The National Centre for Craft & Design

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Hub
The National Centre for Craft & Design, Navigation Wharf, Carre Street (geograph 3605012).jpg
Former name
The National Centre for Craft & Design
EstablishedOctober 2003
LocationNavigation Wharf, Carre Street, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, NG34 7TW
Coordinates52°59′55″N 0°24′26″W / 52.998679°N 0.407356°W / 52.998679; -0.407356Coordinates: 52°59′55″N 0°24′26″W / 52.998679°N 0.407356°W / 52.998679; -0.407356
TypeGallery and arts venue
Visitors90,000 (2011–12)[1]
Website[1]
River Slea and the Hub

The Hub (sometimes The National Centre for Craft & Design) is an arts centre in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, which holds England's largest exhibition space for craft and design.[2] It comprises a shop, cafebar, galleries, dance studio, and design workshops.[3][4][5][6]

Home to the national centre for craft and design, the exhibitions programme showcases contemporary artists and makers from around the world. The shop stocks an ever-changing collection of handmade craft objects and design gifts.

The Hub offers a dynamic learning programme of workshops, talks, classes, competitions, special events and performances for all people, ages and abilities. The Hub facilitates creative activities in schools, community and care settings and online; and works with local communities and partners to coordinate participatory arts projects, events, festivals, celebrations and public commissions.

The organisation is also home to Design-Nation, the UK’s leading portfolio network for designers and makers of craft, design, and product.

The Hub is an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation, owned and supported by North Kesteven District Council and operated by Lincs Inspire Limited, a Lincolnshire-based charity.

Following a £1.2 million refurbishment in May 2021, the Hub re-opened following a year of disruption and closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Alongside a new look, the centre was renamed the 'Hub', while maintaining its status as a national centre for craft and design, following nearly a decade as the National Centre for Craft & Design (NCCD) and following a 2018 merge of NCCD and North Kesteven's Visual Arts development organisation, artsNK.

The NCCD began as 'The Hub' in 2003,[7][8] in a converted Hubbard and Phillips company seed warehouse. In 2011 it changed to The National Centre for Craft & Design, funded by North Kesteven District Council and Arts Council England.[1][9][10]

Prior to the NCCD re-brand, the building spent nine years as 'The Hub', after transferring from The Pearoom in Heckington which was turned into a heritage, craft and tourism centre for the village in the 1970s. Until a move to Sleaford in 2003, the current home was a seed warehouse from 1939 to 1972 and a storage area thereafter.

The Hub is part of Lincolnshire One Venues (LOV), aided by Lincolnshire Arts Trust to promote, and achieve funding for, ten arts centres within Lincolnshire.[11][12] and is an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation, owned and supported by North Kesteven District Council and operated by Lincs Inspire Limited.[13]

Events[]

In 2011 the NCCD held an international competition for architects and artists to design beach huts for the Lincolnshire coast; entries came from North America, Europe and Asia in the form of scale models, the winning design being built full size.[14][15]

In January 2012 the Centre became a venue for an international touring exhibition, The Museum of Broken Relationships, with Croatian exhibits of personal relationship mementos.[16]

The NCCD co-curated, in collaboration with the Crafts Council and mac (Birmingham), the tri-annual Made in the Middle exhibition of contemporary design, held at the mac centre from February to April 2012.[17] The Arts Council funded Design Factory announced that Made in the Middle would visit the NCCD from April to July 2012.[18]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "New name and new look for Hub"; Sleaford Standard, 3 October 2011. Retrieved 11 June 2012
  2. ^ "Galleries & craft centres"; Visitlincolnshire.com. Retrieved 26 October 2012
  3. ^ "National Centre for Craft & Design"; Artquest.org.uk. Retrieved 11 June 2012
  4. ^ "The National Centre for Craft & Design"; Craftanddesign.net. Retrieved 11 June 2012
  5. ^ "The National Centre for Craft & Design"; Saatchi Gallery. Retrieved 11 June 2012
  6. ^ "Sleaford's Hub to relaunch as the National Centre for Craft and Design"; Lincolnshire Echo, 20 September 2011. Retrieved 11 June 2012
  7. ^ "The Hub, Sleaford relaunches as The National Centre for Craft and Design"; East Midlands Visual Arts Network, 4 October 2011. Retrieved 11 June 2012
  8. ^ Banks, Tom; "SB Studio creates National Centre for Craft & Design branding"; Design Week, 15 September 2011. Retrieved 11 June 2012
  9. ^ Banks, Tom; "SB Studio rebrands National Centre for Craft and Design"; Design Week, 27 July 2011. Retrieved 11 June 2012
  10. ^ "The Hub Relaunch"; North Kesteven District Council. Retrieved 11 June 2012
  11. ^ "Consortia bids well received"; Artsprofessional.co.uk, 11 April 2011. Retrieved 12 June 2012
  12. ^ "Our venues"; Lincolnshire One Venues. Retrieved 12 June 2012
  13. ^ "About". Hub Sleaford. Retrieved 9 June 2021.
  14. ^ "Bathing Beauties: Re-imagining the Beach Hut for the 21st Century"; Electricegg.co.uk. Retrieved 11 June 2012
  15. ^ "Bathing Beauties on Tour"; Bathingbeauties.org.uk. Retrieved 11 June 2012
  16. ^ "Museum of Broken Relationships comes to Sleaford"; BBC News Lincolnshire; 28 January 2012. Retrieved 11 June 2012
  17. ^ "Made in the Middle"; Crafts Council. Retrieved 11 June 2012
  18. ^ "East meets West at The National Centre for Craft & Design"; Designfactory.org.uk. Retrieved 11 June 2012

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