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Cultural festivals for the soul: 2024 events that celebrate art, design, and creativity

Creative Boom

Image licensed via Adobe Stock Make the most of 2024! It's January, and here's a great New Year's resolution for 2024: not to spend all your time at a desk! January Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival – China, 5 Jan-early March Ever been to an ice sculpture festival? Art Basel Miami Beach.

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2023-2024 A’ Design Award Call for Submissions!

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The call for submissions is open for the 2023-2024 A’ Design Award & Competition – want to enter? Projects that focus on innovation, technology, design, and creativity are being accepted for consideration until February 28, 2024. Check out some of the 2022-2023 award winners below for some confidence and creative inspiration.

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Amy Cushing + Lara Sparey Explore Intersecting Crafts With DIORAMA Sculptures

Design Milk

DIORAMA – a series of three freestanding mixed media sculptures by artisans Amy Cushing and Lara Sparey – distills a variety of multidimensional scenes into an amalgam of colored glass and black metal artifacts to offer respite from the din of existence. Fresh colorways and designs are in progress due to launch February 24, 2024.

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May 2024 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

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3,500 Artist Grants | The Hopper Prize Featured The Hopper Prize is accepting entries for Spring 2024 artist grants. PST on May 14, 2024. ET on May 28, 2024. Deadline: May 1, 2024. Deadline: May 5, 2024. Deadline: May 6, 2024. on May 13, 2024. Deadline: May 22, 2024. Deadline: 11:59 p.m.

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Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel Cultivate Connections Between Sculpture, Nature, and Craft

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“Oak relief with garter stitch pull-over” (2024), oak, 115 x 115 x 9 centimeters. The traditional purpose of quilts as bed coverings complements sculptures that double as storage, like in “Oak cabinet with woven loafer shoe and leg.” Dewar and Gicquel toy with the distinctions between art and function.

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Trap of the Truth: Erwin Wurm makes his UK museum exhibition debut

Creative Boom

© Erwin Wurm Renowned Austrian artist Erwin Wurm has unveiled his first UK museum exhibition at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. These are just some of the surreal sights awaiting visitors at Trap of the Truth, a comprehensive exhibition of Erwin Wurm's work running at Yorkshire Sculpture Park from now until 28 April 2024.

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New exhibition casts cowboy culture in a new light

Creative Boom

Anthony Hurd, Howdy Stranger, 2024 With Beyonce's album Cowboy Culture riding high in the charts, the opening of the new exhibition Weird West couldn't be better timed. We reveal the thinking behind this new take on cowboy culture. Many of us love a good Western. But even the most devoted fans of the genre know that it's mostly BS.