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OCC award winner Amanda McCavour
Line & Shadow, Larry Kagan and Amanda McCavourat Lonsdale Gallery, in Toronto opening night of |
The Awards & Scholarships is an OCC flagship program that celebrates excellence in making, allows for peer recognition, and provides opportunity for promotion.
fQ would like to congratulate the following fibre people:Elizabeth Aston, Stephanie Fortin, Shuyu Lu, and Amanda McCavour. I also want to congratulate jewellers Suzanne Carlsen and Annie Tung (take a look at thier websites and you will know why their work interest me)
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| Theresa Shu-yu Lu, TOAE winner of 2010 best of Fibre as chosen by Susanne Warner Keene, |
contact Ontario Craft Council for more information http://www.craft.on.ca/
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| Kuna woman, sewing photo provided by Sky Morrison. |
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.
Dress & Identity, Molas:Art of Kuna Women during Hastings Founders Week celebration
and War of 1812 Bicentennial Commemoration & 45th Anniversary Celebration takes place at Lang Pioneer Village
Fibre Festival
Hastings Civic Centre
Friday August 17 2012 10am until 5 pm
Hastings, Ontario
This event is an intimate one with:
11 am - 1 pm: Opening ceremonies followed by demonstrations from Gunnel Hag Colour Vie: Printing, Colour and Pigment Systems and, Alpacas from Source to the Product.
1:30 - 3:30 pm Guest Lectures,
Kathryn Lipke Vigesaa: Artist and Film Maker, Montreal PQ and Vermont US
Sky Morrison PhD., Folklorist and Textile Scholar, Hastings Ontario.
3:30 Tea
4:00 - 5:00
Film Screening followed by Q&A
Suppliers Market Place and Community Textile Arts: Knitting, Rug Hooking, Embroidery, Spinning, Weaving and Quilting
for more information contact Sky Morrison 705-696-1382 or Marg Gorndon 705-202-1273
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| Audrey Caryi, Museum Specialist, with replica Jacquard loom Photo: Laurie Siblock |
You Can read about Textile Arts at Lang Pioneer Village Museum by By Joe Corrigan & Laurie Siblock in fQ Volume 8 Issue 2
Book a room in a hotel or B&B in the Peterborough region and make a weekend of it. see you there.
Up and running across Canada
British Columbia
SILK SPLENDOUR: TEXTILES OF CHINA’S IMPERIAL DYNASTYThe exhibition from the Chinese textile collection of the AGGV features nineteenth-century garments that reflect the pomp and ceremony of Manchu court life and the Chinese aristocracy during China’s last imperial dynasty.
ART DECO CHIC: EXTRAVAGANT GLAMOUR BETWEEN THE WARS
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 Jahnke, as well as from the MOV and other collections.
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria
1040 Moss Street Victoria BC, V8V 4P1
Until September 23, 2012
ed.note [i will be seeing these exhibition the second week of August]
Alberta
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| Land Sentence: Pool, Jane Kidd (Salt Spring Island, BC) 2010, Woven Tapestry, 91 x 207 cm Photo Credit: John Dean |
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Negotiating Traditions: Five Approaches in Contemporary Tapestry,
curated by Jane Kidd, features Jolie Bird, Judy Brown, Murray Gibson, Linda Wallace & Melissa Wong
Alberta Craft Council. until September 29,
see the exhibition on line at http://www.albertacraft.ab.ca/feature-gallery/
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| Diminishment of Hope: Infertility Series by Linda Wallace is comprised of six panels, each buried and then reclaimed by painstakingly stitching each to a piece of linen. |
You can read A Post-Grad Contemplation by Mellissa Wong, ACAD in fQ Volume 7 Issue 2/ summer 2011
Ontario
Dreamland: Textiles and the Canadian Landscape.
May 23 September 30 2012Textile Museum of Canada
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
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| This is a series of Rugs / catalogne dating from the 1850s t0 the 1920s from Ontario and Quebec part of Dreamland photo by Joe Lewis |
You can read Post-industrial anxiety, made one stitch at a time by R.M. VAUGHAN in the The Globe and Mail
You can see some photos from this show in facebook album July 2012 textile sightings
You can see some photos from this show in facebook album July 2012 textile sightings
60 YEARS OF DESIGNING THE BALLET
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.
The Design Exchange
234 Bay Street
Toronto
ON, M5K 1B2
Runs until September 2 2012
“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. - Julia Pine, Curators Statements
Fashionality; Dress and Identity in Contemporary Canadian Art at the McMicheal Canadian Art Collection 10365 Islington Avenue, in Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada runs until September 3 2012
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| Detail/ close up of Michèle Karch-Ackerman's THE SWEATER PROJECT which is on going and you can participate in http://www.mcmichael.com/ |
michelekarchackerman-sweate
You can see some photos from the opening day of this exhibition in my facebook Album
May2012 Textile Sightings
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fQ is looking forward to the fall and
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| 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--) |
| Fibreworks |
| September 29 - November 11, 2012 |
| Opening Reception- Friday Night ART Live: October 5 at 7:00 pm |
| Cambridge Galleries, 1 North Square, Cambridge, ON, N1S 2K6 |
| The 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. |
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| 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! |
2010 Fibreworks | FABRICcation | Knit camBRIDGE expect the unexpected and fibreworks 2008
The World of Threads Festival that begain in 1994 as one exhibition has taken place in Oakville Ontario, has now partnered with HardTwist 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 Fiber Philadelphia and suggest interesting possibilities. but that is for others to figure out.
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| Rob Davidovitz, Rosepath in Brilliant Violet and Red, woven strips of acrylic paint. Hard Twist 6 Obsession 2011 Photo joe lewis |
November 1, 2012 – January 27, 2013Gladstone Hotel
1214 Queen Street West, Toronto
You can see images from Hard Twist 2011 Obsession on flicker
World of Threads
multiple venues
Nov. 2 - 18, 2012
Oakville and Toronto Ontario
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In between fibreworks 2012 and World of Threads I will be attending Textile Society of America's 13th Biennial Symposium
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| Me wearing Keiley Stewart's with needle felted Lion's Head, you can too at HardTwist and have your photo taken wearing it. see you some place |
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