Bronwen and Chipper
Today Bronwen popped over as we assessed where we are at with the project.
Just a quick recap for anyone who is just finding out about the knitting and blogging project.
We are co-curating a project titled Knit1 Blog1 for Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre to coincide with the Festival of Contemporary Art herein Canberra Australia. The Festival which is co-hosted by Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre, Canberra Contemporary Art Space and the Australian National University School of Art, its aim is to celebrate contemporary art and craft in Canberra. The festival will focus on the theme IN PUBLIC and present a series of major exhibitions, temporary public art, public events, an education program, and other fun happenings. The festival will occur from 13 July to 19 August 2007.
We are fascinated with the renewed popularity of knitting and how its revival has coincided with the latest accessible, communication trend, blogs. We are developing a project which is inspired by all you wonderful bloggers and blog sites and happenings such as virtual knitalongs, and the 2006 Knitting Olympics. We think knitting is more in the public realm than ever before.
We hope our project will string together a web of creations from around the world to come together in our gallery space in Canberra and be seen in the physical, and virtual, public worlds. Our aim is that you will share your blogging and knitting worlds with us. We think the world of knitting blogs is amazing and we want to bring this phenomenon to a new audience through this project.
We are fascinated with the renewed popularity of knitting and how its revival has coincided with the latest accessible, communication trend, blogs. We are developing a project which is inspired by all you wonderful bloggers and blog sites and happenings such as virtual knitalongs, and the 2006 Knitting Olympics. We think knitting is more in the public realm than ever before.
We hope our project will string together a web of creations from around the world to come together in our gallery space in Canberra and be seen in the physical, and virtual, public worlds. Our aim is that you will share your blogging and knitting worlds with us. We think the world of knitting blogs is amazing and we want to bring this phenomenon to a new audience through this project.
It seems that many of you out there agree. I was chatting to a friend of mine who wondered whether knitting blogs were all that extraordinary and when I showed her the tip of the ice berg of knitting blogs she was amazed.
Anyway back to Bronwen, we have made a list of all we have invited so far and there is more to do to invite other wonderful knitting bloggers to the show. During the period of the festival we will also be hosting some workshops. We want to run a beginners workshop and an advanced and there may also be another special workshop, but that is still in the planning stage. The form with all the details is almost complete and will be sent out as soon as possible.
Looking forward to more responses.
4 comments:
Love the exhibition idea! You are welcome to use my blog, but I'm a bit too far away to visit in person I'm afraid! Jane, a hand and machine knitter and crocheter in the UK
There are a lot of knitting Bloggers here in Canberra. You might be interested in coming along to a Stitch'n Bitch sometime too, more details on our Yahoo group site.
Hi there, I'm always amazed anyone reads our IKL blog - but you are very welcome to include our posts in your project. Only wish we could be there too.
Craig & Gerard
IKL
Hi There, How are plans for your exhibition coming along? Is it too late to participate? I'm a knit blogger in Berry NSW and worked for a few years at Craft Australia and Craftwest. It's great that knitting & knit blogging is getting attention from the organisations again. :-) the stripey tiger aka Sharon
www.thestripeytiger.blogspot.com
sharonthomson (at) optusnet (dot) com (dot )au
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