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Lead Artist: Makers and Movers, Craftspace

Lead Artist: Makers and Movers, Craftspace We are looking to recruit a shadow artist (any artform but interested in early years), aged 18-25 and living in Birmingham or West Midlands, to support the planning and delivery of creative workshops and making kits for families. Makers and Movers is a craft and movement project for early years children (aged 0-5 years) and their families. Delivered by dance and craft artists working collaboratively, live sessions will use open-ended play to address areas of early year’s development that have been affected by lockdown, aiming to: rebuild physical strength and skills, nurture relationships and develop

We Are Commoners

Call for Submissions: We Are Commoners! A Craftspace national touring exhibition launching at Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham in September 2020 “The commons means: Things we share/ Places we share/ Systems we share/ Ideas we share/ Culture we share” Peter Barnes, On the Commons co-founder Craftspace is seeking submissions for We Are Commoners, a contemporary craft exhibition on the theme of ‘the commons’. Following our first callout we have a shortlist of artists and are currently oversubscribed for textiles, but continue to seek work in other applied arts disciplines. The exhibition will highlight acts of ‘commoning’ that are shaping the

{Queer} + {Metals}

{Queer} + {Metals} 12 November 2022 - 2 April 2023 Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham The transformative power of ‘queerness’ and metal connect in an international exhibition and digital project. {Queer} + {Metals} is a Craftspace exhibition co-curated by its Director Deirdre Figueiredo and Dauvit Alexander artist and tutor at Birmingham City University’s School of Jewellery in collaboration with artist Rebekah Frank. The exhibition, which opens on the 12 November at Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham, uses the lens of metalworking to explore the multiplicity of queerness – whether as identity, lived experiences, thinking, cultures, aesthetic, influences, stories, place, and imagination –

In:Site Festival 2019

Call for Applications: In:Site Festival 2019 Birmingham Cathedral Square, Birmingham 7th September 2019 Applications for new graduates are open until 14th July. There are also opportunities for shadow artists, film makers and volunteers. In:Site Festival returns: Supporting design graduates In:Site Festival returns to Birmingham City Centre for a ninth year this September with recent graduates transforming the outdoor space around the cathedral with unusual craft ‘interventions’. In:Site is organised by Birmingham based arts charity Craftspace and takes place in Cathedral Square from the 5th – 7th September. It is free for everyone to watch and take part. The Cathedral Square

In:Site Festival Opportunity

Call for Applictions: In:Site Festival In:Site Festival is open to new craft and design graduates. Opportunity for BA Graduates and MA Postgraduates Craftspace returns to Birmingham Cathedral Square for the eighth year with In:Site, a festival of site-specific and co-created work created by recent graduates. In:Site provides an opportunity for selected applied arts graduates to create temporary, bespoke public artworks. Working outdoors within the Cathedral grounds, each graduate has a day to make their creative intervention on-site, turning the making process into a performance. The daily making performances, sometimes participatory, are intended to gradually fill the square with installations. Past

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