OPEN CALL for Craft Practitioners – EU Craft Hub: Maker Exchange Residencies
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EU Craft Hub: Maker Exchange Residencies
Closing Date: 30th June 2021
To Apply: CLICK HERE
The EU Craft Hub: Maker Exchange Residencies are a central part of the newly funded EU Craft Hub project which will showcase the wealth of European Craft practice and address sector challenges through artist residencies, training workshops, exhibitions, conferences and a European Festival of Craft. The project will run over three years and includes nine European partners with Carlow County Council as the Lead Partner.
The aims and objectives of the EU Craft Hub programme are:
- To build capacity for existing and future craft practitioners by creating new professional opportunities, stimulate the creation of new works, increase and interconnect knowledge on craft making skills and thereby pushing the boundaries of Craft making processes through new experimental ways of making,
- To safeguard Craft knowledge, process, skills through training and education materials, and the digital collection of all knowledge,
- To develop audiences for Craft by creating awareness and understanding for Craft practices and the works of Craft practitioners.
Context: EU funded Creative Europe aims to foster the professional development of creative careers and their work across borders and to reach new European audiences and develop innovative artistic models designed to help strengthen and sustain the arts and cultural sectors here in Ireland.
Covid 19: Covid-19 has fundamentally altered the pathway for creativity and culture in a way that may not see a return to normal levels of work for some time which has altered the opportunities available to craft practitioners. This re-imagined residency programme offers an opportunity to give craft practitioners the space and time to reflect on how they might test new ideas, research new approaches and make work in a different way, while relating to and supported by peer practitioners, advisors and mentors. The residency programme in 2021 will be Virtual and 2022 be physical.
The residency objectives are:
- To create a developmental / advisory framework to support participating craft practitioners
- To create a peer network, discussion and exchange forum for participating crafts practitioners;
- To showcase participating crafts practitioners, their work and their collaborations as part of this residency;
- To share learnings and practice developments locally, nationally; and internationally
- To document and evaluate the process to inform future residencies;
A key feature of the Craft Maker Residencies is the opportunity to increase the transnational mobility of Craft Practitioners within and beyond the partnership countries. Participant Craft Practitioners will engage in online workshops, discussion forums and a co-creation process with their peers and through online workshops develop skills that allow them to expand their scope, skills and knowledge for the creation of Craft. The residencies will contribute to capacity building of Craft professionals, by helping them to create expanded skills, develop (new) international networks and make them more engaged with local communities.
The following EU Craft Hub partners will organize physical residencies, workshops and provide facilities for the co-creation activities:
- Carlow County Council: Co-creation , Wood Turning , Jewellery , ceramic , glass , textiles
- University of Wales Trinity Saint David Royal Charter: glass, ceramic, jewellery and textile making, involving 3D CAD/printing, CNC milling, laser cutting, digital fabric printing techniques.
- Design School Kolding: analogue and digital knitting, weaving & screen printing; metal, leather, fur and wood processing (etc.)
- Universidade Nova de Lisboa: glass studio and ceramics studio (with wood firing capability)
- Glasmalerei Peters: stained glass and glass technology usage
- Materahub: cooperation with the Open Design School & various local laboratories to incorporate facilities and machinery for e.g. artisan wood processing, ceramics and 3D printing and clay usage
- OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University: Aesthetics of Materiality. Experimental and digital use of material and techniques in a design thinking context of ceramics, metal, textile and wood.
Craft Participants who have been selected for the Maker Exchange Residencies will have the opportunity to participate in all the programme activities of the Craft Hub which includes:
- Work created during the residencies added to the Digital Repository which will capture the creation processes, skills and the narrative behind the work
- Work created during the residencies added to the Materials Library which will be a searchable and openly available resource database to foster craft knowledge and the creation of training and education materials for new craft professionals.
- Works created during the residencies will go forward for selection for the EU Craft Hub Exhibitions which will be held in the different partner cities displaying works by Craft practitioners from across Europe to a wide public audience.
Craft practitioners participating in the residencies will also be invited to attend the closing Conference to foster the development of networks for craft professionals. The closing Conference will coincide with the final exhibition and the Festival of Craft.
Application Process and Key Criteria DISCOVER MORE HERE
The language used for the Residencies is English.
