STOPRESS
February
1999
JURYING! CCol QUALITY MARK - S H O W C A S E - MEDIASTORE - RETAIL G A L L E R Y The Crafts Council of Ireland has decided to make jurying a much simpler process. There will be two jury s e s s i o n s this year: Easter and August. The venue will be Kilkenny. The date for the Easter jury is April 8. If you wish to be juried for any of the above please contact the office in Kilkenny for an application form on 056-61804.
Crafts Council of Ireland Training Programmes OPEN HOUSE The Jewellery Design and Production Skills Course invites you to an Open House on Tuesday 9 March 1999 at the Jewellery Workshop, Castle Yard, Kilkenny from 10.00am to 4.00pm. The Trainees are in the final stages of their 2-year course and will be showing their training work as well as an exhibition of their jewellery. The Pottery Skills Course invites you to an Open House on Tuesday 9 March 1999 in the Pottery Skills Course Workshop, Island Mill, Thomastown, Co Kilkenny from 10.00am - 4.00pm. The Trainees are in the final stages of their one-year course. They will be showing their training work as well as an exhibition of their pottery. J E W E L L E R Y DESIGN AND PRODUCTION SKILLS SHORT COURSES SPRING/SUMMER 1999 Casting and Mould Making - Sat/Sun 20/21 March Beginners Course - Sat/Sun 27/28 March Setting I - Sat/Sun 22/23 May Setting II - Sat/Sun 29/30 May Tool Making (NEW) - Sunday 13 June All courses are held in the Crescent Workshop, Castle Yard, Kilkenny. For further information and application form, con足 tact the Council's offices 056-61804.
Letters to the Crafts Council Following the article in Bulletin 2 which featured the work of one of our NCAD Craft Design Metals graduates Natalie Delimata, who won the EBS Graduate Award at the RDS in 1998, I write to express my department's pleasure at seeing a recent graduate given such prominent coverage. However there are positives and negatives to many things in life and unfortunately as with this letter, the above mentioned article was no exception. Natalie was quoted as saying "that the students are not being made aware enough of the awards". Further to this it was stated that her involvement in the competition was a matter of chance. This seems an ideal opportunity to set the balance straight. The Craft Design Department regularly encourages its' stu足 dents to participate in the awards. They are seen as a valuable promotional vehicle for the graduates and department alike. When one looks at the frequency of significant prizes going to our recent graduates, it becomes evident that chance plays no part in their involvement: Deirdre Rogers (1994), Eimear Conyard (1995), Melanie Downes (1997), Julie Anne Foley (1997) and Natalie Delimita (1998). Had the journalist or editor of the last issue taken every care in it's compilation as stated on the back of "Bulletin 2", then a good publication would not have been marred by inaccuracy. Neil C. Read Head of Craft Design Department National College of Art and Design
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