tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-286764692024-03-13T20:18:00.934-04:00fQaroundtownTextile and Fibre arts events in CanadaJoe Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07030577606003203011noreply@blogger.comBlogger255125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676469.post-68396198158500355842020-03-25T17:21:00.001-04:002020-03-25T17:43:25.627-04:00Matt Gould Artist Profile/ Sampler <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This is "Upstairs" Matt Gould it is tooled leather on felt, and was shown in <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">National Craft Exhibition: Can Craft? Craft Can! </span></span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Burlington Art Gallery </span></span>the first Canadian Craft Biennial from Aug 19, 2017 - Oct 29, 2017, it was appropriate that it was. </div>
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In 2010 while exploring Edmonton on not so chilly November afternoon I walked into the Alberta Craft Council gallery and saw "words, wit, wisdom, and wool"</div>
an exhibition inspired by words and expressed in three-dimensional fibre work by Red Deer fibre artist Matt Gould November 6 – December 24, 2010, and instantly fell in love. Having been observing the fiber arts world in a professional way since 2002, nationally and internationally, I knew I was seeing something distinctive, something I had not seen before. There was one that I thought I could afford but had to think about it. I went out to have a coffee and was back in less than an hour but there was a Red Dot. "Those who hesitate..." Eight years later I didn't hesitate'<br />
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Multi-faceted award-winning artist Matt Gould was born and raised in
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Over the past thirty-some years, he has found expression through painting, drawing, singing, acting, writing, stage directing, design and fibre art." this from his Red Deer College faculty page where he has been teaching in the Theatre Creation and Performance program as a part-time instructor since January of 2014. I have seen his work in solo and group shows in Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto, and Burlington. </div>
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Matt Gould had a solo show at Toronto' s Canadian Lesbian Gay Archive each piece was inspired by a particular piece of text. while visually simple it is rich in meaning.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption">Matt Gould "Wild Thing" detail , Linen and Industrial wool felt and wool felt with free motion machine work, hand embroidery and couching text source: questionnaire given to the model</td></tr>
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Joe Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07030577606003203011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676469.post-77854880782438214122016-10-12T11:03:00.000-04:002016-10-12T11:44:52.682-04:00Speaking of Censorship (Again)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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It seems a group of young queer artist are being systemically silenced right now and gee yesterday was <a href="http://www.hrc.org/resources/national-coming-out-day" target="_blank">"World Come of the Closet Day"</a> apparently. Who knew? But that is neither here or there or maybe that is the issue. Yesterday a friend on facebook posted a little coming out story from 40 years ago and in response others shared theirs and there were comments about how things have "Changed" and gotten better, and while that is true i need to point out the Weimar Republic and its "golden era," 1924-1929 and how long it didn't last *1<br />
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Back to the artist Stiofan O'Ceallaigh, the blogger/ textile guru/ art writer John Hopper censorship and the reason for writing this. In a word FACEBOOK. it is not a safe place for free cultural expression. it can be easily be targeted, purveyors of it block , banned and removed and there is no recourse. By using facebook to promote your art: one you are giving your right to it away and 2 they can do what the wish with and everybody has the ability to depose of it if they feel like it. Hatred has free rein on facebook the less blatant the more powerful and such delicious anonymity,<br />
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On Monday October 10, 2016 John Hopper shared a link on facebook to an interview he did with <b>Stiofan O'Ceallaigh </b>queer artist/ cultural promoter/ activist and creator of Balaclava. Q an International Queer Visual Arts
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A few hours ago he posted the following
and i am possibly putting my self at risk by sharing this information
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John Hooper post : " So, facebook has decided to ban the artist
Stiofan O'Ceallaigh for 7 days, to remove the Balaclava.Q facebook
page, and all of the posts that I have made supporting both Stiofan
and Balaclava.Q. Well, it seems as if it is time to move on. Facebook
has become a farce, its bullying of artists is getting out of hand,
its draconian censorship rules make it a totalitarian state in its
own right. Facebook is derisible and indefensible, so I am going to
be spending much more time on the grown up social media sites. See
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My response to his post was:<br />
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"been there done that, more then once,,
It is interesting when anti Bullying activist like <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pinkshirtday/?hc_location=ufi" target="_blank">Pink
Shirt Day</a> use facebook to spread their message when facebook
provides a prefect tool for cyber bullying. If facebook had any
integrity and was smart they would let it be known who the report was
made by so you could find out if the report was malicious drunken
fun, jealousy "they get more likes then me", about naked
body parts, (which it seldom is ) or anit Trump.. There should be a
process by which the reporter must prove their point. Strange
considering facebook was started by wannabe frat boys.who wanted
girls to show there breast on the interment so they would be popular
and get asked to join a a fraternity should come to this. Sadly it
has been our use of facebook that has supported this anonymous
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I have a question Has <a href="http://pinkshirtday.ca/" target="_blank">Pink Shirt Day</a>
ever had a post reported and been banned by facebook from posting for
7 days? facebook is one of the places where cyber bullies run rampant
yet it is a place where anti bullying campaigns take place. is this
one of your issues? <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/censorship?source=feed_text&story_id=10154061034035838">#censorship</a>
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/artcensorship?source=feed_text&story_id=10154061034035838">#artcensorship</a>
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John' Hopper: response nse to my response was “You
are right Joe. I am going to look into the process of fb complaints
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This concerns me deeply and not just because i have had similar experiences on facebook (and was told by other artists on facebook to such it up) I wrote about one experience here and the person who i assume reported me on facebook made a series of anonymity comments full of such vitriol i figured i had guessed right and that it was an artist mother defending her child. ( against being asked if she could be photographed and included in one of my fQ monthly textile sightings album. Over the my exhibiting career i have dealt with censorship in many ways from vandalism / direct physical assault of my work to administratively by curators and even exhibition contracts that would have allowed them to remove any of my work if it caused offense. I did not sign and pointed out their support of censorship which they said they most certain did not support censorship and that the contract was just bog standard boiler plate that their lawyer had pulled out of his hat and i should not be consider the wording it was just semantics. </div>
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Art work / creative output is not offensive, people may find it offends them, but that is there personal response and nobody is forcing them to look at it. To allow your art work to be legally identified as offensive is like signing your own death sentence. Shall we go back to the end of the Wiemar Republic and repeat history. In case anyone thinks i am equating facebook with any political agenda i am not their only agenda is the bottom line and its easier to allow others to anonymously report/block and ban anyone they want accept advertisements and even there they give you the option to see different ones but not the option to see none</div>
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*1here is a link to a quick tabloid history of the Wiemar Republic <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2847643/Berlin-liberal-hotbed-homosexuality-mecca-cross-dressers-transsexuals-male-female-surgery-performed-Nazis-came-power-new-book-reveals.html" target="_blank">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2847643/Berlin-liberal-hotbed-homosexuality-mecca-cross-dressers-transsexuals-male-female-surgery-performed-Nazis-came-power-new-book-reveals.html</a><br />
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FYI here is the story that got me reported blocked and banned from facebook in April 2012 <br />
April 3 2012 <a href="http://fibrequarterly.blogspot.ca/2012/04/live-from-montreal-en-arvil-quebecs.html" target="_blank">Live from Montreal "En Arvil" Quebec's fibre celebration</a><br />
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April 3 2012 <a href="http://fibrequarterly.blogspot.ca/2012/04/ripple-effect-of-blogging-about.html" target="_blank">the ripple effect of blogging about textiles in Montreal</a><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><br />
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There is music all around Toronto, a lot to heard for free, as there is in most cities across the country. I heard <a href="http://www.charlierose.com/" target="_blank">Charlie Rose</a> interview with Architect Frank Gerhy during it a clip from a "Letter to Your Younger Self" was shown and Frank Gery says "Your mother will take you to concerts at Massey Hall and your world will be expanded" My world was expanded as a six year old by being in my church choir. and it was the music not the services that reached deep inside and awaken an appetite which remains ravenous. Sister Noella's musical education through the choir and the classroom was built upon in High School with vocal/ instrumental (the flute) history and composition classes from Duncan Addison and Ernie Crawford. This was added to with Music Theory correspondence courses through the Royal Conservatory of Music I am not sure what grade level i reached but at 18 and on my way to start my musical life in Toronto I didn't bother to write the exam I had prepared for. I suppose i should look back at this with regret but i don't and I can read music scores like a book and hear it in my head<br />
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I have been trying to share on facebook the concerts and recitals i am going to try and get to, in advance them happening. Suggesting others might join me or go out and "#IExperienced" it for themselves. I invested in season tickets for the Toronto Symphony Orchestra creating my own "series" selecting performers i did not want to regret missing,<br />
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2012 Honens Laureate Pavel Kolesnikov plays a Bagatelle on the Garden Piano Wednesday September 2 2015. this part of one of the 5 outdoor concerts that took place. I was not able to attend any other of the Honens but did watch of it as it was being streamed live via the CBC and <a href="http://www.medici.tv/" target="_blank">MediciTV</a> . I watched Luca Buratto | Solo Recital in the 15 HONENS QUARTERFINALS: and it was when he played<span class="watch-title " dir="ltr" id="eow-title" title="Thomas Adès - Darknesse Visible [Alberto Chines]"> Thomas Adès </span><br />
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By the end of September this year I had attended 7 concerts in Toronto;<br />Music At Midday,Tuesdays at 1 pm the organ at St James Cathedral in Toronto <br />over august into September I heard J Thomas D Gonder play 3 of the 6 Organ Symphonies of Louis Vierne, i also heard Thomas Fitches, and David Briggs in recital, I went to The COC Free Concert Series in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre and to see the Toronto Symphony Orchestra; I have now heard<span class="watch-title " dir="ltr" id="eow-title" title="Beethoven's 5th Symphony"> <b>Beethoven's 5th Symphony</b> live for the first time. I t was like losing my virginity and really good sex at the same time. The reality is no matter how much you think you know about music and even if you have listen to it on records/ CDs/ downloads it is not the same as hearing it live. Live Streaming experienced in real time can almost get you there but its repeatable, live is not. Live is that once in a lifetime thing you can be fully engaged in, if you let yourself.
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Joe Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07030577606003203011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676469.post-79115028803053444152015-10-10T07:07:00.001-04:002015-10-10T07:07:29.236-04:00Fall 2015 Textile Sightings <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>W</b>hile "Gabriel’s Oboe" by <b>Ennio Morricone</b>, from the soundtrack of Roland Joffé 1986 film “The Missions,” may float somewhere in our collective memories as part of a larger score, it is perhaps more embedded into the zeitgeist of the era as an emerging yet mournful plea for release from Reaganomics -- rather than merely a piece music of Oboe music. If a musical composition can paint a picture, I can think of it as a cartoon for a tapestry, the instruments and voices being the different coloured yarns with which the performance / tapestry is woven. This will provide the context for me to write about music in fQaroundtown which, until now, has been a Textile blog rather then a place for reviews of other media. Do I have you attention? <br />
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On Tuesday, October 21 at 12 p.m., I attended the <b>COC Free Concert Series in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre</b> and heard “two of Canada's most passionate young performers, oboist<b> Vincent Boilard</b> and pianist <b>Olivier Hébert-Bouchard</b>, shine the spotlight on the oboe in a selection of spirited pieces by Mozart, Poulenc and everything in between.” this concert was co-presented with <b>Jeunesses Musicales Ontario</b>. In recent months the urge to write about the music I have been experiencing live has been pretty persistent starting with attending <b>Rebecca Jenkins</b>' remarkable launch of “Live at the Cellar” in June at the <b>Jazz Bistro</b>, followed by attending three of the seven concerts at the inaugural <b>Honens Piano Festival</b> in Calgary in September and the COC Free Concert Series I have been attending since my return to Toronto. Putting Jenkins' aside for the moment, there has been a thread of “Modern” music running through these concerts “Modern” being late Victorian / Post- Romantic era (Romantic period 1800 to 1850 approx). This genre was firmly established, though often greeted with hostility, by the time Stravinsky’s “Rites of Spring” premiered in Paris in 1913. Experimenting with new ways in which to use the instruments in Orchestral, Chamber and Choral music has been ongoing since then<br />
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<b>I</b>n Calgary the Honen Piano Festival had a program of music that was centred around 2014 being the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War One and was therefore from the Modern repertoire. French pianist <b>Alexander Tharaud</b> played <b>Erik Satie</b>’s Gnossiennes Nos 1, 3, and 4 (written between 1889-1893) and <b>Maurice Ravel</b>’s Miroirs (1904 1905). His light touch made the Satie sound as if the notes were floating by on the breeze. In the performance of Miroirs, which consists of five sound portraits of Ravel’s friends and fellow “Apaches,” there were moments which sounded like six hands playing at the same time. It was breath taking. At the last concert, another Ravel piece was played: “Piano trio in A minor” (1914), with<b> Pavel Kolesnikov</b>, <i>Honens Prize Laureate 2012</i> playing, followed by <b>Elgar</b>’s “Piano quintet in A minor Op. 84” (1918) played by<b> Georgy Tchaidze</b> <i>Honens, Prize Laureate of 2009.</i> The finale of the concert and the festival was also the debut performance by the newly formed <b>Wild West New Music Ensemble</b> led by <b>Mélanie Léonard</b>. The piece was Kammermusik Op. 24 No. 1 (1922) composed by the German composer <b>Paul Hindemith</b>. <b>Samson Tsoy </b><i>Santander, International Piano Competition Laureate, 2012</i>, joined the Wild West New Music Ensemble in this chaotic, frenzied and ultimately disturbing yet enlightening vision of the WW1 battlefield ending with a siren blast which leaves you hopeful rather then mournful. It is an incredible piece of music<br />
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<b>W</b>ith my appetite whetted by this (shall we say “post-classical”/ “early modern” sound) I returned to Toronto with a need to keep the live music coming and conveniently the <b>“COC Free Concert Series in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre”</b> 2014-15 season had begun. Being informed of the date and time (October 7, 12 noon), and not being aware of what I was going to hear, I headed off to the <b>Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts</b> at Queen St and University Ave for <b>Colin Ainsworth</b>, Tenor, and <b>Stephen Ralls</b>, Piano. I was introduced to the “Art Song” of the living Canadian composer <b>Derek Holman </b>(*1) and his song cycles. “Lieder” or “Art Song” consists of piano accompaniment of a solo voice; the composer is creating a musical setting for existing written words -- usually poetry such as Shakespeare’s or Goethe’s. Since the late Victoria period, this genre has become a site of experimentation for modern composers. Holman was born in England in 1931, immigrated to Canada in the mid 1960s, taught in the University of Toronto in the Faculty of Music's Department of Theory and Composition, retired as a Professor in 1996 and received the Order of Canada in 2003. His output consists of mostly choral work; of Holman's sixty-plus songs, most are found in twelve song-cycles. Colin Ainsworth performed works composed in the past decade: “A Lasting Spring” (2004), “The Death of Orpheus” (2005), and “A Passion Play” (2012); these are settings for the words of numerous poets. Ainsworth, who is/was in the COC recent production of Falstaff, has a clear full tenor voice with rich bottom and crystalline top which instilled a poignant beauty to these challenging compositions which demanded the full use of his range. This was a very satisfying concert and the perfect next experience after the Honens. <br />
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<b>I</b>n early October, I was transported back to my high school music class and choir days which had been acted out under the rather hard core eye of Duncan Addison -- a church organist, choral master and music history teacher who introduced me to British composer <b>George Butterworth</b>’s (12 July 1885 – 5 August 1916) setting for <b>A. E. Housman</b>'s poems from <b>‘A Shropshire Lad.’</b> All this in an attempt to take my lazy baritone up to the true tenor range he heard in my voice (I was in my church choir at six and in is high school choir until I was 18 and sang 7 days a week for 12 years or so it seemed). On October 9, Members of the <b>Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio</b>: <b>Jean-Philippe Fortier-Lazure</b>, Tenor, <b>Iain MacNeil</b>, bass-baritone and <b>Jennifer Szeto</b>, piano, preformed two composer’s setting of Housman’s words. MacNiel sang Butterworth’s compositions, while Fortier-Lazure sand the music of another British composer, <b>Ivor Gurney</b> (28 August 1890 – 26 December 1937), who was previously unknown to me. The WWI theme that started with the Honens in Calgary seemed to be continuing since Temporary Lt. George Butterworth, aged 31 was wounded in the trenches near Pozières in July 1916 and died before receiving Military Cross, and Gurney, who survived the trenches but by 1922 was declared insane and institutionalized for the remainder of his life. <br />
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These performances were professional but not as confident as one might hope for the delivery of this seductive material. The pure love that Housman’s words convey and the music magnifies was a bit mechanical and technique dependent rather than emotionally charged as other presentations of Butterworth I have heard as performed on record. Hearing it live and being introduction to the work of Ivor Gurney made this concert a worthwhile investment of time and exposed me to two new singers who, having made it into the COC Ensemble obviously have the chops, but not the solo tract record which give confidence needed for these songs. <br />
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<b>October 15th</b> brought the 15 year old piano prodigy <b>Anastasia Rizikov</b> to the stage with a program of Russian Masterworks: Romance in F Minor, Op.5<b> Tchaikovsky</b> (b. May 7, 1840, d. November 6, 1893), written 1868 (Post romantic pre modern period), Pictures at the Exhibition by <b>Mussorgsky</b> written in 1874 (not published until 1886 on the cusp of post Romantic and Modern) These she played with the mechanical precision with which they are written as well as with a slight maniacal joy that comes from “rocking it” or getting it right and having fun doing it and letting the audience feel that joy. Followed by Prelude No. 6 in E-flat Major, op. 23 (1901-1903) by <b>Rachmaninov</b> (April 1, 1873, Novgorod Governorate, died: March 28, 1943-- in Hollywood you can’t get more Modern then that) which was an expected part of an all Russian program. Islamey (1869) by <b>Mily Balakirev</b> (b. January 2, 1837 d, May 29, 1910) was new to me. Islamey (subtitled Oriental Fantasy) was written after a trip to the Caucasus and the Caucasus for me means the Silk route and rugs rather then music. <br />
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It is this Orientalism which also inspired<b> Mozart</b> - Piano Sonata No 11 in A major, K 331, which I heard Alexander Tharaud perform in September. In Mozart’s time, the Ottoman court was represented in most Royal courts of Europe, which means he no doubt had first hand knowledge of oriental pentatonic scale which has 5 notes per octave rather then the western’s 8 notes per octave and rhythms. By the late 1800s, at the 1862 International Exhibition in London and Paris Exposition Universelle of 1867, the 12 tone scale of Traditional Japanese court music was added to the mix. I think you can find the beginnings of what becomes post romantic / modern music in the blending of these. However that is a different story and one for ethnographic musicologist to disprove. When Anastasia Rizikov finished Islamey, I thought I would like to hear her play some Boogie Woogie -- and suddenly for her encore, she basically did: Variations (Op. 41), by Russian/Ukrainian, pianist/composer <b>Nikolai Kapustin</b>. He's a living composer (born in 1937) and famous for fusing the jazz and classical idioms, meticulously writing out note for note what sounds like an improvised jazz piece. (This according to a COC social networker on Facebook). It was a bluesy jazzy barrel house rolling number that was a perfect end to what might have been a dispassionate display of virtuosity. <br />
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<b>T</b>his brings me back to the Oboe and oboist <b>Vincent Boilard</b> and pianist <b>Olivier Hébert-Bouchard</b>’s performance on Tuesday, October 21. <b>Sonata for oboe and piano, FP 185</b>, by <b>Francis Poulenc</b> (b. January 7, 1899, d. January 30, 1963), was performed with all the charm it has in its notation. Written in the last year of Poulenc’s life, this piece may be rather nostalgic and old fashioned sounding compared to the then contemporary composers, such as Italy’s<b> Luciano Berio</b> or America’s <b>John Cage</b>, it has the texture/ sound of the 1920s but it also sounds fresh, newly minted each time you hear it Poulenc was part of a group dubbed <b>“the Six”</b> by music critic <b>Henri Collet</b> in an article. "Les cinq Russes, les six Français et M. Satie/ The Five Russians, the Six Frenchmen and Satie". (Comoedia, 16 January 1920) was at the heart of the modern movement, in post WW1 Paris. <b>Mily Balakirev</b> was one of the “Five Russians”. <br />
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Their next piece,<b> “Romance for oboe d’amore and piano, op. 29 ”</b> (1997) by Quebecois composer <b>Mathieu Lussier</b> (b.1973), was simply joyful and they played it with a pride in their fellow Quebecois clarity of composition. It is perfectly written blend of harmonics and rhythms that have the two separate instruments circling around and bouncing away from each other and intertwining in a pre-waltz dance possibly happening in the Assembly rooms of Jane Austin’s Bath rather then a dance club today throbbing but not floating like the Lussier. In a “Music Appreciation 101” moment at the beginning of the concert, Vincent Boilard played the oboe solo from Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Op. 20 - Act II. Scene ; Dance of the Swans, as a way of introducing his instrument and spoke of how it is often used to give mournful or ominous impressions in film soundtracks <br />
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The repertoire for solo Oboe is not large compared to say violin and piano. <b>Antonio Pasculli</b> (1842-1924) was a virtuosic oboe player who took that bull by the horn and transcribed a large number of opera pieces for oboe and piano/harp. The third piece played by this duo was <b>Concerto sopra motive dell’opera La Favorita di Donizetti </b>by Antonio Pasculli. In introducing this piece, Boilard explained how as a player himself, Pasculli wrote extremely demanding pieces with constant use of arpeggiations, trills, and scales, that require the oboist to practice circular breathing -- and then he jumped right into it. While not a near mechanical 15 year old piano prodigy like Anastasia Rizikov, Boilard’s playing is engaging, emotional and filled with the charm of the instrument. He rose to the demands that this composition puts on breath control; at some points it seemed the audience was holding its breath, while silent, in their anticipation of his making it through these rapid fire sections where his fingers where running up and down the instrument at the speed of light, or so it seemed. There was more of the lighter then air dance between the two instruments as Olivier Hébert-Bouchard’s piano playing seem to romance the oboe, it was not in the background, subservient or an armature to these works but integral to their effect. Both of these pieces are on their debut CD Dialogue, which is worth purchasing -- as I did after the concert. They finished the program with Gabriel’s Oboe by Ennio Morricone from the soundtrack of Roland Joffé 1986 film “the Missions” which seem fresh and new. <br />
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It is the fresh and new that comes to music heard live in performances that make festivals like the Honens Piano Festival in Calgary and the COC Free Concert Series in the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre essential to acquiring a liking for chamber music, Opera, Broadway musicals, jazz music beyond the canned pop/ rock hip hop house music heard on radio. Music of any ilk heard live and played well is persuasive and having spent the last 8 weeks making the effort to go out and listen has reawakened old loves. On Sunday October 26th, I went to the last concert of the Global Cabaret put on by Soul Pepper Theatre to hear jazz singer Jackie Richardson roar like a dove and coo like a lion as she has always done. She is a performer I have been seeing live since she stopped the show in a production of the Three Penney Opera by Brecht and Weill at Young People’s Theatre in 1979. She still stops the show and with that I will also stop. <br />
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Step out side your door and go hear some live music. Its good for your insides.<br />
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<b>Notes:</b><br />
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1* You can
hear the works of<b> Derek Holman</b> on line through the Canadian Music Centre
website<br />
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2* <b>Canadian Art Song Project</b>, Colin Ainsworth and his former U of T instructor and accompanist Stephen
Ralls are part of the Canadian Art Song Project which is looking to
record, archive and preserve the works of Canadian composers including the works of Derek Holman<br />
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I have made a "Play List" on YouTube to track the music I have been hearing, most of the pieces in this article are on it, few are by the performers I have heard.<br />
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You can find it here: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0hZS2xBZIfuUhh4Q2q32ByHGi0B6c8IX" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0hZS2xBZIfuUhh4Q2q32ByHGi0B6c8IX</a><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Latha; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-ascii-font-family: Latha; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"><br /></span>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Oboist Vincent Boilard <a href="http://www.vincentboilard.com/" target="_blank">http://www.vincentboilard.com/</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Pianist Olivier Hébert-Bouchard <a href="http://olivierhebertbouchard.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">http://olivierhebertbouchard.wordpress.com/</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Jazz Vocalist Rebecca Jenkins <a href="http://www.rebeccajenkins.ca/" target="_blank">http://www.rebeccajenkins.ca/</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Pianist Alexander Tharaud <a href="http://www.alexandretharaud.com/" target="_blank">http://www.alexandretharaud.com/</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Pianist Pavel Kolesnikov <a href="http://pavelkolesnikov.com/" target="_blank">http://pavelkolesnikov.com/</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Pianist Georgy Tchaidze <a href="http://georgytchaidze.com/" target="_blank">http://georgytchaidze.com/</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Ensemble Wild West New Music Ensemble <a href="http://www.wildwestensemble.com/" target="_blank">http://www.wildwestensemble.com/</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Pianist Samson Tsoy<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.samsontsoy.com/" target="_blank">http://www.samsontsoy.com/</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Vocalist Colin Ainsworth, Tenor <a href="http://www.colinainsworth.ca/" target="_blank">http://www.colinainsworth.ca/</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Pianist Stephen Ralls <a href="http://aldeburghconnection.org/" target="_blank">http://aldeburghconnection.org/</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio
members <a href="http://www.coc.ca/AboutTheCOC/CompanyMembers/EnsembleStudio.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.coc.ca/AboutTheCOC/CompanyMembers/EnsembleStudio.aspx</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Vocalist Jean-Philippe Fortier-Lazure,
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<span lang="EN-CA">Vocalist Iain MacNeil, bass-baritone <a href="http://www.iainmacneil.com/bio" target="_blank">http://www.iainmacneil.com/bio</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Pianist Jennifer Szeto, </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Pianist Anastasia Rizikov <a href="http://www.anastasiarizikov.ca/" target="_blank">http://www.anastasiarizikov.ca/</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Honens Piano Festival <a href="http://www.honens.com/" target="_blank">http://www.honens.com/</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Canadian Opera Company <a href="http://www.coc.ca/" target="_blank">http://www.coc.ca/</a></span></div>
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<br />Jeunesses Musicales Ontario <a href="http://www.jmontario.ca/" target="_blank">http://www.jmontario.ca/</a></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Ennio Morricone ( b.1928 ) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennio_Morricone" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ennio_Morricone</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Igor Stravinsky (b. </span><span lang="EN-CA">June 17 1882</span><span lang="EN-CA"> d, </span><span lang="EN-CA">April
6 1971</span><span lang="EN-CA">)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span lang="EN-CA">Richard Wagner (b.22 May 1813 d. </span><span lang="EN-CA">13 February 1883</span><span lang="EN-CA">) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wagner" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wagner</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Mahler, (b.7 July 1860 – d. </span><span lang="EN-CA">18 May 1911</span><span lang="EN-CA">) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Mahler" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Mahler</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Erik Satie (b. </span><span lang="EN-CA">17 May 1866</span><span lang="EN-CA"> – d. </span><span lang="EN-CA">1 July 1925</span><span lang="EN-CA">) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Satie" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Satie</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Maurice Ravel (b. </span><span lang="EN-CA">March 7, 1875</span><span lang="EN-CA"> – d. </span><span lang="EN-CA">December 28, 1937</span><span lang="EN-CA">) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Ravel" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Ravel</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, </span><span lang="EN-CA">OM</span><span lang="EN-CA">, GCVO (b. </span><span lang="EN-CA">2 June 1857</span><span lang="EN-CA"> – d. </span><span lang="EN-CA">23 February 1934</span><span lang="EN-CA">) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Elgar" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Elgar</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Paul Hindemith (b. </span><span lang="EN-CA">16 November 1895</span><span lang="EN-CA"> – d. </span><span lang="EN-CA">28 December 1963</span><span lang="EN-CA">) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hindemith" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Hindemith</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Derek Holman (b. </span><span lang="EN-CA">16 May 1931</span><span lang="EN-CA">)</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">George Butterworth (</span><span lang="EN-CA">12 July 1885</span><span lang="EN-CA"> – </span><span lang="EN-CA">5
August 1916</span><span lang="EN-CA">) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Butterworth" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Butterworth</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Ivor Gurney (</span><span lang="EN-CA">28 August 1890</span><span lang="EN-CA"> – </span><span lang="EN-CA">26 December 1937</span><span lang="EN-CA">) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_Gurney" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_Gurney</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Tchaikovsky (b. </span><span lang="EN-CA">May 7, 1840</span><span lang="EN-CA">,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>d. </span><span lang="EN-CA">November 6, 1893</span><span lang="EN-CA">) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky 21 March 1839 –
</span><span lang="EN-CA">28
March 1881</span><span lang="EN-CA">) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modest_Mussorgsky" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modest_Mussorgsky</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Sergei<b> </b>Rachmaninov (b. </span><span lang="EN-CA">April 1, 1873</span><span lang="EN-CA"> – d. </span><span lang="EN-CA">March 28, 1943</span><span lang="EN-CA">) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Rachmaninoff" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Rachmaninoff</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Mily Balakirev (b. </span><span lang="EN-CA">January 2, 1837</span><span lang="EN-CA"> d, </span><span lang="EN-CA">May 29, 1910</span><span lang="EN-CA">) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mily_Balakirev" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mily_Balakirev</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(b.27 January 1756 – d. </span><span lang="EN-CA">5 December 1791</span><span lang="EN-CA">)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="st"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart</a></span></span></div>
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<span class="st"><span lang="EN-CA">Nikolai Kapustin (b. </span></span><span class="st"><span lang="EN-CA">November 22,
1937</span></span><span class="st"><span lang="EN-CA">) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Kapustin" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Kapustin</a></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Francis Poulenc (b. </span><span lang="EN-CA">January 7, 1899</span><span lang="EN-CA">, d.
</span><span lang="EN-CA">January 30,
1963</span><span lang="EN-CA">)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Poulenc" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Poulenc</a></span></div>
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Mathieu Lussier (b.1973) <a href="http://www.musiccentre.ca/node/60166/biography" target="_blank">http://www.musiccentre.ca/node/60166/biography</a><br />
<span class="st"><span lang="EN-CA">Luciano Berio (b. </span></span><span lang="EN-CA">October 24, 1925</span><span lang="EN-CA"> – d. </span><span lang="EN-CA">May 27, 2003</span><span lang="EN-CA">) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_Berio" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano_Berio</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">John Cage (b. </span><span class="st"><span lang="EN-CA">September 5, 1912</span></span><span class="st"><span lang="EN-CA"> – d. </span></span><span class="st"><span lang="EN-CA">August 12, 1992</span></span><span class="st"><span lang="EN-CA">)</span></span><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://johncage.org/" target="_blank">http://johncage.org/</a></span></div>
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Joe Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07030577606003203011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676469.post-28809560738912539842014-10-03T09:50:00.000-04:002014-10-04T09:36:14.520-04:00Re-Dressing a Wall.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="FR">FATE, DESTINY AND
SELF DETERMINATION </span></div>
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;">LE SORT, LE
DESTIN ET L'AUTO-DETERMINATION</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">EXHIBITION </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">September 18-</span><span lang="EN-CA">October 5 2014</span><span lang="EN-CA">. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Craft </span><span lang="EN-CA">Ontario</span><span lang="EN-CA"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">990 Queen Street
West</span><span lang="EN-CA"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Toronto</span><span lang="EN-CA"> </span><span lang="EN-CA">Ontario</span><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Opening reception: </span><span lang="EN-CA">Thursday September 18 2014</span><span lang="EN-CA"> </span><span lang="EN-CA">6-9pm</span><span lang="EN-CA">.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">With a plethora of shapes and a
multiplicity of colour and textures, Fate, Destiny and Self Determination
spreads itself across the wall of Craft Ontario’s gallery space in a riotous
constellation. Aesthetically exciting and intellectually inviting, this project
is a celebration of tapestry weaving and its history, interpreted through the
hands of many, using many techniques. Felted, knitted, crocheted, woven and
mixed-media pieces from fibre enthusiasts from more the 22 countries are
featured in this community creation, conceived of and executed by Canadian
tapestry artist, weaver and educator Line Dufour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Although Fate, Destiny And Self
Determination as a title speaks to many things in life, in this case, the
focus is on tapestry as medium of expression, and its history and development
as a decorative technique.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Despite the
philosophical interpretation of the title, pessimism or optimism, the
individual’s ability to exist with in a master plan, that regardless of
individual self has already accommodated your difference, not unlike a
“factory” produced tapestry built on an artist cartoon, there is an over all
cohesion of structure provided by the technique itself. The technique of
tapestry is to use the weft threads (compacted to hide the warp threads) to
create an image on the surface/ front of a piece of cloth. You are born, you breathe,
time passes and you die, what philosophy you chose the end result is the same.
Some may find that a pessimistic outlook that disallows the individual’s choice
to have any influence on the outcome, the “deity” / designer / structure
holding the whole in place unalterable, others may have an optimistic security
in knowing/ believing there is a structure that will bare the weight of their
existence. Either way there is a beginning (anchor 1), a middle and an end
(anchor 2) and in the case of the “Fate, Destiny And Self Determination:
Tapestry Project, I can quote Gertrude Stein and say “but not necessarily in
that order.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Line Dufour, from her base of operations
the Toronto Weavers School, brought this project about through what I see as
five separate components: the cartoon, the segmenting and distribution of those
segments, the bringing together of these dispersed elements, and the mounting /
design of the exhibition itself. The fifth component, or possibly the first, is
the entire process being documented in a journal of sorts, which exists online
in numerous postings on Tapestry Blog. You can see the individual shapes along
with the creation of the two anchors. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">The creation of these anchors speaks of a
period of European tapestry production dating back to the Middle Ages, when
tapestry manufacturing produced large scale pictorial wall hangings rather than
small decorative works, rugs, or elements on garments. With many individuals
working side by side across the warp, making a single Tapestry hanging, the
uniformity of the whole piece was the goal along with a low price point in a
growing and competitive market place. Individual skill and creative imagination
were not the point, speed and accuracy were.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>These types of “wall hangings” inform our collective knowledge of what a
tapestry is, but have shifted from the position of dominance they held over
painting as an art form, which prior to and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>through the renaissance was a decorative face to a wall or furnishing,
not a portable flat canvas or board that we associate with painting. While a
portable painting from this period may be thought of as a finished product
today, then it was only the sketch from which a scaled up cartoon was made in order
to create the tapestry which was the end result of choice, since<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>hanging a textile based upon a painted image
had been a less expensive way to decorate if you could not afford a fresco.
Frescoes came along, (replacing hung textiles which provided a form of much
needed insulation as well as décor), as a marker of permanence and power, but
lost ground to tapestry as a marker of wealth along with power. The imagery was
predominately narrative, whether mythical, religious or depicting actual events
such as specific battles, and spoke to the shoppers/ clients/ patron’s ego, not
the makers, and as in earlier frescos and latter painting, the client’s
likeness was often incorporated into a dominant figure in the tapestry. This
type of many-handed “manufacturing” had been ongoing since the renaissance,
with the same “commemorative” function, however, by the mid-Victorian era, the
gain of a secondary market of collectors, along with commissioning patrons,
allowed for the shift of tapestry into the merely “decorative” market rather
than its previous dominance of the pre-fine art European marketplace. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">The individual submitted shapes mark the
post world war two Studio Craft movement which for tapestry weavers began
earlier in the 20th century when a combination of trends in modern
architecture, construction materials and the newly invented job of interior
designer made renaissance tapestry blas</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial;">é</span><span lang="EN-CA"> (not to mention<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>too large for smaller domestic space the rich
came to inhabit).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While the tapestry
factories, which had become fewer, continued to shut down, the encouragement
for individual experimentation and weavers to work independently with their own
designs came to dominance in design schools in </span><span lang="EN-CA">Europe</span><span lang="EN-CA">, most notably, the
Bauhaus. At this time, architects of featureless cement and steel buildings
(the form over function world) called for tapestry to add warmth/ colour and
deaden sound in their creations, whether large scale corporate lobbies or stark
individual homes or apartments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tapestry
weavers moved out of the factory and into their own studios, and after WW2
entered the Art versus Craft world, which was a location they had not
previously inhabited, being that Tapestry had been located in its own territory
for nearly five centuries as handmade decorative objects and as status symbols.
Tapestries were one of the few fibre based products that had not been changed
or mechanized by the industrial revolution, yet they proved to be inspiration
for the assembly line. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">In <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fate,
Destiny and Self Determination, </i>the right and left sides of the cartoon,
which are the full height of the cartoon, were worked on as complete pieces, by
many individuals who were students of the </span><span lang="EN-CA">Toronto</span><span lang="EN-CA"> </span><span lang="EN-CA">Weavers</span><span lang="EN-CA"> </span><span lang="EN-CA">School</span><span lang="EN-CA">, along
with invited guests and people who just dropped in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I, myself, dropped in twice: once by myself,
and once to bring California based fibre artist Valentyna Royenko Simpson, whom
I had met at the European Textile Network’s 2011 symposium in Kaunas Lithuania
during the Kaunas Textile Biennial, who was visiting Toronto and I was showing
her around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rest of the “shapes”
were sent to individual textile artist, weavers, knitters, felt makers etc.
from across the planet, which were invited or responded to a call to
participate. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">While choosing to remain independent of the
industrial world, the current users of this technique dedicate their individual
imagination and creative energy to making unique and individual objects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The restriction of shape (but not size) for
this project has produced results ranging from definitive expression of their
practice and/or bold leaps in experimentation from the tapestry weaving to very
interesting creations in other fibre based manipulations. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">With the installation of this concept and
its components across the gallery wall Line Dufour present a first sighting of
a work in progress. Seeing this seductive community tapestry live has been a
breath taking experience. Craft Ontario needs to be thanked for choosing to
allow this project to come to life on their wall, To Line Dufour for proceeding
from concept onward and to all those who participated to make this object into
the event it became. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">The installation of this concept and its
components streak across the gallery wall creating a universe of colour and
texture it succeeds </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Links related to this story</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Line Dufour: <a href="http://www.tapestryline.com/index.html" target="_blank">Tapestry Line Unlimited </a></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Tapestry Line Blog <a href="http://tapestryline.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank"> http://tapestryline.blogspot.ca/</a></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>Toronto Weaving School at
<a href="http://torontoweavingschool.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">www.torontoweavingschool.com</a><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Craft Ontario <a href="http://www.craftontario.com/" target="_blank">http://www.craftontario.com/</a></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">Canadian Tapestry Network <a href="http://www.canadiantapestrynetwork.com/" target="_blank">http://www.canadiantapestrynetwork.com/</a></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">American Tapestry Alliance <a href="http://americantapestryalliance.org/" target="_blank">http://americantapestryalliance.org/</a></span></span></div>
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<b>Fashioning the Intangible: the conceptual clothing of Ying Gao </b><br />
May 7, 2014 - September 1, 2014<br />
<b>The Eternity Code: Archaeology, Textiles and Preservation</b><br />
June 11, 2014 - September 21, 2014<br />
<b>Curators:</b> Shauna McCabe, Executive Director Natalia Nekrassova,Curator, Collections and Research, Roxane Shaughnessy, Curator, Collections and Access and Sarah Quinton, Curatorial Director <br />
<b>Textile Museum of Canada</b><br />
55 Centre Avenue, Toronto Ontario <br />
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<b>Cairo Under Wraps: Early Islamic Textiles</b><br />
June 21, 2014 to January 25, 2015<br />
<b>Curators:</b> Anu Liivandi, Assistant Curator (Textiles & Fashions), Karin Ruehrdanz, Senior Curator (Islamic Decorative Arts), Lisa Golombek,Curator Emeritus (Islamic Art) Retired<br />
<b>Patricia Harris Gallery of Textiles & Costume</b>, Level 4<br />
<b>Royal Ontario Museum </b><br />
100 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario<br />
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<b>Reiko Sudo + NUNO, Textiles from Japan</b><br />
July 11 to November 22, 2014 <br />
<b>Curator</b>: Alan Elder of the Canadian Museum of History<br />
<b>Norah Rosamond Hughes Gallery</b><br />
<b>Mississippi Valley Textile Museum</b><br />
3, Rosamond St. E. Almonte, Ontario <br />
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Mantel panel fragment with figures wearing hats and tunics, Peru, 1350 to 1540 CE, cotton and camelid hair, T2005.17.7. Gift of Pascal Muzard and Nieves Carrasco, Image provided by <b>TMC</b> used with permission <br />
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<b>Eternity Code</b>: The Eternity Code: Archaeology, Textiles and Preservation, an exhibition at the Textile Museum of Canada in Toronto, beings with a time line. The following findings date to the pre-Christian era of archaeological time: <br />
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-30,000 BCE Oldest evidence of textile fibres, discovered in Dzudzuana Cave, Georgia. (*a) <br />
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-27,000 BCE, Earliest evidence of woven textiles, found on clay figurines at Dolni Vestonice, Czech Republic. <br />
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-8,600-800 BCE Plant fibre basketry in practice, discovered in Guitarrero Cave in the Andes. <br />
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-3000 BCE Date of earliest complete garment found anywhere in the world, an Egyptian Linen Shirt. <br />
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-3000 BCE Evidence of domestication of fleece-bearing camelids (Llamas and alpacas) in highland Peru. <br />
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-1500 BCE earliest evidence of wool in Europe, recovered from Danish bog burial. <br />
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- 400 BCE Every weaving technique is present in pre-Hispanic Peru. <br />
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Eventually it brings us up to modern day with: <br />
-2013 CE Discovery of the first unlooted imperial tomb of the Wari civilization that build South America’s earliest empire. <br />
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<b>D</b>uring the summer of 2014 in Ontario. there is an opportunity to see some of the oldest textiles in Museum collections in Canada and some of the most cutting edge industrially manufactured textiles. Along with The Eternity Code: Archaeology, Textiles and Preservation at the Textile Museum, there is: Cairo Under Wraps: Early Islamic Textiles at The Royal Ontario Museum. You can see the innovative cutting edge fashion textiles in Reiko Sudo + NUNO, Textiles from Japan at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum in Almonte Ontario, and medical textiles in Fashioning the Intangible: the conceptual clothing of Ying Gao at the Textile Museum of Canada.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">TMC: Fashioning the Intangible: the conceptual clothing of Ying Gao,
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While few of older textile fragments are ever shown en mass because of conservation necessities, they are a valuable research asset to the institutions that house them. Exhibiting older textiles along with contemporary fibre art and design is often used to add context or show inspiration/ influences on the contemporary work. In this case these four exhibitions in the three different institutions are independent of each other and have four different curatorial frameworks. For me to write about them for a reader who may not have the opportunity to see the exhibitions, I need to find a connection beyond the obvious one of textiles. The connection in this case is the use of metallic - not because they are omnipresent throughout - but they provide a route into the relationships and approaches to industrial R&D, technical production and the science of fibre behaviour. I have seen three of the four exhibitions. I have not seen the Reiko Sudo exhibition in Almonte yet; however, I have seen an exhibition of this work at the Kuneo Textile Biennial in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 2011, and I have just received the exhibition catalogue the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum produced to accompany the exhibition and it is work of NUNO studio that made metallics the starting point for this essay. <br />
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Naomi Polllock, an American architect, lives in Tokyo where she writes about design. In her essay, “A Short History of NUNO,” about the early training of NUNO founder Junichi Arai, she comments: <br />
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“The scion of a long line of textile producers, Arai hails from Kiryu, a historic textile manufacturing town northwest of Tokyo, where his family has lived and worked for generations. Although Aria toyed with a career in theatre, he remained home and entered the family mill. There he learned the nuts and bolts side of the industry and oversaw the production of cloth for both Western- and Japanese-style garments. This included a local version of Lame made by wrapping silk yarn with gold or silver threads- the birth of Aria's fascination with metallized fabrics”<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spatter Gloss, 1990, Designed by Reiko Sudo, Alloy spattering; 100% polyester. Image provided by MVTM used with permission </td></tr>
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She then writes “One of (Reiko) Sudo’s first independent endeavours borrowed a plating technique from the automotive industry. Called “Spattering” the process is often used to coat door handles and frames with a plastic substance resembling steel “I really wanted to make shiny, metallic textiles, so I began experimenting with this technique.” says Sudo. Working closely with technicians at the textile plant, she experimented with ways to apply this plating method to various types of polyester. Aptly named 'Spattering Gloss,” Sudo's astonishing finished product has a sheen of polished steel but the fluidity of fabric” [1]<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">a Qasab fragment (Gauzy linen tabby with silk and gold tapestry, Egypt,
Mid-11th century, 980.78.111.A Wilkinson Collection, Gift of Albert and
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These two methods of creating a metallic surface; weaving metallic wrapped yarns and the seemingly modern method of adhering/ applying the metal foil/leaf directly to an already constructed surface can be seen on textiles from the range of time represented in all of these exhibitions. At the ROM, in Cairo Unwrapped, there is a Qasab fragment consisting of a Gauzy linen tabby with silk and gold tapestry (Egypt, Mid-11th century [980.78.111.A]), and a Tiraz fragment from 10th century Iran of Glazed mulham, (warp of fine raw silk floss with weft of heavier Z spun cotton in a tabby weave [2], ink, gold leaf (963.95.3). At the Textile Museum of Canada, Ying Gao's piece Science is Fiction, 2013, is made of silver-coated medical cotton, silver having anti-bacterial properties (b). This textile, like Sudo’s “Splatter Gloss" which consist of three powered metals, chrome, nickle, and iron the compotes of stainless steal, are produced in industrial situations with patented processes that aren’t readily available to textile/ fibre artists. There are, however, a large number of makers using metallic on the surface of their work using products available in the market place. Sparkly things that attracted the eye and reflect light have been in use for millennia. When it comes to contemporary products, the actual amount of the metal in the product ranges greatly. One can estimate the amount of metallic content of the metallic threads and foils and leafs you can buy at art, craft and sewing supply outlets from the price. The life span of these products will also be a guide to their content. The gold on the Islamic fragments on display at the ROM speak to the longevity of the real thing.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tiraz Fragment, Glazed mulham, ink, gold leaf, Iran, 10th century, 963.95.3. Image provided by the ROM used with permission </td></tr>
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The journey the 80 textile fragments on display at the ROM have taken to get to this destination is quite varied. The early Islamic textiles, dating from the 7th to 14th centuries (including rare examples of clothing) have been gifted from individual private collections. Some of the earliest pieces were collected by Charles Trick Currelly (January 11, 1876 – April 10, 1957) (* c), the founding director of the Royal Ontario Museum. A small selection of fragments came from a 1980 archaeological dig at Fustat where approximately 300 Fatimid textiles were excavated by the American Research Center in Egypt under the direction of George Scanlon, with ROM participation. These pieces have yet to be conserved, and their being shown in this exhibition gives the public the opportunity to see the starting point of the process of conservation. A major theme of The Eternity Code: Archaeology, Textiles and Preservation at the Textile Museum of Canada, is conservation – a topic that is much on the minds of museum curators today. Indeed, at the press preview for Cairo Under wraps show at the ROM, I had a very interesting conversation with Jenny Poulin of the Canadian Conservation Institute who is analyzing dyes, glazing material and the materials/techniques used to produce the gold decoration on the Tiraz pieces. A paper on this will be published on the ROM website when it is ready.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">TMC Flat Storage: The Eternity Code: Archaeology, Textiles and
Preservation, installation shot, 2014. Photo: Jill Kitchener image
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The overview of the exhibit at the Textile Museum discusses both preservation of old textiles and their survival into the present, as well as conservation: <br />
“How have textiles – among the most fragile and vulnerable artifacts – survived over centuries? Learn about the materials and techniques found in archaeological textiles and the conditions that have allowed for their survival through this exhibition of Peruvian and Coptic textiles from the Textile Museum of Canada collection… By their very nature, archaeological fibres are among the most fragile, extremely sensitive to environmental conditions. In 2013, the Textile Museum of Canada began research and development of new approaches to the conservation and storage of archaeological textiles to ensure enduring access to valuable artifacts of global heritage for future generations. Innovations introduced into the exhibition demonstrate the science of conservation as well as state-of-the-art advances in archaeological textile storage developed by the Textile Museum of Canada to provide the essential care and security of some of the most valuable and cryptic of human evidence”. (TMC exhibition overview) <br />
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Returning to the time line of events within the Christian era:<br />
-1200 CE Irrigation canals transform Peruvian coastal desert allowing cultivation of cotton <br />
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-1476 CE Inca Empire established <br />
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-1534 CE Spanish conquer the Inca Empire in Peru <br />
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-1798 CE Napoleon Bonaparte and the French army invade Egypt <br />
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-1822 CE Jean-Francois Champolion deciphers the Rosetta Stone <br />
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-1911 CE Hiram Bingham rediscovers Machu Piccu, Peru <br />
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-1922 CE King Tutankhamen’s tomb discovered by Howard Carter<br />
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One of the oldest pieces on display in Eternity Code is a Border fragment, (TMC T97X0010b) from Peru (Nazca, 100 to 300 CE), made of Camelid hair. Its method of construction is described as cross-knit Looping. This particular technique was first diagrammed in Raoul D'Harcourt book Textiles of Ancient Peru and Their Techniques (1934) (in French) and is featured on the TMC, and Gardiner Museum’s 2010 co-presented web project “Cloth and Clay Communicating Culture” on the Government of Canada’s Virtual Museum website.This piece has been researched by independent scholars such as Rebecca Nelson Jacobs in her Archaeological Experiment: Re-creation of a Nasca Textile, Presidential Scholars Project” (*4) in 2004, under Dr. Bethany Usher from the Potsdam Anthropology Department. Jacobs attempted to create an archaeological replica of the border piece. Other pieces in the show have also been the subject of research projects instigated by the museum. For example, an Incan bag from Peru (1476 to 1534 CE) was also made of Camelid fibre using warp-faced, complementary warp, cross-knit looping was part of a materials study done in 2005. It is from the Opekar / Webster Collection (TMC T94.0999). <br />
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In 2005, curator Roxane Shaughnessay in partnership with researchers Dr. Christine White, Dr Andrew Nelson and Dr, Fred Longstaffe of the University of Western Ontario conducted isotopic analyses on camelid fibres from this Inca bag preserved on the coast of Peru, and other selected ancient Peruvian textiles in the TMC collection. Among the lines of inquiry that have been used to identify and contextualize pre-Hispanic textiles is isotopic analysis of camelid fibre (llama, alpaca) to determine diet, which can give us information on habitat of the animals whose fibres were used to create the textiles in the TMC collections. In turn, such information allows us to understand more about the habitat that the makers and/or users of the bag knew, as well as something about exchange networks in the Andes. <br />
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“The study attempted to shed some light on the question of whether the camelid fibre was brought to the coast pre-spun and pre-dyed from the highlands for use in weaving coastal textiles or whether llamas (and perhaps even alpacas) were imported to the coast from the highlands and raised there for periods of time. The tests analyzed fibres to determine if the animals ate a highland diet of plants and grasses, or a coastal diet of maize resources. The test showed that the samples from the bag showed highland dietary influences, which demonstrates a highland source of fibre, probably alpaca. The bag could have been brought from the highlands to the coast, or woven as an Inca tax obligation on the coast with wool imported from the highlands.” (TMC didactic) <br />
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TMC ‘Rolled Storage” The Eternity Code: Archaeology,
Textiles and Preservation, installation shot, 2014. Photo: Jill
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The main impetus behind Eternity Code was the re-housing of the TMC’s oldest textiles. In 2011, the TMC requested a facilities assessment by the Canadian Conservation Institute in Ottawa that looked at every aspect of the Museum from lighting to security to temperature control and included the storage area. The TMC is a small museum with limited resources and at this point in time had done the best with the resources they had to secure the collection and in finding the smartest ways to best improve the pieces. The result of this assessment provided the museum with a list of suggestions for the improvement of the storage of the collection. This became a blue print to follow. With the assessment, the museum was able to apply for funding for improving in the ways their oldest textiles were being stored. An existing digital photographic data base gave them a head start on this project in that a good record of past conditions of individual pieces was available to compare with the current condition of the artifacts. The earlier photographing of the collection had occurred in the mid-2000s using the then state of the art technologies. Even today, this is one of the best museum digital archives around. As this was done, many pieces that had never been shown or removed from the packaging they came to the museum in were returned to the same packaging – which seemed the best thing to do in the absence of a standardized system. As the project got underway in 2013 it became obvious that an exhibition could be built to showcase this work and the textiles that they would be re housing also provided the broader theme of symbolic meaning and cultural use, as well as the importance of conservation. <br />
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"In 2013, the Textile Museum of Canada began research and development of new approaches to the conservation and storage of archaeological textiles to ensure enduring access to valuable artifacts of global heritage for future generations. Innovations introduced into the exhibition demonstrate the science of conservation as well as state-of-the-art advances in archaeological textile storage developed by the Textile Museum of Canada to provide the essential care and security of some of the most valuable and cryptic of human evidence. Curated by Shauna McCabe, Natalia Nekrassova, Roxane Shaughnessy and Sarah Quinton and organized by the Textile Museum of Canada. Archaeological storage upgrades undertaken with the support of the Museums Assistance Program of the Department of Canadian Heritage". (TMC website exhibition overview). <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tunic fragment, Egypt, 6th to 7th century, wool, T90.0236a-d. Gift of Lloyd Solish Image provided by TMC used with permission</td></tr>
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These four exhibitions offer a series of windows into an important human innovation that has been in use at least 30,000 years of human time, and probably more. Textiles are a locus on which humans apply imagination, skill and beauty. If you need one reason to go and see any or all of these exhibitions it is simply because textiles are beautiful to see. This is the first response one has to each of these artifacts. The information on technique, material, age, symbolic meanings are all secondary to that first response. The value of that information and the ways and means they are assessed and understood adds to our ongoing knowledge base -- but they don’t alter what you first see -- and what you see will engage you in as many ways as you allow it to do. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Praying Saint, Linen and wool tapestry, Egypt, 7th -8th century
980.78.37 Wilkinson Collection, gift of Albert and Federico Friedberg
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<b>notes</b><br />
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[1] REIKO SUDO + NUNO Textiles from Japan, Catalogue ISBN 978-0-9938427-0-2 (pbk) <br />
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<span lang="EN-CA">Follow the links to see images of the artifacts being stored from the TMC digital archive </span></div>
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Display of Flat Storage Top right to left <br />
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Tunic Border, Peru, Central Coast, Chancay, 1200 to 1550 CE, cotton, camelid hair: slit tapestry woven, Gift of Thomas Kalman, TMC T82.0107 <br />
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Band, Peru, Chimu, 1000 to 1476 CE, Cotton, camelid hair: tapestry woven, gift of Thomas Kalman TMC T82.0108 <a href="http://www.textilemuseum.ca/apps/index.cfm?page=collection.detail&catId=1862&row=1" target="_blank">http://www.textilemuseum.ca/apps/index.cfm?page=collection.detail&catId=1862&row=1</a> <br />
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Tunic decoration, Egypt, Coptic 7th century, wool, linen; Tapestry- woven, sewn, Gift of Andrew Vodstrcil, TMC T87.0407 <a href="http://www.textilemuseum.ca/apps/index.cfm?page=collection.detail&catId=4584&row=1" target="_blank">http://www.textilemuseum.ca/apps/index.cfm?page=collection.detail&catId=4584&row=1</a> <br />
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Tunic Decoration Egypt, Coptic, 7th to 9th century, Linen, wool; plain-woven, tapestry-woven, gift of Andrew Vodstrcil TMC T87.0401 <a href="http://www.textilemuseum.ca/apps/index.cfm?page=collection.detail&catId=4578&row=1" target="_blank">http://www.textilemuseum.ca/apps/index.cfm?page=collection.detail&catId=4578&row=1</a> <br />
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Tunic band Egyt, Coptic 6th to 7th century, linen wool; tapestry-woven, plain-woven, braided, sewn, gift of Mrs. Herta Vodstrcil, TMC T86.0137 <a href="http://www.textilemuseum.ca/apps/index.cfm?page=collection.detail&catId=3470&row=1" target="_blank">http://www.textilemuseum.ca/apps/index.cfm?page=collection.detail&catId=3470&row=1</a> <br />
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Rolled Storage Box: <br />
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Belt, Peru 1000 to 1476 CE cotton camelid hair: warp-faced, complementary warp, gift of Pascal Muzard and Nieves Carrasco, TMC T2005.17.24 <a href="http://www.textilemuseum.ca/apps/index.cfm?page=collection.detail&catId=14101&row=1" target="_blank">http://www.textilemuseum.ca/apps/index.cfm?page=collection.detail&catId=14101&row=1</a> <br />
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Fragment, Peru 1000 to 1476 CE cotton camelid hair: warp-faced, complementary warp from the Opekar / Webster Collection. TMC T94.1010 <a href="http://www.textilemuseum.ca/apps/index.cfm?page=collection.detail&catId=1062&row=1" target="_blank">http://www.textilemuseum.ca/apps/index.cfm?page=collection.detail&catId=1062&row=1</a> <br />
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Belt Peru c.1000 CE Camelid hair: plain-woven, warp-faced, gift of Thomas Kalman. TMC T83.0241 (no image available) Belt Peru c.1000 CE Camelid hair: woven, TMC T97X0013 (no image available) <br />
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Belt, Peru 1000 to 1476 CE camelid hair: Plain-woven, supplementary warp, from the Opekar / Webster Collection TMC T94.1008 <a href="http://www.textilemuseum.ca/apps/index.cfm?page=collection.detail&catId=233&row=1" target="_blank">http://www.textilemuseum.ca/apps/index.cfm?page=collection.detail&catId=233&row=1</a><br />
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<b>Websites</b><br />
Mississippi Valley Textile Museum <a href="http://mvtm.ca/mvtm/" target="_blank">http://mvtm.ca/mvtm/</a><br />
Royal Ontario Museum <a href="http://www.rom.on.ca/en" target="_blank">http://www.rom.on.ca/en</a><br />
Textile Museum of Canada <a href="http://www.textilemuseum.ca/" target="_blank">http://www.textilemuseum.ca/</a><br />
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<b>Web project</b><br />
<a href="http://www.textilemuseum.ca/cloth_clay/explore/" target="_blank">Cloth and Clay Communicating Culture</a><br />
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<b>Interesting Reads</b><br />
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(*a)<a href="http://www.academia.edu/1062050/Dzudzuana_an_Upper_Palaeolithic_cave_site_in_the_Caucasus_foothills_Georgia_" target="_blank"> Dzudzuana: an Upper Palaeolithic cave site in the Caucasus foothills (Georgia)</a> by Paul Goldberg published in <span class="st"><a href="http://journal.antiquity.ac.uk/" target="_blank">Antiquity</a> Volume: <i>85</i> Number: 328 Page: <i>331–349</i></span><br />
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(*b) <span lang="EN-CA"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/%20http://www.academia.edu/5742942/Antibacterial_activity_of_silver_photodeposited_nepheline_thin_film_coatings" target="_blank">“Antibacterial Activity Of SilverPhotodeposited Nepheline Thin Film Coatings”</a> by Talieh Rajabloo;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ceramics-international/" target="_blank">Ceramics International </a>Volume 38 Issue 7 2012
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(*d) Rebecca Nelson Jacobs ‘ “Archaeological Experiment: Re-creation of a Nasca Textile, Presidential Scholars Project” <a href="http://rebeccanelson.com/presidential_scholars.html" target="_blank">http://rebeccanelson.com/presidential_scholars.html </a><br />
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Joe Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07030577606003203011noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676469.post-8491509355400047842014-05-04T13:16:00.000-04:002014-05-04T13:16:09.653-04:00Of the Earth, Looking at Dorothy Caldwell: Silent Ice/ Deep Patience<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Dorothy Caldwell: Silent Ice/ Deep Patience</b></div>
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March 21 to June 1, 2014</div>
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<b>D</b>orothy Caldwell is an American born Canadian artist. Dorothy Caldwell is a master mark maker. Dorothy Caldwell’s practice is based in the use of textile techniques to colour, mark and embellish the 2D picture plane with the essence of (what is) landscape. Beginning at time in the early 1970s when late abstract expressionism and pop art are being displaced by the conceptual and the feminist art movement has established itself. Inspired by the surface treatment in the staining in Mark Rothko’s painting, “staining so light the weave of the canvas came through” <span style="font-size: xx-small;">*1</span> and influenced as many were by the 1971 exhibition "Abstract Design in American Quilts" at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York which is now consider instrumental in igniting the quilt renaissance of the 20th and 21st centuries. She has built a career on staining and stitching cloth. She has met the challenge of working in this way and transcended what the contemporary art world has considered the limited boundaries of the medium of textiles. <span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"></span></div>
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with work <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">How Do We Know When It’s Night?
</i>2010, wax & silkscreen resist on cotton with stitching and appliqué photo by Lesli Onusko </span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">© 2014 Art Gallery of Peterborough </span></td></tr>
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<span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><b>S</b>pending time in </span><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Australia</span><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">’s Outback and in </span><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">Canada</span><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt;">’s Far North she has, with this exhibition,
reached a new level of expression that strips the nonessentials away from
documenting the land leaving shape, colour and line to work in concert much
like Cezanne. Working with what was there as did the unknown cave painters in Lascaux
Caldwell presents both </span>an “I MAX” vista and the entire minutia of the
vast landscapes she is encountering in each piece of work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of this work was seen in the fall of
2013 in London, Dublin and Harrogate as a feature exhibition in the Knitting
and Stitching Show<span style="mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her</span> audience holds her in high regard
and has been building through sold-out workshops and lectures spanning her over
40 year career as <span style="mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">an</span> artist
exhibiting in Canada, the United States, Japan, Australia and the UK. This new
body of landscape images is a game changer in contemporary landscape art.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>
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<b>I</b> felt this work somewhere in the pit of my stomach, a pit
of <span style="mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">ochre</span> mud perhaps, Stendhal
Syndrome perhaps. While it’s all in the details the whole surface of these
works envelop you, they take your breath away, and your <span style="mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">heart</span> rate accelerates. You feel the atmosphere of the “Where”.
Dorothy Caldwell: Silent Ice/ Deep Patience is an exhibition that engages the
senses. Your eyes travel constantly across the surface<span style="mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">. </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">W</span>hen you try to pause to examine a detail, a stitch, a stain;
suddenly a mark of colour draws your eye elsewhere. You breathe deeply to still
the motion. Caldwell's signature repetitive marks stitched or discharged spread
across the walls in piece after piece after piece<span style="mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">,</span> hypnotically holding your attention and driving you mad with
distractions as you try to take it all in. The dryness of the air, the harsh
light that washes out colour, these depictions of the Australian Outback and
Canada’s north exist side by side, nothing really signifying its specific
locale. You take another breath, give up control, and enjoy the dance you are
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<span>Gallery view
(large work at left is called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Map Without
Words</i>, 2013; the work at the far right is called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Walking on Tundra</i>, 2013)</span><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> photo by Lesli Onusko </span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">© 2014 Art Gallery of Peterborough </span></span></div>
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<b>C</b>olour <span style="mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">rubbed off </span>rusty
bits of found metal <span style="mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">and</span> dirt of
different minerals make up the stain<span style="mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">ed</span>
cottons that have been made velvety smooth. The colour<span style="mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">, both</span> muted and rich<span style="mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">,</span>
is occasionally blurred with quiet spots of grey that read greasy as if <span style="mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">v</span>aseline has been smeared on the surface<span style="mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These</span>
are lustrous<span style="mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">,</span> almost luminous like
mother of pearl or dirty ice<span style="mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">T</span>hey
stand out and float above the densely marked surface. These smears appear in
several pieces<span style="mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">.</span> <span style="mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">T</span>hey stopped me in my tracks because of
the lack of an instantly identifiable process<span style="mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">.</span> <span style="mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">A</span>re they
burnished<span style="mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">,</span> as their smoothness
suggest<span style="mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">s;</span> or satin<span style="mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">,</span> which has been embedded rather the
appliquéd<span style="mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">; or merely</span> <span style="mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">tarnish?</span> Is this some chemical reaction
brought on by exposure to the air? So much in these works seems like a natural
reaction, a growth (like lichen on a rock) rather <span style="mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">than</span> separately applied embellishment.</div>
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<span>View of
collection from above</span><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> photo by Lesli Onusko </span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">© 2014 Art Gallery of Peterborough </span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;"><b style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">D</b>one within a very
short time span (2010-2013), this show represents work done in, and inspired by
two distinct landscapes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>While
there is noticeable difference between <span style="mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">overall</span>
dark and <span style="mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">overall</span> light pieces<span style="mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">,</span> this work is about the geography not
the geographic location. Off to one side is a meticulously organized collection
of specimens/ artifacts presented <i>steampunk</i> style with curio cabinetry and
shelving all holding debris/ castoffs/ garbage gather<span style="mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">ed</span> <span style="mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">on-site</span> in both <span style="mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">locales</span>. Rusty tin cans, bones, rocks (<span style="mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">chunks</span> of red <span style="mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">ochre</span>) shells<span style="mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">,</span>
slate (<span style="mso-font-kerning: 12.0pt;">which</span> she has scratched
marks into, suggesting both follies and aboriginal pictograph). There is a
collection of “notebooks” of her explorations. As Jennifer Angus in her
fictional Victorian ethnographic explorer series “A Terrible Beauty” invented a
decor for her explorer to inhabit, Caldwell herself is in this case the
explorer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is both the navigator and
the one doing the “Scientific” documenting, always aware that she is the
intruder rather then the inhabitant. This may explain the frantic motion of her
marks, her stitching the need to take down in short hand the essentials of the
sites and removing herself from the surface of the land before she causes an
impression and leaves yet another scar of human interference.<br />
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collection box and books; works on wall from left to right are <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Comfort of Fog,</i> 2013, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">History of Stone</i>, 2013, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Red Hill/Black Hill</i>, 2013. </span><span style="mso-font-kerning: 0pt;"><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">photo by Lesli Onusko </span><span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">© 2014 Art Gallery of Peterborough</span></span></div>
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<b>T</b>here is an incredible peaceful beauty to this body of work
which will cause the viewer a moment of awe, understanding process or imposing
meaning on the work will not alter the effect it has you. I can only call this
experience an intimate moment of connection. The landscape is not captured; it
is experienced. Dorothy Caldwell: Silent Ice/ Deep Patience is organized by the
Art Gallery of Peterborough in Peterborough Ontario Canada opened on March 22
2014 and will tour to other venues. An exhibition catalogue is in production
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*1 Dorothy Caldwell Interview Surfacing Journal volume 5
Issue 1, 1984 </div>
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Art Gallery of Peterborough<br />
250 Crescent Street <br />
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Dorothy Caldwell: Silent Ice/ Deep Patience March 21 to June
1, 2014, Art Gallery of Peterborough then touring to St Mary's Art Gallery in
Halifax, then the Cambridge Galleries, exhibition catalogue is in production. <a href="http://www.agp.on.ca/exhibitions.php">http://www.agp.on.ca/exhibitions.php</a></div>
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Dorothy Caldwell is a graduate of Temple University, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA,
1970, the 1990 Recipient of the Prix Saidye Bronfman Award, Associate Fellow
University of Nebraska, Lincoln as of 2005 her influence on the current and
coming generation of artist and crafts persons working in textiles, with
textiles in book making and surface exploration grows daily, she is represented
in Toronto by David K Gallery.</div>
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interdisciplinary art exhibition that will be held at the Modern
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February 15 – March 30, 2014 </div>
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Burlington Art Centre <br />
1333 Lakeshore Road,<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt;">opening
reception and artist talk on Sunday February 23, at </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt;">2pm</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11.0pt;">.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="http://www.thebac.ca/" target="_blank">the BAC.ca</a></span></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dorothy Caldwell, Walking on Tundra, <br />
silkscreen and discharged cotton, dyed, stitched and appliqué, <br />
66 cm x 134.62 cm, 2013 <b><b><b><br /></b></b></b></td></tr>
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Peterborough,</span></div>
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250 Crescent Peterborough 250 Crescent</div>
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<b>Opening Reception: Friday, March 21, 7 pm</b></div>
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<a href="http://www.agp.on.ca/" target="_blank">http://www.agp.on.ca/</a></div>
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This new body of work developed by Caldwell continues her
exploration of place, how we mark the land, and how it is visualized in
mapping practices, both conventional and personal. The scope of her
research included extensive travel in both the Australian Outback and
the Canadian Arctic. There are strong parallels between Canada and
Australia and how they each imagine themselves. Both have large central
wilderness landscapes, and are technically both deserts. The Outback and
the Arctic are harsh landscapes that the indigenous populations have
learned to survive in. They are both powerful landscapes that inspire
the imagination and the way we view the country.<br />
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<i>“The works for the exhibition will be a response to these
experiences and how they relate to my own sense of place. Ultimately one
comes back to the familiar landscape with renewed perspective and
ongoing questions about interpreting images and values of another
culture in light of our own experience.” </i><br />
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- Dorothy Caldwell </div>
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Caldwell maintains an active international exhibition and teaching
schedule from her studio in Hastings, Ontario. Her travel and research
in India, Japan, and Australia have influenced her work both as sources
of dyeing and stitching practices and as places where textile artists
share her beliefs in the integration of historical work in contemporary
contexts. Caldwell has been recipient of the Saidye Bronfman Award. <br />
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She
has executed major architectural commissions, and her work is in many
permanent collections including the Museum of Art and Design in New
York, the Canadian Museum of Civilization, the Canadian Department of
Foreign Affairs, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the Art Gallery of
Peterborough. <br />
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Silent Ice / Deep Patience is an AGP touring exhibition and will be accompanied by a publication.<br />
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Both <b>John Willard </b>and <b>Dorothy Caldwell </b>exhibits will present workshops with the artist for more information check out each gallery's websites and book participation through them.<br />
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<b>ON GOING </b>and<b> CLOSING SOON</b> </div>
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Images on invitation all details from Clockwise left to
right: Peggy Mersesau, Bulls eye 2003, J. Lynne Cambel, Gift # 1, 1993, Ilse
Amyas- Sailkauskas Mountain Memories, 1987, Barbara Brown, Ink Scribbles 1988,
Linda Pinhay, New Orleans (Blanche’s
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<b>25 Years of Collecting </b></div>
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January 24 - February 23, 2014</div>
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Cambridge Galleries IDEA | EXCHANGE, </div>
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Queen's Square and <span class="fbPhotoCaptionText"> Design at Riverside </span></div>
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A special expanded edition of the annual Select Works
exhibition has been created as the finale to the Cambridge Galleries IDEA |
EXCHANGE ’s 35th Anniversary celebrations. <a href="http://www.cambridgegalleries.ca/cambridge.taf?section=2" target="_blank">for more information </a></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Karen Thiessen</b>, Hamilton Ontario, The Journey Series: Forgiveness #6 1999, Cotton, dyed and distressed, quilted. <br />
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You can see photos from this event and other shows that opened in January on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152177990499399.1073741835.65369474398&type=1&l=7038b08b13" target="_blank">fQ's facebook page </a><br />
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<b>Transformations: Taking Felt in New Directions</b><br />
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<b>Maggie Glossop</b> and <b>Andrea Graham</b></div>
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Norah Rosamond Hughes Gallery, </div>
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<b>Mississippi Valley Textile Museum </b></div>
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3, Rosamond St. E.<br />
Almonte, Ontario</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image on Invitation "Not to Know But to Go On, (detail) 2010 -2013, found fabrics, cotton embroidery floss, artist canvas cotton tape, hand stitched.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<b> Judy Martin: Mended World</b></div>
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January 19- March 2, 2014</div>
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Art Gallery of Sudbury </div>
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251 rue John St.</div>
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Sudbury, Ontario</div>
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<span class="">Title:
Hamilton Sample, installation, 2014, collage of digital and silkscreen
prints on fabric, found objects and photographs, hand embroidery. Size:
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<span class="userContent">On Thursday feb9 2014 I saw new work by Anna
Torma at Hamilton Artist Inc. [becoming] The Logic of Memory: Corinne
Duchesne, Peter Horvath, Anna Torma, January 23 – March 1, 2014, the
show is very well shaped the combination of Images/ artists work very
well. A catalogue essay by Tara Bursey can be downloaded <a href="http://theinc.ca/2014/01/15/becoming-the-logic-of-memory-corinne-duchesne-peter-horvath-and-anna-torma/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://theinc.ca/2014/01/15/becoming-the-logic-of-memory-corinne-duchesne-peter-horvath-and-anna-torma/</a></span> </div>
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<b>From Geisha to Diva: The Kimonos of Ichimaru</b></div>
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Jan 29, 2014 - Apr 11, 2014 </div>
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<a href="http://www.textilemuseum.ca/apps/index.cfm?page=exhibition.detail&exhId=353" target="_blank">Telling Stories</a> Until Apr 13, 2014<br />
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<a href="https://www.textilemuseum.ca/apps/index.cfm?page=exhibition.detail&exhId=355" target="_blank">Fictions and Legends: Heather Goodchild and Jérôme Havre </a> Until Apr 13, 2014 <br />
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African artist <b>Fiona Kirkwood</b>'s work in the bar / dinning room at the
<b>Gladstone Hotel</b> is part of <b>Hardtwist.</b> note the people sitting down to
dinner if you need a size/ scale reference point see more of her work
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The Gladstone Hotel’s 8th Annual Juried Textile and Fibre Arts Exhibition. Hard Twist 8: This is Personal showcases works exploring the nuances, complexities and politics of that which is individual, private and intimate. <br />
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Cloth is personal. Cloth speaks of the person cocooned in successive layers of textile that communicate who they are, that tell of their dreams and aspirations. And occasionally betray their secrets. <br />
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Radiating out from underwear – intensely personal, usually hidden, and sometimes surprising – through the various layers that signal origins, social position, hopes, fears, sexuality and aspirations, Hard Twist 8 – This Is Personal encompasses the gamut of the human with signals wrapped in cloth.<br />
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I will be interviewing the curators <b>Helena Frei </b>and <b>Chris Mitchell </b>who have been organizing this show since it began in 2006 to coincided with the <b>Textile Society of America's </b>symposium <b>Textile Narratives </b>which took place at Harbourfront Centre in October 2006.</div>
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TD Centre (where this piece lived) given this area the prestige late
modern architecture should have. Unfortunately they are disappearing as
these building become renovated generic office towers out side of the
history of Architecture. the joy comes from seeing it has found a new
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<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45,"tn":"*G"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Since 2006 when I published a story called "</span></span>Who made that: a question about Public (Textile) Art in Canada?" in <a href="http://www.velvethighway.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=67&Itemid=102" target="_blank">fibreQUARTERLY Volume 3 Issue 1 / Winter 2007</a> I have been following the adventures of the tapestry works hanging in the Bay King corridor of downtown Toronto as they slowly disappear. Hopefully they will all end up in public collections where they can be seen. </div>
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While I am sure there are more exhibitions featuring textiles such as <span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.rom.on.ca/en/exhibitions-galleries/exhibitions/current-exhibitions/born-of-the-indian-ocean-the-silks-of" target="_blank"><b>Born of the Indian Ocean: The Silks of Madagascar</b></a> curator Sarah Fee which is on for a limited time in the</span> Middle East / South Asia Special Exhibit case, 3rd Floor Lee-Chin Crystal.at the ROM (I have not seen it yet) and there will be coming up these are the one's that I have been able to track down.</div>
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For cleaning. A kimono would be disassembled and its standardized,
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<b>Arlene Stamp 1983 + 30 </b><br />
18 October, 2013 - 4 January, 2014<br />
Organized from the collection of the Nickle Galleries, <br />
curated by Christine Sowiak with assistance from Katie Green and catalogue essay by Chris Cran. <br />
<b>Nickle Galleries </b>Floor, Taylor Family Digital Library, University of Calgary<br />
<b><br />Save and Retrieve, "Arlene Stamp: 1983+30 "</b><br />
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Arlene Stamp, painter (b at London, Ont 4 June 1938). Stamp studied art at the Alberta College of Art and Design (1974-76) and the UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY (BFA, 1979, and post-graduate studies from 1979-80). Previously she had studied mathematics at the UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO (BA, 1960). *1<br />
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While people that know Calgary based Arlene Stamp's work would argue that it has nothing to do with textiles they would be ignoring the obvious in her body of woven strips of laminated InkJet prints not to mention her manipulation of the grid. With “Arlene Stamp 1983 + 30” the Nickle Galleries at the University of Calgary has organized a retrospective of this artist work that, while inclusive of the different approaches to materials and methods of creating as is representative of their collection, for me this exhibition provides a small glimpse into her wide reaching conceptual thinking. Stamp came of age as an artist when there were many shifts in attitudes towards and in art making. It was an exciting, volatile and confusing time. Feminism was gaining ground. Many female artist were claiming that handicrafts : such as needle work, china painting and other “Decorative” arts along with weaving and quilting which were assumed /assigned to be woman's work, whether it was traditionally or not as an avenue of explorations. Just as many female artist where rejecting these handicrafts /mediums and expanding ways of approaching the pictorial surface and codify painting in order to reassert its position in a new hierarchy where conceptual work held primacy. Arlene Stamp's work is concerned with that pictorial plane/ surface.<br />
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<b> </b>I first came across Arlene Stamps work in Toronto's corridor of power in one of the bank towers at Bay and King.<b><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Mangal;"> “</span></b>Binary Frieze (Squeeze)” and
“Bianary Frieze (Stretch)” are 1993 pieces<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">
</b>installed in the Ernst & Young Lobby, Toronto Dominion Centre, Toronto,
Ontario. They are made of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>vinyl tile on
aluminum. While many of the bank towers in this neighbourhood have had
tapestries hanging in their lobbies (as was the fashion of the era in which
these buildings where constructed), following the postwar “modern”
architectural movement which followed La Corbusier’s clarion call for
“tapestries to decorate the walls of the new architecture” (*2)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not wanting to be thought none modern Toronto
designers followed suit. Unfortunately with the renovations which<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the buildings in this neighbourhood<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>have had in recent years many of the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>emblematic modern era tapestries have disappeared
from street level, public view including Binary Frieze (Stretch and Squeeze).
The retrospective includes two pieces constructed with vinyl tiles: JumpShift
1993, (wall piece) 152.76 X 248.92, vinyl tile, mahogany veneer, gator board
and aluminum stripping, and “Plaza” 1991, a floor piece 365.76 X 731.52, Vinyl
tile on Masonite which Stamp describes as</div>
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<i>“ This series represents my first attempts to picture a
non-periodic pattern using real materials, in this case a line of standard
vinyl floor tiles. Two overlapping grids of tile patterns were set at an angle
of 13 degrees with respect to one another. Because this angle cuts the grids
into shapes with sides of an irrational * length, I thought the resulting
pattern could never repeat. While it does create a a complex and interesting
pattern, I now think I was wrong about it being non-periodic. (* an irrational
number in mathematics is represented by a decimal that goes on forever) “ (*3)</i></div>
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oil and egg medium acryloid and graphite on canvas<br />
24 panels each 45.7 x 45.7 cm<br />
Collection of Nickle Galleries, gift of the artist<br />
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Her interest in mathematics naturally/organically led to
working with digital technologies however there is work in the show that
explores none fine art reproduction technologies such as carbon paper, photo
copies and early/simple computerized graphic design software. These
explorations seem to be used in a counter intuitive manner which is very
interesting. Chris Cran in his catalogue essay writes about her use of Xeroxes
“...as a way of removing herself from the choices that a painter might always
be confronted with: subject matter, composition, colour etc. In this process
these formal components would be predetermined.” (*4)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I see more going on then just what Chris
Cran describes above as these exploration continued<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>over time and will look at what I see as her
attempts to remove herself from the making process., while still having her
work occur. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>The “Gladys M Johnson”
series which is based of Xerox images of a collection of paintings Chris Cran
own are copied in paint onto canvas by Stamp in the early 1980s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the beginning of 2000 she is revisiting
these images in the “lost Paintings” series by using a scanned slide of the
early work. In the first series I see her attempting to remove her hand
(unsuccessfully) from the making of these drawings and paintings as well as the
decision making process, in the latter series which were presented as “Paint By
Number” kits enabling/ allowing others to complete the works and possibly
secede in removing her hand from the finishing of what she calls “Impossible
Paintings.” </div>
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Interestingly in following this line of investigation she
was the curator of a show called “Painting Machines” (5*) for the New Gallery
in Calgary in 1997 where she presented the work a number of younger artist who
were making paintings through automated processes. They had each created or
modified machinery that place paint on the surface through the means of a brush
or spray. I had the luck to see the show and attend a panel discussion during
which they discussed their processes and the reasons behind them.</div>
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left,:Now Won’t You Listen Dearie, 1998, woven laminated inkjet prints, 58.4 x 58.4 cm.,<br />
right:“A” You’re Adorable, 1998,woven laminated inkjet prints,58.4 x 58.4 cm <br />
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This way of using reproduction or information storage
technologies led to another thread of work which situated the hand implicitly
into the digital process. In some ways it is a very simplistic process where
she has transcribed interviews from audio tape, set the text over a multicoloured background and then printed these texts with an inkjet printer,
laminated them, cut them into strips, and then wove them in plain weave
structure. “The Mum Tapes” 1998 are part a body of work build on the
relationship between her mother and herself. The source material is archival
(old home movies and photographs) and collaboratively created audio recordings
of her mother reminiscences . Thinking about “The Mum Tapes” and its various
components and iterations the processes become part of the works, not in an
obvious way but in a subtle ways in which the deterioration of stored materials
not retrieved invalidate or perhaps fictionalize the information making it more
accessible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As her mother's voice is
recorded and played back the tapes themselves distort. The flow of the lamented
printed text ( Now You Won't Listen Dearie” and “A' You'er adorable” are in the
exhibition) is interrupted/ distorted by the interlacing of these strips. The
film strip “Real Life 58 Frames”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>an
enlarged 8 mm “home movies” backed with a electroluminescent light are safely
presented while the originals have suffered deterioration by being shown and,
like the audio tapes, will crumble. The web presentation of this material along
with images of lyrics of songs popular in her mother's youth in the work
“Modern Mother” (*6), all the original materials have been digitized / stored
in a “binary” format that is retrievable by current computer technologies but
their security depends on this technology which will be obsolete one day.</div>
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These steps through different storage and retrieval
systems are in many ways constantly in play throughout out all her works as is
the fact of this exhibition:</div>
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Plato and My Garden) removed decisions making from her painting process,</div>
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provided a way of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>moving captured/
created information (memory and object) from a physical to a “non-physical”
space.</div>
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Paintings series this exhibition is a result of accessing/ retrieving a whole
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Having stopped her studio practice in 2003,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the organizing/ creating an inventory of her
entire body of work is a major achievement, as is finding a home (Storage and
Retrieval mechanism) for it through donating it to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>three<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>institutions in Alberta: the Nickle Galleries at the University of
Calgary, ( where Arlene Stamp 1983 +30 is on display)The Glenbow Museum in
Calgary and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the Art Gallery of Alberta.
In so doing, she has “created” a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>final
work in which she has successfully removed her hand from the creation process.
Like the “impossible Painting" series,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>it is some on else who has completed the work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this case, it is , curator Christine
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*1, the Canadian Encyclopedia <a href="http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/en/article/arlene-stamp/">http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/en/article/arlene-stamp/</a></div>
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*2 “who Made That : a question about Public (Textile) Art
in Canada? By joe Lewis FQ Volume 3, Issue 1/ Winter 2007<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and “Time and Line: brief history of Modern
Tapestry “ by Joe Lewis fQ Volume 5 Issue 3/ Fall 2009</div>
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*3 “Arlene Stamp 1983 +30' catalogue p.13</div>
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*4<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Arlene Stamp”
Chris Cran, “Arlene Stamp 1983 +30' catalogue p.4</div>
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*5 Painting Machine” New Gallery, Calgary Alberta 1997,
Heather Raymont, Jason Dufresne, Roy Meuwissen, Chris Bennett, Brian White,
Ayad Sinawi, John Eisler</div>
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*6 Modern Mother <a href="http://vanitygallery.com/stamp/">http://vanitygallery.com/stamp/</a></div>
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1. Temporal
Matter#1, 2012, Giclèe on
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<b>J. Lynn Campbell: Temporal Matter</b><br />
December 7 - December 29 2013<br />
Loop Gallery <br />
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1273 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON, </div>
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Some are under the impression that embroidery is having a resurgence, a renaissance so to speak. The recent <b>Subversive Stitch Revisited:The Politics of Cloth </b>conference November 29-30 at the <b>Victoria and Albert Museum</b> in London shows there is an obvious academic attempt to understand the use of embroidery in contemporary art and crafts practices. Looked at from a neo-feminist, historic feminist perspective (Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine by Rozsika Parker 1984) and a contemporary theoretical points of view, there is new writing exploring embroidery as media and medium. While there is a lot of new work out there of varying skill levels, coming from many vantage points and fitting concepts and agendas meant to take you away from the aesthetic values of the work, my eye is stopped in its tracks when I encounter beauty not categorized. This is what happened at Loop Gallery when I saw J. Lynn Campbell's work in Temporal Matters. <br />
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While I have encountered embroidery on paper before: London based Italian artist Maurizio Anzer whose work I saw during Fibre Philadelphia 2012 and having seen published images of the work I was quite underwhelmed seeing it in person. There was a quality of Italian Futurism about the work but the tension between paper and thread was awkward, uncomfortable, it was as if the paper would tear over time. It reminded me of those cardboard string art kits of my childhood only they had a more secure feeling about them, the board was not in danger of collapse. Canadian Kate Jackson's "fragile embroidery" on paper towels and other bits of ephemera has a lightness while feeling structurally embedded into the material that is stitched through, which of course it is. J. Lynn Campbell's stitch seems to have been drop onto the surface of her <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Detail of Temporal
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Campbell's practice is based in the art world she has used fibre before and particularly hair, her piece "Model No. 8 [Extension(s) No.1]," 2004 dressmaker's form, steel, fabric, thread, braided horsehair, wrapped wire, copper wire, artificial sinew was shown in Textiles as Art: Selections from the Permanent Collection at the Cambridge Galleries in 2010. This piece is one of the many sculptural works exploring the body and made with mixed media on dress forms among other things which evoke textiles. I saw a precursor to this new embroidered paper work at OCAD Alumni show at the Gladstone in 2012 and had been wondering where she would take this. The piece I saw then was delicate and beautiful as are these works. She has no fear of labour intensive making and while the sculptural pieces have the look of these labours this new work does not.<br />
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" <span lang="EN-CA">Starting with
modified digital imagery printed on archival paper, </span><span lang="EN-CA">Campbell</span><span lang="EN-CA"> overlays
two-dimensional surfaces with drawing and hand sewing. The objects of interest
are organic structures and diverse life forms — characteristic bodily forms of
mature organisms, of which the human body is one such entity. All life forms
are part of a complex interconnected system which is shaped and limited by
time. Temporal Matter encapsulates the spatial and temporal boundaries within
which physical objects exist transform, and dissipate. With consideration to
the real, the symbolic and the abstract </span><span lang="EN-CA">Campbell</span><span lang="EN-CA">’s
composite imagery queries our consequential proximity to the shifting realities
of that which is temporary." from Press Release</span></div>
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4. Temporal
Matter #4, 2013, Giclee on
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The above quote from the press release may increase your interest in seeing the work but it is not necessary to your appreciation when you are entranced by its simple beauty not to mention the skilled needlework. Give yourself over to the decorative quality which places these works outside the limited realm of contemporary art where beauty is rejected or held suspect. The use of thread in contemporary art does not have to be justified, the history of thread used as embellishment which may or may not carry a message or meaning (it depends on who you read) adds to its power and its magic which can easily be manipulated, which is one of the reasons it is rather faddish at the moment, J. Lynn Campbell's use of thread is not faddish it is integral to these pieces and enhances them, it doesn't draw attention to itself. These pieces are successful works of art. How I observe them comes from my appreciation of needle work how you will enjoy them will come from you. -----------------------------------------<br />
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Loop Gallery <br />
1273 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ONM6J 1X8 (three doors west of Dovercourt) <br />
Wednesday - Saturday 12 p.m. - 5 p.m., Sunday 1 p.m. - 4 p.m. or by appointment (416-516-2581 or<span class="style"> </span><a class="style_1" href="mailto:loopgallery@primus.ca" title="mailto:loopgallery@primus.ca">loopgallery@primus.ca</a><span class="style_2">.</span><span class="style_3">)</span><br />
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<span class="style_3"> <a href="http://www.loopgallery.ca/loop/home.html" target="_blank">http://www.loopgallery.ca/loop/home.html</a></span><br />
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<span class="style_3">Subversive Stitch Revisited <a href="http://www.designhistory.ie/index.php/conference-the-subversive-stitch-revisited-the-politics-of-cloth-va-london-29-30-november-2013/" target="_blank">http://www.designhistory.ie/index.php/conference-the-subversive-stitch-revisited-the-politics-of-cloth-va-london-29-30-november-2013/</a></span><br />
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<span class="style_3"> </span>Maurizio Anzer (see Altered Images by Jamie Chalmers in SD summer
2012) <br />
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Kate Jackson <a href="http://katejacksonart.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank">http://katejacksonart.blogspot.ca/ </a><br />
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<span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;">Centre d’action
culturelle de la MRC de Papineau</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">70 embroidered works representing 24 hours
in the life of an ordinary person, Maggy M, a mother of two, she lives in the
suburbs, is a naturally beautiful woman, outgoing, active, she divides her time
between her family and work, social engagements and her kids' activities. She
lives a seemingly normal life, one that she enjoys. She is nothing less than
some 7 billion individuals that inhabit this planet, which is why she deserves
our attention. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA"><a href="http://www.culturepapineau.org/expositions/expos-a-venir">http://www.culturepapineau.org/expositions/expos-a-venir</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">While you are in </span><b><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;">Saint-André-Avellinon </span></b><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;">the 24th or 25</span> remember to stop by <b>TWIST</b>festival<br />
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<span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><b><span class="hps">TWIST</span> </b><span class="hps">is the</span> <span class="hps">most important festival of</span> <span class="hps">the textile fiber</span> <span class="hps">in Quebec</span> <span class="hps">brings together the</span> <span class="hps">major players in the</span> <span class="hps">industry.</span> <span class="hps">TWIST</span> <span class="hps">is</span> <span class="hps">an</span> <span class="hps">annual event</span>, <span class="hps">a foray into</span> <span class="hps">the world of</span> <span class="hps">textile</span> <span class="hps">fiber</span> <span class="hps">for the general public</span>, fans, <span class="hps">fiber producers</span><span class="">,</span> <span class="hps">livestock producers</span> <span class="hps">fiber</span>, processors, artists, artisans <span class="hps">,</span> <span class="hps">professionals and</span> <span class="hps">semi</span>-professionals. <span class="hps"> </span></span><br />
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<span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><b><span class="hps">TWIST</span> </b><span class="hps">is</span> <span class="hps">two</span> <span class="hps">days</span>, <span class="hps">twenty</span> <span class="hps">workshops,</span> <span class="hps">activities for all</span>, <span class="hps">a</span> <span class="hps">textile art</span> <span class="hps">and more than 80</span> <span class="hps">exhibitors</span> <span class="hps">gallery.</span> <span class="hps">24-25</span> <span class="hps">August 2013</span> <span class="hps"> </span></span><br />
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<span class="long_text" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">H</span><span class="hps">ours of the</span> <span class="hps">festival</span>: <span class="hps">Saturday,</span> <span class="hps">August 24</span> <span class="hps">from 9am to 18pm</span> <span class="hps">Sunday</span> <span class="hps">August 25</span> <span class="hps">from 9h to 17h</span></span><br />
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<b><span lang="FR" style="mso-ansi-language: FR;"><a href="http://www.festivaltwist.org/">http://www.festivaltwist.org/</a></span></b><br />
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August 25 from </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA">1</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA"> to </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA">3pm</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA"><b>Shenkman Arts Centre,</b> </span><span lang="EN-CA">245 Centrum BLVD.</span><span lang="EN-CA"> </span><span lang="EN-CA">Orleans</span><span lang="EN-CA"> </span><span lang="EN-CA">ON</span><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Ottawa</span><span lang="EN-CA"> </span><span lang="EN-CA">School</span><span lang="EN-CA"> of Art – Orleans Campus Gallery: </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA"><b>Brennan & Maffei Tapestries</b>. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA"><b>Felted Language</b>: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">felted works by contemporary fibre
artists Claire Guerette of </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Gatineau</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">
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perspective: Krystyna Sadeg</span></div>
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August 26 sleep</span></b></div>
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August 27 </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA"><b>Naked COPTIC Dancers</b> </span>curated by Dirk Holger</div>
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<b><span lang="EN-CA">Inner Vision: Maximo Laura</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">3 Rosamond Street
East</span><span lang="EN-CA">, </span><span lang="EN-CA">Almonte</span><span lang="EN-CA">, </span><span lang="EN-CA">Mississippi</span><span lang="EN-CA"> Mills, ON</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">Between the openings at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum and the next event there are 2 days to go back and look at shows in </span><span lang="EN-CA">Ottawa area, then it is time to go to the</span><br />
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<b>The New art of the Loom</b>: Contemporary International Tapestries<br />
curated by Dirk Holger,<br />
August 29 to October 6<br />
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<a href="http://www.gatineau.ca/page.asp?p=quoi_faire/galeries_art_expositions" target="_blank"><b>Galerie Montcalm</b></a></div>
25 rue Laurier, Gatineau, Quebec,<br />
<b><span lang="EN-CA">Matrices</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA">August 31 to </span><span lang="EN-CA">October 6, 2013</span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-CA"> </span></b>a group exhibition presents textile pieces from the artists creating
the 13 outdoor textile art installations of Triennale Internationale des
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<span lang="EN-CA">Irene Anton, Maureen Ballagh, Ewa Bartozs
Mazus, Lynne Bedbrook, Karina Bergmans , Lou-Anne Bourdeau, Marina Btesh, Erika
Connor, Carol Chave, Thomas Cronenberg, Lisa DuFresne, Caroline Gamiette,
Claire Guérette, Stephanie Hill, EK Jeong, Asta e Kovanen, Diane Lemire, Lise
Létourneau, Catherine Libmann, Véronique Louppe, Mylène Michaud, Kathryn
Pannepacker, Ali Rabjohns, Krystyna Sadej, Juana Sleizer, Susan Taber Avila.</span></div>
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exhibitions that explore the textile arts. The tapestries of <a href="http://www.artpontiac.com/2013Gallery/05-Ewen-Shutt-Timm.html#thoma">Thoma
Ewen</a>, jewellery of <a href="http://www.artpontiac.com/2013Gallery/05-Ewen-Shutt-Timm.html#gabby">Gabby
Ewen</a>, painted silk of <a href="http://www.artpontiac.com/2013Gallery/05-Ewen-Shutt-Timm.html#dale">Dale
Shutt</a> and fibre art landscapes of <a href="http://www.artpontiac.com/2013Gallery/05-Ewen-Shutt-Timm.html#catharine">Catharine
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Provost's exhibition "A day in the life of Maggy M:</span>:" opening on the 24th presents a problem.<br />
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Interestingly enough <a href="http://www.festivaltwist.org/" target="_blank">Festival Twist --- Fibre Artisanale </a> is happening there that weekend so I need to go don't I. I just thought I would put up these maps so you could get an idea of the geography involved <br />
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Joe Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07030577606003203011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676469.post-61458028390909955332013-04-08T14:43:00.002-04:002013-06-07T13:40:41.440-04:00Textile Extra: Spring Time in Toronto 2013 <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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/ Spring Summer 2011 - Dior by John Galliano. Image courtesy of Laziz
Hamani. Commissioned by the ROM thanks to the generous support of the
Louise Hawley Stone Charitable Trust. BIG TIME: took 500 hours to make;
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<span lang="EN-CA"><b>Fashion Crimes: The BIG Debate</b></span></div>
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<b>Ashlee Froese</b>, a branding and fashion lawyer at Gilbert’s LLP; <br />
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<b>Jeremy Laing</b>, one of the most innovative Canadian designers working in the world today; <br />
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<b>Robert Ott</b>, Chair of the School of Fashion at Ryerson University; <br />
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<b>Nicholas Mellamphy</b>, Vice President and Buying Director, The Room and Personal Shopping at <br />
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to get tickets go to <a href="http://www.rom.on.ca/en/activities-programs/events-calendar/fashion-crimes-the-big-debate">http://www.rom.on.ca/en/activities-programs/events-calendar/fashion-crimes-the-big-debate</a><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"> </span>“Hitler’s rise to power brought a national natural look for women to embody the health and strength of the Reich. They were to be fresh faced in the party uniform or the dirndl of the newly restored national costume; wholesome bastions of racial purity fulfilling their simple duties in the domestic sphere. The women complied with their duties, breeding and working en masse for the war effort, but despite intense pressures to conform to the proscribed style and to relinquish all cosmetics, permanents and dyes, most simply refused.” ...excerpt from “Nazi Chic:Fashioning Women in the Third Reich” by Irene Guenther published in the September/October 05 issue of Selvedge Magazine<br />
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<b>Books that may be of interest</b><br />
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<b>Fashion Under the Occupation</b> by Dominique Veillon<br />
Translated by Miriam Kochan. <br />
New York: Berg, 2002. xi + 205 pp. ISBN 1-85973-543-6<br />
Before the outbreak of WWII, French fashion represented the very pinnacle of style, and French women the epitome of chic. At home and abroad, couturiers’ wealthy clients eagerly awaited the latest collections, and design houses throughout the world looked to Paris for inspiration. Unparalleled for glamour and elegance, all things French were noted and emulated - and especially French fashion.<br />
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One morning in September 1939, into this idyllic world of haute couture and Café society came the shattering experience of war, followed by the German Occupation. French women, determined not to give way to the inevitable austerities, sought innovation: hats made from blotting paper or newspapers - the latter signalling political allegiances - and blouses made out of parachute silk, often obtained through dubious means. Not only did life go on, but creativity flourished - culottes, which enabled stylish bicycle journeys, became the vogue, and couturiers capitalized on deprivation with wit - dubbing designs ‘Coal’ and ‘Black Coffee’, or naming an entire collection after Métro stops.<br />
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Fashion under the Occupation provides the only in-depth history of these blackest years in French history, long overlooked by fashion history because of the impoverished industry and deprivations that affected design. Widely acknowledged as the authoritative work on fashion during this period, it is available in English for the first time and will be essential reading for anyone interested in fashion, French cultural history, and particularly the German Occupation of France.<br />
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read a review by <b>Steven Zdatny</b> in <b>Enterprise & Society, Volume 4, Number 3</b>, September 2003, <a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/ens/summary/v004/4.3zdatny.html">http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/ens/summary/v004/4.3zdatny.html</a><br />
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<b><br />Fashion Under Fascism: Beyond the Black Shirt</b><br />
by<span dir="ltr"> Eugenia Paulicelli</span><br />
<span dir="ltr"> </span>New York: Berg, 2004<br />
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Prada, Gucci, Max Mara: high fashion is synonymous with luxury, glamor, pleasure, and Italy. Yet Italian fashion also has a dark history that has not previously been explored. The Fascism of 1930's Italy dominated more than just politics--it spilled over into modes of dress. Fashion under Fascism is the first book to consider this link in detail. Fashion often functions as a tacit means of making a social statement, but under Mussolini it vividly reflected political tyranny. Paulicelli explores the subtle yet sinister changes to the seemingly innocuous practices of everyday dress and shows why they were such a concern for the state. Importantly, she also demonstrates how these developments impacted on the global dominance of Italian fashion today. This fascinating book includes interviews with major designers, such as Fernanda Gattinoni and Micol Fontana, and sheds new light on the complicated relationship between style and politics.<br />
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You can now read my review of <a href="http://www.velvethighway.com/JoeLewis%20Prose/088_SV50.pdf">"BIG" </a> which was published in Selvedge Issue 50 "Ethnographic" Jan /Feb 2013 as a PDF <br />
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<b>Up and coming exhibitions </b><br />
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You can see images from some of these events in the <br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151593420839399.1073741826.65369474398&type=1&l=4e79a3149f" target="_blank">May 2013 Textile and Shiny object Sightings</a> facebook Album <br /><br />
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<b>Sheridan Craft & Design Graduate Exhibition </b><br />
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April 18-23, 2013<br />
Opening Reception – April 18, 2013, 7pm-10pm <br />
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<b>Ceramics and Furniture</b><br />
April 26-May 4, 2013<br />
Opening Reception – April 26, 2013, 7pm-10pm<br />
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This spring some of Canadaʼs top emerging craft and design students will be showcasing the results of their final year of work in Sheridanʼs Craft and Design program. This Could Work, hosted by the Ontario Crafts Council, highlights the results of many months of experimentation, practice and examination. <br />
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The students, active in four studios including Glass, Textiles, Ceramics and Furniture, will be presenting a broad body of work encompassing functional, sculptural, decorative, and conceptual pieces. These well considered objects often hide the many months of toil and uncertainty that have gone into their production. This Could Work represents many new makers, their hopeful spirit of experimentation, and, a fresh perspective. <br />
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Recognized as one of Canadaʼs finest Craft and Design programs, Sheridanʼs Craft and Design program produces graduates who have received national and international accolades for their work. The three-year intensive program provides Sheridan students with a strong foundation in craft-based skills and intimate knowledge of materials and technical processes that set them apart from other design students. This Could Work reflects a deep commitment to process, and offers a brief window into the studentʼs exciting future careers. </div>
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<b>98th annual Graduate Exhibition: </b>The Class of 2013, OCAD University <br />
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6:30pm to 11:00pm, Thursday May 2, 2013<br />
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OPENING NIGHT: Thursday, May 2, 6:30 to 11 p.m. (all are welcome!)<br />
Friday, May 3, 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.<br />
Saturday, May 4, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.<br />
Sunday, May 5, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.<br />
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The class of 2013, an eclectic mix of more than 550 graduating students working in twelve undergraduate programs, present their final thesis work to an audience of more than 26,000 guests. <br />
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OCAD University's students work in a broad spectrum of disciplines, ranging from drawing and painting, printmaking, photography, criticism and curatorial practice, integrated media and sculpture/installation in the Faculty of Art; to advertising, environmental, industrial and graphic design, illustration and material art and design (jewellery, fibre and ceramics) in the Faculty of Design. OCAD U's annual "GradEx" transforms the university’s main building and the acclaimed Sharp Centre for Design into one of Toronto's largest and most anticipated exhibitions of emerging talent.<br />
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NEW! for 2013, is a FREE multiplatform app for OCAD University’s Graduate Exhibition. Information on wayfinding, exhibitors, medal winners and a full schedule of events are just a few of the features. Available mid-April 2013 from your app store. <a href="http://myeventapps.com/ocadugradex">http://myeventapps.com/ocadugradex</a>/<br />
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You can see photos of some of the MADD fibre students work on facebook that have been posted by OCAD University instructor <b><a href="http://www.lynneheller.com/" target="_blank">Lynne Heller,</a> </b>I believe you will have to sign into face to see these images<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10200804828020221.1073741830.1148922021&type=1" target="_blank">Ritual & Repetition - 2013, OCAD University student work, Material Arts & Design</a><br />
<b>Ancestry and Artistry: Maya textiles from Guatemala</b><br />
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May 8, 2013 -Oct 14, 2013<br />
<b>Textile Museum of Canada</b><br />
55 Centre Avenue (Dundas St. W & University Ave., St. Patrick subway)<br />
Toronto, Ontario<br />
curated by Roxane Shaughnessy<br />
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Guatemala is well known for the richness of its indigenous Maya culture,
and the Museum has examples of highly elaborate clothing and
accessories from a variety of communities throughout the region. They
will be displayed alongside material from international museum
collections and contemporary artwork by Guatemalan artists.<br />
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Maya traje, the distinctive traditional dress of the highland Maya, is
the primary visual expression of Maya identity in Guatemala today.
Throughout the 20th century and into the present, Maya clothing has
gradually changed, and today handmade traditional styles of dress for
everyday, festive and ceremonial occasions, exist alongside modern
styles made with commercial cloth and machine embroidery. The vibrantly
coloured weavings with evocative symbolic designs offer an array of
unique insights into the dynamics of tradition and innovation, the local
and the global, as they are reflected in everyday lives<br />
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<b>Exhibitions current running </b><br />
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Textile Museum<br />
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<b>Shine</b><br />
Mar 27, 2013 - Jun 9, 2013<br />
Textile Museum of Canada<br />
55 Centre Avenue (Dundas St. W & University Ave., St. Patrick subway)<br />
Toronto, Ontario<br />
Curated by Natalia Nekrassova and Sarah Quinton<br />
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centuries, the light and lustre of materials have captivated cultures
and societies, artisans and artists, attributing to even simple objects
an allure of beauty, luxury and opulence. Throughout the world,
reflective metals, mirrors, silver- and gold-wrapped thread, sequins,
beads and even insect wings have been skillfully transformed to create
some of the most mystifying and coveted cultural and personal
expressions.<br />
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Shine spans 200 years of extraordinary
human ingenuity – handmade objects that are both celebratory and
commonplace, excessive and unassuming. The exhibition features an array
of exquisite traditional garments and accessories from the Museum’s
permanent collections integrated with the work of contemporary artists,
creating timely conversations that engage complex and sometimes
conflicting ideals of desire, status, wealth and beauty.<br />
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<b>Royal Ontario Museum</b> in Toronto <br />
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<![endif]-->Piece of French produced “Chintz”
which is a woodblock printed Glazed cotton textile. The floral pattern was
designed by <b>Baptiste Japui of Japui & Son of Paris</b>. It has a BIG repeat design almost 1.5 meter
in height. The ROM has 3 meters of this textile so you see the image twice. This
piece comes from the <b>Harry Wearne Collection</b>, given to the ROM by his widow in
1934. The collection totals 1,238 pieces and features mainly French printed
textiles of the 18th - 19th centuries but also includes important examples of
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The ROM went <b>"BIG"</b> in the fall of 2012 with fashion and textiles , BIG runs until Fall 2013 in the <br />
<b><a href="http://www.rom.on.ca/en/exhibitions-galleries/galleries/world-cultures/patricia-harris-gallery-textiles-costume" target="_blank">Patricia Harris Gallery of Textiles and Costume</a>,</b> Level 4 <br />
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The newest ROM exhibition showcases textiles and costume that, in their
own remarkable way, are BIG … BIG in size, BIG in historical importance,
BIG news, created by a BIG name, carry a BIG price tag, and so on. <br />
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Funky and unique, forty objects – both historical and contemporary –
gathered from the ROM’s extensive collections showcase BIG from around
the world. They range from Egyptian clothing to 18th- and 19th- century
western costumes to 20th-century haute couture. Some have never before
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There will a screening of the Making of <span class="overlay"><span class="description">the Dior Dress made from 175 metres of cloth </span></span>as well as a panel looking at <span class="overlay"><span class="description">Haute Couture "industry" later in the spring of 2013.</span></span></div>
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Joe Lewishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07030577606003203011noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28676469.post-82641568695452095442013-03-27T02:26:00.004-04:002013-06-07T13:36:09.753-04:00Naked COPTIC Dancers and other textile exhibtions in Canada 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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"Naked COPTIC Dancers", "Inner Vision: Maximo Laura", at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum in Almonte, Ontario, New Art of the Loom: Galerie Montcalm, and Homage to Micheline Beauchemin:Espace Pierre-Debain, Gatineau, Quebec and Matrices :Triennial Internationale des Arts Textiles in Outaouais, Quebec.<br />
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Taking a quick glance at what is going up in museums and galleries across Canada I have noticed that if you live in the National Capital Region [Ottawa / Hull area] textile exhibitions are thick on the ground. Curator: Thoma Ewen of the Moon Rain, the Centre for textile arts in the Outaouais has been working hard over the past few years to bring world class Tapestry and textile work in the area by organizing the Triennale Internationale des Arts Textiles in Outaouais and bringing international touring shows into galleries in Gatineau on the Quebec side of the Capital Region. With this years programming at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum in Almonte Ontario has in many ways come into its own presenting both historical and contemporary textile work along side the regions industrial textile history. <br />
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With <a href="http://www.enavril.com/vernissages.html" target="_blank"><b>En arvil</b></a> opening on March 28th and this years edition of <a href="http://www.biennaledulin.ca/" target="_blank">Biennale internationale du lin de Portneuf 2013</a> later this year the province of Quebec continuous its distinct love affair with textile arts.You can find more information below and visit the websites and their facebook pages<br />
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<b>Cross country Check Up</b><br />
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below is a partial list of exhibitions opening in some provinces across Canada<br />
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<b>British Columbia</b><br />
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<b><span style="color: black;">Capilano University</span> <a href="http://www.capilanou.ca/textile-arts/events/Textile-Arts-Grad-Show-2013/" target="_blank">Textile Arts Grad Show 2013 </a></b><br />
Thursday, May 16, 2013 to Friday, June 7, 2013<br />
Cityscape Gallery<br />
335 Lonsdale Ave. North Vancouver, BC, V7M 2G3<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">May 16-18, </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">For more information visit website; <a href="http://www.canadianquilter.com/events/quilt-canada-2013.php">http://www.canadianquilter.com/events/quilt-canada-2013.php</a></span><br />
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<b>Maiwa Symposium 2013</b><br />
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<b>Miawa Loft </b><br />
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<b>Maiwa East</b> 1310 Odlum Drive<br />
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<span class="bodytext">Registration Opens June 24 at 10am<br />
Look for listings on the<a href="http://registration%20opens%20june%2024%20at%2010am%20look%20for%20listings%20on%20the%20maiwa%20blog%20in%20april.%20/" target="_blank"> <u><b>Maiwa Blog</b></u> </a>in April.</span><br />
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<b>INVOKING VENUS, Feathers and Fashion</b><br />
February 7 - May 5, 2013<br />
<b>Beaty Biodiversity Museum</b> [natural history museum]<br />
2212 Main Mall<br />
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<a href="http://beatyfaunafashion.eventbrite.com/">FAUNA IN FASHION, the Exploitation of Animals for Beauty</a><br />
Saturday, April 13, 2013, 2:00 p.m. (with Ivan Sayers)<br />
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<a href="http://beatyhatched.eventbrite.com/">HATCHED, MATCHED AND DISPATCHED, the Clothing Rituals of Birth, Marriage and Death</a><br />
Saturday, May 4, 2013, 2:00 p.m. (with Ivan Sayers)<br />
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visit website for more information <a href="http://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/">http://beatymuseum.ubc.ca/</a><br />
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The information about this exhibition was found on the website for the <b>Greater Vancouver Weavers’ and Spinners’ Guild</b> [est 1935] <a href="http://www.gvwsg.com/">http://www.gvwsg.com/</a> where you can find information on more up and coming Textile events in Vancouver<br />
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<b>10,000 Hrs: Vancouver Regional Exhibition</b> <br />
Presented by the CCBC as part of its 40th Anniversary Celebrations<br />
<b>Shadbolt Centre for the Arts</b> <br />
April 15th - May 1st, 2013<br />
Burnaby, BC<br />
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for more information; <a href="http://www.craftcouncilbc.ca/final2/index.htm">http://www.craftcouncilbc.ca/final2/index.htm</a><br />
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<b>Outside the Box</b><br />
White Rock, British Columbia, Canada<br />
SEPTEMBER2013<br />
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see website for details <a href="http://www.outsidetheboxwhiterock.ca/" target="_blank"> http://www.outsidetheboxwhiterock.ca/</a><br />
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<b>Alberta </b><br />
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You can see images from some of the exhibitions in Alberta [Calgary, Emonton] and Ontario in <br />
<a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151551451684399.1073741825.65369474398&type=1&l=f06f7fe55c" target="_blank">Textile Sightings March-April 2013</a> facebook Album <br /><br />
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I have been in Calgary<b> </b>for the month of March where I have seen some exhibitions and some very exciting things starting with attending a talk at the Art Gallery of Calgary which allowed me to see a truly astounding exhibition.</div>
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I went to this talk at the Art Gallery of Calgary: <b>Collaborative Quilting</b> on March 7, 2013 6pm<br />
<b>Linda Hawke</b> and <b>Cat Schick</b>, artists and organizers of a collaborative quilting workshop, will exhibit and share insights about their initiative to explore a range of women’s perspectives on sleep and dreams, and support healing through art. Their presentation includes photos, stories and the quilts themselves, made by women participating in this 10-week residency at the Women’s Centre of Calgary. <a href="http://artgallerycalgary.org/programs/monthly-public-programs/">http://artgallerycalgary.org/programs/monthly-public-programs/</a><br />
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Maimuna Feroze-Nana vale/cage “no” photo taken with permission at Art Gallery of Calgary</td></tr>
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<b>Off the Beaten Path: Violence Woman and Art</b> the exhibition that was on at the Art Gallery of Calgary when I went to the<b> Collaborative Quilting</b> talk came as such a surprise and the fact that i was lucky enough to see it a few days before it closes was just serendipitous. the above piece is by <b>Maimuna Feroze-Nana</b> entitled “no” this vale and the 14 sketches that go with it while looking like notes/ designs for a wedding vale are defiantly not. definitely not, that is just one of the works by the 35 woman in a show curated by Randy Jayne Rosenburg for <a href="http://www.artworksforchange.org/exhibition/off-the-beaten-path-violence-women-and-art/" target="_blank">“Art Works that Change” </a> The exhibition is on tour and will be back in Canada
in Winnipeg if Feb 2014. (schedule on website says Capetown South
Africa is its next stop, I was told Madrid)</div>
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<b>Hanging By a Thread</b><br />
July 6 September 28<br />
Alberta Craft Council<br />
10186-106 Street<br />
Edmonton, Alberta<br />
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An exhibition using Textiles to explore the relationships among multiple generations of women. Participating Artists: Ilse Anysas-Salkauskas, Emily Ella Rigaux, Monika Salkauskas, Lynda Strakowski, Pat Strakowski, Barbara J. West, Robin West<br />
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<b>Ontario</b><br />
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<b>Burlington</b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Ixchel Suarez</b> with one of her tapestry pieces at the <b>Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre</b> in Oakville during World
of Threads Festival, Common Thread International Exhibition, De rerum
natura (On the nature of Things) curator Gareth Bate; Photo from fb album <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152252039615311.933759.890860310&type=1&l=508e2524e3" target="_blank">November 2012 Textile Sightings Part Two</a></td></tr>
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<b>Marotta and Suarez: Form and Shape</b><br />
Apr 20th - Jun 2nd, 2013<br />
<a href="http://www.thebac.ca/get-inspired/exhibitions/exhibitions/marotta-and-suarez-form-and-shape/" target="_blank">Lee-Chin Family Gallery, Burlington Art Centre</a><br />
1333 Lakeshore Road <span class="s1"><br /> </span>Burlington, Ontario<br />
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The exhibition presents recent works by <b>Laura Marotta</b> and <b>Ixchel
Suarez</b>. It is curated by George Wale Both artists have distinctive practices, operating within the
discipline of contemporary textiles. <br />
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Marotta constructs wooden three dimensional objects which are based
on elements and principles of the waffle weave. These sculptures were
engaging and exciting; they are connected to weaving conceptually, but
definitely don’t look like textiles. Ixchel Suarez creates large format,
visually arresting tapestries. She employs traditional tapestry
techniques with an inquisitive contemporary artist’s design
sensibility.<br />
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These are two art practices which explore the world around us. The
contemporary textiles link is at best a slender thread. Common concerns
are the repetition of form with structural and mathematical inner
sources underlying their design - manifestations of thinking about
materials and life.<br />
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<b>Kitchener Waterloo</b><br />
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<b>Quilt & Fibre Art Festival Waterloo Region & Beyond</b><br />
Tuesday May 21 to Saturday May 25, 2013<br />
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With the participation of :THE GRAND GUILD OF FIBRE ARTISTS,CANADIAN EMBROIDERERS GUILD GUELPH, GROUP OF EIGHT FIBRE ARTISTS GUILD, "X Blocks" TRUNK SHOW Guest Artist: Diane Carson, Cambridge Quilt Show, Fergus Quilt Show as well as the THE GRAND NATIONAL QUILT SHOW 2013 and NEW HAMBURG MENNONITE RELIEF SALE & QUILT AUCTION. south central Ontario is the place to be in May <br />
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see website for details ;<a href="http://www.stjacobs.com/quilt-fibre-festival" target="_blank"> http://www.stjacobs.com/quilt-fibre-festival</a><br />
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<b>Toronto</b><br />
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Textile Museum<br />
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<b>Shine</b><br />
Mar 27, 2013 - Jun 9, 2013<br />
Textile Museum of Canada<br />
55 Centre Avenue (Dundas St. W & University Ave., St. Patrick subway)<br />
Toronto, Ontario<br />
Curated by Natalia Nekrassova and Sarah Quinton<br />
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For
centuries, the light and lustre of materials have captivated cultures
and societies, artisans and artists, attributing to even simple objects
an allure of beauty, luxury and opulence. Throughout the world,
reflective metals, mirrors, silver- and gold-wrapped thread, sequins,
beads and even insect wings have been skillfully transformed to create
some of the most mystifying and coveted cultural and personal
expressions.<br />
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Shine spans 200 years of extraordinary
human ingenuity – handmade objects that are both celebratory and
commonplace, excessive and unassuming. The exhibition features an array
of exquisite traditional garments and accessories from the Museum’s
permanent collections integrated with the work of contemporary artists,
creating timely conversations that engage complex and sometimes
conflicting ideals of desire, status, wealth and beauty.<br />
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<b>Ancestry and Artistry: Maya textiles from Guatemala</b><br />
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May 8, 2013 -Oct 14, 2013<br />
Textile Museum of Canada<br />
55 Centre Avenue (Dundas St. W & University Ave., St. Patrick subway)<br />
Toronto, Ontario<br />
curated by Roxane Shaughnessy<br />
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Guatemala is well known for the richness of its indigenous Maya culture, and the Museum has examples of highly elaborate clothing and accessories from a variety of communities throughout the region. They will be displayed alongside material from international museum collections and contemporary artwork by Guatemalan artists.<br />
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Maya traje, the distinctive traditional dress of the highland Maya, is the primary visual expression of Maya identity in Guatemala today. Throughout the 20th century and into the present, Maya clothing has gradually changed, and today handmade traditional styles of dress for everyday, festive and ceremonial occasions, exist alongside modern styles made with commercial cloth and machine embroidery. The vibrantly coloured weavings with evocative symbolic designs offer an array of unique insights into the dynamics of tradition and innovation, the local and the global, as they are reflected in everyday lives<br />
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<b>National Capital Region</b><br />
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Dob- Cross Loom is part of the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum core
collection of Textile Machinery. envisioned as a history Museum of the
local, regional and national textile industry. This loom had been
installed at Eaton's Toronto Store along with a weaver to show how
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<a href="http://mvtm.ca/museum/?page_id=534" target="_blank"><b>Mississippi Valley Textile Museum</b></a><br />
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3, Rosamond St. E.<br />
Almonte, Ontario<br />
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“ ...located in the annex of the former <b>Rosamond Woolen Company</b> in Almonte, Ontario. Constructed in 1867 this National Historic Site of Canada now features a blend of the old and new, all related to the history of the Mississippi Valley and the textile industry.<br />
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Exhibitions range from early mill history and period mill equipment to cottage industry and eclectic modern fibre art exhibitions. Our museum combines traditional static and working displays of textile equipment and processes with activities and events focusing on the region’s heritage, culture and role of the textile industry in the development of Canada.” from website<br />
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Visit their <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MVTextileMuseum" target="_blank">facebook page</a> to see images of what is going on <br />
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Exhibitions list<br />
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<b>150 Years of Canadian Weddings</b> 9 March, 2013 ~ 18 May, 2013 <br />
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<b>Rare Reflections: Hilary Rice</b>, 19 March, 2013 ~ 18 May, 2013<br />
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<b>The Rosamonds: A Woven Family Legacy</b> 14 May 2013,-July 20 2013<br />
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<b>Inner Vision Maximo Laura</b>, 13 August – 10 October 2013 and Naked CCOPTIC dancers: ,Collection of Dirk Holger (Atelier Jean Lurçat) 13 August -12 October 2013 (part of Triennale Internationale des Arts Textiles <br />
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COPTIC textiles were woven by Christian Egyptians in the 3rd to 12th century. Their intricate designs vary tremendously during one millennium. Yet, the artistic expression and joyful love for imaginative woven designs is strong in all epochs. Abstraction of the human form figure, of beasts and saints, of warriors, dancers, horsemen, nereid and stylized leaves and flowers started with the Islamic conquest in the 7th century. The tapestry-woven textiles are mostly cut out tunic fragments, executed in extremely fine weaving quality with exuberant fantasy of the woven images.
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<b>Unravelling tension: Bozica Radjenovic</b> , 22 October – 21 dec 2013<br />
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“The autobiographical sculpture nurtured and knitted by Božica Rađenović is about facing yourself. It is a kind of a diary that our artist keeps as a place of her reconsideration of identity and existence itself, her personal foothold. Knitting is a way to materialize, with the finest threads, the dreamed and imagined, to express longing, not to forget the past and to create the new… The world of knitting that grows like by cellular division contains vitality and regenerative powers, interweaving of memories of traces of the previous life into everyday life. The material itself, but also the names of some knitted sculptures have as their aim to bring about the effect of the organic, warmth, safety of a nest, mother’s hug, clothes as protection, covering and wrapping of people and organic and inorganic worlds in a knitted, woollen material that is a symbol of tenderness, care, safety and warm touch, embracement and taking in. In her new country, the sculptor has the feeling of having lost her footing, her safe refuge and therefore her sculptures often hover, vibrate in space, showing static instability and interacting with every physical, mechanical movement or even the slightest air flow. A knitted tree hanging or shoes with roots growing from the soles are some of the variations of the theme of being without roots in a new social and art context.”<br />
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<b>Matrices :Triennale Internationale des Arts Textiles</b><br />
Moon Rain Centre for Textile Arts <br />
Outaouais, Quebec<br />
August 31 to October 6, 2013<br />
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This
group exhibition presents textile pieces from the artists creating the
13 outdoor textile art installations: Irene Anton, Maureen Ballagh, Ewa
Bartozs Mazus, Lynne Bedbrook, Karina Bergmans , Lou-Anne Bourdeau,
Marina Btesh, Erika Connor, Carol Chave, Thomas Cronenberg, Lisa
DuFresne, Caroline Gamiette, Claire Guérette, Stephanie Hill, EK Jeong,
Asta e Kovanen, Diane Lemire, Lise Létourneau, Catherine Libmann,
Véronique Louppe, Mylène Michaud, Kathryn Pannepacker, Ali Rabjohns,
Krystyna Sadej, Juana Sleizer, Susan Taber Avila.<br />
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For more information about the <b>Triennale Internationale des Arts Textiles </b>and the other exhibitions associated with it visit their website <a href="http://www.moonrain.ca/">http://www.moonrain.ca/</a><br />
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Artists: Irene Anton & Andie
Haltrich installation during "When Thirteen Moons
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<b>Outdoor Textile Art</b> <a href="http://moonrain.ca/installations.html" target="_blank">Installations integrating textile arts into the natural environment </a><br />
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This outdoor laboratory brings together 26 artists in the creation of 13 outdoor textile art installations along a 1.5 km walking trail at Moon Rain Centre for Textile Arts in the Outaouais. <span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Moon Rain Centre for Textile Arts in
the Outaouais, the Studio Exhibition and the Outdoor Textile Art
Installations will be open to the public on weekends and weekdays by
reservation, from August 31 to October 6, 2013.</span><br />
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<b>Homage to Micheline Beauchemin, Quebec's Master Weaver</b><br />
August 21 to October 13<br />
<a href="http://www.gatineau.ca/page.asp?p=quoi_faire/galeries_art_expositions/adresses_heures_ouverture" target="_blank">Espace Pierre-Debain </a><br />
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120 rue Principale <br />
Gatineau <br />
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<b>Micheline
Beauchemin</b> (1929-2009) Textile artist, equally successful with wool,
metal or optic fiber, Micheline Beauchemin has produced a dazzling body
of work that confounds our understanding of tapestry, sculpture and
integration work. From her workshop-barn in Grondines, she has traveled
the world to nourish her art. Woman of character and passion,
woman-guts-pride' as Claude Gauvreau wrote, her monumental pieces have
shown internationally, while others, like hidden treasures, will leave
collections for this exhibition, time enough to pay her a well-deserved
homage. Exhibition presented as part of the second edition of the
Triennale des arts textiles en l'Outaouais 2013, in collaboration with
Moon Rain, the Center for textile arts in the Outaouais. Curator: Thoma
Ewen.<br />
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<b>New Art of the Loom</b>; curated by
Dirk Holger<br />
April 29 - October 26 2013<br />
<b><a href="http://www.gatineau.ca/page.asp?p=quoi_faire/galeries_art_expositions" target="_blank">Galerie Montcalm, Masion du Citoyen</a></b> <br />
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Gatineau Quebec, <br />
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Tapestries from 24 artists from 15 countries.This
unique, international show has been initiated, organized and curated by
Dirk Holger, Atelier Jean Lurcat. His publication, “To weave or not to
weave: a basic tapestry book for the lay person,” (Schiffer Books) will
accompany the show. A 16 page free brochure will also be produced as an
introduction to the touring exhibition. It has two Canadian dates<br />
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<b>Montreal</b><br />
November - December 2013<br />
<a href="http://www.mmaq.qc.ca/museemission_en.htm" target="_blank"><b>Musee des artisanats du Quebec</b></a><br />
615, Saint-Croix avenue, Staint-Laurent borough<br />
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Amanda McCavour's Threadded Line</b> opens April 12 a<b>t </b>Au Centre MATERIA, 395, boul. Charest Est, Québec City<br />
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<a href="http://www.enavril.com/" target="_blank"><b>En arvil</b></a><br />
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<b>if you want to see images from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151622457980668.1073741827.341899310667&type=3" target="_blank">En arvil 2013 visit their facebook Photo page</a> you will have to long into facebook to see this </b><br />
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Tthe province of Quebec celebrates Textile arts with exhibitions in Montreal, Quebec City and elsewhere. One of the highlights this year will be the opening of the new home of the <a href="http://www.mctq.org/">Musée du costume et du textile du Québec</a> at 363, rue de la Commune Est in Old Montréal. <b>Tapis rouge : la mode au musée </b>opens on April <b><br /></b><br />
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<b><br /></b>With three openings in Montreal on March 27 you will need with you will need to know the Metro system well since these events take place in different sections of Montreal;<br />
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<b>Comme un cheveu sur la soupe</b>, a one night only event starting at 5 pm, featuring Marie-Ève Joseph, Catherine Lisi-Daoust et Kevyn Durocher at<b> </b>Fibres Au <a href="http://www.circa-art.com/Circa/Home.html">Centre d'exposition CIRCA</a> at 372, rue Sainte-Catherine Ouest Espace 444, Conorddia University,<br />
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<b>Peau d'âme :Monique Gagné</b> opening at <a href="http://www.mmaq.qc.ca/">Musée des maîtres et artisans du Québec</a> 615, avenue Sainte-Croix, arrondissement de Saint-Laurent.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Situation 1-9, Karen Warshaw Lampcov, porcelain, dryer lint, nails, hemp, spices, roses, cotton, tape in "By Hook or By Crook" student exhibition Concordia Université (Fibres 480) at Eastern Bloc
7240, rue Clark, 2iem étage March 2012 from fb album <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151444592180311.835771.890860310&type=1&l=528aa8780e" target="_blank">En avril in Montreal 2012</a></td></tr>
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<b>Arbres d'avril </b>finds the Trees of in Parc St-Roch in Quebec City decorated (Yarn Bombing is just not a very interesting term any more.) courtesy of la <b><a href="http://www.mmaq.com/" target="_blank" title="">Maison des métiers d’art de Québec</a></b> from April 5 until the 30th<br />
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<a href="http://www.centremateria.com/">Centre MATERIA </a> <br />
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Amanda's exhibition at Centre Materia is followed by graduate students in Textiles and Ceramics from <b>Maison des métiers d’art de Québec. </b>While En Avril has be happening for the past few years and I have managed to be there this year I am missing it. Quebec's other textile festival is the<b> Biennale internationale du lin de Portneuf </b>which happens in an area south west of Quebec city in the late spring and early summer. In fQ volume 3 Issue 3 September 2007 we covered the second edition of the International Flax Biennale of Portneuf with a review of <b><a href="http://www.velvethighway.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=48&Itemid=101" target="_blank">Sacred Flax, flax carrier of memories, flax of the future</a> </b>by Julie Rhéaumein. this year marks its 5th edition. They have a facebook presents since 2008 at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BILPinfo" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/BILPinfo</a> where you can see photo's from past years. in this festival they bring fashion, art and craft together in a series of exhibitions, installations and runway performances in rural small town/ village venues.<br />
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<b> </b>I reviewed <b>"Lieux de memoire"</b> which was shown at La Chevrotiere Mill, Deschambault-Grondines, Quebec during the 2009 Biennale international du lin de Portneuf [June 24- September 27, 2009] after its second showing June 9th -24th 2010, at Maison de la culture Marie-Uguay, Quecbec. This how was curated by Denis Longchamps the editor of <a href="http://www.craftjournal.ca/" target="_blank">“Cahiers métiers d'art/ Craft Journal”</a> <b> </b>in<a href="http://www.velvethighway.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=229&Itemid=115" target="_blank"> fQ Volume 7 Issue 1/ spring 2011.</a><b> Biennale internationale du lin de Portneuf 2013 </b>starts with an official launch on May 30 at the Musée de la civilisation de Québec . the Exhibitions start in June <br />
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13 June: opening of line of family, barracks of flax<br />
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15 June: vernissages property and family spirit Church of Deschambault<br />
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June 14-15-16: performance Guerra de Paz and workshops Carla Tennenbaum<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Louise Lemieux Bérubé – “Aimez-vous les uns les autres / Love one another” Jacquard Tapestry 2006 ( detail) part of "Sacred Flax, flax carrier of memories, flax of the future" Biennale international du lin de Portneuf in june 2007</td></tr>
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You can follow my January 2013 Textile and Design Sightings on this facebook album <b>"<a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151366427474399.498075.65369474398&type=1&l=e57fe92b25" target="_blank">design does Toronto 2013</a>"</b><br />
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I have a confession to make, i am a textile junkie, I acquired my first piece of <b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">marimekko</span></span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> ®</b></span> </span>in 1978 at a design store called <b>Karelia</b> in the south east corner of the Manulife Centre in Toronto. it was the classic UNIKKO over sized floral. designed by Maija Isola in 1964.<br />
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Years later I discovered the store was own by the father of a friend I had met many years after the store had closed and through him I was able to get hold of not one but two sample books printed in Finland by Sävypaino Oy 1979. I no longer have the textile i bought. In 2010 at the IDS (Interior Design Show) there was a shop selling vintage <b>marimekko ®</b> textiles and wallpaper<br />
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Wallpaper on the left bottom Frekvenssi deigned by Harri Koskinen , top
is Ystavata designed by Maija Louekari textile on right is UNIKKO <span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">the reason I bring </span> up <b><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">marimekko</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial;"> ® </span></span></b>beside my love of the design is that the Textile Museum of Canada is participating in this years Toronto International Design Festival by presenting <a href="http://www.textilemuseum.ca/apps/index.cfm?page=exhibition.detail&exhId=343">Marimekko, With Love</a> which opens on January 21 and I am very much looking forward to this exhibition <br />
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Curated by the TMC's executive director <b>Shauna McCabe</b> this show " is a retrospective look at the company’s origins and role in shaping a new aesthetics and approach to living through fashion and design. Founded in 1951 by visionary designer <b>Armi Ratia</b> and her husband <b>Viljo</b>, <span style="font-size: small;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">marimekko</span></b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial;"><b> ®</b> </span></span>not only sparked an international revolution in post-WWII pattern and textile production but captured a new philosophy based on the power of design in everyday life – <b><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">marimekko</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial;"> ® </span></span></b> was “a cultural phenomenon guiding the quality of living,” Armi recounted in 1962. In Canada, a groundbreaking design studio called <b>Karelia</b> introduced <b><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Book Antiqua";">marimekko</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Arial;"> ® </span></span></b>and contemporary Finnish design to international audiences. Named for the historical Finnish region and Armi Ratia’s birthplace, Karelia’s founder – architect, interior and industrial designer Janis Kravis – developed a close relationship with Marimekko’s early creative minds. Objects in the exhibition are primarily drawn from Karelia’s collections and archives."<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My resource for every thing </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"><b><span lang="EN-CA">marimekko</span></b><span lang="EN-CA"><b> ®</b> is another prized possession </span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/030010183X/ref=rdr_ext_tmb" target="_blank">Marimekko: Fabrics, Fashion, Architecture</a> (Bard Graduate Centre for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design & Culture S.) This book is the catalogue for an exhibition at the <b><a href="http://www.bgc.bard.edu/" target="_blank">Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture</a> </b>in November
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All dressed up and many places to go. this is <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Automotive Paint encrusted chicken wire dress by Sophie de Francesca, in the booth Galerie D'Este had at the IDS 2012, ( QC Galerie D'Este, 1329 Greene Avenue. Montreal, QC, Canada. <a href="http://www.galeriedeste.com/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">www.galeriedeste.com</a></span></span><br />
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As it does every January Toronto looks inside and celebrates that which is Interior Decor. The <a href="http://www.interiordesignshow.com/" target="_blank"><b>Interior Design Show</b></a> which is now in its 15th year and was recently purchased by <a href="http://www.informacanada.com/" target="_blank"><b>Informa Canada Inc</b></a> which also owns <b>IDSWest,</b> <b>IIDEX</b>, <b>Art Toronto,</b> <b>One of a Kind Shows,</b> <b>Construct Canada,</b> and <b>the Real Estate Forums</b>, has been at the centrepiece on which in the last 7 years this month of design exhibitions has been built. (I am wondering about changes the new ownership brings, they did extend the deadline for submission and dedicated space for both Studio North and Prototype sections which are for independent design rather then corporate mass production) <br />
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Known as <a href="http://todesignoffsite.com/" target="_blank"><b>Toronto Design Off Site Festival </b></a> for the last 3 years there are now over 40 exhibitions that will showcasing the best in
Canadian design at events across the city, from unexpected prototypes to
immersive installations, January 21-27, 2013.<br />
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For a look at things i have seen over the past 5 years during the month of January check out these Facebook Albums<br />
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<b>"<a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151366427474399.498075.65369474398&type=1&l=e57fe92b25" target="_blank">design does Toronto 2013</a>" </b>You can follow my January 2013 Textile and Design Sightings on this facebook album<b> </b><br />
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<b>Toronto Comes Alive with Design</b> the IDS 2012 and the Toronto Offsite Design Festival January 25- 30 <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151200922445311.804924.890860310&type=1&l=5f8d019c0e">https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151200922445311.804924.890860310&type=1&l=5f8d019c0e</a> </div>
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<b>Toronto International Design Festival 2010</b> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.441832455310.374236.890860310&type=1&l=da08a7022a" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.441832455310.374236.890860310&type=1&l=da08a7022a</a><br />
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<span class="fbPhotoCaptionText"><b>Interior Design week in Toronto 2009 </b>album <a href="http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=213997&id=890860310&l=2d230a5020" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>album.php?aid=213997&id=890<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>860310&l=2d230a5020</a><br /> <br /> <b>Radiant Dark </b>and <b>IDS08</b> report can be seen on <b>fQaroundtown Blog.</b><br /> <br /> <a href="http://fibrequarterly.blogspot.com/2008/02/radient-night-openings-at-ids-08-and.html" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>fibrequarterly.blogspot.com<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>/2008/02/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>radient-night-openings-at-i<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>ds-08-and.html</a></span><br />
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art courses that address the creation of fibre-based work. It seeks to
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techniques used, or the concepts put forward in their work, contribute
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This is award winner <b>Sabrina Dufour</b> with <b>Lyne Girad</b> from <b>Diagonale Centre D'artistes </b>at the opening of <a href="http://www.enavril.com/index.html" target="_blank">En avril </a>at Concordia in Montreal April 2012 <br />
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Myriam Dion (UQÀM)<br />
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Lydia Mestokosho-Paradis (UQÀC)<br />
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February 6 to March 15, 2012 <b></b>TRAMES, Montreal Center for Contemporary Textiles<br />
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There will be more going on then I am currently aware of but this is what I see on the horizon. meanwhile continuing at <b>Royal Ontario Museum</b> in Toronto <br />
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The ROM went <b>"BIG"</b> in the fall of 2012 with fashion and textiles , BIG runs until Fall 2013 in the <br />
<b><a href="http://www.rom.on.ca/en/exhibitions-galleries/galleries/world-cultures/patricia-harris-gallery-textiles-costume" target="_blank">Patricia Harris Gallery of Textiles and Costume</a>,</b> Level 4 <br />
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Funky and unique, forty objects – both historical and contemporary – gathered from the ROM’s extensive collections showcase BIG from around the world. They range from Egyptian clothing to 18th- and 19th- century western costumes to 20th-century haute couture. Some have never before been on display. </div>
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While South Central Ontario is alive with textiles this fall it is not the only place to be. <a href="http://www.velvethighway.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=313&Itemid=122" target="_blank">(look here for listings</a>) Here is a quick round up of exhibitions happening in <b>Quebec</b> and the <b>Ukraine </b><br />
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<b>LA TERRE EST UN BIJOU » 10 ARTISTS CELEBRATE GAIA </b><br />CTOBER 18 TO NOVEMBER 17, 2012 <br /><b>Guilde canadienne des métiers d’art / Canadian Guild of Crafts </b>1460-B, rue Sherbrooke Ouest <br />Montréal QC H3G 1K4 <br /><b>OPENING: Saturday OCTOBER 20th, AT 2:00 PM </b><br /> <br /><a href="http://www.guildecanadiennedesmetiersdart.com/">www.guildecanadiennedesmetiersdart.com</a> <br /><br />Montreal, October 4, 2012 - The Canadian Guild of Crafts presents La Terre est un bijou, an exhibition by a Canadian collective uniting ten celebrated artists in a flamboyant homage to Gaia, our planet. In light of today’s numerous environmental challenges, the exhibition’s jewellery and sculptural, ornamental, and installation pieces stand as celebrations of Nature’s beauty and the urgency of preserving it. <br /><br />At the invitation of curator Sylvie Alice Royer, the artists present works that are in line with their means of expression and that sensitize the public on how today’s great environmental questions resonate with makers of contemporary fine craft. The exhibition’s artists distinguish themselves with their mastery, their creative spirit, and their remarkable careers. They have created original works specifically for this show, integrating recycled or natural materials. <br /><br /><b>The artists </b><br /> <br /><b>Quebec</b>: <b>Carole Baillargeon</b>, textile artist, Chantal Gilbert, artistic knifemaker, Goyer&Bonneau, ceramists-designers, <b>Louise Bérubé</b>, textile artist, Sylvie Lupien, jewellery maker, <b>Barbara Wisnoski</b>, textile artist <br /><br /><b>New Brunswick:</b> <b>Anna Torma, textile artist </b><br /><br /><b>Saskatchewan</b>: Michael Hosaluk, woodturner <br /><br />
<b>Ontario</b>: Susan Low-Beer, ceramist <br /><br /><b>Manitoba</b>: Ione Thorkelsson, glass sculptor <br /> <br />To view images of this exhibition, visit our website: <a href="http://www.canadianguildofcrafts.com/">www.canadianguildofcrafts.com</a> <br />
Hours of operation: Tuesday to Friday: 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Saturday: 10:00 to 5:00 p.m. <br />
<br />We acknowledge the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, which made this exhibition possible. <br />
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<b>2D – 3D Exhibition by Philippa Brock</b><br />
October 24th - November 30 2012 <br />
<b>La galerie TRAMES</b><br />
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la galerie TRAMES presents 2D – 3D, an exhibition of the English artist and textile designer, Philippa Brock.<br />
<br />Inspired by folding techniques, 2D – 3D brings together a selection of Philippa Brock’s experimental projects composed of textiles produced on a Jacquard loom. Brock’s research deals with the structural possibilities of textiles. In her work, she is constantly pushing back the limits of what can be realized with state-of-the-art computer equipment and a combination of unusual materials. In this exhibition, the first part Self Fold presents works that are richly textured with spectacular three-dimensional effects. The second part, X-Form, developed specifically for this event, explores folding of materials while integrating fibres that react to daylight or to ultra-violet light.<br /><br />Philippa Brock is internationally known for her advanced research in Jacquard weaving. Since 1990, her work specializes woven textiles as well as research and development of smart textiles. She is the Woven Textiles Pathway Leader at Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London, one of the most innovative and prestigious textile schools in the world. She will take advantage of her trip to Montreal to offer a master class to textile professionals.<br /><br />Prior to the opening at 5:30 pm on Wednesday, October 24, Philippa Brock will give a lecture on her work. The number of places are limited. Please reserve at <a href="mailto:communications@textiles-mtl.com">communications@textiles-mtl.com</a><br />
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<br /><b>Louise Lemieux <span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps"></span> <span class="hps">Bérubé</span></span>: Unwinding the Threads </b><br />October 3, November 24 2012,<br />Gallery Three C<br />Centre culturel Henri-Lemieux, centre culturel situé à LaSalle <br />7644, rue Édouard<br />
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This exhibition in LaSalle celebrates the work of Louise Lemieux <span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps"></span> <span class="hps">Bérubé </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">It includes</span> <span class="hps">contemporary dance</span> <span class="hps">series</span> <span class="hps">exhibited at the</span> <span class="hps">Gallery</span> <span class="hps">Three</span> <span class="hps">C</span> <span class="hps">series</span> <span class="hps">and</span> "L<span class="hps">ove</span> <span class="hps">Each Other" which is hanging in </span><span class="hps">three</span> <span class="hps">places of worship</span> <span class="hps">LaSalle</span><span class="">:</span> <span class="hps">the church of Saint</span><span>-Nazaire,</span> <span class="hps">the</span> <span class="hps">Sikh</span> <span class="hps">Temple</span> <span class="hps">and Trinity</span> <span class="hps">Pentecostal Church.</span></span><br />
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The opening was also the launch for a new book about her, <b>Unwinding the Threads</b> - is now available. with 440 pages and nearly 800 illustrations.It is about her life, her career as an artist, a teacher, and founding director of MCCT, by presenting her artworks and those of numerous other artists.<br />
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Thanks to a Québec Art organization – SODEC – a limited quantity of the English version is still available for $60 (plus shipping). Contact Bill Greene at bill@billgreene.net When these copies are sold, you can order at <a href="http://www.blurb.ca/search/site_search?search=louise+lemieux+berube">Blurb.ca</a> or <a href="http://www.blurb.com/search/site_search?search=louise+lemieux+berube">Blurb.com</a>.<br />
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Visit Louise's new website at <a href="http://www.lemieuxberube.com/english/">http://www.lemieuxberube.com/english/</a><br />
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you can see photos from the opening on facebook at LaSalle 100 <a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.445398112172660.98443.337691539609985&type=1">http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.445398112172660.98443.337691539609985&type=1</a><br />
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<b>Fibreman 2</b><br />
October 24- November 5 2012 <br />
Kherson Local Lore Museum <br />
Kherson, Ukraine<br />
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This second edition of fibreman features the work of 17 men from 10 countries.Last year <b>Ludmila Egorova:</b> organizer of the
International Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art “Scythia”, member of
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for information about <b><span class="untitled2">"Scythia" Textiles </span></b><span class="untitled2">and their textile actives visit their website <a href="http://www.scythiatextile.com/UK/Scythia.html">http://www.scythiatextile.com/UK/Scythia.html</a></span><br />
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You Can read about Fibreman International and it was featured in<br />
<a href="http://www.velvethighway.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=256&Itemid=117" target="_blank">fQ "Men In Textiles" Volume 7 Issue 3.</a><br />
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The Awards & Scholarships is an OCC flagship program that celebrates excellence in making, allows for peer recognition, and provides opportunity for promotion. <a href="http://www.craft.on.ca/Exhibitions/Current_Exhibitions">http://www.craft.on.ca/Exhibitions/Current_Exhibitions</a><br />
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While 8 people liked this photo,<b> Carla A. Canonico</b><span id=".reactRoot[118].[1][2][1]{comment10152146223415311_17282782}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][1]"> editor of <b>A Needle PullingThread</b> commented " </span><span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id=".reactRoot[118].[1][2][1]{comment10152146223415311_17282782}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]"><span class="UFICommentBody" id=".reactRoot[118].[1][2][1]{comment10152146223415311_17282782}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]."><span id=".reactRoot[118].[1][2][1]{comment10152146223415311_17282782}..[1]..[1]..[0].[0][2]..[0]">Joe...how about a review of Lizz Aston for the next instalment? Cool stuff but looks like metal!"</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="fbPhotoCaptionText">taking many pictures with permission the name sometimes slips the mind and that is where posting on facebook became handy two people identified Jen Kneuland for me before I had finished posting the nights photos, my comment when from "if you know her Tag her to</span><span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption"> "A face in the crowd Jen Kneulman! Memory is like a thread or piece of milk weed fluff it can go poof at the slightest breeze)"</span></span><span class="fbPhotoTagList" id="fbPhotoSnowliftTagList"><span class="fcg"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="fbPhotoCaptionText"> </span>2012 OCC Award winner Shuyu Lu in front of her Hand embroidery on Toile, 9 people liked this photo and it is just one of many I have taken of her and her work that I have posted on facebook, from her grad work, TOAE where she won Best of Fibre 2010 ( i will check back into the facebook album of that event to make sure), the Artist Project and the Cabbagetown Festival </div>
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biannual juror textile exhibition. You will see my camera problems
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people asked me for an opinion and gave me theirs. this show needs to
be reviewed questions about what is art and what is craft still come up
and the voices in the discussion the better. see the show if you can.
the show after next at Design at Riverside is <br /> Robin & Lucienne Day: Design and the Modern Interior November 08 - January 13, 2013 <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1781553632">http://</a><wbr></wbr><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1781553632"><span class="word_break"></span>www.cambridgegalleries.ca/</a><wbr></wbr><a href="http://cambridge.taf/?section=3"><span class="word_break"></span>cambridge.taf?section=3</a></span></span><br />
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<br /><br /><b>Natural Resources: Textiles & Material Translation</b> October 17, 2012 - January 6, 2013<br /> Drawing from the TMC’s rich international collection, Natural Resources explores artifacts from a variety of global sites and their translation into environmental materials through their structure, function and surface design.<br /> <br /> Curated by Natalia Nekrassova & Roxane Shaughnessy<br /><br />images: Top: John McQueen, Untitled #106 Section 4 (detail), 1982. Gift of Vincent Tovell. Middle: apron (detail), Papua New Guinea, 20th century. Anonymous Gift. Bottom: undershirt (detail), China, 20th century. Gift of Caroline M. Walker.</div>
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left to right in this photo are: Suzanne E. Davis chair of the TMC board of trusties , Roxane Shaughnessy
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Next ? <br /><br /><a href="https://strandnews.wordpress.com/2012/10/07/txtilecity-walking-tours/">TXTilecity Walking Tours</a></div>
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<b>Ontario Crafts Council Announcing the 2012 Awards & Scholarships Recipients!</b><br />
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The Awards & Scholarships is an OCC flagship program that celebrates excellence in making, allows for peer recognition, and provides opportunity for promotion. <br />
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fQ would like to congratulate the following fibre people:<b style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.lizzaston.com/" target="_blank">Elizabeth Aston</a></b>, <a href="http://www.coeurdeliontextiles.com/" target="_blank">Stephanie Fortin</a>, <b style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://shuyulu.com/home.html" target="_blank">Shuyu Lu</a></b>, and <b style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.amandamccavour.com/" target="_blank">Amanda McCavour</a></b>. I also want to congratulate jewellers <b><a href="http://suzannecarlsen.ca/" style="font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">Suzanne Carlsen</a> and </b><b style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.shesmiledandran.com/" target="_blank">Annie Tung</a></b> (take a look at thier websites and you will know why their work interest me) <br />
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Its days of accompanying the Annual General Meeting are gone - instead, the 2012 Award & Scholarships recipients will be honoured with a special event. As such, we are very excited to introduce you to the inaugural Craft Awards Ceremony - a night dedicated to makers and objects, and to celebrating the very best of contemporary craft. As part of the evening we will be announcing the award recipients of the prestigious <a href="http://www.craft.on.ca/Programs/John_Mather_Award_for_Lifetime_Achievement" target="_blank">John Mather Award for Lifetime Achievement</a>, as well as the <a href="http://www.craft.on.ca/Programs/Volunteer_Committee_Award" target="_blank">Volunteer Committee Outstanding Service Award</a>. In order to build anticipation and excitement, we will be withholding the announcement of which award each recipient has won until the Ceremony on Thursday, October 4, 2012. We invite you to join us in celebrating the award winners with friends, family, patrons, donors, collectors, and the OCC board, staff and volunteers. Tickets will be available in August.<br />
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Meanwhile events that are closer in time and i will be attending sooner are back to back Fibre Festivals in east central Ontario in Hastings: August 17 and Lang Pioneer Village on August 18th and 19th. <br />
<b>Dress & Identity, Molas:Art of Kuna Women </b>during <b>Hastings Founders Week </b>celebration <br />
and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/events/363677673704412/" target="_blank"><b>War of 1812 Bicentennial Commemoration & 45th Anniversary Celebration</b></a> takes place at Lang Pioneer Village<br />
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Hastings Civic Centre <br />
Friday August 17 2012 10am until 5 pm<br />
Hastings, Ontario<br />
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11 am - 1 pm: Opening ceremonies followed by demonstrations from Gunnel Hag<a href="http://www.colourvie.com/Welcome.html" target="_blank"> Colour Vie: Printing, Colour and Pigment Systems</a> and, Alpacas from Source to the Product.<br />
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1:30 - 3:30 pm Guest Lectures,<br />
Kathryn Lipke Vigesaa: Artist and Film Maker, Montreal PQ and Vermont US<br />
Sky Morrison PhD., Folklorist and Textile Scholar, Hastings Ontario.<br />
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Film Screening followed by Q&A<br />
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Suppliers Market Place and Community Textile Arts: Knitting, Rug Hooking, Embroidery, Spinning, Weaving and Quilting<br />
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<b>Dress & Identity of First Nations and Settlers</b> Fibre Festival at Lang Pioneer Village on August 18 -19 <br />
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You Can read about <a href="http://www.velvethighway.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=285&Itemid=121" target="_blank"><b>Textile Arts at Lang Pioneer Village Museum by By Joe Corrigan & Laurie Siblock </b></a> in<b> fQ Volume 8 Issue 2</b><br />
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Book a room in a hotel or B&B in the <a href="http://thekawarthas.ca/" target="_blank">Peterborough region</a> and make a weekend of it. see you there.<br />
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<b>Up and running across Canada</b><br />
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<b>SILK SPLENDOUR: TEXTILES OF CHINA’S IMPERIAL DYNASTY</b>The exhibition from the Chinese textile collection of the AGGV features
nineteenth-century garments that reflect the pomp and ceremony of Manchu
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<b>ART DECO CHIC: EXTRAVAGANT GLAMOUR BETWEEN THE WARS</b><br />
The design style known as art deco began in Paris in the 1920s and
quickly gained worldwide popularity. This exhibition features 66
beautiful garments, including many exquisite designer dresses, along
with hats, handbags, shoes and jewellery from the era. The items on
display come from the private collections of Ivan Sayers and Claus
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<b>Translations</b>: Recent work in Tapestry by <b>Jane Kidd</b><br />
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<b>Negotiating Traditions: Five Approaches in Contemporary Tapestry,</b><br />
curated by Jane Kidd, features Jolie Bird, Judy Brown, Murray Gibson, Linda Wallace & Melissa Wong <br />
Alberta Craft Council. until September 29,<br />
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see the exhibition on line at <a href="http://www.albertacraft.ab.ca/feature-gallery" target="_blank">http://www.albertacraft.ab.ca/feature-gallery</a>/ <br />
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You can read <a href="http://www.velvethighway.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=236&Itemid=116" target="_blank"><b>A Post-Grad Contemplation</b> by Mellissa Wong, ACAD</a> in fQ Volume 7 Issue 2/ summer 2011<b><br /></b></div>
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May 23 September 30 2012<br />
Textile Museum of Canada <br />
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In this latest interdisciplinary exhibition at the Textile Museum of Canada, landmark Canadian artifacts from the Museum’s permanent collections are integrated with the work of contemporary Canadian artists including Amalie Atkins, Douglas Coupland, John Henry Fine Day, Jérôme Fortin, Grant Heaps, Jason McLean, Graeme Patterson, Ruth Scheuing, Michael Snow and Barbara Todd<br />
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<b>60 YEARS OF DESIGNING THE BALLET</b><br />
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This exhibition offers an intimate look at the design of one of Canada’s most celebrated treasures – the National Ballet of Canada, celebrating its 60th anniversary. The exhibit highlights the various ways in which the ballet as an institution is designed through hundreds of items from the ballet’s archive. The Design Exchange’s CDC/Teknion Lounge will feature an international, interactive, co-exhibition, The Tutu Project, featuring 60 tutus.<br />
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“Fashionality” is a newly coined term that refers to the visual culture and semiotics of dress and adornment. Combining the words “fashion,” “personality,” and “nationality,” it reflects the interplay between clothing, identity, and culture. The exhibition surrounds this theme, and explores the work of twenty-three contemporary Canadian artists who have employed apparel as a primary medium, subject or sign. Reflecting wide geographic and cultural diversity, it focuses upon the ways in which the concerns, identities, and aesthetics of those living in Canada are expressed, deconstructed, and reconfigured through the idiom of dress. - <a href="http://www.mcmichael.com/exhibitions/fashionality/curatorial-statement.cfm" target="_blank">Julia Pine, Curators Statements </a></div>
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Fashionality; Dress and Identity in Contemporary Canadian Art at the <a href="http://www.mcmichael.com/index.cfm" target="_blank">McMicheal Canadian Art Collection</a> 10365 Islington Avenue, in Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada runs until September 3 2012<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="hasCaption">Detail/ close up of<b> Michèle Karch-Ackerman</b>'s THE SWEATER PROJECT which is on going and you can participate in <br /> <a href="http://www.mcmichael.com/exhibitions/fashionality/michelekarchackerman-sweaterproject.cfm" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.mcmichael.com/<wbr></wbr></a></span></td></tr>
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<br />You can see some photos from the opening day of this exhibition in my facebook Album<br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151619664170311.852226.890860310&type=3&l=d6234014f5" target="_blank"><b>May2012 Textile Sightings</b></a> <br />
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fQ is looking forward to the fall and<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Love Socks of J. Alfred Prufrock,by Heidi Overhill, have just been named runner-up for the Jurors' Award in Fibreworks 2010, Photograph credit Owen Colbourne, 2010. (--In the room the women come and go, talking of Michelangelo--)</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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14th edition of this popular biennial juried exhibition is a showcase
of fibre artists from across Canada, honouring the community’s rich
textile manufacturing history.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="hasCaption">On Saturday, September 11th 2010 in Cambridge
Ontario they celebrated contemporary Canadian textile art by opening a
unique art installation by Cambridge Centre for the Arts 2010
Artist-in-Residence Sue Sturdy; along with two textile based exhibitions
organized by Cambridge Galleries: Fibreworks 2010 and FABRICation!</span></td></tr>
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You can see more photos from previous fibrewoks exhibitions in these facebook albums<br />
2010 <a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150269749495311.494546.890860310&type=3&l=449d84e4b3" target="_blank"><b>Fibreworks | FABRICcation | Knit camBRIDGE expect the unexpected</b></a> and<b> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.83105860310.162359.890860310&type=3&l=c284600a80" target="_blank">fibreworks 2008</a></b><br />
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The <b>World of Threads Festival </b>that begain in 1994 as one exhibition has taken place in Oakville Ontario, has now partnered with <b>HardTwist</b> juried Textile exhibition at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto which is now in its 7th year and was mounted in conjunction with the 2006 TSA symposium. WOT has also added other venues in Toronto into the festival. If you add fibreworks 2012 at the Cambridge Galleries into the mix the heart of southern Ontario during the last week of October and the first 11 days of November becomes a smorgasbord of international textile work. I am not quit sure of the total number of exhibitions and makers but this feels comparable to<b> Fiber Philadelphia</b> and suggest interesting possibilities. but that is for others to figure out.<br />
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<a href="http://www.gladstonehotel.com/event-pages/exhibitions/hard-twist/?doing_wp_cron=1343597120.8291640281677246093750" target="_blank"><b>Hardtwist</b></a> VII – <b>Touch Me, Feel Me</b> Seventh Annual Juried Show Of Textile-Based Art <br />
November 1, 2012 – January 27, 2013Gladstone Hotel<br />
1214 Queen Street West, Toronto<br />
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You can see images from <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gladstonehotel/sets/72157628190867465/" target="_blank"><b>Hard Twist 2011 Obsession</b></a> on flicker <br />
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<a href="http://www.worldofthreadsfestival.com/exhibitions_menu.html" target="_blank"><b>World of Threads</b></a><br />
multiple venues<br />
Nov. 2 - 18, 2012<br />
Oakville and Toronto Ontario<br />
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In between <b>fibreworks 2012</b> and <b>World of Threads</b> I will be attending <a href="http://www.textilesociety.org/symposia_2012.htm" target="_blank"><b>Textile Society of America's 13th Biennial Symposium </b></a></div>
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