Heritage key to creative industries’ success, report claims

24 Sep 2019
News

The Heritage Alliance is calling for greater recognition and funding to support the historic places and objects that underpin creative and cultural activities, challenging the stereotype of heritage as “a decorative incidental backdrop to contemporary creative work”.

Policy
Crafts
Museums and heritage
Arts funding
Collaboration
Placemaking

Crafting their next steps

Photo of three woman building crafts, one using a handheld deal
11 Apr 2019
Case study

Katy Sadler explains how a festival in one of Birmingham’s busiest thoroughfares enables craft and design graduates to test their ideas in a supportive environment.

Festivals
Crafts
Visual arts
Children and young people

My Gurus - Leah Black

Photo of Leah Black
31 May 2018
Arts People

WHALE Arts’ Leah Black explains how her career has been shaped by artists with a strong business understanding and her precious Clore notebook.

Participatory arts
Crafts
Leadership

‘Cornerstones’ of Northern Ireland craft sector merge

10 Oct 2017
News

Craft NI is now the sole representative body for artists, designers and makers.

Crafts
Northern Ireland

Job Ladder – Barney Hare Duke

Photo of Barney Hare Duke giving a speech
27 Sep 2017
Arts People

As he opens the fifth British Ceramics Biennial, Barney Hare Duke tells us about his career, which started in the pottery studio.

Crafts

Boosting employment in craft

Photo of two women looking at ceramics in a store room
14 Jun 2017
Case study

Cockpit Arts’ programme of support for apprenticeships in the craft sector is delivering tangible benefits among micro craft businesses, says Imogen Lawry.

Crafts
Children and young people
Supporting artists

Making a difference

Photo of message on bridge
10 Mar 2016
Case study

In Birmingham, craft projects are not only helping young people learn new skills but giving their self-confidence and resilience a boost. Deirdre Buckley explains how.

Crafts
Children and young people
Health and wellbeing

A future for craft

Photo of screenprinting poster of ‘Our Future is in the Making’
24 Nov 2014
Feature

The number of students choosing craft-related subjects is dwindling, research has revealed. Annie Warburton describes the action The Crafts Council is taking to reverse this trend.

Crafts
Education

New call for craft and enterprise in the curriculum

Photo of teenagers taking place in design workshop
11 Nov 2014
News

A manifesto for craft education aims to raise the profile of craft-based subjects in schools, where participation has declined by a quarter in five years.

Crafts
Education

My Gurus

17 Apr 2014
Arts People

Director of Craftspace Deirdre Figueiredo names those who have inspired her throughout her career.

Crafts

Craft apprenticeships get Government backing

Photo of a welder
07 Mar 2014
News

A new government-backed craft apprenticeship initiative could help reverse falling participation in craft-related design and technology.

Crafts
Engagement

A craft community

Image of a pendant
08 Jul 2013
Case study

Emma Daker describes a jewellery-making project which has successfully integrated some migrant and refugee women into the community.

Crafts

A tale of two halves

30 Apr 2012
Feature

Annabelle Campbell and Andy Horn share their experiences of the partnership between the Crafts Council and Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

Crafts
Collaboration

An able board

03 May 2011
Feature

A diverse board can be of great benefit to an organisation. Charlotte Jones highlights the importance of having board members from different backgrounds

Crafts
Diversity
Disability
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