I can't believe it is almost the end of June. So much to do and so little..... We all know the mantra.
It is su
ch a big task and takes more time than I really have. The Craft ACT board and staff came together for a planning day and from that we got our 20 page plan (presecribed length) and a few attachments. Phew. My desk is still complete chaos as I am trying to catch up with everything else.
I have finally finished completing the Craft ACT 3 yr business plan which has been submitted to our local arts funding body. I am immortalising its very dull front cover!
It is su
ch a big task and takes more time than I really have. The Craft ACT board and staff came together for a planning day and from that we got our 20 page plan (presecribed length) and a few attachments. Phew. My desk is still complete chaos as I am trying to catch up with everything else.
Now it is on to much more fun stuff. This is the fabulous scarf from http://www.asiaadventure.blogspot.com/- Striped Scarf using her own pattern arrived from Canada yesterday. Thanks so much its just great to get some knitting out of the virtual world here in Canberra and see it and touch it. It is very appropriate for Canberra as we are at the coldest part of the year and its all about scarves here!
We are coming to the end of our current 2 exhibitions: the Cicely and Colin Rigg Design Award - 2006 was for Jewellery and the exhibition is stunning with such great work in it:
The image of the gallery is using a fish eye lense, I love the distortion, it is very hard to get alot into the bigger overview shots and Steve our photographer does a pretty good job, although hard to see in this small format. The close up of jewellery is by Sally Marsland who was the winner.
The 
other sh
ow, Decades and Diversity is very special focussing on the work of Solvig Baas Becking, a wonderful woman who immigrated to Australia in the 1960's and was a passionate weaver. Since arriving she became very inolved in the arts sector and was on the first board of the Australia Council's, Craft Board, and was on the first council of the Canberra School of Art and was on the first Board of Craft ACT (then the ACT Craft Council). She is very elderly now and this exhibition shows many of her important woven pieces borrowed back for the show. But it also shows the work of 3 other women. Solvig mentored Pam McDougall, who taught Fay skyring, who mentored Di Landsdown. This show brings all their talents and skills together as we celebrate the great contribution made by Solvig.
other sh
ow, Decades and Diversity is very special focussing on the work of Solvig Baas Becking, a wonderful woman who immigrated to Australia in the 1960's and was a passionate weaver. Since arriving she became very inolved in the arts sector and was on the first board of the Australia Council's, Craft Board, and was on the first council of the Canberra School of Art and was on the first Board of Craft ACT (then the ACT Craft Council). She is very elderly now and this exhibition shows many of her important woven pieces borrowed back for the show. But it also shows the work of 3 other women. Solvig mentored Pam McDougall, who taught Fay skyring, who mentored Di Landsdown. This show brings all their talents and skills together as we celebrate the great contribution made by Solvig. These shows have one more week then on to Knit1 Blog1 and a solo exhibition by ceramic artist Bev Hogg - Weaving Dry Water. We will be running workshops during the exhibition on the weekends of 21/22 July and 11/12 August covering knitting basics, to knitting fancy socks to recovering your knitting from the "Can't do" basket.
Thanks to all who have responded its great.
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