dot to dot active arts blog

a blog about what we do as dot to dot active arts members and what we do in our own practice...

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Blog post by Stephen Pritchard...

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northerngame

Artist Stevie Ronnie has been roving the hills and dales of the South Tyne and North Pennines.  Stevie and Stephen watched a first division quoits match at The Kirkstyle Inn in Knarsdale on Wednesday night and threw some quoits ourselves...  Keep watching...  Exhibition at The Shed, Haltwhistle opens on Friday 6th June 2014...

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We're UK partners for this international artist-led survey about how arts workers are coping in difficult times...

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Minerals: new series following on from recent work with Icelandic mineral pools. Mixed media drawings of minerals onto delicate sample paper. 

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Great new work by Rebecca Travis...

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Excellent alternative view of writing about (or the lack of) socially engaged art... Well worth a read!

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Between Urgency and Abstraction: Cultural Studies After Stuart Hall

MA Cultural Studies Conference, June 2014 (exact date TBC)

Goldsmiths, University of London

“Against the urgency of people dying in the streets, what in God’s name is the point of cultural studies? … At...

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Developing new projection work hinterland using photographs taken on the ‘Blesi’ mineral pools in Iceland.

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A sneak peak at hinterland a new OHP-based work by Rebecca Travis for our forthcoming another landscape exhibition at The Shed, Haltwhistle...

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'another landscape' exhibition at The Shed, Whistle Art Stop, Haltwhistle

'another landscape' exhibition at The Shed, Whistle Art Stop, Haltwhistle With Catherine Ayres & Phil Ogg, Sophie Foster, Bridget Kennedy, John Jo Murray, Liam Owen & Stevie Ronnie, Narbi Price, & Rebecca Travis Preview: Fri 4th April 2014, 6pm Exhibition open: Sat 5th April - Sat 26th April 2014 Curated by Stephen Pritchard. Flyer image is detail of one of Rebecca Travis' 'Ice Drawings' series featuring in the show... — in Haltwhistle.

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'northerngame' commission taster image...

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Stevie Ronnie selected as our commissioned artist for 'northerngame'

We've chosen the brilliant Stevie Ronnie for our 'northerngame' commission! Keep watching as we start to develop the project and exhibition at Whistle Art Stop...

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Opportunities for artists

We've 6 different new opportunities for artists at the moment, including a new paid commission.

Check out our opportunities page for more info, briefs and to apply online

http://www.dottodotactivearts.org/#!opportunities/c1hka

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'Butcher, baker, candlestick maker' (print 11): Pal Joey Fashion

Day 11 - the day after the 'Butcher, baker, candlestick maker' prints and Nadine Castleman's 'Projector series' blind embossed relief prints were unveiled at the new JD Wetherspoon pub in The Wallaw, Blyth - and here's our eleventh independent shopkeeper from the town: Pal Joey Fashion...

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'Butcher, baker, candlestick maker' (prints 8, 9 & 10)...

Oops.  Bit of catch-up today.  3 more prints from 'Butcher, baker, candlestick maker': Living Fire Centre, Nappa's Barbers & Northern Chair World...

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'Butcher, baker, candlestick maker' (print 7): Jim's Flooring

Day 7 of our 'Butcher, baker, candlestick maker' prints.  Today it's Jim's Flooring...

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'Butcher, baker, candlestick maker' (print 6): J Herron & Son Jeweller

Our sixth local shopkeeper print now in The Wallaw, Blyth is J Herron & Son Jeweller...

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'Butcher, baker, candlestick maker' - installed framed prints at The Wallaw

Here's all the 'Butcher, baker, candlestick maker' prints in situ in The Wallaw in Blyth...