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"Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930

This book will explore the cultural meanings of sewing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, examining the dynamics and persistence of home sewing as clothing became increasingly available for purchase and more women worked outside the home.

Martha L. Mcdonald: The Further the Distance, the Tighter the Knot

Epic craft performance of knitted longing

Intellectual Property Issues and Arts Festivals: Preparing for the 11th Festival of Pacific Arts Solomon Islands 2012

The 11th Festival of Pacific Arts will be held in the Solomon Islands in 2012. At the request of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) undertook a scoping mission to report on the intellectual property and traditional cultural expression management for the Festival. This report outlines the finding of WIPO consultant, Terri Janke.

Design Altruism Project - 21st Century African

Readymade project for having designs assembled in townships using rapid prototyping
 

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Kevin Murray

Brian Parkes heads South

Congratulations to Craft Talk member Brian Parkes who will be the next Director of the JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design. Brian has proven himself a leading Australian curator of craft and design as Associate Director at Object Galleries, with many significant touring shows such as Freestyle and lately Menagerie.

Brian will follow Stephen Bowers, an Adelaide ceramicist who has combined his considera… Continue

Posted by Kevin Murray on February 9, 2010 at 4:44pm

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Fancy working in Fiji?

Australian Volunteers Abroad have just posted a notice for a Heritage Arts Advisor to work in Fiji for 24 months. Here's a chance to become immersed in a rich and living, traditional and modern, Pacific culture.

Posted by Kevin Murray on February 3, 2010 at 9:00am

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Africa focus for Journal of Modern Craft

Potters from Nkwalini Valley in KwaZulu-Natal including MasontoThe current online issue of… Continue

Posted by Kevin Murray on January 25, 2010 at 10:00pm

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The daggy brown pot is 'out there' again


Expressionist painter Guy Benfield is preparing for an exhibition that attempts to radicalise ceramics by focussing on its most conservative element - the brown bot. Here is a description:
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Guy Benfield is open for business at Fremantle Arts Centre. Expanded Ceramithéque Drug Time Present… Continue

Posted by Kevin Murray on January 9, 2010 at 11:16am

Peter Hughes

MakingFutures conference

It has been a while since September's Plymouth Making Futures crafts conference, giving me some time to digest my experience there. If I were to make a broad assessment of what appeared to be the dominant current(s), I would say it was a drift in focus from the finely crafted object and the more recently dominant cult of 'design' toward a more diffuse, collective and socially engaged understanding of the crafts. At times presenters sailed dangerously close, in my opinion, to disregarding the obj… Continue

Posted by Peter Hughes on December 26, 2009 at 8:15pm — 2 Comments

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