fQaroundtown: Fibre City ( october in Totonto) PART 3

Friday, October 27, 2006

Fibre City ( october in Totonto) PART 3

the out of focus woman sitting in the white chair is Hazel Meyer from Montreal her piece is just around that corner and is created from a collection of vintage handkerchiefs and is definitely a “must see” piece

While the papers were being deliver from 9 to 5 down at Harbourfront there were openings and exhibitions to be seen every night. These exhibitions were presenting the work of well over 50 different Canadian artists and as a bus took participants from the TMC to the Koffler Gallery to view Fray there were openings at the OCAD student Gallery and the Gladstone Boutique Hotel. “Small Talk” at the ODAC gallery is a sampling of student work from numerous post secondary textile programs from across the country showing the up and coming, while “hand mind body” is simply the best fibre based group show that has been put on in Toronto.

The images scattered through this blog are from these shows which are currently on display. ”HAND - FACE – BODY” : An Exhibition of Tactile Textiles at the Gladstone Hotel October 13 to November 26, 2006, 12-5pm Daily The Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen Street West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Allison Book, Anna Templeton Centre, She has sayings like, “If your vacuum was blue, you would be too”

“Small Talk” at OCAD at 285 Dundas Street West. Toronto, runs until November 4^th

This exhibit features works by students of ACAD (Calgary), Anna Templeton Centre for Craft, Art and Design ( St Johns, NL), Capilano College ( Vancouver), CENTRE DESIGN & IMPRESSION TEXTILE ( Montreal), Concordia University (Montreal) Kootenay School of the Arts at Selkirk College, Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles (Montréal). New Brunswick College of Craft and Design (Fredericton) Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (Halifax), Sheridan College of Craft & Design ( Oakville), Sir William Grenfell College Memorial University (Cornerbrook NL)

This exhibition of student work will continue to tour after this Toronto stop

Early winter 07: Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles.

Early Spring: NB College of Craft and Design, Fredericton

Summer: Saint John Arts Centre, NB

November 07: NSCAD, Halifax

Read more about these exhibitions and other events that happened in and around Toronto in the up coming Winter 2007 fibreQUARTERLY Volume 3 Issue 1 ( due January 30/ 2007)

Websites for institutions, galleries and artist mentioned in this posting

Textile Society of America TSA http://textilesociety.org/

Bata Shoe Museum http://www.batashoemuseum.ca/

Chicago Art Institute http://www.saic.edu/

Textile Centre http://www.textilecentermn.org/ in St Paul’s/ Minneapolis

The Walker Art Centre http://www.walkerart.org/index.wac in St Paul’s/ Minneapolis

Cooper- Hewitt National Design Museum http://ndm.si.edu/

Museum of Modern Art, New York http://www.moma.org/

Wade Davis http://www.nationalgeographic.com/speakers/profile_davis.html

School involved in Small Talk Exhibition

ACAD (Calgary), http://www.acad.ab.ca/

Anna Templeton Centre for Craft, Art and Design (St Johns, NL), http://www.craftcouncil.nf.ca/education/annatempleton.asp