SAW News

  • Art Weeks 2012 Studio Share: Artist/Venue Listings.
    17 Jan 2012 - 2:21pm
    Artists looking for studio space: Pamela Maxfield - paintings and drawings.Emerging artist creating smallish scale (max 2' x 2', many smaller) paintings and drawings, mostly landscapes and seascapes in a variety of media. Has sold a number of paintings in previous exhibitions. Retired, with plenty of free time and practical skills to offer. Please contact the SAW office for contact...
    gslocombe
  • Freelance Designer wanted for Art Weeks 2012: Open Studios
    12 Jan 2012 - 9:36am
    Freelance Designer wanted for Somerset Art Weeks 2012Fee £3,500 inclusive (April - July 2012) We are looking for an experienced freelance designer to produce:Printed Guide - to promote the event and provide information for visitors (to be distributed in early July) Adapt the front cover of the guideProduce advertising artworks, flyers, banners to be used on SAW website  ...
    gslocombe
  • Annual General Meeting -
    31 Jan 2012 - 2:41pm
    Please see copy of Minutes from SAW AGM dated 18th November 2011
    ssutcliffe
  • An RSPB date with nature - The Great Crane Project
    11 Jan 2012 - 9:45am
    You may have seen the exhibition of SAW's Cranes during Art Weeks 2011, now you have the chance to see the real thing! If you fancy seeing one of Somerset’s newest and most spectacular attractions – the cranes -  you can now do it in style by booking onto one of the RSPB’s ‘Date with Nature’ events – details attached.
    gslocombe
  • SAW Projects - Maximum Exposure Update
    16 Dec 2011 - 1:47pm
    The Maximum Exposure artist commissions are progressing with all of the artists well into the research and initial production of their proposed projects.  Illuminos continue their site visits to the pillboxes of our landscape and are starting to work with a local coordinator who will assist them in raising awareness of the project locally and also gathering  knowledge on the pillboxes...
    beccy_swaine
  • Art Matters - A report by North by Northwest
    15 Dec 2011 - 2:01pm
    Take a look at a new report on the value of contemporary visual arts in places away from urban conurbations.  This evaluation study was commissioned by North by NorthWest, a consortium of 12 publicly funded visual arts organisations who support, promote and develop the contemporary visual arts in Lancashire and Cumbria. In a difficult economic climate, the...
    beccy_swaine
  • Documentation from SAW Seminar : Making Matters Making Places
    9 Nov 2011 - 12:20pm
    On Friday 14 October 2011, SAW held a day seminar titledMaking Matters: Making Places Growing from our experience as part of the cross-sector Company of Voices intergenerational project, SAW invited national speakers to explore and discuss the role of arts practice in community engagement work.  The seminar was for project workers, artists, the voluntary sector, commissioners,...
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