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BOOKS available from Althea McNish and John Weiss • Building Britannia: Life Experience With Britain (New Beacon Books and George Padmore Institute): includes a chapter on Althea McNish. • Shirley Craven and Hull Traders: Revolutionary Fabrics and Furniture 1957-1980 (Lesley Jackson): includes work by Althea McNish. • The Merikens: Free Black American Settlers in Trinidad 1815-16 available again (2002 edition reprinted with supplements). FORTHCOMING 2010-2011 January 2011 • 8–16 January, Mall Galleries, London: John Weiss takes part in Designer Crafts at the Mall 2011, the annual exhibtion of the Society of Designer Craftsmen. Nov 2010 to Jan 2011 • Nov 2010 to Jan 2011, Barbican Centre, London: John Weiss takes part in the Winter exhibition of the Designer Jewellers Group. September-October 2010 • 18 Sep to 30 Oct, King’s Lynn Arts Centre: work by Althea McNish in the exhibition Shirley Craven and Hull Traders: Revolutionary Post-War Fabrics and Furniture curated by Lesley Jackson. • 20 Oct, King’s Lynn Arts Centre: Hull Traders Symposium including session Althea McNish in conversation with John Weiss (in connection with Black History Month) RECENT 2010 June-July 2010 • 28 June: at the Private View of the work of new MA graduates in Textiles at the Royal College of Art, Emma Bradbury and Mary Penny received the Althea McNish Colour Prize, first awarded in 2002, and Jrumchai Singalavanij received the new Pollie Weiss Colour Prize, awarded in memory of the late Pollie Weiss (1909-2007). • 14 June to 3 July, Barbican Centre, London: new work by John Weiss was shown in the Summer exhibition of the Designer Jewellers Group. March-May 2010 • 8 May, at Goldsmiths College, London: Althea McNish gave an illustrated talk on her work as a textile designer in Britain at the Annual General Meeting of CACOEU, Caribbean Communities in Europe. • 13 March to 9 May , Bankfield Museum, Halifax: work by Althea McNish in the exhibition Shirley Craven and Hull Traders: Revolutionary Post-War Fabrics and Furniture curated by Lesley Jackson. • 8–17 January, Mall Galleries, London: John Weiss showed new work in Designer Crafts at the Mall 2010, the annual exhibtion of the Society of Designer Craftsmen; and Myung Nam An received the Pollie Weiss Prize for the best use of colour by a new Licentiate of the Society.

Designs by Althea McNish for Hull Traders: Golden Harvest Painted Desert Rubra photo of Althea McNish by Derek Tamea

Recent work by John Weiss: Scroll crown Pendant for Althea McNish Neclace and earrings All other photos by John Weiss

22 July 2010