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)

We are hiring: Assistant Archivist

Salary will be in the range of £35,000 to £40,000 per annum depending on experience.

This post is permanent and full time and the hours of work are 35 per week.

Apply now: paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/about/assistan…

Apply for the Inches Carr Craft Bursaries 2024✨
Craft Scotland is currently accepting applications for the Inches Carr Craft Bursaries 2024.

Closing date: 5pm, 7 May 2024
Learn more: craftscotland.org/community

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 🧶

The fantastical home of Ron Gittins (d. 2019) in Birkenhead, Wirral has been Grade II listed and purchased for use as a community resource. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

Guest reviewer Laura Moseley visits Ellen Lesperance: Stay in the Centre of No-Man’s Land Hollybush Gardens for DD this month, exploring the influence of material histories of Greenham Common Peace Camp & ‘ideological knitting’ on Lesperance’s practice. Read bit.ly/3TZUDmM

This egg is a mind blowing miracle. Not only the fact that its survived approximately 350 years after its maker (likely a schoolgirl or woman in the home) embroidered upon it, but also the stitching itself. Can you imagine embroidering a hollow eggshell and having it not crack?!

🧶Read our interview with textile artist Anna Perach: bit.ly/49Z1GkO

LAUNCHING: STRIKE OUTSET
Outset Contemporary Art Fund Artwashes Settler Colonialism, Apartheid And Genocide In Palestine

Strike Outset Is A Global Labour Boycott Of Outset Contemporary Art Fund And All Its Projects

Find out more, join the strike 👇🏾
strikeoutset.org

Evening. Delighted to share my news with you lovely people. I've just launched my new project on kickstarter which I hope you will check out. This time the rewards are dance performances, weaving workshops, time in my studio and more! 💕🌺💕
kickstarter.com/projects/woven…