ANNOUNCEMENT OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

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SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING

15 May 2012

This announcement is to inform Craft Australia board members, staff and stakeholders that the final Annual General Meeting for the company will be held on Tuesday 15 May 2012.

The AGM will be held in the board room at Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre starting at 10.00 am.

The SGM will be held from 11 am at Craft ACT Craft and Design Centre, directly after the AGM.

The purpose of the SGM is to pass a resolution by the members of Craft Australia to de register the company with ASIC.

This action follows the notification by the Australia Council for the Arts to cease funding Craft Australia after December 2011.

Craft Australia has been winding up the company’s activities since December 2011 and all operations will cease by 30 April 2012.

The AGM and SGM will be held at Craft ACT Craft and Design Centre on Level 1 in the North Building, London Circuit in Civic, Canberra.

Released by Catrina Vignando

General Administrator Craft Australia

The craft +design enquiry journal continues

Craft Australia is pleased to announce the ongoing life of one of its projects, the craft + design enquiry research e-journal.

"As part of Craft Australia's winding up process we have endeavoured to find new host organisations for our key activities", said General Manager, Catrina Vignando.

After 41 years of operating as the nation's peak advocacy organisation for contemporary craft and design, Craft Australia will close its doors at the end of April 2012. However, the craft + design enquiry journal, which provides an important publishing platform for the research excellence in craft and design practice, will continue.

"The recent confirmation that the Australian National University, (ANU) School of Art will become the new hosts for this journal is very reassuring", said Ms Vignando.

The journal is a significant innovation for the promotion of the research capabilities in the craft and design sector. Craft Australia developed the craft + design enquiry journal in 2009 and have already published three volumes of the journal. In the short time it has been in circulation it has achieved Excellence in Research for Australia rating and is recognised internationally as a noteworthy journal for practice based research.

"We are excited that as an outcome of the journal being hosted by the ANU School of Art, the future volumes of the craft + design enquiry will be published by ANU E Press", said Ms Deves, the Editorial Manager of the journal.

The move to the ANU School of Art is expected to cause little disruption to the journal's publishing schedule. The next volume, CDE#4, is due to be published July 2012 on the theme of 'Relational Craft and Design'.

New contact and address details for the craft + design enquiry journal will be available shortly. In the interim people can register with the online journal and be on the mailing list for future updates.craft + design enquiry.


Catrina Vignando
Craft Australia
April 2012

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