Pop-up cafe and Craft Market

We're really excited as today we had the go ahead from the owner of the Motorcade/FlashParade and BV Studios building for a pop-up cafe and craft market during the Trace exhibition.

These are part of the added activities we're planning during Trace to provide a really exciting, inviting, and relaxing environment during the exhibition. The two activities are promoting concepts within the exhibition to aid engagement and enjoyment whilst visiting.

It's great news to be working with Bristol Magpies Market to run a craft market during Saturday the 28th July with stalls selling unique and beautiful crafts from local makers.

Our pop-up cafe is being run by a Somerset based artist and caterer creating amazingly yummy cakes and nibbles. The cafe will be open during Saturday the 28th and Sunday 29th.

Fingers crossed the weather is going to be good as we're hoping to have tables and stalls outside on Phillip Street.

Open Call Closes

Our open call for Contemporary Craft Makers and Visual Artists closed on Friday 1st June. Having been kindly shared through national and international craft and art networks we received an overwhelming response of 94 applications.

Thanks to all of those that helped spread the word of our open call, and of course to those that applied. The standard of work submitted is of a really high standard making our job incredibly hard to select those to exhibit.

The work that has been submitted ranges across mediums such as digital, video, sound, painting, text, ceramics, sculpture and photography, amongst others. One thing that many of those that submitted have in common is the blurred boundaries between whether their work is art or craft and have merged the two meanings into one piece. This reflects the intention of bringing the two 'sectors' together under one banner in one exhibition.

Over the next week Emily Bull, Context Project Manager, and Julie McCalden from Motorcade/FlashParade will be short listing and selecting those to exhibit during 'Trace', which is taking place from the 26th until the 29th July 2012 at Motorcade/FlashParade in Bristol.

We'll be sharing news of those selected right here on our blog soon.