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hub national centre for craft & design
Intro
Our purpose is to celebrate, promote and exhibit the very best of international craft and design
The Hub, based in a remodelled seed warehouse in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, is a rich resource, serving a large community of people interested in the arts, craft and design.
Our exhibition programme is determinedly eclectic. There is a short changeover period between each exhibition but you will always see at least one show during any visit. more>
The learning programme engages students of all ages in a formal and informal schedule of events and projects. more>
The Hub is used for a wide variety of events that includes community festivals, conferences, concerts and workshops. more>
Its resources include a well stocked shop, cafe, meeting rooms and education spaces. more>
The Hub is open 10-5 every day of the year except Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day. Check under about us for details.
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Present shows
Until 20 July | Roof Gallery
Waste Not, Want It!
28 June - 1 Sept | Window Space
Sam Murat: 3 Rosy Sheep
The quick list under calendar and more details under exhibitions.
A heck of a show, bringing together more than a hundred examples of denim wear from the C19 to present day, hippie jeans to a haute couture ball gown, plus ephemera of all sorts. Plenty for textiles lovers.
Coming soon...
Like many galleries we plan exhibitions and events years ahead. Amongst up and coming...
26 July - 31 August | Roof Gallery
Deviants
Deviants presents objects drawn from the Crafts Council Collection that explore the playful and bizarre.
Deviants challenges the notion that craft is merely decorative or practical. It confronts us with objects possessing disarming humour, surprising appearances and intriguing, at times, mutant forms.
Can Collage by Gillian Lowndes
11th Sept – 9th Nov 2008 | Main Gallery
Mathias Bengtsson
Spun Chair, Carbon-fibre 2005
London-based Mathias Bengtsson is a designer whose minimalist work meets high design and engineering standards. By the use of high-tech processes such as laserjet-cutting, and waterjet-cutting, materials are made to perform seemingly impossible feats, resembling organic or geological structures.
More information soon...
20th Nov 2008 – 17th Jan 2009 | Main Gallery
Guitars
Guitars is a jointly curated exhibition by the Hub and the distinguished musician, Gordon Giltrap. The show will celebrate the development of all forms of British guitars from the 1940s onwards. The exhibition will include classical, electric, semi-acoustic, steel string, gypsy, jazz and arch top guitars, plus others that may arise during the research stage.
Over twenty-five guitar makers have already agreed to participate in the exhibition and a number will also have periods in residence and some of their work will be for sale.
Background info
The Hub has a much praised four monthly listings magazine. Click on the image to download a copy in PDF (1.5mb).
Many of our events and courses are detailed in PDFs - look out for screen grabs or the download icon:
Most of our images are kept on Flickr. Many are covered by Creative Commons so can be readily downloaded and used for private research purposes.
News
27 June
Summer approaches. Kids need engaging activity. The Hub fills some of the holiday vacuum with Denim Days, Paper Making Day and the possibility of a Project Runway set in the surroundings of the Hub's brilliant Denim exhibition.
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26 June
The application date for the Lincolnshire Young Designer of the Year award has been delayed until Wednesday 16 July
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23 June
Bathing Beauties, the project to design beach huts for the C21 is in Morecombe until 17 July. See installation shots at Flickr. Find out more about the scheme at bathingbeauties.org.uk
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10 June
D&T Design Days
Three design days for secondary pupils in early July, bringing students together from different schools. Beware - Ready, Steady, Cook has an application cut off date of 18 June.
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29 May
Denim Curators Day, 28 June. A day in the company of curators, researchers and others to take a detailed look at the Hub's survey of denim. Includes an authoritative history of the fabric and a detailed discussion about the making of complex exhibitions.
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21 May
Apologies - the course dates for Jonathon Korejko's screen printing course on 5/6 July are accidently advertised wrongly in the Hub magazine.
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20 May
SPLIT, 29 May in the Roof Gallery, is a performance made by the audience in collaboration with musicians Maurice Mulligan and John Stafford. Fun, a bit mad, productive in a casual kind of way, a decent excuse of an evening. Download the flyer
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10 May
Download the flyer for our Whitsun courses
