ANNIE THOMPSON CREATES RECLAIMED DRESS FORSARAH SLEAN’S RECESSION-ISTA TOUR
June 1, 2009
Toronto, ON—Artist and designer Annie Thompson created a spectacular one-of-a-kind dress for award-wining Canadian songstress Sarah Slean for her Recession-ista tour. Thompson was one of the select Canadian designers commissioned by Slean to craft a new dress made completely from reclaimed second-hand garments. Never one to shy away from a creative challenge, Thompson jumped at the opportunity to breathe new life into a variety of treasures sourced from Value Village, including a bed sheet, a wedding gown, and a couple of tops and dresses. Inspired by the design of a chair from an architecture magazine, Thompson’s inventiveness of the white and black striped bodice serves to reflect the lightness and darkness of Slean’s lyrics and the melodies played on the keys of her piano.
Kat O’Shaughnessy of Magdelina DesignsThese disparate disciplines come together in Kat’s current job at the Textile Museum of Canada where she digitally archives the Canadian collection, and also in her personal passion - sustainable fashion design. How do you incorporate computers into fashion design? Check out the images on these crazy silk-screened ties!
Read more about this talented singers approach to the Cross Marketing of Canadian Designers, Sustainable/Ecco Fashion, Political / Social Action and Music visit her website http://www.sarahslean.com/TOUR/Recessionista/
Vancouver
May was a busy month so i unfortunately didn't post Babara Heller's Future Reliquaries exhibition which has just finished at the Eliot Louis Gallery, But you can visit the website to see images of the work and watch a 10 minute video "Its All About Art" Shot in May 2007, Barbara Heller, internationally acclaimed tapestry artist, is interviewed by Ted Lederer and Devorah Macdonald. Topics discussed include her career and previous 2007 exhibition.Babara Heller at Eliot Gallery
June is here and this weekend at the Circle Graft Gallery a group of divers and and uniquely talented fibre artist is opening.
Off the Grid
curated by Katherine Soucie
Ulrieke Benner, Jessica de Haas, Leslie Richmond, Katherine Soucie, Yvonne Wakabayashi & Angelika Werth
Circle Craft Gallery
June 4 - 30th 2009
1-1666 Johnston Street
Net Loft, Granville Island
Vancouver, BC
www.circelcraft.net
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Toronto
Transmute:: Subtle Technologies Exhibition 09curated by Camille Turner
artists:: Lynne Heller, Scott Kidall and Victoria Scott
University of Toronto Art Centre
15 King’s College Circle
Toronto, ON, Canada
June 5 - 28, 2009
gallery hours:: Tuesday to Friday 12 to 5 pm
Saturday 12 to 4 pm
opening reception and performance:: Saturday June 13, 2009 6 pm to 8 pm
Lynne Heller is a Canadian artist/designer who works in a variety of disciplines including fibre, sound, new media (virtual worlds, principally Second Life), websites and sculptural installations.
visit her website: http://www.lynneheller.com/
Scott Kidall was in: Close to You: Contemporary Textiles, Intimacy + Popular Culture, at the TMC, June 4, 2008 - October 12, 2008 and at Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax.
for more information about the exhibiton visit http://www.utac.utoronto.ca/
Inspired by the Summit:further explorations with washiAn exhibition at The Japanese Paper Place
77 Brock Ave., Toronto, ON
June 5 - July 3, 2009
Monday-Friday 9:00 am 6:30 pm
Saturdays June 6, 13 and 20 only noon - 5:00 pm
Reception: Monday June 15, 6:30 8:30 pm
Following on last June¹s ground-breaking World Washi Summit, this exhibition highlights the work of 20 Toronto-based artists who participated in that event, and who continue to explore successfully the creative possibilities of traditional Japanese paper. Drawing, painting, silkscreen, etching, sculpture, mixed media and bookbinding by artists including Ron Bolt, Kelly Cade, Doug Guildford, Libby Hague, Barbara Klunder, Penelope Stewart, Tammy Ratcliff, Will Rueter, Jeannie Thib, Cybele Young, and 10 others represent the many paths that can be taken by artists who begin a dialogue with washi, and have the energy for what is often a very long and richly varied conversation.
Concurrent exhibitions with washi and workshops during the month of June are viewable at http://japanesepaperplace.com/goings-on/events.htm
For more information or as a media contact , please call:
Nancy Jacobi
Tel. 416-538-9669
Ongoing
Orly CoganSize Matters 2007Vintage fabric, stitching117 x 109 cm (46 x 43”)
Photo: Courtesy the artist
When Women Rule the World: Judy Chicago in Threads,
Curated by Allyson Mitchell.
February 12- September 7 2009
Textile Museum of Canada,
55 Centre Avenue, Toronto, Ontario.
http://www.textilemuseum.ca/
These two exhibition will be moving to the Art Gallery of Calgary 117 -8 Avenue SW, Calgary, Alberta. September 25, 2009 – Saturday, January 23, 2010
You can read my review of Judy Chicago in the next issue ETN: Textile Forum currently in production.
Mississauga
Reeta Saeed; The Education of Geography, 2008, gouache on antique paper {c.1948 National Geographic Magazine Envelope}
Bazgasht: Traditional Methods and Modern Practices
Revival of miniature paintings from the sub-Contenent
Art Gallery of Mississauga
May 14 - July 12, 2009
Curated by Ali Adil Khan
featuring work by 17 artist from around the world including Reeta Saeed who was in fibreworks 2008 and Dyed Roots: The New Emergence of Culture at the MOCCA in Toronto
for more information the Art Gallery of Missassauga website
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International Textile traveller Sky Morrison told me about this Blog project
www.redthreadranis.com Red Thread Ranis : telling the stories behind the stitches
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Quebec
Quebec
À l’ épaule by Colotte Matte located at the chappelle Nortre-Dame de la Paix , Lac Sergent
Biennale internationale du lin de Portneuf 2009 June 24 through September 27, is upon us again this biannual celebration of Flax that happens in locations around the Portneuf region in Quebec. 
Craft: Lieux de mémoire / Places of memory, collective exhibition in crafts curated by Denis Longchamps opening June 14 at 2.pm at the La Chevrotiere Mill in Deschambault-Grondines
in this exhibition are: Alain Taral - Dawn McNutt - J. Penney Burton - Liz Williamson - Mackenzie Frère - Michèle Lapointe - Mireille Racine - Monique Giard - Rosie Godbout - Sarah Alford - Veronika Horlik - Vita Plume
read more in the newest issue of fibreQUARTERLY: Biennale internationale du lin de Portneuf 2009 Preview and other Reviews
for more information visit their website at http://www.biennaledulin.ca
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