Call for artists
Making It 2025
Making It is MAKE Southwest’s biennial showcase for emerging artists, makers, and designers in the Southwest.
Making It is MAKE Southwest’s biennial showcase and development programme for emerging artists, makers, and designers in the Southwest, celebrating innovation, diversity, and collaboration in craft. Up to 20 emerging talents will exhibit in MAKE Southwest’s Jubilee Gallery, and participate in an engaging series of CPD and networking sessions and public events.
MAKE Southwest and partners invite applicants from all backgrounds, groups, and levels of education or training. We are looking for emerging artists who are self-taught, have undertaken apprenticeships, and/or have recently graduated. We aspire to remove access barriers, and strongly encourage applications from individuals currently underrepresented in the creative and cultural sectors.
• Are you a recent graduate, a qualified apprentice or a practicing craftsperson, designer or artist in the first five years of practice?
• Are you based in the Southwest?
• Would you like to be part of our ambitious exhibition and development programme for emerging talents in the Southwest, giving you opportunities to network and make contacts with people in your chosen field?
Why Apply?
• Free application process and participation.
• Making It 2025 exhibitors will have the opportunity to showcase their work to a new audience of dedicated craft and design lovers in our main gallery at MAKE Southwest. In 2019, MAKE Southwest exhibitions averaged over 16K visitors, and MAKE Southwest’s digital audiences are over 15K.
• Exhibitors will be selected by a range of influential organisations, including: Craft Festival and Find a Maker by Craft Festival, QEST, Bath Spa University, Plymouth Arts University, Rowden Atelier School of Fine Furniture Making, and MAKE Southwest’s exhibitions team, as well as the Green Maker Initiative.
• Exhibitors will be invited to attend a series of funded CPD and networking sessions specifically tailored to help emerging makers and new businesses.
• There will also be prizes and opportunities awarded by leading organisations and people during the show.
MAKE Southwest and partners invite applicants from all backgrounds, groups, and levels of education or training. We are looking for emerging artists who are self-taught, have undertaken apprenticeships, and/or have recently graduated. We aspire to remove access barriers, and strongly encourage applications from individuals currently underrepresented in the creative and cultural sectors.
• Are you a recent graduate, a qualified apprentice or a practicing craftsperson, designer or artist in the first five years of practice?
• Are you based in the Southwest?
• Would you like to be part of our ambitious exhibition and development programme for emerging talents in the Southwest, giving you opportunities to network and make contacts with people in your chosen field?
Why Apply?
• Free application process and participation.
• Making It 2025 exhibitors will have the opportunity to showcase their work to a new audience of dedicated craft and design lovers in our main gallery at MAKE Southwest. In 2019, MAKE Southwest exhibitions averaged over 16K visitors, and MAKE Southwest’s digital audiences are over 15K.
• Exhibitors will be selected by a range of influential organisations, including: Craft Festival and Find a Maker by Craft Festival, QEST, Bath Spa University, Plymouth Arts University, Rowden Atelier School of Fine Furniture Making, and MAKE Southwest’s exhibitions team, as well as the Green Maker Initiative.
• Exhibitors will be invited to attend a series of funded CPD and networking sessions specifically tailored to help emerging makers and new businesses.
• There will also be prizes and opportunities awarded by leading organisations and people during the show.
