Crafts Council of Ireland
STOPRESS Crafts Council of Ireland Information Stopress Goes Month
Call for Jury Submissions
From this issue, Stopress N become a monthly publication.The Copy date will be the I st of each month and it will become available between the 7th and 12th of the month. We have also added some new sections which we hope will become standards. One such new forum will be the Letters to the Editor section and we would like to encourage as much correspondence as possible.
CCol Quality Mark - Retail Gallery - Showcase New Faces & Village - MediaStore (Only Craftworkers Registered with the Crafts Council may be juried)
CCol Jewellery Course blows its Trumpet! Dear Editor, Earlier this year the CCol Jewellery Course Trainer, Jane Huston, called me and asked me to take on a trainee for a two week work placement. The assistance I felt I would gain from this was input in the development of one of our new collections. Not only has the student taken our idea from concept through to finished product, she has also made other beautiful new designs. If this is the quality of graduate the Jewellery Design and Production Skills Course produces, I look forward to using the course as a valuable source of talented, skilled craftspeople for my company. Regards, Eoin McDonnell, Jewel A r t Ireland.
The next Jury process is scheduled for Tuesday I Oth of August.
strongly urge you to take sufficient care in packaging your craft items.
General Jury Information Craftworkers must be on the Register of the Crafts Council of Ireland to submit work for selection.There are two jury sessions per year: one in the Spring and one in the Autumn. A notice will be put in Stopress approximately 6 weeks before the jury session, inviting submissions for selection.
Schedule Jury Submission Forms available from June 7th - phone 056 61804, fax 056 63754 for a submission form. Please indicate intention of submission, by Friday 30th July by returning the slip on the Jury Submission Form. Submissions will not be accepted from craftworkers who have not returned the Intention of Submission Slip. All submissions should then be delivered (marked FAO The Jury) Crafts Council, Castle Yard, Kilkenny on Thursday and Friday 5 & 6 August. Late submissions cannot be accepted. Craftworkers will be notified of Jury decisions in the week of 16th - 20th August. Items can be collected on Thursday 12th and Friday 13th August and Monday 16th through Friday 20th August. Any remaining items after this date will be donated to charity. Consider the use of couriers, SDS or Fastrack to transport your submissions, it can save you considerable time and effort. Whichever method you choose we
Each craftworker submitting work will first be juried for the Crafts Council Quality Mark which is a common requirement at any jury session.Those who have been selected for the CCol Quality Mark will receive a certain number of stickers free of charge. Further stickers will be charged at cost. Those juried successfully for the CCol Quality Mark may then (at the same jury session) be juried for Showcase Village and New Faces, the Retail Gallery and MediaStore. The jury panel of six is drawn from a panel nominated by craftspeople as follows: Kieran Whitelaw - lecturer Sean Taylor -Association of Artists Peter Johnson - interior designer Peter Meanley - lecturer Knut Klimmek - furniture maker Geoffrey Healy - ceramicist Deirdre McQuillan - journalist Francis Keane - retailer Richard Lewis - fashion designer Erika Marks - jeweller Mary Dowling - buyer Liam O'Neill - woodturner Ciaran Forbes - woodturner Denis Looby - architect