Designed & Made Director Job Opportunity more

Craft Social Enterprise Project Manager Job Opportunity more

Exhibitions and Project Development Manager Job Opportunity more

Creative Workspace Toolkit now available online more

NFASP online information about affordable studios for visual artists and conference on 23 October 2008 more

Craft Council's Curators Day - an event for curators and professionals working with craft collections on 17 October 2008 more

Craft Council's Origin Retailers Forum - an event for retailers with a focus on contemporary crafts on 16 October 2008 more

Collaboration Art and Industry Symposium - international and UK perspectives on artist in residence within the ceramics industry on 19 September 2008 more

WiRE advice sessions in September for women thinking of running their own businesses more

Call for expressions of interest from makers for a public art commission – deadline 31 October 2008 more

Promotional and networking opportunity for creative businesses in Brierley Hill through Brierley Hill Regeneration partnership more

A summer season of discussion - online discussion to explore the identity of craft within the slow movement more

A new set of Artists’ Profiles focusing on current applied arts practice is now available to a-n subscribers more

Artists Access to Art Colleges (AA2A) 2008/09 - new updated list of participating colleges now available more

Opportunity for makers working in wood - The David Canter Memorial Fund 2008 Craft Awards - deadline 19 September more

News

West Midlands Designer Makers will be on show at the London Craft Fair Origin, from 7 - 19 October 2008.  Look out for work by jeweller Yoko Izawa who combines colourful fine elastic knits with other materials to create her collection 'Veiled'.  First time exhibitors from the West Midlands include Will Evans, Amy Duggan, John Grayson, Isabella Hart, Esther Lord and Kathryn Partington. Click here to read more

 

 

 

Welcome to Designer Maker West Midlands (DMWM)

Our aim is to provide information and signpost region, nationally and internationally opportunities which will support makers develop their practices.

 

 

 

The advocate for the designer maker sector in the West Midlands

Designer Maker West Midlands represents the sector, initiating activities, fundraising and adding value and support to activities generated by individual makers and makers’ groups /guilds.

 

Click here to read more.

 

 

 

Discover new ways to promote your work

DMWM in collaboration with Craftspace has recently launched a handbook at the ‘Pushing Boundaries’ Symposium at Staffordshire University, 16 June 2007.

 

The handbook is intended to act as a continuation of support after the symposium for designer makers wishing to research into new ways to promote their work, practice and profile.

 

Click here to download the handbook.

 

 

Images on the DMWM website by regional designer makers:

Ranbir Kaur, Sian Fletcher, Anna Lorenz, Shivani Patel, Claire Malet, Sheldon Cooney, Ruth Spaak, Dennis Farrell, Clare Henshaw, John Moore, Ros Ingram, Melanie Tomlinson, Pottinger & Cole, Emma Welsh, Martyn Pugh, Cynthia Pearson, Peter Wareing, Yoko Izawa, Louise Chesshire, Matt Fothergill

 

 

 

 

Designer Maker West Midlands is a Limited Company by Guarantee not for profit

Registered in England and Wales number: 6529943

Registered address: Suite 77, 27 Colmore Row, Birmingham B3 2EW
 

 


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