For a limited period Stephen Knott’s article for The Journal of Modern Craft 7.1 – “Working Class, Middle Class, Upper Class, Evening Class: Supplementary Education and Craft Instruction 1889 – 1930” – will be free to read online from the following LINK.
Two upcoming events on craftsmanship, making and contemporary art and design:
On 21 November Norwegian Crafts are running an international seminar on the place of craftsmanship in contemporary paradigms of making entitled ‘Very Good’.
http://www.norwegiancrafts.no/
Later on, on December 2nd at the Royal College of Art, there is the primary annual lecture on contemporary craft in the UK – the Peter Dormer Lecture. This year it is given by Martina Margetts, former editor of Crafts Magazine and a prominent figure within the culture of research and the Royal College of Art. Book your place to the event here:
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/
More information about the lecture series is here:
The trustees of the Crafts Study Centre in Farnham, Surrey, have announced the Morfudd Roberts fellowship. This is an opportunity for someone working in the field of textiles research to submit an application for postdoctoral research, either for a new project or work that is in progress. The fellow would be based in Farnham and would focus on the Craft Study Centre’s textile collections.
For more information on the fellowship: http://www.csc.ucreative.ac.uk/index.cfm?articleid=40690
For more information on the Craft Study Centre’s archive: http://www.vads.ac.uk/