While this isn't just a call for those who design jewelry, obviously, jewelry is what I write about there, so thus the title of this blog post. Actually, there's a blog call out for all kinds of Irish artisans to be part of a unique blog site that will be all art and all Irish. It's the brain-child of Paul O Mahony, who explains his concept in a recent press release:

SiopaEile.com today launched auditions for a new premier Irish Artisan group blog. The auditions follow on the trend from other countries where there has been a boom in artisan blogging. Blogging has been slow to take off in Ireland, but this is rapidly changing with many media personalities and businesses starting blogs. A lot of bloggers are now becoming well known names in Ireland with book and newspaper deals. Auditions for the SiopaEile.com group blog will be accepted until October 30th, 2007. Full details on www.SiopaEile.com

SiopaEile.com founder Paul O'Mahony said "This is a great opportunity for Irish Artists to exhibit themselves and their work online and reach a new world wide audience. Blogging has been a revolutionary way of connecting with people all over the world. It's a cost-effective way of marketing your art and it brings life and personality to your online presence thanks to the natural human interactivity, which websites on their own generally fail to achieve."

Once auditions end, a group of 10 artists will be selected to be part of this group blog, with every artist contributing to the blog on a regular basis and sharing the stage as their audience grows.




You can find out more about his idea as well as how to apply, where else but, his blog.