limited so if you design and produce your own products in the UK or sell on behalf of those who do, this area is for you. Stands are selling fast, don’t miss out!

GoggleWorks Center for the Arts presents its 2011 Juried Show...

Inside Outside
A broad interpretation of space and place on the edge and in between.

Awards:

A Juror's Award for Best in Show will be presented. The award winner will receive a cash prize and a solo show in the Cohen Gallery at the GoggleWorks Center for the Arts, the largest, most comprehensive, interactive arts center of its kind in the country. 

Cash prizes also awarded to second and third place.

Juror:

Bruce Samuelson, Professor, painting and drawing, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA.

• Each artist may submit up to three works for $35.
• Entry Deadline: December 1, 2010 (all entries must be postmarked by this date.)
• Exhibition runs May 13 - June 19, 2011.
• Visit www.goggleworks.org
• For questions, please call 610.374.4600, ext. 141.

Hello Feltmakers!

We are pleased to announce the official launch of PEACE FELT 2010... a project designed to bring people together through peace, unity and felt!

The website is http://www.peacefelt.org
 

I have attached our info packet for easy reference - along with the press release.
Please let us know if you have any questions, ideas, suggestions for this project, and we hope you will participate and help us Create a Circle of PEACE FELT Around the World in 2010!

Dear Felting Group,
 
We are writing this note to introduce ourselves to you.  We are the Committee organising the 11th Southern Hemisphere Felting Convergence 2011 which will be held in Bunbury Western Australia from Sunday 2nd October 2011 to Friday 7th October 2011.
 
Convergence is a gathering of felt makers which is held every two years in either New Zealand or Australia.  It is hosted by a different group and in a different location each time. Sharing knowledge is the underlying theme of the Convergence.  Tutors give workshops on a voluntary basis and it is a wonderful opportunity to show case their work.
 
Your group may have members who will be interested in this event whether as tutors or participants.     We are just beginning the extensive process of organising the Convergence and have created a blog http://feltconvergencebunburywa.blogspot.com/ to communicate news on the program as it develops.  Our blog is also posting on lots of beautiful felting to whet appetites for things to enjoy in Bunbury in October 2011.
 
Could you please let your members know about us?  They can just look in to us occasionally at http://feltconvergencebunburywa.blogspot.com/  or subscribe to our blog by registering with us to get updates as they are given. 
 

To most people the arrival of the Olympics means enjoying hours spent in front of the TV, sharing the glory of those who win a medal, commiserating with those who just miss out, and willing on the ones at the back, without whom there wouldn’t be a race. For some of the athletes it will be their one and only time to strive to achieve the seemingly impossible – standing on the podium to be awarded a medal.

Traditionally in sport, competitors exchange Pennants as a sign of friendship. To continue this tradition, and as a memento of their participation in this event, we are undertaking a project to make a Pennant (or ‘mini’ quilt) for each athlete. The project gives quilters, felt makers, embroiderers, textile artists, in fact anyone who sews (or not!), the opportunity to express their support, through the medium of fabric, fibre and stitch, and become part of the whole Olympic event in London 2012.

The Pennants can be as simple or elaborate as you require, and they can be made by anyone regardless of their level of ability or age. They can be made using any textile media - felt, fabric, cross stitch, embroidery, painted fabric, beaded - in fact anything. They need to be A3 sized (42cm x 30cm) overall and suggestions and instructions can be found on our website www.quilts4london.org.uk .

For further information call 01442 404234, email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .  Or send a S.A.E to, 'quilts4london', 39 Hunting Gate, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England, HP2 6NX.

Follow ‘Quilts4London’ on Twitter.

Lifelong learning 2007 - 2013 is a continuation of the current generation of the European Union education programs of Socrates and Leonardo da Vinci. Interested in offering a cross linking Europe project or initiative for adults supported
by EU funds?

Info also via Annette Stoll, German feltmaker. www.nabibb.de/sokrates/grundtvig