Waverley Council offers six places in its 2011 Waverley Artist-in-Residence Program. This program provides rent-free studio space for six months in the Bondi-Waverley School of Arts in Bondi. Applications are now open to Australian artists working in visual arts and craft, design and new media.
Applications close: September 17, 2010
EWES (Epping Weavers Embroiderers & Spinners) is holding a Tea Cosy and Tea Pot exhibition morning and/or afternoon Tea on Friday, October 15, 2010, 10-4pm in aid of Pink Ribbon Day, the Cancer Council's official fund raising day for breast cancer research. Tea Cosies are handmade by members. Wear pink if you wish.
Come to Epping Creative Centre, Dence Park, 26 Stanley St, Epping, NSW for morning or afternoon tea or stay all day (bring own lunch). Bring your spinning wheel and join in spinning or whatever you like.
Raffle and Lucky Door Prizes Entry $5
Entry fees and raffle proceeds go to Pink Ribbon Day.
RSVP and Enquiries: Yvonne Eade
The showcase will be a parade of garments interspersed with song, dance and circus acts.
To enter the competition you must design and make a garment that fits the criteria of art that can be worn on the body. The festival's theme for 2010 is Stories of land and sea, while the theme of the show is past, present and future.
In Stitches (Michaela Davies, Claire Conroy & Charlotte Haywood) are looking for a permanent home for the Sydney Reef, a satellite of the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef created by Margaret and Christine Wertheim of the Institute for Figuring, Los Angeles.
In the meantime In Stitches have decided to keep the crochet moving in an evolutionary state transforming it into a Collective Mind which will be a sculpture of the human brain made from the contributed crochet pieces. This sculpture aims to celebrate everyone's efforts of working together. As the Collective Mind suggests, all contributors will be acknowledged. The Collective Mind will be exhibited as a part of the Sydney Fringe Festival 2010, at the Carriageworks, Eveleigh, September 10-26.
Applications are now being invited for Sturt residencies in 2011. Applications will be considered from established professionals and recent graduates in the areas of woodwork, ceramics, weaving/textiles and jewellery/metalwork. Sturt maintains one of the largest craft based residency programs in Australia with places for up to eight residents each year to live, work and teach in Sturt's unique environment.
Applications close: October 31, 2010
Project Gutenberg has a new book available for free download that may be of interest to Guild members: Instruction book on ring spinning by Francis L Lincoln.
First published in 1885. The object of this little book is to give help and instruction to those who are engaged in this department of mill work. It imparts that knowledge which only years of thorough study and observation can give. It has been carefully prepared by an experienced Spinner, who has given years of study to it, in order to benefit and help those who are interested in the Spinning department.
Instruction book on ring spinning by Francis L Lincoln — Project Gutenberg
Pam is a self published author who was approached by Joan to help Joan write her story. Two hundred and fifty people attended their book launch at Narrabeen. Two hundred copies of the book were sold.
Continue reading "June Guest Speaker: Joan Fisher and Pam Bayfield" »
If you have an interesting story or something to tell, why not have it printed in this year's Guild Journal?
Please submit a draft or idea submission to Carol Hoh by mid August. If selected for publication, your finished article will be due by early September.
The Sewing Room will run workshops at Sydney Design 2010. The design festival runs for 16 days from Saturday, July 31 to Sunday, August 15. The program, with more than 70 events, is produced by the Powerhouse Museum (PHM) in partnership with more than 50 cultural institutions, organisations and individuals across Sydney.
The theme will reveal the many captivating stories behind design ideas, objects and processes. It will invite participants to have meaningful conversations with others about design, and let you to connect with design on a more personal level.
The PHM will hold a major exhibition called Creating the look which draws on the highly successful partnership between photographer Bruno Benini and stylist Hazel Benini from 1950 to 2000. It explores the creative processes involved in styling, crafting and designing powerful, eye-catching, fashion photographs.
Ymmyarns, producer of hand dyed wool and silk yarns for tapestry and other textiles, is pleased to announce a yearly award for the top first year student from the SWTAFE, (Warrnambool, Vic) Diploma of Tapestry course. This award will be for the student who achieves the top marks over the prescribed set of first year subjects.
This year it will be presented in July and mmyarns will announce the winner and hope to feature a photo of the winner and a work on the ymmyarns blog in August.
Yvonne Eade, Marie Clews and Mary Wederall.
Email: ymmyarns@yahoo.com.au
Web: ymmyarns.blogspot.com
