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New Chair for the Crafts Study Centre appointedThe Trustees of the Crafts Study Centre are delighted to announce that Dr Glenn Adamson has been appointed as the Chair of the Crafts Study Centre. Dr Adamson is a historian and theorist of craft and design. He is Deputy Head of Research and Head of Graduate Studies at the V & A Museum. He is co-editor of The Journal of Modern Craft and his recent books Thinking through craft and The Craft Reader have been widely acclaimed.

Dr Adamson said of his appointment: ‘it is an honour to take on the role of Chair of the Crafts Study Centre, one of the world’s most important and vital collections of craft material. We will continue the institution’s proud history of research, exhibitions and publications’.

Crafts Study Centre The Center for Craft, Creativity & DesignA Memorandum of Agreement has been signed by the Boards of the Crafts Study Centre and The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design, a Center of University of North Carolina Asheville, to encourage joint working, research and mutual understanding across the field of craft. An early outcome of this developing partnership is the offer of a prestigious Windgate Museum Internship for an American student in 2011 based at the Crafts Study Centre.

Front cover: Textile by Georgina von Etzdorf, photo by David Westwood Opposite page: Detail of ‘Wedding Day’ by Maggie Scott, photo by Laurent Moulin

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Sourcing the world: collecting modern craftUntil 17 December 2011

The Crafts Study Centre has been actively collecting modern craft from 2008 with the support of a major grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The project aims to cement the Centre’s reputation as the home of a national collection of modern craft, especially building up collections in the post 1970 period. Two major collections and archives have been added: from the eminent weaver Peter Collingwood and the letterer Ralph Beyer, and work from these substantial groups of material, with their international provenances will be at the centre of the exhibition, along with the gift of a wall hanging from Collingwood commissioned for the British Embassy in Brussels.

The exhibition also displays dynamic and colourful textiles by Georgina von Etzdorf and Sally Greaves-Lord, wooden vessels by Chatwin and Martin, and a lithograph by Bernard Leach. Very recent acquisitions will also be added as the exhibition run continues.

This page and opposite page: Macrogauze by Peter Collingwood photo by Toril Brancher

The shape of things4 January to 16 April 2011

The shape of things is an ambitious and exciting national artists, exhibition and venue development programme that received generous funding from Arts Council England as a strategic national initiative for contemporary craft.

The exhibition of work by the textile artist Rezia Wahid MBE in 2007 at the Crafts Study Centre was the outcome of the first artist’s bursary award by the shape of things and the beginning of an exhibition programme at museum venues across England. This exhibition in partnership with Flow Gallery, London, provides a snapshot of work by all the shape of things artists: Chien-Wei Chang, Maggie Scott, Halima Cassell, Taslim Martin, Alinah Azadeh, Tanvi Kant, Seiko Kinoshita, Rezia Wahid and Rosa Nguyen.

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The shape of things curator’s seminar

16 February 2011 3.00pm

Join artists and curators from the shape of things to discuss issues surrounding the addition of international and culturally diverse work to English public and private craft collections.

Booking essential as places are limited.

John Makepeace Enriching the Language of Furniture26 April to 16 July 2011

A major retrospective of John Makepeace’s work toured by the Devon Guild of Craftsmen. The exhibition marks Makepeace’s 50 years at the forefront of British design. It includes signature pieces such as the Mitre chair to celebrate the Queen and Prince Phillip’s silver wedding and Ripple, a chest carved with wave forms made from a single tree planted in 1740.

John Makepeace was a founder member of the Crafts Council and gained international renown for setting up Parnham College in Dorset integrating fine craft techniques in wood with design and entrepreneurship.

Phoenix, chair, c.1988

Holly, elm and oak

Courtesy: John Makepeace Furniture

A keynote lecture by John Makepeace

4 May 2011 5.30pm to 8.00pm

Registration 5.30pm Lecture 6.00pm

Reception 7.00pm

A special event for Craft Month 2011

Tickets priced £10.00 to include a glass of wine and a post

lecture reception. Tickets are limited in number and early

booking is recommended.

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A Devon Guild of Craftsmen Touring Exhibition

Memoranda26 July to 1 October 2011

A memorandum is a communication that aids the memory by recording events or observations on a topic. Memoranda are agreements, reminders, plans that refer to the past to inform the future. Curators Tessa Peters and Janice West contend in this exhibition that craft objects offer an excellent opportunity to study the transfer or recreation of memory through artefacts. Innovative artworks by contemporary makers are shown to interrogate the complex ideas that objects can carry

The exhibition includes works by artists Maisie Broadhead, Steve Dixon, Laura Potter and Elaine Wilson and they have been asked to select material from the Crafts Study Centre archive to give a further dimension to the theme.

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How to plan the town of craft30 March 2011 2.00pm to 5.00pm

A half day symposium organised by CraftNet in partnership with the Crafts Council.

Is it possible to replicate Hay-on-Wye’s success as a national centre for books by accentuating the role of crafts at the heart of a town’s cultural offer? What are the elements that would be required to transform civic space in this way? These issues are debated by curators, craft practitioners and cultural planners.

Prior booking is essential.

CraftNet is an informal network in which meetings, events and exchange can take place, to look at and share ways of developing and promoting craft across the sector. All are welcome - from commercial galleries to local authority museums, from organisations and trusts to individual artists and curators, from universities to the studio group.

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Collecting CulturesDeveloping a National collection of modern craft

The Heritage Lottery Funded collecting programme at the Crafts Study Centre included funds for education activity.

During the summer and autumn of 2010 the Crafts Study Centre commissioned an education programme to bring together leading makers Rezia Wahid, Dawn Dupree and Gaynor Goffe and primary school children to explore the techniques of weaving, printing and calligraphy. Students from Pilgrims Way Primary School and Hale Primary School in Farnham also made visits to the Crafts Study Centre and some of their work made during these sessions is displayed.

The education programme was designed and delivered by leading crafts education charity The Making.

Photos: The Making

Weaving inspired by ‘Mosque in Rome’ textile design by Rezia WahidCreated by Yr 6 pupils from Pilgrims Way Primary School, Farnham with textile artist Rezia WahidPart of the Collecting Cultures Education Programme 2010

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Please note that the Crafts Study Centre will be closed to the public at Easter on Friday 22 and Saturday 23 April and then Friday 29 April 2011.

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Research visits welcome by appointment please telephone 01252 891450

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induction loop at reception

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