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As a textile artist based in Nottingham, I am currently one of nine artists and craft makers in the East Midlands engaged in Connect @The Usher Gallery.

On 23 July the High Street of picturesque Southwold, jewel of the Suffolk coast, will be shut to traffic to become an al fresco museum of the bizarre.

In October 2005, Channel 4 asked the nation to get involved in the Big Art Project.

The Ceramics Book is a key reference guide to 300 ceramic artists and potters living and working in the UK, many of whose showrooms and potteries are open to the public.

One hundred of Europe’s leading ceramic artists will be exhibiting at Earth and Fire 2006, Rufford Craft Centre’s international ceramics festival which takes place in the picturesque surroundings of Rufford Country Park from 24-25 June 2006.

International glass artists from as far afield as the USA, Australia, Prague, Venice and Denmark will converge on Stourbridge – Britain’s historical centre of the glass industry – in August for the second International Festival of Glass.

‘Adventures Online 1996-2006: inIVA Online – The First Ten Years’ is launched this month.

New Artists and Makers Emporium (N.A.M.E.), the art and contemporary craft show dedicated to showcasing the very best from new artists and makers, will return to Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire on 28 and 29 October.

While increased media coverage has helped raise general awareness of war inflicted Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), psychiatrists have further investigated the widespread social traumatic afflictions resulting from repeated psychological assaults, within the civilian population.

Graeme Miller is a theatre maker, composer and artist, whose work reflects a sense of landscape and place.

The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia re-opens to the public on 21 May, following a major refurbishment and building project, designed by Foster and Partners.

‘The Metropolitan Works Show 06’ presents furniture, lighting, homewares and gifts from some of the UK’s most exciting designers at two venues this month.

Colchester’s firstsite has announced plans for a new purpose-built town centre venue.

Artists in the City is a Reading Borough Council programme that creates opportunities for contemporary artists to make interventions in the public realm and influence the spirit of a place.

Austrian artist, Claudia Pilsl is the inaugural artist-in-residence at the redundant church of St John the Divine, in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire.

The Visiting Arts Artist to Artist International Scheme 2006 provides the opportunity for an artist from overseas to spend a week in the UK with a UK-based artist, enabling an exchange of ideas and information and the strengthening of relationships and networks.

For over fifteen years the Chrisi Bailey Award has been given annually some of the most extraordinary educational work with children using photography, digital arts, video and animation. Aiming to reward work that demonstrates creativity and innovation, rather than just […]