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Rethinking the ‘community of practice’ — the case of woodcarvers in Oaxaca, Mexico With Dr Alanna Cant, University of Reading

The ‘community of practice’ is a concept that has emerged at the forefront of scholarly and professional discussions of apprenticeship.

Date

30/03/21

Organisation

The Arts Institute, University of Plymouth

Loose Threads: The Don Little Collection X Bath Textile Artists

A celebration of the heritage of Chippenham, Loose Threads is a collaborative online exhibition between Chippenham Museum and Bath Textile Artists.

Zugunruhe

Zugunruhe (zoo-gun-rue): an ornithology term for ‘migratory restlessness in birds’. This show explores the incredible flight of a marsh warbler.

Restriction : Online Exhibition by The Correspondence Collection

An online exhibition based around the theme of restriction, showcasing new work from artists involved in The Correspondence Collective

PUBLISHED — ‘together / apart’ — the BOOK

PRE-ORDER NOW! Official launch date March 12, but get your copy early!

Finding the Thread: Exeter’s Georgian Carpet & Cloth Industries

Join Historian Todd Gray for an illustrated lecture revealing the economic vitality of an industry on which the city’s economy was built.

Date

15/04/21

Organisation

Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery

Vivien Leigh: Hollywood via Devon

Join Victoria Haddock for this short course to explore Leigh’s legacy as a style icon and discover more about her connections to Devon.

Date

21/04/21

Organisation

Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery

Starting Your Creative Buisness

Take the stress out of creating your business plan with our step by step business planning workshop

Nothing ‘is’ Immediate — Geometric Sculptural Sound Installations

Second of three exhibitions of new work exploring a multi-sensory engagement, geometric sculptural installations, five elements and therapeutic sound.

The Great Big Art Exhibition #TheGreatBigArtExhibition2021

Bringing together contributions for the #GreatBigArtExhibition2021

Seedscapes: Future-Proofing Nature

Seedscapes brings together five contemporary artists exploring global efforts to safeguard vital plant species from extinction.

Dates

06/02/21 – 02/05/21

Organisation

Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery

Léonie Hampton: A Language of Seeds

Devon-based artist Léonie Hampton’s new body of work engages directly with the ecological emergency through a series of photographs.

Dates

06/02/21 – 02/05/21

Organisation

Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery

Veronica Ryan, Along a Spectrum

Spike Island presents a major exhibition of new works by British artist Veronica Ryan.

Bathing Beauties: Vintage Swimwear

Join Jill Salen for this online session on the history of English swimwear focusing on the individual garments of both men and women.

Date

12/05/21

Organisation

Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery

Inspired by Nature: Drawing for Pattern Design

You will learn essential techniques in illustration and pattern design that are inspired-by-nature.

Jo Spence : From Fairy Tales to Phototherapy | Photographs from The Hyman Collection

Drawn from one of the most comprehensive collections of Jo Spence’s works in the world, From Fairy Tales to Phototherapy focuses on the intersection b

Bridges for Communities | The Path Leads to Bristol

Arnolfini approached Bridges for Communities to create a local response to Hassan Hajjaj’s exhibition The Path.

Art in the City | Heather Agyepong

Art in the City lecture with artist Heather Agyepong in conversation with Keiko Higashi, Engagement Producer at Arnolfini.

The Big Draw | A Picture of Health and Jo Spence

A range of free creative activities inspired by exhibitions at Arnolfini.

The Big Draw | A Picture of Health and Jo Spence

A range of free creative activities inspired by exhibitions at Arnolfini.

Arnolfini Online | Exhibition Walkthroughs

Filmic walkthroughs of Arnolfini’s current exhibition.

A Picture of Health | Women Photographers from The Hyman Collection

A group exhibition of contemporary women photographers featuring autobiographical perspectives and social commentaries on the wider society, that aims

Making Paper Garments with Jennifer Collier

A practical three day course showing a range of experimental techniques using found and recycled materials with Jennifer Collier.

Digital Exhibition: Reaching for Rainbows: Somerset in Lockdown

‘Reaching for Rainbows’ is a new online exhibition of photography, by local photographer Jason Bryant, documenting an extraordinary time.

Dates

17/11/20 – 31/05/21

Organisation

South West Heritage Trust

Bristol Photo Festival: Jem Southam: A Bend In The River

As part of Bristol Photo Festival, a major citywide Festival of Photography taking place across Bristol in 2021, The RWA presents a special exhibition

Bristol Photo Festival: RWA Photography Open Exhibition

The RWA presents an open submission photography exhibition that will fill our main galleries.

Jackdaw Line by Richard Long

Celebrated artist Richard Long’s newly installed artwork Jackdaw Line is set in Hestercombe’s magnificent Georgian Landscape Garden.

Open-Up: Outdoor Exhibition

Open-Up is a brand new series of outdoor artworks commissioned in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Nothing ‘is’ Immediate — Geometric Sculptural Sound Installations

Third of three exhibitions of new work exploring a multi-sensory engagement, geometric sculptural installations and the five elements.

Frank Bowling at Arnolfini

A major exhibition with pioneering painter Sir Frank Bowling, OBE RA, as part of their 60^th anniversary year celebrations in 2021.

Bricks Podcast — Ep.2 — Olivia Jones — Lundy

Olivia Jones’ podcast is centred around a recent journey to Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel.

Arnolfini at 60

Arnolfini celebrates its 60^th anniversary in 2021.

Science Fictions

Appointed in collaboration with the Science Museum Group, Bedwyr Williams will create a public artwork for the National Collections Centre, Wiltshire.

Stephen Gill

Arnolfini welcomes Bristol-born Stephen Gill back to his home city.

Lucy Stein, Wet Room

The first major UK solo show and a new commission by artist Lucy Stein.

Peggy Ahwesh, Vision Machines

The first UK solo exhibition by artist and filmmaker Peggy Ahwesh, curated in collaboration with London-based scholar and critic Erika Balsom.

Paper Samplers and Experimental Bookbinding with Jennifer Collier

A practical two day course showing a range of experimental techniques using found and recycled materials with Jennifer Collier.

Smoke-fired Ceramics

The course will be a hands-on introduction to smoke-fired ceramics utilising natural materials and our unique outdoor environment at Clayhill

Candice Lin, Pigs and Poison

A major new commission and solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Candice Lin.

Eric Baudelaire and Alvin Curran, When There is No More Music to Write

A two-person exhibition by artist and filmmaker Eric Baudelaire and composer Alvin Curran.

CREATING STORIES: GAME DESIGN FOR COMPLETE BEGINNERS

Are you curious about the idea of interactivity and storytelling? Have you considered learning about game design? Game Design for beginners, run by

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168 Annu­al Open

HEAD : Recent Dig­i­tal Works by John Levers

Chi­nese New Year: The Year of the Ox

Matthew Bur­rows — online talk

Let­ter­press: Cre­ate Your Own Print­ed Words

Cop­per­plate Cal­lig­ra­phy with Metic­u­lous Ink

TALK­ING WITH ELECTRICITY

Online: A Line Art & Pound Arts Florist for Mother’s Day

Seed­scapes: Botan­i­cal Photography

How We Live Now #2: Cian Oba-Smith, A Qui­et Prayer, 2021

‘The Sil­ver Wave’ by Michelle Williams Gamaker

The Por­trait Within

Indige­nous Film+Zoom Screen­ing fol­lowed by Q&A with Artist Dako­ta Camacho

In Loco Par­en­tis, Vin­cent Dance Theatre

Q&A with Felic­i­ty Aston MBE, British polar explorer

Lyme Light: Where Sea Meets Sky

Gabriel Tendai Choto ​‘Kum­ba’

Rethink­ing the ​‘com­mu­ni­ty of prac­tice’ — the case of wood­carvers in Oax­a­ca, Mex­i­co With Dr Alan­na Cant, Uni­ver­si­ty of Reading

Loose Threads: The Don Lit­tle Col­lec­tion X Bath Tex­tile Artists

Zugun­ruhe

Restric­tion : Online Exhi­bi­tion by The Cor­re­spon­dence Collection

PUB­LISHED — ​‘togeth­er / apart’ — the BOOK

Find­ing the Thread: Exeter’s Geor­gian Car­pet & Cloth Industries

Vivien Leigh: Hol­ly­wood via Devon

Start­ing Your Cre­ative Buisness

Noth­ing ​‘is’ Imme­di­ate — Geo­met­ric Sculp­tur­al Sound Installations

The Great Big Art Exhi­bi­tion #TheGreatBigArtExhibition2021

Seed­scapes: Future-Proof­ing Nature

Léonie Hamp­ton: A Lan­guage of Seeds

Veron­i­ca Ryan, Along a Spectrum

Bathing Beau­ties: Vin­tage Swimwear

Inspired by Nature: Draw­ing for Pat­tern Design

Jo Spence : From Fairy Tales to Pho­tother­a­py | Pho­tographs from The Hyman Collection

Bridges for Com­mu­ni­ties | The Path Leads to Bristol

Art in the City | Heather Agyepong

The Big Draw | A Pic­ture of Health and Jo Spence

The Big Draw | A Pic­ture of Health and Jo Spence

Arnolfi­ni Online | Exhi­bi­tion Walkthroughs

A Pic­ture of Health | Women Pho­tog­ra­phers from The Hyman Collection

Mak­ing Paper Gar­ments with Jen­nifer Collier

Dig­i­tal Exhi­bi­tion: Reach­ing for Rain­bows: Som­er­set in Lockdown

Bris­tol Pho­to Fes­ti­val: Jem Southam: A Bend In The River

Bris­tol Pho­to Fes­ti­val: RWA Pho­tog­ra­phy Open Exhibition

Jack­daw Line by Richard Long

Open-Up: Out­door Exhibition

Noth­ing ​‘is’ Imme­di­ate — Geo­met­ric Sculp­tur­al Sound Installations

Frank Bowl­ing at Arnolfini

Bricks Pod­cast — Ep.2 — Olivia Jones — Lundy

Arnolfi­ni at 60

Sci­ence Fictions

Stephen Gill

Lucy Stein, Wet Room

Peg­gy Ahwesh, Vision Machines

Paper Sam­plers and Exper­i­men­tal Book­bind­ing with Jen­nifer Collier

Smoke-fired Ceram­ics

Can­dice Lin, Pigs and Poison

Eric Baude­laire and Alvin Cur­ran, When There is No More Music to Write

CRE­AT­ING STO­RIES: GAME DESIGN FOR COM­PLETE BEGINNERS

168 Annual Open

HEAD : Recent Digital Works by John Levers

Chinese New Year: The Year of the Ox

Matthew Burrows — online talk

Letterpress: Create Your Own Printed Words

Copperplate Calligraphy with Meticulous Ink

TALKING WITH ELECTRICITY

Seedscapes: Botanical Photography

How We Live Now #2: Cian Oba-Smith, A Quiet Prayer, 2021

‘The Silver Wave’ by Michelle Williams Gamaker

The Portrait Within

Indigenous Film+Zoom Screening followed by Q&A with Artist Dakota Camacho

In Loco Parentis, Vincent Dance Theatre

Q&A with Felicity Aston MBE, British polar explorer

Gabriel Tendai Choto ‘Kumba’

Rethinking the ‘community of practice’ — the case of woodcarvers in Oaxaca, Mexico With Dr Alanna Cant, University of Reading

Loose Threads: The Don Little Collection X Bath Textile Artists

Zugunruhe

Restriction : Online Exhibition by The Correspondence Collection

PUBLISHED — ‘together / apart’ — the BOOK

Finding the Thread: Exeter’s Georgian Carpet & Cloth Industries

Vivien Leigh: Hollywood via Devon

Starting Your Creative Buisness

Nothing ‘is’ Immediate — Geometric Sculptural Sound Installations

The Great Big Art Exhibition #TheGreatBigArtExhibition2021

Seedscapes: Future-Proofing Nature

Léonie Hampton: A Language of Seeds

Veronica Ryan, Along a Spectrum

Bathing Beauties: Vintage Swimwear

Inspired by Nature: Drawing for Pattern Design

Jo Spence : From Fairy Tales to Phototherapy | Photographs from The Hyman Collection

Bridges for Communities | The Path Leads to Bristol

The Big Draw | A Picture of Health and Jo Spence

The Big Draw | A Picture of Health and Jo Spence

Arnolfini Online | Exhibition Walkthroughs

A Picture of Health | Women Photographers from The Hyman Collection

Making Paper Garments with Jennifer Collier

Digital Exhibition: Reaching for Rainbows: Somerset in Lockdown

Bristol Photo Festival: Jem Southam: A Bend In The River

Bristol Photo Festival: RWA Photography Open Exhibition

Jackdaw Line by Richard Long

Open-Up: Outdoor Exhibition

Nothing ‘is’ Immediate — Geometric Sculptural Sound Installations

Frank Bowling at Arnolfini

Bricks Podcast — Ep.2 — Olivia Jones — Lundy

Arnolfini at 60

Science Fictions

Peggy Ahwesh, Vision Machines

Paper Samplers and Experimental Bookbinding with Jennifer Collier

Smoke-fired Ceramics

Candice Lin, Pigs and Poison

Eric Baudelaire and Alvin Curran, When There is No More Music to Write

CREATING STORIES: GAME DESIGN FOR COMPLETE BEGINNERS