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Art students from Taylor High School, a member of the UNESCO Associated Schools Network (ASPnet), traveled to Paducah, a UNESCO Creative City of Crafts & Folk Art, for an immersive study tour. The UNESCO Associated Schools Network (ASPnet) consists of over 11,500 ASPnet member schools in 182 countries working in support of international understanding, peace, intercultural dialogue, sustainable development, and quality education. Marney Murphy, the District’s Media Specialist, and Sue Diemer, Taylor High School Art Teacher, envisioned the...
When Paducah ceramist and arts educator Mitch Kimball participated in the Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen in 2018, he sought to make connections. This networking and representation of Paducah led to a mutual exchange when Paducah Arts Alliance welcomed father/son duo Ma Xinkai and Ma Mingkui for a two-week Artists-in-Residence Programme in Paducah, USA. While in Paducah, the artists collaborated with local ceramists and craft brewers, attended business and cultural events and engaged with educators and students visiting from Taylor High School...
On 25 March 2019, Kütahya Adult Education Institute will launch a museum and an exhibition in celebration of the 408th birthday of Evliya Çelebi.
Evliya Çelebi, Turkish traveler, writer, calligrapher, poet and musician, is one of the major figures of 17th century travel literature. He traveled through Asia, Africa and Europe for forty years and recorded the story of his innumerable journeys in a ten thousand-page book entitled “Seyahatname” (Travel Book), the first and most important of Turkish travel books. Its life and work was highlighted...
Isfahan, Creative City of Crafts and Folk Art, has launched its Handicraft Winter School on 20 January 2019. During a two-week day event, short-term training courses in design and artisanship were provided to the women of the Iranian city.
With its more than 190 fields of handicrafts, the preservation of local traditions and the development of the creative sector have always been an economic and social priority for Isfahan.
In this framework, the Winter School provides the opportunity to empower and professionalize women in the disciplines...
From 1 to 8 February, Kütahya, UNESCO Creative City of Crafts and Folk Art, will be presenting “The Cradle of Foundation: Domaniç Exhibition” in Ankara, Turkey. The event represents one of the outcomes of a project undertaken by Kütayha in Domaniç, located in Kütahya province.
The project has the objective to contribute to the economic and social development of the city through culture and creativity, by strengthening the cooperation between cultural professionals of the Domaniç area and the local stakeholders.
This large-scale exhibition is...
Gabrovo is a city with a rich cultural history, a guardian of traditional crafts and folk art in Bulgaria, with singular humour tradition; that have successfully contributed to the city’s development through culture. The local community is particularly engaged to protect and promote crafts and folk art and recognizes its transversal potential for development, covering notably the fields of economy and education.
Gabrovo launches a call to designers worldwide to craft a graphic symbol to represent the city as a favorable place for creativity,...
From 20 to 22 December, the Iranian UNESCO Creative City of Crafts and Folk Art will be the host of a first international exhibition on creative industries, covering various fields of culture and creativity including heritage, visual arts and information media.
This exhibition aims to engage the community with creative industries and to present itself as a platform fostering networking between actors of the cultural field, coming from universities, organizations, municipalities and enterprises to share their expertise on the creative...
The Bulgarian Creative City of Crafts and Folk Art will organize the 17th edition of its International Fair of Traditional Crafts, to be held from 6 to 8 September 2019 at the Ethnographic Open-Air Museum (Etar).
Known as one of the biggest annual crafts events in Bulgaria, Gabrovo’s International Fair of Traditional Crafts invite craftsmen from the country and worldwide to showcase their know-how. The Fair highlights safeguarding of traditional techniques and the contemporary state of folk art. During the Fair, a master-craftsmen competition...
On 19 and 20 November, the Turkish Creative City of Kütahya will be hosting the first International Ahmet Yakupoğlu City, Art and Design Symposium. The event will be interdisciplinary and will cover the fields of art, design, city, history, architecture, miniature and urban aesthetics. For its first edition, a focus will be put on the life and work of painter Ahmet Yakupoğlu and the identity of the city of Kütahya.
Within a cross-cutting approach, the symposium aims to contribute to the reflections around art and design through different...
Until 10 December, Porto-Novo, Creative City of Crafts and Folk Art in Benin, invites the scientific community to submit contributions around the theme “Divinatory systems in Africa in a context of globalization: issues and perspectives”. The selected reflection papers will be presented at the Scientific Symposium of the third edition of the Porto-Novo International Festival to be held on 7 and 8 January 2019.
The Porto-Novo International Festival (FIP) is part of the Beninese and international landscape. This annual event aims at...