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Craft Australia news1 July 2005Craft Australia News is distributed free to subscribers every month.
It presents information and news relating to the contemporary
craft sector from a national perspective. Distribution within the sector is
encouraged and new readers can subscribe for free on the Craft Australia website.
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The Sojourners Julie Ryder - Art and the bryophyte Nobel tapestries commissioned for the Australian National University
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News from Craft AustraliaReview of Interact: Contemporary craft in a digital future by Ann McMahon Order your free copy of Interact.
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News from the sectorKey Organisation Director appointed HASS on the Hill Registrations now open National Handicraft Festival Free Trade Agreements Art Gallery of South Australia recent acquisition
Books
Doctorate of Letters awarded to Janet Mansfield Congratulations Hatched for Schools The Pacific Edge
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The Sojourners celebrates the rich and vibrant journey and contribution of the Chinese community to Darwin. The project was a partnership program between Territory Craft, Museums and Gallery of Northern Territory and the Darwin City Council. Territory Craft, located in the grounds of MAGNT, provided a residency to the artist Greg Leong enabling him to work within close proximity of the installation site and a space to facilitate the community activity programs required to complete the installation. Many of Darwin community groups worked with Greg to make the two thousand flowers needed for the installation. 
The Australian National Botanic Gardens and artist Julie Ryder will tempt visitors into the astonishing and beautiful world of Australia's second largest plant group with the exhibition, Art and the Bryophyte. The multi-media project is the result of the Synapse Art and Science Residency Program, managed by the Australian Network for Art and Technology as part of the Australia Council New Media Arts Board. 
Valerie Kirk has been commissioned by the ANU to create three tapestries to celebrate the 50th birthday of University House. They will reflect on the Nobel work of Sir John Eccles (ionic mechanisms of the nerve cell), Lord Howard Florey (penicillium and antibiotics) and the team of Professor Peter Doherty and Professor Rolf Zinkernagel (cell mediated immune response). 
The need to redefine and critically position craft, particularly in relation to new technologies, inspired an on-line forum. Interact was launched in June 2004 by Craft Australia and eight key articles were commissioned to promote discussion around gritty issues facing craft and craft practitioners. Comment was sought through the Interact website and Interact: contemporary craft in a digital future, now in hard copy, records the essays along with cogent threads teased from tangled online conversations. In her forward, Professor Kay Lawrence, President of Craft Australia, sums up the publication's importance when she states, "For Craft Australia this document presents concrete research gathered from the sector that can be used to inform Government in areas of policy that are relevant to the sector." 
Valerie Kirk, Head of Textiles, Australian National University School of Art, was invited to attended the National Handicraft 2004 Festival in Loa PDR at the Exhibition Center of the Ministry of Commerce as a guest speaker in the one day forum, part of the week long festival program. 
The Art Gallery of South Australia recently acquired Clare Belfrage work Shifting Lines #1 and #2. The acquisition was made possible through the generosity of the Hon. Diana Laidlaw and the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation 2005. 
Hatched for schools provides opportunities in visual arts learning that will gently challenge students to broaden their thinking, deepen their understanding and encourage experimentation with less familiar arts media and techniques. Visit the PICA 
Craft Australia gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance it receives from the