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Resident artist needed for hot glass studio at the Red House Glass Cone more Selling opportunity at the Canal Basin in Coventry more Brilliantly Birmingham Talks 2008 - Fetish Fashion 9 December more Brilliantly Birmingham Talks 2008 - All that Glitters... 2 December more The Shape of Things Artists Bursaries - deadline 1 December more Marketing support programme for small companies more Museumaker training events and study days for makers, craft organisations and museums more Professional database for arts practitioners wanting to work internationally more Designing for a manufacturer booket - an invaluable guide for all designer makers more
Creative Workspace Toolkit now available online 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 |
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News: West Midlands makers win awards at OriginThe Thomas Lyte Modern Heritage Award was launched at this years Origin, in conjunction with the Crafts Council. The aim of the award was to celebrate the importance of craftsmanship and increase the awareness of crafts. There were almost 200 applicants for the competition and West Midlands silversmith Louise Chesshire won the runners up prize for her Guipure vase.
NewsThe 17th Designer Maker West Midlands forum meeting, will be held on Thursday 20th November 2008. Invited speakers, Natalie Cole and Wayne Pottinger of Pottinger & Cole will be talking about their recently completed 3 month craft residency at Cove Park in Scotland. Booking is essential.
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 MidlandsDesigner Maker West Midlands represents the sector, initiating activities, fundraising and adding value and support to activities generated by individual makers and makers’ groups /guilds.
Discover new ways to promote your workDMWM 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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