Montreal 10/02/2011: Jacquard 2 X 2 Montreal Tokyo, Maison de la Culture Côte-des-Neiges.

Left to right: Mitsuko Akutsu, Louise Lemieux Bérubé, Julianna Joos and Emiko Nakano they are standing in front of the diptych 'Flowers 2" by Louise [photo by Joe Lewis]

Jacquard 2x2 Montréal/Tokyo :
Emiko Nakano, Mitsuko Akutsu, Julianna Joos and Louise Lemieux Bérubé
January 22 to March 6, 2011

Maison de la Culture Côte-des-Neiges
5290, chemin de la Côte-des-Neiges
Montréal Québec

On the left the right side of the diptych 'Flowers 2"  on the right " Un orteil dans le vide" by  Louise Lemieux Bérubé

This exhibition was presented at the Embassy of Canada, Prince Takamado Gallery in Tokyo

September 9 – November 3, 2010 this is its Canadian premier.

"This exhibition presents works by Louise Lemieux Bérubé together with works by Canadian artist, Julianna Joos and Japanese artists, Emiko Nakano and Mitsuko Akutsu, all of whom have worked at the MCCT. Although all the artists use the Jacquard technique, each expresses her own themes in her own ways."

Also in the exhibition "L’envoiée", 2009, by Louise Lemieux Bérubé is made of Tencel, linen, wool, stainless steel and copper wire. Photo by Joe Lewis  at the launch of Textile Arts of the World: Canada from Telos Art Publishing at MCCT April 2009

Louise Lemieux Bérubé

Born In Montréal, Louise Lemieux Bérubé has received a BA at the Université du Québec á Montréal, She has studied Jacquard weaving at Rhode Island School of Design. Her woven textiles have received numerous mentions and honours in Canada and in many countries.

She has co-founded the Montréal Centre for Contemporary Textiles. She is the author of Le Tissage créateur (Creative Weaving) a comprehensive text book on weaving. She is recognized internationally for her knowledge and artworks on and computerized Jacquard weaving embroidery.*

Mitsuko Akutsu

Untitled work by Mitsuko Akutsu

Born in Tokyo, Mitsuko Akutsu has a BFA, in Industrial Design from the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music. She has been studying Jacquard Weaving at The Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles (MCCT) with a fellowship. She is a professor at the Aoyama Gakuin Women’s Junior College.

She has had solo exhibitions: Computerized Jacquard Weaving, MCCT, (CANADA), Project Gallery Pronio-Arte (Tokyo).

Between 1980 and 2008, she has exhibited twelve times in Tokyo and Kyoto.

Her group shows are: Cut the Edge /Weave the Line/Textile Arts, Mobilia Gallery, Ca. (USA); About Jacquard, MCCT (CANADA); Computer Aided Textile Art, Wocoal Ginza Art Space (Tokyo), etc.*

Mitsuko Akutsu presenting her  jacquard woven artworks at the Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles in March 2009

Emiko Nakano

Emiko Nakano's jacquard "From Where to Where" 1 and 2

Born in Tokyo, Emiko Nakano has a B.A. from Tokyo Zokei University and Rikkyo University and an MFA. from Cranbrook Academy of Art (USA). She is a former professor at Tokyo Zokei University.

She has had solo exhibitions at Tokyo Central Kaigakan (Tokyo), the Museum of Modern Art (Brazil) and the Senbikiya Gallery four times, among other venues. She has participated in juried exhibitions and has been invited to many group exhibitions in Japan and abroad. She has won several prizes the following events: Fiberart International (USA) three times, the International Triennial (Hungary), the Biennial of the Miniature (Poland), and the Japan Contemporary Arts and Crafts.*

2010, 195 X 87 cm, Cotton and Polyurethane

detail: the grass is a brocade and rises from the surface 

Julianna Joos

Prière series by Julianna Joos, 2009, 100 X 150 cm, cotton and natural linen.[Prière as in Pray rug]

Julianna Joos is a Canadian artist from Montréal. Her professional career started thirty years ago; she has had over twenty solo shows and has participated in more than a hundred group shows around the world. She has won two international awards: Premio Acqui (Italy, 2005) and Voir Grand (Montréal, 2002). She has started Jacquard weaving in 2004 after many years in printmaking. She has a BA from Concordia and a Masters degree from Université du Québec á Montréal. She presently teaches at Dawson College.

Prière 8 by Julianna Joos, 2009, 100 X 150 cm, cotton and natural line

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If you are in Montreal or passing through between now and  March 6, take the opportunity to go and see this exhibition. In the passed 5 years I have seen the jacquard work of approximately 50 people exploring jacquard weaving. Most have been single pieces in large group shows sometimes 2 pieces, I was in a two person exhibition and have only had 2 opportunities to see solo exhibition. With hand woven jacquard being a relatively new process being used by artist, weavers and textile designers as a tool for making work and considering the expense of owning or accessing them creative evolution of the media has been slow. To see how these four artist use the loom to create an individual vocabulary and compare them is one way to develop a critical understanding of jacquard as a medium.

visit

Louise Lemieux Bérubé http://www.lemieux-berube.com/
Julianna Jooshttp://www.julianna.jujoos.net/index.html

Jacquard Time Line

Weaver Franz J. Ippoldt discussing his non computer assisted jacquard hand work, at "jacquART Weaves; Franz J.Ippodlt" left Damask silk and right "Pogodenburg Garden" Velvet, 1998- 2003 60 meters. for the German National Museum, warp organzine silk , polchrome, weft: weft silk and sliver strips [photo:joe lewis]

Humming Bird by Stacey Harvey Brown. woven on a hand-jacquard sample loom from 1880s with a weaving width of just 13", and a four-shuttle drop box with flying shuttles. It is card-operated. This particular loom has a 3 repeat.Information and image provided by Stacey Harvey Brow

While computer assisted design and driven jacquard looms are where most of this exploration and creation is going on there are weavers such as Franz J.Ippoldt and Stacey Harvey Brown who are working by hand on non powered machines. Stacey Harvey Brown has a number of looms and runs workshops at her home in the Staffordshire Moorlands district in the UK. visit her website The Loom Room

Ruth Scheuing "Penelope Meets Ada Lovelace", computer assisted hand-woven Jacquard, 40 x 64", 2006  Shown in  "Binary Fiction : Digital Weaving 2010" at the Eisentranger- Howard Gallery in Richards Hall on the Lincoln Campus downtown  During TSA 2010 symposium

Wen-Ying Huang from Taiwan: "Uniform" 2008, Stainless steel wire, coated copper. Double weave woven on a TC-1, sewing. 65 ㎝ x 34㎝ x 83㎝.  Shown at “thinking different / thinking jacquART” July 26  September 6th 2009, Textile Centre Haslach. Austria

Petter Hellsing  from Sweden "Urban Weft" 2008/09, Jacquard woven, hand and machine embroidery cotton rayon, wood, 30 x 40 x 70 cm (each)part of 2009 Thinking Different Thinking JacquART [photo:Joe Lewis]

Laurie Addis, Extract 2, 2009, 51.5” X 30.5 “, Linen and silk painted warp, digital Jacquard, hand woven, Shown in  "Binary Fiction : Digital Weaving 2010" at the Eisentranger- Howard Gallery in Richards Hall on the Lincoln Campus downtown  During TSA 2010 symposium

Detail of Extract 2

Exhibitions 2000 -2011  

e-textiles: ventures - jacquard weaving, 2000-02 group exhibition curated by Mariette Rousseau-Vermette, touring: Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal; Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto; + locations in Canada,
Australia and USA; CD-ROM catalogue.
Inspired design: Jacquard and Entrepreneurial Textiles: January 2008 at the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design in Hendersonvill North Carolina. You Can read about this exhibition and conference in fQ Volume 5 Issue 2/ Spring 2009

thinking different / thinking jacquART July 26 September 6th 2009, Textile Centre Haslach. Austriayou can read this exhibition in fQ volume 5 Issue 2 Preview: thinking different/ thinking JacquART by Beatrijs Sterk


"jacquART Weaves; Franz J.Ippodlt" July 26 September 6th 2009, Textile Centre Haslach. Austria

Lia Cook: Faces and Mazes Curated by Wendy Weiss,  the Robert Hillestad Gallery at the University of Nebraska spring of 2009. Textile Museum of Canada in Toronto (April 9 - October 17, 2010)
Read my profile of Lia Cook in fQ Volume 6 Issue 2/ summer 2010 Looking at Lia Cook through the Maze:

"Binary Fiction : Digital Weaving 2010" curated by Janice Lessman-Moss at the Eisentranger- Howard Gallery in Richards Hall on the Lincoln Campus

Anna Zaharakos, Studio Z , Prototypical jacquard woven  chair cover weaving with application to the chair. presented at Inspired Jacquard & Entrepreneurial Textile January 2008

2011 Winter Spring exhibition cross Canada Line Up

War Map Dress Trilogy by Carolyn Wren [photo provided by
Galerie d'art du Centre culturel de l'Université de Sherbrooke / Art Gallery of University of Sherbrooke]

 Carolyn Wren and Tobey C. Anderson
Souvenirs / Remembrances
January 12, 2011 - February, 14, 2011
Galerie d'art du Centre culturel de l'Université de Sherbrooke
Art Gallery of University of Sherbrooke
2500, boul. de l'Université
Sherbrooke (Québec) J1K 2R1

For War Map Dress Trilogy, Carolyn Wren was inspired by the ingenuity of Christopher Clayton Hutton, who, during World War II, created silk maps for the British Royal Air Force. The pilots were given these military maps, which showed the layout of the land to facilitate their movements and ensure their safety. Lightweight and durable, these objects were easy to conceal. After the war, Hutton's ingenuity and the scarcity of silk inspired women to be creative as well: they collected the silk maps and made dresses out of them.
To create War Map Dress, Carolyn Wren redrew the map in the shapes of her patterns, carved these into pieces of linoleum, then hand-printed them onto Dupont silk. With this printed fabric, the artist made 3 nine-foot map dresses. When viewed in this manner, waterways look like intestines, roads resemble veins or arteries, and the print image becomes a map of the body. Surrounded by models of World War II bombers and fighter aircraft, these map dresses create the theatrical space conducive to the recollection of the soldiers' journeys and the anxiety of their loved ones. We find ourselves in the middle of an experiment on the borderline between the territories of the land and those of the mind

visit the website Galerie d'art du Centre culturel de l'Université de Sherbrooke / Art Gallery of University of Sherbrooke

‎ Jacquard 2x2 Montréal/Tokyo

‎ Jacquard 2x2 Montréal/Tokyo :
Emiko Nakano, Mitsuko Akutsu, Julianna Joose and Louise Lemieux Bérubé
January 22 to March 6, 2011

Maison de la Culture Côte-des-Neiges
5290, chemin de la Côte-des-Neiges
Montréal Québec

Meet the artists on February 10 from 5 to 7 pm. –

This exhibition was presented at the Embassy of Canada, Prince Takamado Gallery inTokyo
September 9 – November 3, 2010 this is its Canadian permier.

This exhibition prestesnts works by Louise Lemieux Bérubé together with works by Canadian artist, Julianna Joos and Japanese artists, Emiko Nakano and Mitsuko Akutsu, all of whom have worked at the MCCT. Although all the artists use the Jacquard technique, each expresses her own themes in her own ways.


Mitsuko Akutsu with her work during a solo exhibition after a resedency at the Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles
in March 2009 {photo by Joe Lewis]

website for Maison de la Culture Côte-des-NeigesNote of interest



Louise Lemieux Bérubé's "Aimez-vous les uns les autres"/ "Love one another" which was first seen during the Second edition of the International Flax Biennale of Portneuf "Sacred Flax, flax carrier of memories, flax of the future" in june 2007 will be opening in Lyon France on January 23rd

Louise Lemieux Bérubé  "Aimez-vous les uns les autres"/ "Love one another"
January 23 _April 30

Tthe Church Confluences Polycarpe,

25 rue René Leynaud à
Lyon, France

http://www.confluences-polycarpe.org/expositions.html

Ontario

Lucy Snider Haynes, Rose of Sharon with Cherries, around 1900, appliquéd cotton quilt. Purchase, Heritage Quilt Collection, 1982 (Q83-003). from the Queen’s University Collection of Canadian Dress at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre. Photo: Larry Ostrom

Collecting Stories: The Heritage Quilt Collection29 January – 17 July 2011 Agnes Etherington Art Centre
Oueen's University
Kingston Ontario

Thirty years ago, three knowledgeable Kingston quilters approached the Agnes Etherington Art Centre with a unique proposal to preserve quilts of historical, regional, and aesthetic significance for future generations. As a result, in 1981, the Heritage Quilt Collection was born. It was an opportune moment. In the 1970s, North America witnessed a revival of interest in quilts among scholars, artists, feminists, collectors and curators, not only as objects of continued traditions, but also as women’s work and works of art. The Art Centre itself had a long-standing interest dating back to 1974, when renowned local artist Kim Ondaatje curated the quilt exhibition Tradition+1, which toured galleries across the country. Since that time, the quilt collection at the Art Centre has grown, and debates surrounding the place of quilts have been as rich and complex as quilting itself.

Collecting Stories showcases outstanding quilts from the 19th and 20th centuries and the stories that they tell of ingenuity, creativity, community and endurance. Whether originally intended for display in a home or public space, quilts were embraced by their makers as vehicles for self-expression to produce something visually stunning.

For media inquiries or further information, please contact Matthew Hills at matthew.hills@queensu.ca.

Agnes Etherington Art Centre website ://www.aeac.ca/

Toronto

January 24 -30 2011

http://www.tidfonline.com/

IDS 11 http://www.interiordesignshow.com/

Having the opportunity to hear Barbara Hulanick speak was one thing, but to meet and speak with her (breif as it was) the high point of the entire Toronto International Design Festival 2010. Think of your favourite movie or music star. She is my Mick Jagger (who use to hang out in her Biba Boutique in London's Kensington)

This year's line up of events may take a good week to plan your exhibition routes so visit the websites and figure out your schedules and we'll meet for coffee and compare notes last years facebook album might give you an idea about what is happening.

Toronto International Design Festival

and remember if you have been the the Ontario Craft Council Gallery on queen street west to see
The Genius That Was Lily Yung : A retrospective exhibition of Lily Yung's work from her early printmaking days to her explorations in jewellery using Rapid Prototyping (RP) systems. January 6 - February 6, 2011 get there.
Meanwhile at the Textile Museum of Canada .....



The Textile Museum of Canada is now in its 35th year and is presenting a 35 year retrospective of fibre master Kai Chan. Kai Chan: A Spider's Logic which has been peresented in two locations opened at the Varley Art Gallery of Markham on September 26, 2010 and runs until January 30 was followed on Nov 7, 2010 opening at the TMC. this portion of the exhibition will run until May 1 2011.

Kia Chan, Shangri-la, 2010, dry lawn grass, Glass beads, variable dimensions Collection of Artist[ photo taken with permission for fibreQUARTERLY use

Kai Chan’s work is critically received equally within the discipline of textiles and the visual arts in general. He participated in the prestigious 12th International Biennial of Tapestry in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1985, and the equally notable International Triennial of Tapestry in Lodz, Poland in 2001, where he exhibited Ocean, one in a series of complex wall hangings comprised of thousands of toothpicks and thread – an indication that woven tapestry is now only one textile process among many, thanks to artists like Chan whose work is seen in a contemporary context of textiles as substance, structure and subject matter.

A catalogue and A national tour is being organized with the support of the Department of Canadian Heritage.

you can see some images of Kia Chans work in my facebook Albums:

the last week of september 2010, Kai Chan: A Spider's Logic
Kia Chan, Pae White and El Anatsui

Coming up next at the TMC

Coverlet, Uzbekistan, Late 19th century, L 232 cm x W 153 cm, T94.2013
Image provided by the Texile Museum of Canada.

Silk Oasis on the Silk Road: Bukhara
Curated by Natalia Nekrassova
Mar 23, 2011 - Sep 25, 2011

Bukhara features a collection of Central Asian ikats and embroidered silks — coats, veils, wall hangings and coverlets from the Textile Museum’s permanent collection — to visualize the Bukhara region’s rich textile history and place it within the diverse cultural traditions of Asia

Coat, Uzbekistan, Late 19th century, L 126 cm x W 145 cm Image provided by the Texile Museum of Canada

Hunter's coat,: West Africa, Mali; cotton; cowrie shell; skin; tooth; claw; glass mirror; hand woven; plain woven; machine-sewn; hand-sewn mid 20th century T81.0112  Image provided by the Texile Museum of Canada

Magic Squares: The Patterned Imagination of Muslim Africa in Contemporary CultureJamelie Hassan, Hamid Kachmar, Alia Toor and Tim Whiten
Curated by Patricia Bentley
May 18, 2011 - Nov 20, 2011,

Four contemporary artists explore the relationship of patterns, communication and spirit in conversation with textiles and symbols from the Museum’s permanent collection of Islamic African artifacts. Magic squares, known all over the world as mathematical games like Sudoku and Kenken, become carriers of powerful and diverse cultural meanings when they are painted, woven or embroidered on textiles in Muslim Africa


Initiation shirt, Burkina Faso, late 20th century, 69 x 65 cm, T91.0091
Image provided by the Texile Museum of Canada

2011 BMO Financial Group in supportort of the Textile Museum of Canada invites you to the annaul Shadow Box, Silent Auction & Cocktail Reception Thursday March 3, 2011, 6:30 pm
Exhibition opens February 23rd, 2011, drop in and make a bid. You can view the work from the comfort of your delivery format of choice on line at http://tmcshadowbox.com/

visit the TMC website and check out their on kine exhibitions and interactive web projects,
Dateline: London Ontario May 2011

CELEBRATING FIBRE AND COMMUNITY FOR 40 YEARS


Gathering Threads,
May 12–15, 2011
Presented by the Canadian Embroiderers’ Guild, London - A Textile Arts Group

Workshops - Vendors - Exhibitions - Demonstrations
Perth Hall, University of Western Onatario,
London, Ontario
Wearable Art Fashion Show, Sale & Dinner - Sat., May 14 $40
Information/Registration: http://www.ceglondon.com/, go to Gathering Threads

this fish pillow is another piece of the Accidental Collection of Jane Kelley does anybody recognize a central or south American influence   

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Japanese artist in Canada, Canadian artist in Japan.

“Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art”
August 6th November 6th 2010.
the Japan Foundation
131 Bloor Street West, Suite 213
Toronto, Ontario

The Sun” by Ryoko Aoki installation at the Japan Foundation, Toronto (photo taken with permission of Japan Foundation for fQ posting)

While strolling across three big blocks along Bloor Street West from Bay to St. George I found delight. Stopping in at the Colonnade and going up to the Japan Foundation is always a good thing to do but not necessarily something I will write about. Today the current exhibition “Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art” was so unexpected I have to tell someone about it so it should be you. This show of work from 14 young Japanese artists is well worth the visit and the best group show I have seen this summer. (and) There are no fibre artists in it however the installation piece “The Sun” by Ryoko Aoki [born in Hyogo, Japan in 1973] does have some clothe in it. “Containing 14 drawings containing images of tress, varied patterns, embroidery motifs…together with pieces of brightly coloured paper and fabric. In this work the process of disintegration and reconstitution is presented on different levels.”

detail of “The Sun” by Ryoko Aoki (photo taken with permission of Japan Foundation for fQ posting)

According to the curator Midori Matsui, who is a Tokyo-based art critic and scholar: “Winter Garden, contains two opposing meanings: a “desolate garden in the winter time” or, idiomatically, a hothouse. This coexistence of opposite meanings embodies the central paradox of the exhibition. The first alludes to the difficulties of contemporary life brought on by globalization: worldwide economic depression, uniformity of living environments, and the disappearance of unique local cultures. On the other hand, the image of a hothouse suggests a space that, in spite of its small scale and closed artificial environment, nurtures organisms, including plants, insects, birds, and microbes- the elements that constitute rich and diverse layers of life. The exhibition attempts to explore the efforts of contemporary artists to make the most of the poverty and boredom inflicted by contemporary life in order to reorganize various aspects of their everyday activities and reinvent effective “ways of operating.”

This is what is exciting about the show “The poverty and boredom” evidenced in the apparent thrown togetherness of Ryoko Aoki piece shows in choice of materials in some cases, and the art historical references dislocated and possibly mocked or honored in other pieces like Hiroshi Sugito’s [born in Aichi, Japan 1970] “starry night” acrylic, pigment, paper mounted on panels, 182.0 X 242.o cm. Don’t be mislead by the title or the predominately blue painting, which along with two others by the same artist reference the 19th century Japanese prints that were influencing the impressionist movement in Europe after Japan was forced into trade in the 1860s. Sure “Starry Night” is a round about reference to Van Gough but its also a reclamation of “Orientalism” appropriated by European or rather “Western” Arts Academy.

Hiroshi Sugito “starry night” acrylic, pigment, paper mounted on panels, 182.0 X 242.o cm. (photo taken with permission of Japan Foundation for fQ posting)

 With media artist’s Taro Izumi [born in Nara Japan in 1976] videos /dvds “ Curos Cave: 2005 which has a “magic marker” drawing over moving broadcast televisions images has a frantic hopelessness, and “White Bear” 2009 with drawings on paper suspended above water which when a rocks are thrown into it witch splash the drawings which then run speaks of the redundancy of making art, both exuded a snickering childlike joy celebrating the redemptive (maybe) quality of creative thinking.


In “Winter Garden”there is beauty, sadness, intriguing stupidity : Koki Tanaka [born in Toichigi, Japan in 1975 ] videos “Light My Fire” 2002, Cause is Effect” 2005 and “turning the lights on” , 2007, and of course “manga”. Mahomi Kunikata [born in Kanagawa, Japan in 1979] paintings are acrylic on canvas, they are cluttered with characters and creatures from comics, cartoons “tarty Sailor Moons” and slightly insane “Pokémon” along with the landscapes they inhabit. They are like “Hello Kitty’s” toy or litter box. Actually it’s like seeing a painting of the interior of Magic Pony a store on Queen Street West in Toronto that specializes in toys, books and art inspired by Manga, anime, tattoos and things Japanese. You choose. There are artist as the curator tells us in her catalogue essay, working in a wide range of media in totally individual / idiosyncratic ways with materials ready to hand rather then the pricey materials of “Fine Art”.

Keisuke Yamamoto, "Untilted" 2006, oil and coloured pencil on paper 50.0 X 65.0 cm (photo taken  with permission of Japan Foundation for fQ posting)

 The last time I had the opportunity to see a group show of contemporary Japanese art was at the Art Gallery of Hamilton in 2008. “Great New Wave: Contemporary Art from Japan” featured the work of Takashi Murikami and Yoshimoto Nara whose work best represented the “Superflat” movement, which were being shown in Canada for the first time. This work is simple and complicated at the same time, Technology based if you can think of a pinhole camera, shadow puppets and scrolling theatre backdrops as Technology. It is a kind of animated contemporary version of historic Japanese print making styles, it is very cool Also on display was new and recent work from Manabu Ikeda, Kohei Nawa, Tabaimo and Miwa Yanagi and like this show the range went from drawing, installation, photography, sculpture, textile and video. In terms of working with material at hand Yoshiaki Kaihatsu and textile artist Sayaka Akiyama did a residency during which they gather daily ephemera, and created a large scale “Mapping Project” and turned the walls of one room into a illustrated journal.

But I digress. “Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art” is an interesting and exciting show it captures a “zeitgeist” (I hate that word but sometimes it is appropriate) of Japan’s “Gen Y”ers who seem to be capable of more then shopping and have morphed into artist with as much style as content that are capable of unpacking nearly a century and a half of reversible/ double sided colonialism. Yet again “Hard Economic Times” has given rise to an avant-garde people by a generation of navel gazers fascinated by the mundane creating work that is anything but.

Go see this show.
“Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art”
opened on August 6th and runs until November 6th 2010.  at the Japan Foundation at131 Bloor Street West, Suite 213 in Toronto, Ontario. There is a free catalogue available in English and Japanese

http://www.jftor.org/index.php

Magic Pony http://www.magic-pony.com/

Great New Wave: Contemporary Art from Japan May 22 to September 7, 2008 co-presented by the Art Gallery of Hamilton and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria Curated by Sara Knelman and Lisa Baldissera http://www.artgalleryofhamilton.com/ex_archive08.php

Canadian Artist In Japan

Jacquard 2 x 2 Montréal : Tokyo
Canadian artist, Julianna Joos, Louise Lemieux Bérubé
Japanese artists, Emiko Nakano and Mitsuko Akutsu.
September 9 – November 3, 2010
Embassy of Canada Prince Takamado Gallery
7-3-38 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo

Un orteil dans le vide, 2009, by Louise Lemieux Bérubé , Choreographer: Sandt Bessette and Marie- Claude Roulez. Dancers: Sandy Bessette and Frederic Lemieux-Cormier, original photo by Louise Lemieux Bérubé 

This exhibition shows immense possibilities for Jacquard weavings. The art works in the exhibition further provides viewers an opportunity to examine how the participating artists adapt to new ideas to which they are exposed at the Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles. The MCCT was one of the first centres in the world to acquire a computerized hand Jacquard loom and to allow artists to have access to these technologies.This process enhances creativity by incorporating in a traditional technique-hand-weaving- all the possibilities of new digital technologies
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Jacquard based on Mitsuko photographing her own shadow on a cobble stone street in Montreal 2008 (photo taken at Mitsuko Akutsu end of residency exhibition at the MCCT, March 11, 2009 by joe lewis

  This exhibition is held with the support of Canada Council for the Arts, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, Dawson College and L'Agora de la danse. A presentation by Louise Lemieux Bérubé will be held in the Embassy of Canada Oscar Peterson Theatre at 18:30 on September 10. For more information and registration, please send an e-mail to emikonakano@jcom.home.ne.jp.

Fall 2009 Coming Events

Birds in Flight by embroiderer extraordinary Amanda McCavour this is her booth at the Toronto Outdoors Art Exhibition this past July. Amanda is one of the 20 0r so fibre artist which will be part of the 215 craft artist featured in the Canadina Pavillion at the Cheongju International Craft Biennale 2009 in Cheongju, South Korea September 23 –November 1 2009
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Cambridge, Ontario: September 1, 2009

Flavor Paper, USA B-a-n-a-n-a-s!, Michael Angelo, New York, USA

The Art of Wallpaper
September 01 - October 18, 2009
Cambridge Galleries Design at Riverside

Opening reception: Saturday September 12, 2:30pm

The Art of Wallpaper celebrates the art behind the popular, yet often maligned decorative device, and its’ recent revival. From early 20th century hand painted samples by Europe’s top studios, The Art of Wallpaper fast forwards to today’s bespoke, limited edition, and designer production lines that serve as a unique creative outlet for artists and designers from around the world.

Cambridge Galleries Website: http://www.cambridgegalleries.ca

{if you haven't figured me out yet, i love wallpaper}

THIS JUST IN 

* FREE ART BUSES: Toronto departing from the Ministry of the Interior (80 Ossington Ave.) at 1:00 pm, Waterloo Region departing from the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery (25 Caroline St. N.) 1:00 pm and Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (101 Queen St. N.) at 1:20 pm.

For info contact K. Jennifer Bedford at 519.621.0460 X119.

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Ottawa, September 1, 2009

Colorata

Carmella Karijo Rother

Carmella Karijo Rother, Wendy Feldberg & Karen Goetzinger

September 1 to November 26, 2009
Arts Ottawa East Arts Council, Shenkman Arts Centre
245 Centrum Boulevard Suite 260 www.artsoe.ca
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St-André-Avellin, Quebec September 6 2009

FIBRES BORÉALES ~ NORTHERN FIBRES

a group exhibition in tapestry and fibre arts by artists and members of Moon Rain Centre Françoise Chartrand, Denise Coker, Thoma Ewen, Hope MacLean, Krystyna Sadej
Phyllis Wedding

September 6 to 27, 2009

opening September 6, 2009 at 1:00 pm

Centre d’action culturelle de la MRC Papineau
3, rue Principale St-André-Avellin,

Quebec

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Winnipeg, Manitoba: Tuesday September 8th 2009



September 8th, 2009 we will be displaying two new exhibits.

Main gallery: Mother Nature's Fibres In a synthetic world we forget the natural origins of textiles. This exhibit will explore the major and minor fibres and different weaves that are evident in our collection. The United Nations has recognized 2009 as the International Year of the Natural Fibres, so come celebrate it with us!

Second Gallery: The Canadiana Collection Recently we acquired a small collection of artifacts from the Canadiana Collection based out of Victoria. We will showcase this wonderful historic collection in its entirety.

109 Pacific Ave.
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3B 0M1

website: http://www.costumemuseum.com/
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Montreal, Quebec: Wednesday September 9th

Love One Another:An artwork by Louise Lemieux Bérubé
August 24th to October 23rd, 2009
Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles

5800 Saint Denis, espace 501Montreal, QC

Wednesday September 9th at 5pm: opening and launching of Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles' 20th anniversary activities.

website: http://www.textiles-mtl.com


continuing in Montreal:


GRIFFÉ QUÉBEC, June 19 to September 20, 2009

Écomusée du Fier Monde, 2050 Amherst,Montreal, Québec

Collection of MCTQ Photo : Alexis K. Laflamme

continuing in Quebec City:

3rd Gigue*, 1972. cotton and wool. Collection of MNBAQ

Micheline Beauchemin: River of Light, July18 - October 11 2009
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec
Parc des Champs-de-Bataille
Québec (Québec)

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Oakville, Ontario: Sunday, September 20, 2009

World of Threads Festival

Oakville Ontario
Canada's Biennial International Fibre Art & Craft Festival,Sept. 18, - Oct. 4, 2009.

COMMON THREAD: International Juried Exhibition and FESTIVAL GRAND OPENING, Sunday - September 20, 2009, Time: 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm
Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre, 1086 Burnhamthorpe Road East, Oakville

this event takes place in numerous venues in Oakville for more information check out the Official Website:
http://www.worldofthreadsfestival.com

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Toronto, Ontario: September 23, 2009

Kaleidoscope: Antique Quilts from the collection of Carole and Howard Tanenbaum

Sept 23, 2009 - Mar 21, 2010
Curated by Max Allen Textile Museum of Canada

Danish Mondern:Suzanne Swannie Textil
is on at the Textile Museum 22 July through 1 October 2009, then is moving to the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Western Branch, Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, 5 February through 11 June 2010

Brud 1 2004 by Suzanna Swannie, carpet woven in reduced tapestry technique , of hand dyed Spelzau wool on Linen warp, 174 X119 cm [private collection] photo Steven Farmer

Textile Museum of Canada
55 Centre Avenue
Toronto, ON M5G 2H5

website:http://www.textilemuseum.ca/

Judy Chicago:World in Threads and She Will Always Be Older Then Us leaves the Textile Museum on September 7th and moves to the Art Gallery of Calgary 117 -8 Avenue SW, Calgary, Alberta. September 25, 2009 – Saturday, January 23, 2010

you can now read my review of the Judy Chicago show which was published in ETN Textile Forum 2/2009 Preview p 14. In Considering Judy Chicago
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The Cheongju International Craft Biennale

Unity & Diversity at the Canadian Pavilion

September 23 –November 1 2009

the Biennale’s Canadian Pavilion will showcase Unity & Diversity, an exhibition of 215 contemporary works of craft, 20 of which are fibre and textile artist. The exhibition is poised to draw international attention and is accompanied by live performances, demonstrations, lectures, a boutique, and more. The items have been selected by the Canadian Crafts Federation, and the show curated by Dr. Sandra Alfoldy, editor of ‘Neo-Craft: Modernity and the Crafts.’ ‘Unity & Diversity’ is a vital contribution to the contemporary theme of representing cultures, and the fruits of interchange between art, nature and humanity.

In January 2010, elements of the exhibition will return to Canada to appear at the Museum of Vancouver as part of the Cultural Olympiad activities for the 2010 Winter Olympics

Kate Jackson, “I won’t treat my tears like tissue” 2008, Hand-embroidery, facial tissue, cardstock, plastic, 22 x l0 x 18cm. Artist Statement: Tears and snot are worthy of a handkerchief. Having spent a great deal of time crying recently and not having a hankie to catch the tears, I watched my emotions get taken out with the trash. Tears should be embraced, calmed, sweetened, and soothed. They should fall into something beautiful. from fibreworks 2008 at the Cambridge Galleries

“The Cheongju International Craft Biennale is a great opportunity for the international community to learn about Canada through the objects we create. Within the Canadian Pavilion, our artists will speak to the world as cultural ambassadors, using the language of craft to develop a deeper understanding of who Canadians are as a people." – Jean Johnson

Dorrie Millerson Needle Lace Car from Hard Twist at the Gladstone Hotel November 2008

The Cheongju International Craft Biennale is the largest of many visual arts events taking place in South Korea. It has described as the "Cannes Film Festival of Craft", with over half a million visitors attending each year. Cultural amenities abound in Cheongju city, with programs all year round; but the most significant is the Cheongju International Craft Biennale (CICB). This six million dollar international event runs throughout the month of October every second year. The 2007 Biennale, themed “Creative Evolution – Deeply and Slowly”, featured the work of 1100 craft artists from over 40 countries. Since the Biennale’s inaugural event in 1999, attendance and participation has steadily grown.

embroiderer extraordinar Amanda McCavour Decorative/Applied Arts – Fibre Artist Orange section Booth # 420 with the pond behind her

Canadian Craft Federation website: http://www.canadiancraftsfederation.ca

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If you have and exhibition coming up in the 2009 - 2010 Fall winter season, let others know about it in advance on fQaroundtown ....
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