Sign up to our newsletter for regular features on arts, craft & design straight to your inbox 📥 This week, we caught up with artist Fraser Taylor to talk about creative collaborations, 80s avant-garde club culture & his exhibition Instant Whip GSA Exhibitions (1/2)

Dress and textiles PhD Students! Deadline: 15 June. PhD Bursaries of up to £2500 are available annually from the Pasold Research Fund, for #PhD students in any area of #textiles or #fashion history research. Find out how to apply now: pasold.co.uk/phd-grants

kickstarter.com/projects/woven… Hello lovely friends. I now have a date for the performance and will share as soon as it's confirmed but first I need your support... If you are able.. check out my stall and purchase a ticket in advance 💜🌺💜

Modernist jewellery designer Art Smith (1917-1982) was at the centre of a flourishing Black queer creative scene in mid-century Greenwich Village. He made pieces for Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday & Eleanor Roosevelt, & his stunning handcrafted designs featured in Vogue (1/2)

RIP Faith Ringgold (1930-2024), who leaves an incredible legacy after a life dedicated to art &activism. In story quilts such as the French Collection, she used textile art to intervene in narratives of art history & modernism, rewriting the canon to centre the Black female gaze

➰ In our newsletter, our monthly modernist maker is Ruth Asawa ➰ For Asawa, making was an essential part of being in the world & a fundamental human right. Her practice was open to the world - connected to family life & community as much as to abstraction & modernist form (1/2)

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Apply for the Inches Carr Craft Bursaries 2024✨
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Tomorrow at Women Making It, we'll be weaving small baskets & art pieces using the coiling weave. Come connect with the natural & salvaged materials, as we open up a discussion of how weaving is tied to women's history & lives.
womenslibrary.org.uk/event/women-ma…

We've opened the call for our The British Academy The Leverhulme Trust
small grants scheme offering £10k. We receive so many good applications so awards will be allocated randomly between those applications that meet our quality threshold. Spread the word!
thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-lev…

Glass eyes made by Mollie Surman of Kingston, Surrey in the mid 1900s. Surman was from a family of glassblowers and made her first 'eye' when she was 12. The main eye would be blown from white glass before other colours of glass were added in to make the iris, pupil, and veins.

Lecturer in Curating and Cultural Leadership at University of Southampton jobs.ac.uk/job/DGS663/lec…

Mapping Mina Loy Studies organisers Jennifer Ashby, Julia Heinemann, & Dr. Jade French reunited to do a workshop on Loy & feminist collage praxis UNIVERSITÄT LEIPZIG!

For outcomes responding to Loy's poem 'Mass Production on 14th Street' see: loysymposium2023.wordpress.com/2024/01/31/col…

As part of our regular rotation of works on paper, two works by Duncan Grant are now on display 🎉

These two rug designs were made for the Omega Workshops, which sold homewares designed and made by artists.

🎟️ Part of your Gallery Entry ticket courtauld.ac.uk/gallery

Make some time for this lovely Susan Shain essay about the beautiful art Japanese Americans made while incarcerated during WWII, with beautiful photos by Roberto (Bear) Guerra for High Country News hcn.org/issues/56-4/th…

trying to get back in the swing of writing and this exhibition was the perfect opportunity, thank you DecoratingDissidence for making a home for these stories 🧶