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This month’s prizes, awards and commissions

‘The Ceramic City – Design for Public Space’ conference, held on 9 and 10 October 2009 at the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery and organised by Art&Architecture Journal Conferences in partnership with the British Ceramics Biennial (BCB), coincided with the BCB Festival held throughout the city of Stoke-on-Trent from 3 October – 13 December 2009.

Responding to the resurgent interest in craft as it relates to socially engaged art practice, ‘Craftivism’ (12 December 2009 – 14 February 2010) is a contemporary art project that involves thirteen projects developed by artists and collectives that work with craft-based traditions and activist practices, and who employ the tactics of ‘craftivism’ (combining crafting and activism) to question and disrupt the prevailing codes of mass consumerism.

Members of Bristol’s biggest artist-led collective Jamaica Street Artists (JSA) have teamed up with Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery for an exhibition and auction that they hope will raise substantial funds towards the purchase of their building.

Castle & Elephant is a new gallery in the centre of Coventry. Rather than having a fixed abode it will exist in constant transition, moving to available empty shop units in the City Arcade.

The Photographers’ Gallery has named Anna Fox, Zoe Leonard, Sophie Ristelhueber, and Donovan Wylie as the four shortlisted artists nominated for its annual Deutsche Börse Photography Prize.

Artists and curators relate methods of navigating a self-directed exhibiting career.

Arts Council England’s

Organised by Sophie Hope, co-facilitated with Veronica Restrepo and held at London

Paris Photo (Carrousel du Louvre, 19-22 November) is the place to be for anyone interested in or working with photography.

Wunderbar is “a dynamic new festival of contemporary performances, visual art, and extraordinary happenings for North East England that places the audience at the heart of the experience”.

“There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall” Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise, 1938

Responding to the gap in intelligence about artists and their practice, AIR: Artists’ Interaction and Representation has been conducting a series of research projects with the aim of informing cultural advocacy and policy-making.

Hinterland curator Jennie Syson says this year’s commissions “will present a cycle-powered cinema, trees grown from books, tasty opportunities to eat the local plant life and a chance to do a spot of bird watching whilst appreciating areas of natural beauty within the city and beyond”.

London Photomonth is the only photography festival in the capital and the largest event of its kind in the UK.

Interrogation Walsall that explores the impact that one artist can make in one place in one day is part of Longhouse’s annual programme, which provides professional development opportunities for artists working in the public realm.

Auto-Italia South East was formed in April 2007 by three artists: Amanda Dennis, Kate Cooper and Rachel Pimm. It is the name of the project, a larger network of artists, as well as the space they run in a donated building in South London.

Overview of recent residency related awards.