Something crafty to sharpen skills
The very first Cork Craft Month is about to take city and county by the hand. A full calendar of events covering exhibitions, demonstrations, studio trails, seminars and ‘meet the maker’ days will delight, inform and inspire. Keenly talented artists from a wide array of disciplines are converging on Cork to set out their collections and pop-up shops along the historic pavements of Cornmarket Street. This stir of creative folk ripples out to other fascinating happenings at artistic hubs, craft shops and studios, including the cobbles and galleries of the Court Yard, Midleton, Blarney Castle, Clonakilty town and at the Old Mill in Kinsale for a landmark exhibition. A month-long celebration of the abundance of quality craft, the events are certain to stir cramping idle fingers, thrumming on the sill as the rain hits the glass into some homemade adventures.
