1. CREATIVE CAFÉ
2. CURRENT EXHIBITION: Going for Gold
3. ADULT COURSES: Plus Special Announcement!
4. CHILDREN’S WORKSHOPS (Inc. February’s FREE workshops!)
5. A NOTE TO VISITORS: Heating Problems
6. WICKED PRINTING STUFF SPECIAL OFFERS
7. THIS MONTH IN THE OFFICE

Part 2 - Other Opportunities

1. OAK PLAN CHEST FOR SALE
2. BISCUIT FACTORY NEEDS OLD PRINTMAKING STUFF
3. SALTAIRE ARTS TRAIL
4. KIRKLEES CREATIVE SUMMIT UPDATE
5. URGENT CALL: Shine Exhibition, Leeds
6. LOOSELY BOUND’S ZINE EXTRAVAGANZA
7. CALL FOR ENTRIES: South Square Gallery Solo Exhibition
8. CALL FOR ARTWORKS: Artlink’s Gallery Shop, Hull
9. 11TH LESSEDRA WORLD ART PRINT ANNUAL - MINI PRINT 2012

1. CREATIVE CAFÉ

Throughout February we will be trialling a project which we are calling Creative Cafe, which as the name says is a Café for Creatives!

Every Tuesday in February (7^th, 14^th, 21^st and 28^th) we will open our doors from 10.30am to 12.30pm and play host to all creatives in the area.  We have Wi-Fi if you want to come and work away with others around you plus we will be offering bottomless mugs for £1 for you to fill with as much coffee and tea as you like (and we might even throw in a few biscuits) and it will give you the opportunity to mingle with other like-minded folk.

The WYPW team are working on hands on demonstrations to take place during the sessions - more info will follow.

So put these dates in your diary, if we have a good response we plan to develop this idea and introduce further talks and demonstrations
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2. CURRENT EXHIBITION: GOING FOR GOLD

by the Contemporary Textile Art Group (TAG)
The Gallery at West Yorkshire Print Workshop is proud to announce our new exhibition ‘Going for Gold’ which opens on Tuesday 31^st January and runs until Monday 13^th February.

‘Going for Gold’ is the theme of exciting new work created by the contemporary Textile Art Group (TAG).

The exhibition explores aspects of gold which have little to do with competing for medals. Members of TAG, which was founded in 1994 to promote textiles as an art form, have interpreted “Going for Gold” in diverse ways, from studying highly artificial Art Nouveau jewelled insects and the techniques used in creating Moorcroft pottery to gold in the natural world: leaves, hay meadows, honeybees. True gold and fools’ gold, alchemical gold and the end-of-the-rainbow gold have all inspired pieces in this exhibition. Conventional and experimental methods of creating work echo another aspect of the theme of going for gold: aspiring to a “gold standard” of originality and quality.

Image credit: Joan Thraves - The Midas Touch by Textile Art Group
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3. ADULT COURSES: Plus Special Announcement!
Re-scheduled Etching course PLUS special announcement

LEARN TO PRINT!
We have pushed back the start date of our `First Steps in Etching’ evening class. It will now start on Monday 5th March, so you've still got time to book yourself, (or someone else), a place!
You can book online in a few easy steps here.

First Steps in Etching - Kathryn Desforges
This course will teach you all the basics of hard ground, soft ground, and open-bite etching to enable you to create a wide variety of marks and effects. You will experiment with etching onto copper, zinc and aluminium plates using ferric chloride and copper sulphate solutions, both less-toxic alternatives to traditional nitric acid.

The course is led with a hands-on approach from the start, and there is the opportunity to produce a good number of prints to take away with you. You will also learn about paper, inking and registration techniques. This is a great course for beginners and those who need a refresher, and can act as a lead-in to membership of WYPW so that you can continue to use and develop the techniques you have learnt.

Kate Desforges is a practising artist who specialises in printmaking, and is also technician at WYPW. You can find out more about her here.

5 Monday evenings, starting 5^th March 2012
6.30 - 9pm
£110 (£99 for WYPW members)
 

And our special announcement…

 
Demonstration: Norman Ackroyd RA
We are very excited to welcome Norman Ackroyd RA to WYPW in April, for a demonstration of how he uses etching to create his magnificent landscape prints. He will be revealing the secrets of sugarlift, showing you how to make your own aquatint box, along with many other essential hints and tips along the way, with plenty of opportunity to ask questions.

Norman Ackroyd was elected a Royal Academician in 1991, and awarded a C.B.E. for services to engraving in 2007. He hails from West Yorkshire and studied at Leeds College of Art from 1956 - 1961. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to see a real expert at work.

Saturday 14th April 2012, 11am – 1.30pm.
£40 (£36 for WYPW members)
Only 20 places available, so book early to avoid disappointment.
Book online here.
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4. CHILDREN’S WORKSHOPS (INC FEBRUARY’S FREE WORKSHOPS!)

February half-term will see more of our FREE workshops for both 8-12 year olds and 13-19 year olds taking place in our gallery here at WYPW:

Screen Printed “Action Posters”

Monday 13^th February, 10am - 4pm (8-12 year olds)
Morning:looking at action posters for film and theatre we will discuss ideas for creating an action poster, imagery heroes or themselves. We will look at the main central images but also look at fonts and decorative borders, we have access to the internet and computers for fonts and imagery to help the participant but we will encourage using drawing skills as well as collage.
During lunch the silk screens will be processed but they will need to dry before we start printing.
Afternoon:The children will work in pairs to support each other in the printing, one will hold the screen print and align the paper while the other screen prints and places their art work on the drying rack, and vice versa. We will experiment with the screen inks to pull through to create experimental and dramatic backgrounds. While these are drying we will work a variety of coloured paper to produce a run and then work onto the experimental background.

Friday 17^th February, 10am - 4pm (13-19 year olds)
Morning:looking at fanzines and comics as inspiration we will then work with an eight box format to illustrate a full story or treat each individual box differently. The participant will use drawing collage and painting to realise their imagery, by lunch time the art skills will be completed.
During lunch the silk screens will be processed.
Afternoon:at the start of the afternoon session we will create different coloured background to the fanzine using blocking out colour with simple stencils and varying pulling colour through the silk screen, this will give a wide variety of bases to print the fanzine onto. The screens will be ready and while the above work dries, we will work on a selection of coloured paper to produce a run of the fanzine, again mixing the colour pull through as desired, then finishing experimenting with the earlier backgrounds created.

This is an excellent opportunity to learn the techniques and processes of screen printing for FREE!

Each participant should be able to produce a minimum of 20 screen prints during these sessions.

To book onto these workshops please email us on workshops@wypw.orgor call 01924 497646 during office open hours. For full day workshops (10-4), participants will need to bring a packed lunch with them.
 

We also have a few spaces remaining on some of our Saturday workshops:

Saturday 11th February - Crafty Cupcakes with Karen Stansfield & Jo Login
Cup Cake Crazy! So what’s in your bun tin?????
Come and get crafty with felt, thread and beads!
Make your own collection of delicious cupcakes using simple and effective stitches and create sugar sprinkles toppings, ribbon to suggest chocolate swirls, and buttons as fruit toppings!
They make beautiful table decorations, badges to jazz up an out-fit or as a surprise gift!
– No oven required!

Saturday 18th February - Sock Hobby Horse with Annie Beech & Helaina Sharpley
Transform an ordinary sock into an extraordinary hobby horse! 
Stuff your sock with wadding to give it shape and add a wooden cane body, then using an exciting stash of buttons, wools and fabrics sew and glue on eyes, ears and other features. 
With a little imagination you can give your horse a personality and possibly the chance to star in their own cartoon, before you ride them home!

Saturday Children's Art Workshops are open to all children aged between 8-14 years, run from 10am - 1pm in the WYPW gallery and cost £5 per participant per session, payable in advance.
To book a place, contact us via email on workshops@wypw.org or call 01924 497646 during office open hours.
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5. A NOTE TO VISITORS: Heating Problems

Unfortunately our temperamental boiler has decided to completely give up on us and, as such, it is now a little chilly here at WYPW. We have numerous heaters chugging away in the print rooms and the gallery to try and keep the temperature up a bit but, if you're planning on coming to visit us, just make sure you wrap up warm!
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6. WICKED PRINTING STUFF - SPECIAL OFFERS

Our new friends at Wicked Printing Stuff have Christmas / New Year offers running until the end of the January which gives 10% off products on the website - the promo code is 'wicked2012',  we also have a standing discount for Print Clubs with a straight discount which is available throughout the year and the promo code is 'Printclub5'.
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7. THIS MONTH IN THE OFFICE

The office staff had to unleash all their creativity and money-saving nous to celebrate much-loved administrator Karen's (undisclosed) birthday last week. Reduced in price chocolate sponge cakes were expertly teamed with buy-one-get-one-free Cadbury's Fingers and cut-price party candles to create a masterpiece of cakery that had many a jaw agape with awe.

Needless to say fun was had by all and everyone is looking forward to the next special occasion to see just what creative masterpiece we can conjure up.
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A. OAK PLAN CHEST FOR SALE

Price £150
Size: 1222mm wide x 812mm deep x 940mm high (in inches 48”x32”x37”).
Features 6 equal sized drawers with brass cup handles and label plates.
Internally four of the drawers are split with a fixed central divider (see photos).
Solid oak external construction, plywood drawers.
The plan chest has recently been carefully and lovingly restored and would make an attractive and very useful addition to any studio.
It does feature some minor surface marks due to its age and past use, but it’s had a medium oak satin wax varnish finish applied which really enhances the appearance.
The plan chest will split into 4 sections for ease of transport: Base frame, bottom set of 3 drawers, top set of 3 drawers and the plan chest top.
I will deliver within 15 miles of my home for an agreed charge.
Anybody interested is very welcome to view it at my home in Kirkburton, HD8 0PF.
If you are interested please give me a call on either of the numbers below.
Adrian - Mob. 07747 044755, Home 01484 604941
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B. BISCUIT FACTORY NEEDS OLD PRINTMAKING STUFF

The Biscuit Factory, the UK's largest independent commercial gallery, studios and cultural hub is expanding our collection of hand-made prints in the gallery, becoming the largest representative of Printmakers and their work in the North East. To stage this section of the gallery and to illuminate the processes behind printmaking, we are asking printmakers to donate old or no longer used printmaking tools such as blocks and plates, with the hope that amongst you, we may even be able to source an old printing press itself, to create a real centrepiece for the collection. If you have anything that you feel would complement our printmaking collection or indeed may have an old press tucked away at the back of your studio please contact gallery manager rachel@thebiscuitfactory.com. We have a short window for preparations so please do get in touch as soon as you can to support our project. Many, many thanks for your support in advance.

If you would like to submit your prints for consideration for display within the new print area, please contact sam@thebiscuitfactory.com.
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C. SALTAIRE ARTS TRAIL

Saltaire Arts Trail is an annual visual arts festival showcasing contemporary art and craft that takes place in the world heritage village of Saltaire, part of the Bradford District in West Yorkshire. With support from Arts Council England through the National Lottery and working in partnership with Bradford’s creative development agency Fabric we wish to commission an artist or arts group to create a new piece of work to be presented during the Saltaire Arts Trail in May 2012.

Applications are welcome from contemporary artists in the early stages of their career who live or regularly work in Bradford district. If you wish to be considered for this commission please send a brief (1 side of A4) proposal, your CV and up to five images showing previous work to ann.rutherford@fabricculture.co.uk by Friday 10^th February.

In your proposal you should describe your idea, what form it would take, how you would go about creating it and any ideas about where it might be shown as well as up to five images to support the proposal. If you wish to submit any moving image material as part of your proposal this should be via a link to where it can be seen online and should be no more than 10 minutes in length.

If you have any queries or require any further information please contact Ann Rutherford at Fabric via the email address above.

Schedule
Deadline for proposals - Friday 10 February 2012
Artist Interviews - Monday 20 February 2012
Production - March & April 2012
Installation – Week beginning Monday 30 April 2012
Launch - Friday 4 May 2012
Event dates - May 5 - 7 May 2012

Budget
The budget for this commission is £3,000 (inclusive of artist fees and expenses, materials, production, installation and de-rig/removal costs).
Saltaire Arts Trail is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

Link: More information.
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D. KIRKLEES CREATIVE SUMMIT UPDATE

Creative gifts: How Kirklees’ creative spirit transforms the world around us.
Tuesday 21^st February 2012, 12 noon to 6pm.
Lawrence Batley Theatre Huddersfield (the LBT)

The programme for the second Kirklees Creative Summit is now complete.
See www.kirklees.gov.uk/creativesummit for the promotional flyer - and a link to the booking site, open from late afternoon Monday 23^rd January 2012.

The booking site is at http://uk.amiando.com/creativegifts and this will tell you how to:

• get an overview of the Summit
• see the programme
• find out more about Professor Paul Robertson, our key-note speaker; the Menu of Provocations and The Price of Everything
• get a welcome cuppa and sandwich for lunch – and have a good conversation over a luscious sit down afternoon tea
• Book your place by Weds 15^th February

 Summit places are limited and on a ‘first come, first served’ basis. 
Tickets - including a sandwich on arrival and afternoon tea – are £10 for amateur/voluntary; £15 for individual artists and arts workers; £20 for regularly funded/non-profit organisations and commercial businesses with staff.

Any queries or problems to jon.rust@kirklees.gov.uk or 01484 226312.
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E. URGENT CALL: Shine Exhibition, Leeds

Drawings required asap for Leeds exhibition - space availaible in drawing show installing next week at Shine.
Please email asap with up to 10 images with medium, size and price inc. 40% commission (inc. VAT) to louise.atkinson@shinebusinesscentre.co.uk.
All works should be framed and available for sale.
All media considered.
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F. LOOSELY BOUND’S ZINE EXTRAVAGANZA

We are delighted to announce Loosely Bound's Zine Extravaganza. A Bradford zine fair
run in collaboration with Fabric in their brand new city centre arts space at:

1 Tyrell St, BD1 1RU

Saturday 24^th March 2012, 10am - 4pm.
There will be stalls, workshops, performances and much more.
The event coincides with the official opening of Bradford's City Park.

CALL FOR STALLHOLDERS
Please email your expression of interest and a link to your website to looselybound@hotmail.com by Monday 12^th March.
For more information: http://looselybound.org/.
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G. CALL FOR ENTRIES: SOUTH SQUARE GALLERY SOLO EXHIBITION

South Square Gallery is seeking proposals from emerging artists based in Yorkshire and the North for a solo exhibition at South Square Gallery during June 2012. The successful artist will be invited to take advantage of the gallery as a testbed space for presenting new work. This opportunity will provide a supportive and professional environment for the artist to develop new critically engaged work that will communicate with our wide and varied audiences. The successful artist will receive a £500 fee, curatorial support, and promotion through the gallery.

To apply:
1. Brief proposal (up to 250 words)
2. C.V.
3. Images of proposed work (up to 10)
4. Images of previous work (up to 10)
Please do not send original artworks. CDs and DVDs for images are accepted. If you would like your submission returned to you please provide a SAE.

Post to:
TESTBED Bursary, South Square Gallery, South Square, Thornton, BD13 3LD.
Or
Email to: d.knowles@southsquarecentre.co.uk (1 email per artist, 5mb limit, email submissions that exceed this quota will not be accepted). Deadline: Wednesday 15^th February 9am.

About South Square Gallery:
South Square Gallery is a grassroots exhibition space committed to providing a professional and supportive resource for artists and emerging curators. As a testbed for new ideas, the gallery hosts an ever-evolving dialogue between artists and their audience.
For further information on South Square Gallery please visit:
www.southsquarecentre.co.uk.
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H. CALL FOR ARTWORKS: Artlink’s Gallery Shop, Hull

Artlink are calling for emerging and established artists making fresh, unique and original hand-crafted items.

In particular, we are looking to increase our stock of unique gifts for both adults and children. We are particularly interested to hear from artists that are producing printed magazines/books/comics (not one offs), and artists making small affordable items with prices under £25.00 such as glassware, textiles, ceramics, jewellery and small framed images. We are also looking to launch a print catalogue, so would be interested in any type of prints smaller than A4 in size, and would welcome both limited edition and reproduction prints.

Please note: due to the layout of our shop we are not able to hang paintings, prints or other wall hangings, and ask artists not to submit works of this nature.

The work will be displayed in Artlink’s Gallery Shop, on a sale or return basis for a minimum of three months if selected. There will be a 25% commission on all sales and the possibility of work being shown on our website. Artists must arrange transportation or postage of their work to and from the gallery at a cost to the artist.

To apply please send: a maximum of ten images of your current work (CD or printed photographs), stating medium and size of works; price guide for works including the 25% commission; brief CV detailing recent exhibitions/outlets where your work is sold and a short artist statement of no more than 200 words. The cut off date for applications is Friday 3rd February 2012 at 4pm.

If you would like your application returned, please enclose a stamped addressed envelope with the correct postage, or we will presume that you are happy for us to keep your details on file.

Artists selected for the shop will be notified by email or phone on Wednesday 8th February, and will be expected to deliver their work to Artlink by Wednesday 15th February. If you do not hear from us, please assume that your work has not been selected.

Applications should be sent to: Emma Dolman, Gallery Development Worker ARTLINK Centre for Community Arts, 87 Princes Avenue, Hull, HU5 3QP or gallery@artlink.uk.net.
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I. 11TH LESSEDRA WORLD ART PRINT ANNUAL - MINI PRINT 2012
 
http://www.lessedra.com/annual.php
 
Please have a look at the conditions for participation http://www.lessedra.com/entry.php?d=conditions and prepare and send your works from January until the end of March 2012.
 
If you have comments and/or questions you can contact me also on the following email:
georgi_lessedra@yahoo.com
 
Looking forward to our good cooperation in the new year!
 
Georgi Lessedra
http://www.lessedra.com.
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