PUBLIC PROGRAMS
February 2010

Green up your craft practice

Craft practitioners and designers are invited to attend this professional development session held as part of the Sustainable Living Festival.

Presenters Lara Olsen and Yann Burden of Energy Return will look at a range of steps you can take to reduce your carbon emissions and maintain an environmentally sustainable business. Case studies will include bag designer and retailer Matt Thomson of mattt and jeweller Natalia Milosz-Piekarksa.

Date: Thursday 11 February, 6-7.30pm
Bookings: 03 9650 7775
Cost: $20 / $10 Craft Victoria Members
Venue: 31 Flinders Lane, Melbourne

Make It, Design It, Fund It

An information session discussing how to apply for an exhibition, how to prepare a funding proposal and why exhibition design is so important. Use this session to help prepare your exhibition proposal for Craft Victoria's 2011 program, due 31 March 2010.

Speakers include: Anita Budai, exhibition designer, Parallel Studios, Christabel Harvey, Program Manager, Arts Development, Arts Victoria; Nella Themelios, Coordinating Curator, Craft Victoria.

Date: Monday 15 February, 6-7.30pm
Bookings: 03 9650 7775
Cost: $10 / Craft Victoria Members free
Venue: 31 Flinders Lane, Melbourne

Brand Identity Strategy with Adam Cruickshank

Had enough of Harvey Norman ads on TV? Sick of seeing the golden arches wherever you look? Well maybe Brand Identity Strategy is for you! Let Melbourne artist Adam Cruickshank help you develop your own slogan, statement, question, protest, banner or demand! By then applying established marketing and advertising design rules to your creations, your say will be projected large and bright on the Signal building i-glass screens.

Presented by Craft Victoria and Signal, Brand Identity Strategy is part of an accompanying public program that coincides with Adam’s upcoming exhibition at Craft Victoria, Reverse Cargo. Signal is Melbourne’s first arts studio dedicated to people aged 13 to 20 interested in a wide range of art forms.

Date: Saturday 20 February, 10am-4pm
Bookings: Through Signal 03 9664 7900
Cost: $15
Venue: Signal, Flinders Walk, Northbank (behind Flinders Street Station towards Sandridge Bridge)

Images from top left: Mattt, shoulder bag; Natalia Milosz-Piekarska, Succulent Treasures; exhibition photography by Kim Brockett; Adam Cruickshank, Their Say Your Say.