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Good project – what sort of collaboration?
Margaret James-Barber and buffy klama (yK) offer two complimentary points of view about ‘M6-M3 Underway/Unterwegs’, an artist-initiated exhibition programme for artists in NW England and Berlin, and its legacy for their own practices and future collaborations.

Brown Fields Blue Skies
Institute of Contemporary Interdisciplinary Arts, University of Bath
4 March 12 June

Don’t mind the gap
An overview of the cities’ respective artist-run scenes

Big picture – 2009 May
Benet Spencer’s History Painting.

A healthy outlook
Jane Watt reports on the Brighton symposium Is Design Good For You? considering the range of projects that artists undertake in healthcare environments.
Learn to lead
Following a quiet call for tenders in late December, the Cultural Leadership Programme (CLP) has awarded funds totalling

International textiles
Led by artistic director Lizzi Walton, the 2009 Stroud International Textiles Festival showcases established international textile and applied artists and thinkers alongside emerging new talent.
Empty shops network
When artists use empty shops, everyone wins – artists, town centre managers and local authorities working together are proving that.

Temporary Art Show
Piece Hall, Halifax
6-27 March

Art at home
Janie Nicoll brings together in one place a mixed assortment of surprising works deliberately sited within a domestic rather than a gallery setting.

Local interaction
A series of site-specific art commissions that aim to interact with locations and audiences in Lincoln.

Tipped for success
Now three years old, the annual
Twittter twitter
Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users’ updates known as tweets. Are you making the most of it?
Public engagement
Funded by Manchester Metropolitan University and Beacons for Public Engagement, and following an open online vote, North-West-based Lynn Setterington has been awarded a fellowship in public engagement.
Cultural Olympiad
Artists across the UK are being challenged to use the nation as a blank canvas for twelve inspirational commissions that will showcase our creativity to the world, as part of Cultural Olympiad.

Fusing craft and technology
A collaboration in March between Cockpit Arts and Own-It generated a seminar to explore work by established and emerging designer-makers who fuse craft with technology and their intellectual property rights.
Untitled blog post from "A Walk With Cosmo."
The reason I like walking in the woods with Cosmo is the fact that I am in a world with aboslutley no human contact. The woods live as do the animals in it without human help. Things are controlled by […]
Untitled blog post from "Hereford College of Arts"
And so it starts… the build up to the show (officially SEVEN weeks only after Easter). I am currently in one of those panic-y states in which every creative spewing seems spectacularly naff. Which isn't an ideal frame of mind […]
Untitled blog post from "Temporary Art Space"
Whodunnit? 18 April 2009 By Colin Drury IS it vandals – or artists? That's the question being asked after a Halifax sculpture was partially dismantled and reassembled. Brick Wall, on the Piece Hall lawn, is a drystone structure with three […]
Untitled blog post from "Hereford College of Arts"
It was so sunny today and the analogy continues with the setting of the sun outside. The lists get ever longer and more frequent and detailed. So little time to complete the final work in. I hope the final push […]
Untitled blog post from "Erewash Fine Art Residency 2008"
I'm sat in the garden after a hard day of work watching my son play with his cars, he's being extremely creative with everyday garden objects making bridges, tunnels with all sorts of imaginative ramblings exuding from his little person. […]
Untitled blog post from "University of Derby"
back to school. up early, tea and eventually toast, that toaster is so tempermental. hand in the home work, chat with teach, he’s shaved, he’s quite dishy you know, much younger looking, it suits him. rush around: return this, photocopy […]
Untitled blog post from "Diary of an artist writer online"
Friend persuaded me to submit at least one image to the Society of Scottish Artists forthcoming exhibition. So I emailed the digital print of "The Journey". Busy drumming up publicity for forthcoming book launch though I learnt today that there […]