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This page features upcoming online talks and workshops. This includes upcoming talks and past talks that have been recorded. To include a talk, submit details here.
Upcoming talks
AJF Live with Sulo Bee
Oct 4, 2023 12 p.m. New York City
Art Jewelry Forum
Deep Material Energy II: Maker-Focused Conversation
Friday 6 October, 10:00am–11:00am
Australian Design Centre
Deep Material Energy II: Artists’ Talk
Saturday 7 October, 11.30am -12.30pm
Australian Design Centre
Remade–Reloved: Craft-Up-Late Conversation
Tue, 10 Oct 2023 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM AEDT
Australian Design Centre
Marty Gross discusses Mingei Film Archive with Steve Beimel
11 October 8pm (North America East Coast)
WoCCA Textiles Cooee
17 October 5pm (Sydney time)
AJF Live with Khanya Mthethwa
October 25, 2023—12 p.m. New York City
Art Jewelry Forum
AJF Live Goes to South Africa
November 1, 2023—12 p.m New York City
Art Jewelry Forum
Exhibition Tours – MAKE Award, Deep Material Energy II and Studio 63 (Object Space)
10 October – 21 November, Tuesdays - 12:30pm Thursdays - 12:30pm (Sydney)
Australian Design Centre
Past talks recorded
reVision
22-30 September (Adelaide, Australia)
Guildhouse
AJF Live with Robert Lee Morris
30 September 2pm (New York City)
Art Jewelry Forum
"Exploring Craft as a Decolonial Option" by Aarti Kalra
21 October 12:30pm (India)
Reinventing the Wheel - Garland
Possibilities/Posibilidades: textiles & hope
3 November 1-2pm Central Standard Time / 8-9pm Central European Time
Jessica Hemmings & Paulina Ortiz Stradtmann
Friends of the ATW Lecture: Emeritus Professor Valerie Kirk
26 Nov 2020 6pm (Melbourne)
Australian Tapestry Workshop
Dialogues on the Art of Arab Dress: Arab Women & Stereotypes
3 November 6pm UAE (GMT +4)
The Zay Initiative
Dialogues on the Art of Arab Dress: Kashmir to Paisley
17 Nov 6pm - 7pm UAE (gmt +4)
The Zay Initiative
Dialogues on the Art of Arab Fashion: Under the Abayah
1 Dec 6pm UAE (GMT +4)
The Zay Initiative
The Crafts and Rituals of Scent in Arabia ✿
18 Nov 11am (Gulf time)
Garland magazine
DESIGN Revisited: Kirstie Rea
23 Nov 12.30-1.30pm (Canberra)
DESIGN Canberra festival
Two Minutes to Midnight: Design Revisited
23 Nov 2020 18:00 – 19:30 (Canberra)
DESIGN Canberra festival
Two Minutes to Midnight: This Is Suburbia
16 Nov 2020 18:00 – 19:30 (Canberra)
DESIGN Canberra festival
Two Minutes to Midnight: Meet the Makers
Mon 09 Nov 2020 18:00 – 19:30 (Canberra)
DESIGN Canberra festival
Design revisited: Graphic design Re:collection
26 Nov 2020 18:00 – 19:30 (Canberra)
DESIGN Canberra festival
Navigating craft in Moana Oceania: Crafting Aotearoa to 'Tok Stori Tuesdays'
16 Dec 9pm (NZ time)
Garland magazine
reVision Erin Coates and Leigh Robb: Endurance and Female Camaraderie in Creative Practice
1 Dec, 1pm (SA)
Guildhouse
reVision Kacy Ratta: Social Media Strategy Tips and Tricks
1 Dec, 7pm (SA)
Guildhouse
reVision Professor Susan Luckman, Catherine Truman and Kath Inglis: Mentor Mentee – A creative relationship
2 Dec, 1pm (SA)
Guildhouse
reVision Mish Grigor: 2020
2 Dec, 7 pm (SA)
Guildhouse
reVision Liam Benson and Julia Robinson: Narrative adornment and metamorphosis
3 Dec, 1pm (SA)
Guildhouse
reVision Trish Hansen: Being
3 Dec, 4pm (SA)
Guildhouse
reVision Connections: December 2020
3 Dec 7pm (SA)
Guildhouse
Dialogues on the art of Arab fashion: how dress tells a story
8 Dec 8-9pm (UAE)
THE ZAY INITIATIVE
Dialogues on the art of Arab fashion: Threading sdgs & the art of dress
14 Dec 8-9pm (UAE)
THE ZAY INITIATIVE
Dialogues on the art of Arab fashion: Mowjood - I'm here, I exist
15 Dec 6-7pm (UAE)
THE ZAY INITIATIVE
Launch of Garland #21 - Tiempo profundo / Deep time
14 Dec 9pm (Chile time)
Garland magazine
Cake Cake Cake: Baking as Resistance
21 January 4-5pm (EST)
Center for Craft
Ask the Curator - Sleight of Hand
15 January 4-5pm (EST)
Center for Craft
Tiao David Nithakhong Somsanith: The relevance of royal craft today
20 January, 7pm (Melbourne time)
Garland magazine
Dialogues on The Art of Arab Fashion: 2021 Perspective on the Art of Arab Dress
19 January, 8pm - 9pm (United Arab Emirates)
The Zay Initiative
One Village One Product: A global platform for local craft
17 February, 6pm (Melbourne time)
Garland
Launch of Ayvu Rapyta
15 February, 8pm (Buenos Aires time)
Garland
The cultural heritage of nusantara creativity
13 February 2021 WIB (GMT+7)
Babaran Segaragunung/ Meet the Makers
The Cultural Heritage of the Nusantara Creative Process
Thursdays at 14:00 WIB (GMT+7) 18 March 2021, 15 April 2021, 20 May 2021, 17 June 20214
Babaran Segaragunung/Meet the Makers
Steam Dreams Catalogue Launch & Talk
13 March, 2:00pm-3:00pm AEDT
The Japan Foundation, Sydney
Thinker maker: Tyson Yunkaporta
31 March, 6pm (Melbourne)
Garland magazine
Tradition, Creativity and Technology
18 March, 2pm (WIB GMT+7)
Meet the Makers Indonesia and Babaran Segaragunug Culture House
AJF Live with Taisha Carrington
31 March, 12 noon, EST (New York City)
Art Jewelry Forum
The Shape of Craft by Ezra Shales
21 April 7am (Boston, USA)
Garland magazine
Celebrating Cherokee Craft in WNC: Introducing "The Basket" Public Parklet
31 March, 12:12:30pm
Center for Craft
FABRICated: Virtual Tour and Artist Talk
2 April, 12-1pm (North Carolina time)
Center for Craft
Essence of Cloud exhibition floor talk
8 May, 1pm (Canberra, Australia)
Craft ACT: Craft + Design Centre
AJF Live with Hibernate (Finnish contemporary jewellery artists Helena Lehtinen, Jenni Sokura, Eija Mustonen and Tarja Tuupanen)
Wednesday April 14, 12–1pm EST (New York)
Art Jewelry Forum
AJF Live with Heejoo Kim
April 28, 11am EST (New York) / midnight in Seoul
Art Jewelry Forum
The Art of Masks
18 May, 9pm UTC
Garland and Journal of Modern Craft
AJF Live with Peter Bauhuis
May 13, 2021—2 a.m. Sydney; 4 a.m. Auckland; 1 a.m. Seoul & Tokyo; OR May 12, 2021—11 p.m. Bangkok; noon New York City
Art Jewelry Forum
Craft Research Talks: The New Politics of the Handmade
20 May, 3-4:30pm (EST)
Center for Craft
Launch of #23 ✿ Regeneration
23 June 6pm (Melbourne time)
Garland magazine
Patricia Flanagan: Tracing the gestures of craft
6 July, 6pm (Melbourne)
Garland magazine
Craft revivals in China: A talk by Professor Anying CHEN
Wednesday 4 August, 6pm (Melbourne time)
Garland magazine
Colloquium Body, Fear, Protection
16 September 2021 3 pm -5 pm(Lisbon Time) 17 September 6-9 pm (Lisbon time) 18 September 10am-1pm (Lisbon Time)
Lisbon Contemporary Jewellery Biennial / PIN
A value chain for contemporary jewellery (Canberra)
17 August 6-8pm (AEST)
Garland & JMGA
Jewellery in the east (China)
24 August, 6-8pm (AEST)
Garland & JMGA
Mooring Chain: Two research perspectives of contemporary jewellery education (Dunedin)
6 September, 6-8pm (NZT)
Garland & JMGA
New technologies in jewellery (Melbourne)
7 September, 6-8pm (AEST)
Garland & JMGA
Indian Ocean perspectives (Perth)
21 September, 6-8pm (AWST)
Garland & JMGA
Jewellery Values – Materiality, Making & Movement (Sydney)
9 October, 10-11:30am (AEST)
Garland & JMGA
Alchemy in Japanese traditional craft: The transformation of light with Tamahagane forging and polishing
23 September 5pm (Kyoto time)
Garland - Reinventing the Wheel
The spirit of Japanese mingei in Brazil
19 October, 10pm (Brazil time)
Garland magazine
AJF Live with Blanche Tilden and Gallery Funaki—Ripple Effect: A 25-Year Survey
11 November 2021, at 7 a.m. Melbourne & Sydney time
Art Jewelry Forum
Kate Derum and Irene Davies Awards for Small Tapestries Online Winner Announcement
28 October 6pm (AEDT)
Australian Tapestry Workshop
Open Studio Fundraiser Workshops
6 November 2021 14:00-18:00 WIB (GMT+7)
Babaran Segaragunung
Displacement: Crafts enterprises as empowerment for refugees and displaced people
24 November 4:30pm (Hong Kong time)
Garland
How the world of narratives and jewelry interlace in India?
19 November, 7:30 PM (Indian standard time)
Jewelry in Narratives
2021 Peter Dormer Lecture: Mònica Gaspar
6 December, 18:00 (London)
Royal College of Art
Launch of G25: Craft Currencies
20 December, 6pm (Melbourne)
Garland magazine
The Mingei Film Archive: Unique stories of craft on celluloid
22 February 2022 10pm (Toronto, Eastern Time)
Garland
Styling Sustainable Fashion
10 March 2022, 19:00 - 20:00 (AEST)
Allegra Jane
AJF Live: Announcement of the Winner and Four Finalists of the 2022 Young Artist Award
March 2, 12 p.m. EST (New York time)
Art Jewelry Forum
Launch of Garland ⚱️ 26 - Objecthood
22 March 6pm (Melbourne time)
Garland
Kaamya Sharma - The Nivi drape and the craft of use
6 April, 6pm (Melbourne time)
Garland
AJF Live with Zahra Almajidi
30 March, 12 p.m. EST (New York City)
Art Jewelry Forum
About Making: Dialogue on Craft, Tradition and Architecture Dialogue 2: Material
Monday 28th March, 20.30-21.30 (Malaysia Time)
Eleena Jamil Architects
Talli: Silver Between Tradition & Modernity
17 May 8-9 pm ( UA.E. Time)
The Zay Initiative
Heritage Studies in Arab Fashion
31 May 2022 8pm (UAE time)
The Zay Initiative
Victoria Manganiello Artist Lecture
Tuesday 28 June, 6pm (Melbourne)
Australian Tapestry Workshop
Guildhouse reVision Speaker Series
Tuesday 21 June, 7pm (ACST)
Guildhouse
AJF Live + MAD: Ron Porter and Joe Price
June 29, 2 p.m. EST (New York City time)
Art Jewelry Forum + Museum of Arts and Design (New York City)
Sherwani: The influence of British rule on elite Indian menswear
21 September 2022, 1:30pm India time
Garland magazine
Launch of G28 ✿ Know How: The Grammar of Making
20 September 6pm (Melbourne time)
Craft Can — Virtual Event
September 14, 2022
Center for Craft
AJF Live with Bonhams
Tuesday, October 4, 2022, 12 p.m. EST
Art Jewelry Forum
What do we learn from making? The journey of Garland magazine
5 December, 18:30-20:00 (Sweden time)
Luleå Biennale of Craft and Art
Follow the algorithm: New journeys through the world of textiles
22 February, 12:30pm (India time)
AJF Live Goes to Mexico
April 26, 2023, 12 EST (NYC time)
Art Jewelry Forum
AJF Live with Monika Brugger
April 12, 2023, 12 p.m. EST (New York City)
Art Jewelry Forum
Current
17 May 2023 5.30pm - 6.30pm (Australian Central Standard Time)
Museum of Discovery MOD. University of South Australia
Launch of G31 ✿ Sound-makers
Monday 19 June 08:00 GMT
Craft Archive Fellowship Virtual Program
July 20, 2023, 1-2:30 pm
Center for Craft
AJF Live with Rita Soto, Finalist for the Susan Beech Mid-Career Grant
August 2, 2023, 12 p.m. EST (New York City)
Art Jewelry Forum
2024 Craft Research Fund Project & Exhibition Grant Information Session
8 August, 4-5pm (Eastern Standard Time)
Center for Craft
Who owns craft knowledge?
24 August, 12pm (India time)
Garland magazine
Craft in Indian space design
12 September, 1pm (Indian time)
Garland magazine
Launch of G32 🌸 To Smell
18 September 0800 GMT
Garland magazine