Meet the Makers and Our Next podcast drops on Thursday
Written: 30 September 2020
Digital Craft Festival
Our makers are busy making, photographing and stocking their shops with new work to present to you over the weekend of November 27-29th.
Whilst you wait for the programme to be finished, here is a preview of some of the makers you can meet at The Digital Craft Festival. Meet Angie Parker, Griffin & Sinclair, Francisca Onumah and Justine Jenner. You can follow our stories over on Facebook and Instagram.
The Capital of Craft
In our latest episode of The Capital of Craft, which is broadcast on Thursday, Sarah James from Craft Festival talks to letterpress printer, Nick Hand from The Letterpress Collective.
Based in Bristol, Sarah and Nick discuss the history of letterpress printing and how it is positioned on the Red List of Endangered Crafts published by the Heritage Craft Association.
They also talk about his Journeyman adventures across the British Isles and how that shaped the creation of The Letterpress Collective.
Nick's podcast will be available from 11am on Thursday October 1st. You can subscribe to The Capital of Craft podcast now via Apple and Spotify.
In our previous episodes, Sarah James, Craft Festival Director, talked to wooden surfboard maker, James Otter and potter Justine Allison. You can listen to their conversations now.
Next week, we talk with textile artist and teacher, Suzi Park from Make it in Wales.
In other news...
Portal 2020, the new exhibition of Wales’ Applied Arts Graduates of 2020 opens 3rd October at Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre in Cwmbran.
Fourteen Graduates from universities across Wales have been included in Portal 2020, an annual exhibition of emerging applied artists, held at Llantarnam Grange Arts Centre in Cwmbran, South Wales. In lieu of the usual private view, visitors are encouraged to see the work first through Llantarnam Grange Art Centre’s Instagram Live at 1pm, Saturday 3rd October...Read More
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