Craftspace – Developing people, ideas and opportunities through contemporary craft

Developing people, ideas and opportunities through contemporary craft

Made in the Middle: Panel Conversation

How has global migration and diaspora contributed to life and culture in the Midlands?
Thursday 12 March, 6pm – 7:30pm. Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham. Free.

Workshop-in-a-Box

Discover your creativity with carefully chosen craft materials and expert guidance from artists.

Explore: Made in the Middle

Celebrating the best of contemporary craft in the Midlands.
On display at Midlands Arts Centre from 14 February – 12 April 2026.

Explore: Crafting Pathways

A project for four Birmingham-based young people to develop their artistic skills, interests and identities, and learn more about what it is like to work as an artist.

Shop: Made in the Middle

Shop the new range from Midlands artists.

Watch: Stories of Making and Migration

Find out about Midlands-based everyday makers influenced by migration.

Six brightly coloured, differently sized vases. Each vase is entirely one colour, and differently shaped. The surfaces are decorated with many sharp grooves, creating lines top to bottom.

Visit: Made in the Middle

Midlands Arts Centre
14 February – 12 April 2026

A red and white patterned quilt with graphic drawings of artworks.

40 Objects for 40 Years

Midlands Arts Centre
14 February – 12 April 2026

colour photograph of a gallery space interior. The words {Queer}+{Metals} is visible on a white wall. Various large images hang on the walls and work is displayed in cases.

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Alex, the leader of Smashing Metal, standing in the outdoor metalworking workshop next to the forge, with the anvil, the clamp table and the sign behind him. He is smiling and looking at the camera.

Watch: Stories of Making & Migration

From makers who have migrated to the Midlands.

Off-Loom Weaving w Sarah-May Johnson - Option 2 - Photo by Hayley Salter

Shop: Workshop-in-a-Box

Where will your creativity take you?

Taylor and Nilupa sitting in Nilupa's studio, looking down, working on a small-scale handheld loom, weaving strips of fabric.

Watch: Crafting Pathways

Follow young people as they explore careers in craft.

ZoeMilner_Activism

Explore: Making for Change

Exploring climate change with young Deaf people.

A group of 6 women from varied ethnic backgrounds and ages pose in white workshop aprons, they are all smiling.

Find out more: Shelanu

Supporting migrant and refugee women.

A group of small simple items made from a smooth, hard material. Cup-like forms with decoratoins like brushes and small knobs. Some are reminiscent of shaving brushes.

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From the Shop

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Johnny Armstrong: Blue Chunker

Made in the Middle

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Workshop in a Box: Collage, Mark-Making and Stitch

Workshop in a Box

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Workshop in a Box: Paper Craft

Workshop in a Box

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Workshop in a Box: Off-Loom Weaving

Workshop in a Box

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Made in the Middle (2025-2026) Exhibition Catalogue

Made in the Middle

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Emma-Jane Rule: Leafscape Stem

Made in the Middle

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Natalie Cole: Buddy Vase

Made in the Middle

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Johnny Armstrong: Crushed in Green

Made in the Middle

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Shelanu Nurture Collection: Sunflower Brooch

Shelanu Nurture Collection

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We are Commoners Exhibition Catalogue

We are Commoners

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We are Commoners Goose Badge

We are Commoners

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Brooch Making Kit

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Shelanu Interlocking Stories Collection: Catch Ring

Shelanu Interlocking Stories

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Shelanu Migrating Birds Collection: Swallow Earrings

Shelanu Migrating Birds

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Radical Craft: Alternative Ways of Making Exhibition Catalogue

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