Central Craft S T U D I O . G A L L E R Y . G I F T S H O P

Last Days: Tangentyere Artists Mixed Media New works on board, recycled metal, found objects, seed and tin jewellery

Tangentyere Artists, representing artists from Alice Spring’s town camps, have become renowned for their two-fold painting styles; of traditional motifs and contemporary figurative works portraying landscape and daily life in and around Alice Springs. In addition to works on canvas and board, they also take recycling to another level, turning discarded objects such as car parts, various pieces of scrap metal and bottle tops into works of art and jewellery.

Exhibition ends Sunday June 16

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June 2013

Sustainable Couture 2013 “On a Wing and a Prayer”

Sustainable Couture is no ordinary fashion event. Held in the atmospheric Central Australian Aviation Museum, which has inspired this year's theme ‘On a Wing and a Prayer’, the collection is the combined work of ten talented Alice Springs artists, designers, cutters and sewers who turn pre-loved clothes, fabrics, jumpers, tablecloths, curtains, blankets, tyre-tubes into fabulous, unique fashion. The exhibition following the parade is your chance to own one of these creative, funky, quirky, stylish fashion garments.

Parade 6:30 pm, Central Australian Aviation Museum

Exhibition Opening - 8:00pm, June Marriott Gallery - Central Craft Parade Tickets $10.00. Available from Dymocks & Central Craft. Aviation Museum Bar opens 6.15pm.

Current Exhibition:

June/July School Holiday Workshops

Old School Photography for Digital Kids

Let Light In: Pinhole Camera Workshop with Janine Wright Tuesday July 2nd 10am - 3pm

In this workshop participants will learn the basic steps of analogue photography by constructing a pinhole camera, using it to take photographs and watching their image magically appear on paper as they also learn a dying art - the developing of black & white images in the darkroom.

Cost: Free / For Participants aged 12 - 20 years

Maximum of 10 places / Bookings essential

All materials and lunch provided

Shadow Image: Photogram Workshop with Tim Chatwin Wednesday July 3rd 10am - 3pm

A photogram is a photographic image made without a camera or film by placing various objects directly onto the surface of light-sensitive material, such as photographic paper, and exposing it to light. The result is a negative image, full of silhouettes and overlaying shapes and details. Using found materials, participants will learn composition and design techniques, and the play of light on different materials as they compose and expose a photogram and develop the images using darkroom techniques.

Cost: Free / For Participants aged 12 - 20 years

Maximum of 10 places / Bookings essential

All materials and lunch provided

Central Craft Beanie Festival 2013 Workshops Program June 21 - 24

Central Craft invites you to join us during the 2013 Alice Springs

Beanie Festival in a celebration of craft over 4 colourful and

creative days.

This year there are over 20 different workshops to choose from,

including freestyle silk painting, pewter casting or learning how to

make surrealist tea cosies. Or why not try your hand at making silk

paper, embellishing beanies, or crocheting a ‘garden in stitches’.

There’s knotless netting, the ever popular dyeing and painting

wool, shibori on a bottle, printmaking, 'No frogs No holes' crochet

for beginners, and of course all kinds of fabulous felting. Join our

experienced team of local and interstate tutors, eager to pass on

their knowledge and skills in the relaxed and vibrant atmosphere

at the Central Craft Studio.

All workshops are $35.00 ea

Additional material and kit costs, detailed in the program, apply to most workshops and are payable to the tutor on the day. Workshop places are limited/Advance bookings recommended

New starting date/New class dates

Quilting for Beginners with Barbara McIlvain Starting Wednesday June 26th, 6:30pm - 9pm

In this six week course, run on Wednesday nights (June 26th, Jul 7th, 10th, 17th, 24th, and 31st), participants will learn the fundamentals of quilting: planning your quilt, 9-patch, half-square, stars and other patchwork patterns, following patterns, cutting multiple layers of fabric, rotary cutting, using quilting rulers, stitching & pressing seams, adding borders, binding and many other skills. After six classes you will be able to create anything from a baby to full size quilt.

Cost:

$200.00 Central Craft & Quilt Club members /

$250.00 non-members

Bookings essential / Required materials list available

Workshops:

Central Craft’s 5X5 Show - July 19th

In 1889, several artists of the Heidelberg School staged the 9 x 5 Impressionism Exhibition, now considered a pivotal moment in the history of Australian Art. Destined also to become a significant art, craft & design event is Central Craft’s 5 X 5 Exhibition. Central Craft calls on all the arts & crafts people of Central Australia to help us raise much needed funds to continue offering a creative space for crafts/arts practice, learning & exhibition. We supply the canvas, a 5” x 5”, upon which we ask you to apply/donate your creative work. It could be a painting, drawing or print, textiles stretched over or stitched on, other mediums applied with glue or nail, the canvas even a base for a small ceramic or sculptural work. All works will be available for sale at the Exhibition opening, Friday July 19th. All works will be $40.00 ea. All proceeds will go to the maintenance and purchase of equipment. No advance sales. Be there or miss out. The long-awaited canvas has arrived in Alice Springs. The show is only five weeks away but we are asking for only 5 x 5 of your time. Contact us if you would like to participate.

June - July

Artback NT Artist in Residence

ROLANDE SOULIERE’S COLLAGE OF INDIGENIZATION Artback NT’s resident artist Rolande Souliere invites you to participate in a session introducing the notion of collage in Western art. This will be followed by a number of open lab participatory collage workshops where participants will create collages of their idea(s) of what it means to be ‘Indigenous’, whether physical, psychological, political or spiritual. The resulting collages will be exhibited as an installation and will mark the beginning of an ongoing project that will take place in various locations nationally and internationally. Participants are encouraged to bring personal materials such as photographs, images, postcards and objects that resonate with their ideas of what it means to be ‘Indigenous’ in today’s world. Paper, pencils, erasers, scissors, glue and other basic materials will be supplied.

Artist’s Talk and Introduction to Collage:

Saturday 29 June 11am – 12:30pm

Workshop dates and times: Saturday 13 July / Sunday 14 July Thursday 18 July / Friday 19 July All workshops are free: 10am – 4:30pm Open Studio Exhibit: Mon 22 – Wed 24 July, 10am – 4:30pm Workshop Places are limited. For more information or to RSVP please contact: Artback NT, Visual Arts Manager – Simha Koether [p] 08 8953 5941 [e] alicesprings@artbacknt.com.au These workshops are brought to you by Artback NT: Arts Development and Touring through the Visual Arts Artist-in-Residence Program.

Future Exhibitions:

Artwork L-R:Tanya Dixon, Untitled, 2013, acrylic on plastic; Jane Young, Little Rocks in the Simpson Desert, 2013, acrylic on plastic; Marlene Wheeler, Untitled, 2013, acrylic on plastic

5 X 5

The Wooden Indian from Wagga Wagga Series, 2011-12, 12 of 15, 300 gsm Fabriano paper, 65cm x 70cm approx.

For more information regarding Central Craft’s 2013 program, please visit, phone or email us:

Central Craft, Araluen Cultural Precinct, 61 Larapinta Drive, Alice Springs

ph: 08 8952 4417 / f: 08 8953 5465 / e: tim@centralcraft.org.au / www.centralcraft.org.au

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Barking Mad Potential Saturday group

at Mandy Webb’s

News, Notices & Opportunities:

New Regular Group

Starting Saturday June 29th

Saturday Clay Days at Central Craft

An informal get together for members who wish to work in the ceramics studio and share relaxing music, morning tea treats and good company. BYO materials, favourite CD's and morning tea to share.

Contact Tara Leckey for more information on 0416 820 530 or just turn up. Saturdays 10am - 1pm

Credit: MBTPhoto, 2008, Photogram 002 Clam Shells and Misc.

Objects on RC Multigrade paper

Quilting Techniques & Trunk Show with Heather from the Adelaide Sewing Centre - Wednesday July 3rd 2pm - 4pm

A demonstration of the Handi Quilter quilting system, quilting products and a trunk show with over thirty quilts. Including the newly acquired Fusion Machine, Heather will demonstrate the many quilting techniques available with the Sweet Sixteen and Avante models and other techniques such as the use of various marking methods, ruler work and a range of shaped rulers, raw edge appliqué and micro quilting. There will be an opportunity to test drive these machines for yourself.

Free Event. Central Craft Studio

Spaces are limited to twenty / Bookings essential.

Central Craft Member Mandy Webb has generously offered a

mounting collection of bark sheets & strips and an array of other

collected objects for anyone interested in utilising their potential in

any number of possible creative projects.

If interested, please contact Mandy: 8952 2492 / m 0409 953 683

“Consider yourself crafty? If you work with wood, are potty about pottery, so good at sewing or passionate about patchwork then there’s likely to be a class in the craft section to suit your pastime.

There is also a junior section for budding crafters aged 16 and un-

der. School groups too!”

Entries close Saturday June 22, 12 noon.

For details visit www.alice-springs.com.au/entries/info/craft/

or contact Joan O’Reilly: m 0417 805 640

Call for Volunteers Central Craft’s four days of workshops for the Alice Springs Beanie Festival is a highlight of our year’s program. Central Craft is calling for volunteers to assist during the four days of hectic happiness that is our Beanie Festival Workshops.

We are asking for a few hours of your time to help with one or some of the following:

Welcoming participants and assisting them with workshop registrations, directing participants to their respective workshop locations and other marshalling, assisting tutors with set-up/pack-up in the limited time between workshops, keeping up the supply of tea and coffee and cakes (and the donation of cakes for sale at our coffee & cake stand) and other less glamorous but no less important roles such as keeping an eye on garbage bins, paper towel and other supplies etc!

If you have a little or a lot of time to spare for any of these roles

over the Friday 21st to Monday 24th program, please contact us.