youth@craft·design
Hi and welcome
Youth@craft·design: Creating and making a living in the arts today.
Craft Australia's 2006 national online forum, Youth@craft·design, was designed for young and emerging craftspeople, students, professional makers, and designers to interact with some of Australia's most successful emerging craft·design practitioners. The forum remains on the Craft Australia website as an information resource.
Read the blogs, see the videos and use the resource material in your journey to a successful practice.
The four blogs are:
Pathways- How do I get started? What choices do I have? How do I navigate my way to a successful career? How do I become involved in a mentorship program? How do I identify a suitable mentor? What if I'm from regional Australia? How about online resources?
- Bloggers: Phoebe Porter, Blanche Tilden, Tom Moore and JamFactory
Manufacture- How do I identify and use the various manufacturing processes that exist today? Do I make it all or can I contract out some of the activities? How do I juggle personal and family life with making? Who are the experts in my field?
- Bloggers: Bianca Looney, Oliver Smith
Marketing- How do I get my stuff seen by those who matter? How do I establish a web presence? How do I engage with others in the industry? Which outlets would best suit my type of work?
- Bloggers: High Tea with Mrs Woo, Cesar Cueva
Export- How do I get my work out into the global market? What assistance does the government provide? Where do I go to get financial help?
- Bloggers: Pippa Dickson, Kris Brankovic
Craft Australia gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance it receives from the Australia Council for the Arts, the Australian government's arts funding and advisory body.
Craft Australia is supported by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian Government and all state and territory governments
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