1. JOB OPPORTUNITY AT WYPW
2. EXHIBITIONS AT WYPW
3. UPCOMING COURSES AT WYPW
4. WINTER CRAFT FAIR
5. PASS THE BOOK
6. KNIT TOGETHER
7. CRAFT CLUB CANCELLED
8. WYPW MEMBER TAKING OVER AMERICA
9. NOTICE TO MEMBERS

Part 2 - Other Opportunities

1. THE PINK MILKFLOAT PRINTING PRESS THIS WEEKEND!
2. FESTIVAL OF LIGHT ART MARKET, HUDDERSFIELD - CALL FOR ARTISTS
3. ‘REVELATION’ AT CUPOLA - FINAL CALL
4. ‘I GIVE YOU THIS...’ CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION AT THE BREWHOUSE
5. MARBURAE ART GALLERY PRINT EXHIBITION 2013
6. PRINT SYMPOSIUM: PRINTING THE PERSONAL
7. TRADITIONAL WOODCUTS COURSE IN DEEPEST DEVON

1. JOB OPPORTUNITY AT WYPW

We are looking for a talented individual with creative flair and strong leadership skills, to take forward the organisation as we continue to build our reputation as a centre for excellence in printmaking.

You will be capable of leading by example with a hands on approach to meeting the day to day challenges of running an established arts organisation.

The broad areas of responsibility are:

• Staff and volunteer recruitment, management and development
• Activities programming
• Building management
• Project development and funding
• Financial monitoring and development

 
Previous experience in arts management is essential, plus the ability to project manage a building refurbishment which is currently in progress.

Salary is pro rata £27,300 (30 hours/week – employed basis)

More information about West Yorkshire Print Workshop is available at www.wypw.org and a full job description can be obtained by emailing pam@wypw.org.

Deadline for applications is midnight of 16^th October 2012 and initial interviews will take place w/c 22^nd October.

To apply please forward your CV together with an explanation of no more than one A4 sheet of why you feel you are the right person for the job to pam@wypw.org.
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2. EXHIBITIONS AT WYPW
 
a). CURRENT EXHIBITION: Presence, Absence, Duration - Manya Doñaque
Manya is a multimedia artist interested in exploring issues surrounding the themes of life and death. Her work often involves the use of the body as a way of representing the passing of time and the ephemerality of life. Manya is researching these themes for her PhD thesis. She is a Lecturer at Bradford School of Art, Design & Media. BA and MA programmes.
 
Exhibition Dates: Thursday 20^th September 2012 - Saturday 13^th October 2012
 
We have a private view this Friday, all welcome! 
Private View: Friday 5^th October 2012. 6.30pm-8.00pm.
 
 
b). NEXT EXHIBITION: Flourish Award Exhibition
We are pleased to announce that we had an increase in entrants to this year’s Flourish Printmaking Award. For the first time it was open to non-WYPW members across the Yorkshire region. This is an exciting development and allows WYPW to champion and showcase the best printmaking from practitioners across Yorkshire. It will provide Yorkshire artists and printmakers the opportunity to exhibit their work at the WYPW Gallery and go on to plan their own solo print exhibition at Huddersfield Art Gallery in 2013 as part of the prizes awarded to the winner.
 
Key Dates:
Exhibition open to public:
Thursday 18^th October to Saturday 24^th November 2012
 
Private View and Award Ceremony, for the Flourish Printmaker of the Year:
Wednesday 31^st October 2012


c). Buy Art at WYPW
A reminder that we have a range of craft items available to buy from our gallery Craft Cabinets. These include hand printed cards, jewellery, ceramics and textiles. We also have a print browser that includes a range of prints at various price levels which would make the perfect present for someone.
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3. UPCOMING COURSES AT WYPW
 
Gift vouchers for courses are available - the perfect Christmas presents for creative people! Please get in touch via phone or e-mail to purchase.
 
Introduction to Printmaking 
Come and get your creativity flowing in a friendly, artistic environment! Over 7 evenings or 3 days, this course will give you a taster of all the areas of printmaking offered at WYPW, including monoprint, collagraph, drypoint, etching,  linocut and screen print. By experimenting with different techniques, you will get a feel for which best suits you and your style of working.
 
**NEW START DATE** 7 week course starting Monday 29^th October 2012
7-9pm
£110 (£99 WYPW members)
 
  
First Steps in Etching
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.
 
**NEW START DATE** 2 day course on Saturday 27^th October and Saturday 3^rd November 2012
6.30 – 9pm
£110 (£99 WYPW members)
 
 
We’ve also got our new CREATE! Saturday workshops starting soon, places still available but booking up quickly…
 
If, like all of us, you have a hectic life and have to squeeze your creative time into a tightly-packed schedule, our new CREATE! Monthly Saturday Sessions are for you! So you can have your weekend morning lie-in, learn a new skill and indulge your creativity, and get home in time for tea! All our workshops are suitable for beginners and are taught by expert tutors, and the price of the course includes all materials and unlimited hot beverages! Sessions are booked individually but there's nothing to stop you booking on all six!
 
Workshops run 11am – 3pm and cost £35 each.
 
Monoprinting with Sammy Palfrey
Saturday 20^th October 2012
Paint, roll and layer inks onto plastic sheets and use stencil techniques to create one-off prints with a unique surface quality not obtainable with any other print technique.
 
Letterpress Christmas Cards with Jacqui Sharples AKA PrintForLoveofWood
Saturday 17^th November 2012
Create and print your own personalised Christmas cards using traditional letterpress techniques. Experiment with using wood and lead type in a variety of fonts and sizes.
 
Print Your Own Wrapping Paper with Kathryn Desforges
Saturday 8^th December 2012
Design and screen print your own wrapping paper to give your Christmas presents that extra-personal touch this year!
 
Make Your Own Origami Book with Anita Burrows
Saturday 19^th January 2013
Learn to make an origami book from the cutting out of the covers, to the folding and assembly of the finished book, with a range of decorative papers available to use.
 
Drypoint Day with Kathryn Desforges
Saturday 16^th February 2013
Experiment with this simple, versatile technique to create colourful, expressive intaglio prints.
 
Linocut Greetings Cards with Miriam Trent AKA MintPrint
Saturday 16^th March 2013
Transfer your design onto a lino block, cut your block using specialist tools, and print on our hand press to produce a small edition of cards to take home.
 
 
AND our new After School Club for Teachers – Printmaking teacher training sessions.
Our NEW teacher training sessions offer practical, hands on training for teachers and educators in a wide variety of simple, effective printmaking techniques, using water-based inks and non-toxic materials. It is a great way to learn new skills to pass on to others, or to refresh your knowledge of a particular process.  Each monthly session will teach you a different technique, and the classes will be kept small to ensure everyone is catered for. Sessions are booked individually, but there is nothing to stop you booking onto all five!
£20 per session.
Session 1 - Thursday 25^th October 2012, 6 - 8pm
Using safeprint, a cheap and easily available material, create simple and effective multi-colour relief prints.
Session 2 – Thursday 22^nd November 2012, 6 - 8pm
Monoprinting using thin plastic and water-based inks to create vibrant, expressive one-off prints.
Session 3 – Thursday 24^th January 2013, 6 - 8pm
Printing using household and found materials including wallpaper, cardboard and bubble wrap.
Session 4 – Thursday 28^th February 2013, 6 - 8pm
Create simple drypoint prints using our portable printing press, thin plastic and paper stencils.
Session 5 – Thursday 21^st March 2013, 6 - 8pm
Combining processes - use a combination of simple print processes to create a finished print to take home.
 
You can see a full list of courses on our website.
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4. WINTER CRAFT FAIR

Our annual WYPW Winter Craft Fair will be taking place on Saturday 24^th November 2012 from 10.00am – 4pm.

We still have a small number of stalls available so if you wish to take part please secure your booking ASAP, places are limited and booking up fast. Below is information regarding costs and stall choices available for showing your work.

Each participant will be allocated a table and the wall space behind.
- Small table (120cm x 75cm) £25 non-members (£20 WYPW Members)
- Large table (180 x 60cm) £27 non-members (£22 WYPW Members)

There is no commission on sales, stands can be shared and groups/collectives are welcome to participate.

For more information or to book a stall please email patrick@wypw.org.
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5. PASS THE BOOK

WYPW Artist/Printmaker Participation Project
We are pleased to announce that our 'Pass the Book' project has started. The first person to make their mark in the book was Kate Desforges and you can see Kate's progress by following the Pass the Book Facebook page.

The artist who is currently working in the book is Jenny Thomas. We have approximately 60 artists taking part in 'Pass the Book' which is an amazing response, if you are interested in joining the project, please get in touch. The 'Pass the Book' project extends an invitation to artists/printmakers/writers and creative thinkers and doers to contribute to our book. If you have your pen poised and want to take part simply email patrick@wypw.org.

The idea behind the book is to celebrate good old fashioned 'analogue' hands on creativity! We live in a digital age where nearly everything is created remotely in a flat digital world whether it be screen or tablet. Here at West Yorkshire Print Workshop we celebrate hands on creativity everyday through our creative screen printing, etching and letterpress courses. For well over 25 years West Yorkshire Print Workshop has been getting down and dirty (literally) with the wonders of good old fashioned messy ink, paper and creativity, and now it's your turn!
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6. KNIT-TOGETHER

WYPW Craft Participation Project
We are launching a collaborative knitting and crochet project called 'Knittogether' at WYPW. We are looking to collaborate with individuals, local community groups and worldwide knitting and crochet networks to create a knitted installation to be displayed on our staircase gallery and on the WYPW building itself.

The project explores the notion of community and creatively working together, whether this be in the same room or across the globe. We will be asking for people to supply individual panels of knitting approx.  12" x 12" which can be stitched together with other panels to create wall coverings for the staircase gallery and also be installed on the exterior of the building.

If you are interested or would like to find out more information, please get in touch by emailing patrick@wypw.org.
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7. CRAFT CLUB CANCELLED

Sad News!
Roberta, our Saturday Craft Club leader, is sadly having to leave us and move over to Manchester.

Great News!
It's been decided that for the near future until we can find a craft leader the group will continue to be Crafty here at WYPW on alternate Saturdays. POWER TO THE PEOPLE!

So the next Craft Club is Saturday 13^th October. If you want to share a skill or just want to chat with other creative people and share a cup of tea and biscuit then pop in!
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8. WYPW MEMBER TAKING OVER AMERICA

Artworks by our lovely and talented members are going global these days.

For fans of the 1960s set American TV series ‘Mad Men’, you could soon be seeing glimpses of WYPW member Emma Lawrenson’s work adorning the set walls. Emma has recently had two pieces, ‘Blue Triangle’ (above, left)  and ‘Side Step’ (above, right) bought by the set-designer of the popular advertising-based drama.

This is the second time Emma has had work picked up by American TV, following the use of some of her other work for ‘Parenthood’.
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9. NOTICE TO MEMBERS

Effective immediately we have had to change the name of the ‘Screen Room’ to the ‘Scream Room’ due to the misunderstandings of a small boy from a visiting school who was possibly a little ill-informed as to the nature of the room.

When booking printing time, particularly by email, it would be helpful if you could ask for the newly monikered ‘Scream Room’ to avoid any confusion.

I’m sure Kate will greatly appreciate it!
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A. THE PINK MILKFLOAT PRINTING PRESS THIS WEEKEND!

We’re super excited to announce that the iconic PINK MILKFLOAT is coming to Bradford and Leeds on the 4^th, 5^th, 6^th & 7^th October to coincide with Bradford Apple Day.

The Pink Milkfloat is a battery powered mobile printing press and the brainchild of printer Richard Lawrence. This summer it took off on a tour of the South West and a chance encounter at the recent ‘Presstival’ (Whittington Press Open Day) and it’s first booking in the North at the Cornucopia Festival has meant we’ve been able to bring the Pink Milkfloat to Leeds & Bradford on its way home.
 
If you’ve ever wanted to have a go at letterpress printing this is about as good as it gets, DON’T MISS IT!
 
Thursday 4^th October — Bingley (Private Booking)
Friday 5^th October — Bradford City Park
Saturday 6^th October — Leeds Wharf Chambers
Sunday 7^th October — Bradford Apple Day
 
We hope to see you there.
For updates please follow @gridula on Twitter or use our Facebook Page.
 
Videos: www.pinkmilkfloat.co.uk
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B. FESTIVAL OF LIGHT ART MARKET, HUDDERSFIELD - CALL FOR ARTISTS

With more than 50,000 visitors through Huddersfield town centre for the huge spectacle that is the Festival of Light this is a unique opportunity to exhibit and sell your high quality arts and crafts.

Be one of the select number to showcase their goods at this years extravaganza. Huddersfield Mission is providing the market hall in their airy and spacious building which sits opposite the site of the event’s food and drink area this year, making it a prime spot to attract the optimum number of customers.

Price for the whole weekend (Friday, November 30^th - Sunday 2^nd December) is only £60 for a 6ft x 2ft display space (6ft x 2ft table – and chair – will be provided if required).

Opening times: Friday 6 - 10pm, Saturday 12noon - 10pm, Sunday 12noon - 6pm
Contact us with a short statement about your work, and a web link or 3 images (low resolution please) and we’ll be in touch following the selection process.

Deadline for expression of interest is midnight 16^th October (successful exhibitors will be contacted by the end of the following week)

Contact: foflartmarket@yahoo.co.uk
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C. ‘REVELATION’ AT CUPOLA - FINAL CALL

Last call For Submissions For ‘Revelation’
Cupola is putting out our final call for artists to submit for our Christmas show "Revelation".  In theology ‘revelation’ is ‘a manifestation of divine truth’.  However, in this exhibition we are only looking forward to seeing how artists reveal or expose themselves and their talent through their work. This is an open call out so works may be across any media and all works must be for sale.

The deadline is 26^th October.
 
To submit please email karen@cupolagallery.com up to 5 images (no larger than 2mb total) an artist CV and Statement.
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D. ‘I GIVE YOU THIS...’ CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION AT THE BREWHOUSE

We are now seeking submissions for selection for our mixed Christmas Show for 2012. This is a selling show, and we are looking for affordable work up to around £50 maximum retail price per item, ideal as a Christmas gift.

The Exhibition runs 10^th November - 24^th December 2012.
The closing date for submissions is 5pm on Monday 8^th October. Selection will take place later that week, and successful applicants will be notified by Monday 15^th October.

The Brewhouse is a popular multi use arts centre with a 233 seat theatre, small cinema space, workshop and meeting rooms as well as the gallery spaces, where we hope to build a reputation for showing high quality and thought provoking new work.

Please email david.gilbert@eaststaffsbc.gov.uk for an application form.
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E. MARBURAE ART GALLERY PRINT EXHIBITION 2013

Marburae Art Gallery of Macclesfield, Cheshire would like to receive submissions for a Print exhibition in 2013 - dates to be confirmed late 2012. We would like to receive submissions of Linocuts, woodcuts, screenprints, engravings and Installations developed around printing.

If your work is engaging, dynamic and captivating then contact us for the chance to take part. Please send your submission before 6^th October 2012.

There is no submission fee and only a commission of 25% on all works sold. We will ask for the Artist’s mailing lists later in the process to allow us to promote the exhibition.

Marburae Art Gallery specialises in contemporary visual arts and is an unconventional space for Artists to have the chance to show their current practice in a stimulating environment that combines both music and the arts.

Please send 10 images of your work or proposal to marburaegallery@gmail.com along with the title, dimensions, price inclusive of 25% commission and any specific requirements for hanging. Also a brief statement about you and your work
 
marburaegallery@gmail.com
www.artinmacclesfield.co.uk
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F. PRINT SYMPOSIUM: PRINTING THE PERSONAL

Wednesday 31^st October 2012
A one day symposium led by leading academics, writers and artists discussing personal expression in printmaking.
 
Speakers include:
- Anne Desmet RA RE - Artist and Editor of Printmaking Today
- Marcelle Hanselaar - Artist and printmaker
- Emma Stibbon – Artist and Senior Lecturer in Fine Art Printmaking at the University of Brighton
- Paul Coldwell – Artist and Professor in Fine Art at The University of Arts, London
 
10:00am - 4:30pm 
£35.00 including lunch and refreshments 
Booking essential (via email or telephone) 
Regional Print Centre, Yale College , Grove Park Road , Wrexham , LL12 7AB
www.regionalprintcentre.co.uk
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G. TRADITIONAL WOODCUTS COURSE IN DEEPEST DEVON

30^th November - 2^nd December 2012
3 day course at Coombe Farm Studios with Paul Riley
Learn to make traditional woodcuts, cutting your own designs into wooden blocks and experiment with oriental methods of watercolour based printing. Suitable for both beginners and experienced printmakers alike. Coombe Farm Studios is a residentail art centre in the South West of England (direct routes from London Paddington) established for over 25 years it has a pottery studio & accommodation facilities & is set in an area of outstanding natural beauty.

3 days non-residential £255 or £350 full board.

For more info & bookings call 01803 722352 or visit www.coombefarmstudios.com

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