Funding opportunity | Artists and Craft Makers

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The City of Edinburgh Council in partnership with Creative Scotland is pleased to announce the next round of the Edinburgh Visual Artists and Craft Makers Awards and the Edinburgh Emerging Artists Bursaries Scheme. These schemes have been established to address current gaps in resources available to individual artists/makers.

 

The schemes are open to makers/visual artists of all ages and at any stage of their career, but must be outwith full time education.  Applicants should be able to demonstrate a level of commitment to their practice and have achieved a body of work out with formal education. Applicants must be Edinburgh based.

The Edinburgh Visual Artists and Craft Makers Awards Scheme

The Visual Artists and Craft Makers Award scheme aims to support Edinburgh-based visual arts and craft practitioners through grants towards the development of their practice through new work and research.

 Awards of between £500 and £1500 are available. 

 

 

Emerging Artists – Bursaries Scheme

The Bursary programme will support up to 2 successful applicants to develop and progress their creative practice over 12 months.

The programme will be tailored to the individual artist/maker and will include mentoring which may lead to the development of skills/training, creation of new work, presenting and marketing work.

The successful applicant will be awarded £1,500 as a bursary with a further budget available for any identified additional support that may be needed.

 

The application deadline for both schemes is Friday, 23 January 2015.

 

For further information and application pack contact:

Jo Navarro
Tel: 0131 529 6716

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The Thrive Archive | Live art project

A special event will be taking place in Gallery 1 of St Margaret’s in early January.  Combining a musical performance by the Edinburgh Youth Gathering Band, projections from Mettje Hunneman and contributed artworks as part of curator and artist Jan Bee Brown‘s The Thrive Archive.

All will be made welcome on Sunday 4 January – so come along, get involved and contribute your own ideas about home, family and community to this heart-warming project.

 

Order tickets via Eventbrite.

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Leith Lapidary Club | Workshops

Relatively new to the building, the Leith Lapidary Club are inviting us all to join them for their specialist enamelling, gemstones and silver-casting workshops that they will be running from early 2015.  Places are limited to contact as soon as possible if interested.LLC Workshops

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FleeinEdder Therapies | New to the building

FleeinedderAt last… Fiona Ross has her studio up and running on the fourth floor.

FleeinEdder Therapies offers:

  • Reflexology – therapeutic massage of the feet
    Relaxing, health promoting, de-stressing and altogether, a “chilled out” experience.
  • Hair removal by waxing
    Though this cannot be said to be a relaxing experience, it does result in a wonderful smoothness to be enjoyed for weeks!

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Photography course with Michael Wildman | For artists

This is an opportunity for all artists who struggle to photograph their own work to a reasonably professional  standard, kindly shared by Trina from the fifth floor.

Michael Wildman is a professional photographer who exhibits his work internationally, (he is also one of Studio 518’s models along with his partner, Carolina.)  He  is currently holding photography courses in St Margaret’s House.
An idea in progress….

While Trina was bending his ear about one of her current photography problems, they decided that there may be more of us who would like an hour of Michael’s time (£20.00 per hour).

He thinks an hour for basic information, lighting and camera, this would be using your own camera.

So far we have a diverse crowd , fabric designers, costume makers, oil painters, watercolourist, charcoal on paper artists, you get the idea.  All of us with our own particular problem to solve.  We would like to build the numbers up to a course size, anyone else interested?

 

The course would be held in Studio 5.18. Future dates and details to be worked on, but a show of emails would be the start.

 

Get in touch with either Trina (trinabohan@tyrie.net) or Michael (michaelwildman232@hotmail.com)

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Winter Open Studios | November 2014

A6-FRONTThe artists, makers and craftspeople of St Margaret’s House are opening their studios to the public for a weekend-long event. Family-friendly workshops, a craft fair, a café and one-off performances will take place across the building’s eight storeys. Located on the city’s London Road, it opens its doors to the public on Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 November.

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Book release | Martin Metcalfe’s paintings

scenes martinMartin Metcalfe is a painter who works from a studio within the Edinburgh Palette community. He is also the ex-singer for Scottish UK (chart) band Goodbye Mr. Mackenzie and USA chart band Angelfish (Feat Shirley Manson). He has a new book of images published…  but there’s more to it than that…

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