If Wishes Had Wings, Too Many Textile Things; April 2012

Me presenting "the magic of getting published while tracking textile arts in the wilderness":at the ETN 2009 Symposium at the Textile Centre Haslach Upper Austria 

FIBER Philadelphia, "Identity: Context and Reflection" National Conference: Surface Design Association and Studio Art Quilt Associates March 31- April 4

En avril.in Montreal and across Quebec,: an annual event that underscores the vitality and excellence of fiber arts and textile industry in Quebec.Opening on  a month of exhibitions, conferences http://www.enavril.com/programmation.html

Opening night Concordia University Friday, March 30, 2012, from 16 h 30

Pavilion EV - EV 6-730 (
6th Floor, Mackay Street entrance, corner Ste-Catherine),  
1515 St. Catherine Street West, Montreal 
16 h 30: Introduction to Programming by the founding members of  "in April" ... from  Jake Moore,  Director FoFA Gallery

17: 30 pm:  "Social Fabric (fabric)"  talk by Professor Janis Jefferies from Goldsmiths University,      

18: 30 pm: Reception

20 h 00: Opening - By Hook or By Crook Exhibition of undergraduate students Fibers
   Eastern Bloc, 7240 Clark Street, second floor
     Montreal (De Castelnau metro)

 Cross Without Seeing: Christine Peyret

April 4 to May 11

Montreal Centre For Contemporary Textiles

5800 St. Denis Street, studio 501

Montreal.
April 4 to 16 pm: Lecture by the artist, followed at 17 pm opening of the exhibition
Monday to Friday from 9 am to 16 pm 30

The French artist Christine Peyret presents an exhibition of paintings embroidered, noting the fiftieth anniversary of Algerian independence. The artist has created over 15 large format panels in embroidery, inspired by images from photographic backgrounds family, press photos and military records taken in Algeria between 1954 and 1962. The artist expresses the universal suffering of those who try to survive in a country at war.

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One of a Kind March 28-April 1 and City of Craft. Toronto,

SOFA New York, April 20 - 23, 2012
Stroud International Textile and PAIRINGS II – conversations & collaborations April 28 –May 27 2012, Museum in the Park GL5 4AF Stroud, United Kingdom

Wood meets metal; metal meets stitch.
Paper meets embroidery meets radical knitting. Ceramics meet textiles It is inspiring and innovative challenging and encouraging new directions.

 New work from Alice Kettle, Jane Webb, David Gates, Claire Curneen, Sharon Blakey, Ismini Samanidou, Rachel Kelly, Jilly Morris, Jane McKeating, Dawn Mason, Nigel Hurlstone, Janet Haigh, Vanessa Cutler, Helen Felcey, Kate Egan, Annie Shaw, Shelly Goldsmith.

Sharon Blakey & Ismini Samanidou Photo: Ben Blackall image provided by Alice Kettle

‘Pairings II – conversations & collaborations’. Pairings II is co-curated by Alice Kettle with Lizzi Walton (SIT artistic director) Alice Kettle is one of the UK’s leading textile artists with work exhibited widely and Senior Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University. Pairs of artist/makers will come together to share new technologies, techniques and materials that may be unfamiliar to them and their usual creative practices. Some leading names in the world of contemporary crafts will link and pair with lesser known makers to engage and explore; inspire and innovate.

Mending + Art at Borowsky Gallery, Gershman Y 401 South Broad Street.
left to right: Wolfie E. Rawk, curator Diane Savona, Dorothy Caldwell, Libbie Soffer and Erin Endicott

in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania..photo by Joe Lewis taken with understood intentions to post.

To put it in a nutshell can you say "Beam me Up Scotty" it is a matter of "when it rains it pours". The opportunity to see textile work in galleries, trade/ craft shows, and museums to attend conferences about textile work  should always be taken advantage of if possible. Weekends like the last one of March where there is so much happening, granted they are happening in different cities that are reasonably near by can be amazingly distracting. Philadelphia, Toronto, Montreal would make an interesting road trip if you had the time unfortunately attending a talk at 2 in the afternoon in Montreal and go to an opening in Philadelphia at 7:30 just isn't possible so I need to be depend on other people going to them and hopefully sharing the experience on facebook or in a blog posting (remember to ask permission to take photographs if you are going to post them and name the people and the work that you see).

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and now for some shopping 

ONE OF A KIND SHOW Toronto preview

Joanna Schleimer
True Sew Textiles
One of a Kind Show Toronto Booth: E-35 

"True Sew Textiles  aims to re-vitalize the tradition of preparing and collecting a trousseau through the making of hand printed and embroidered household linens. True Sew Textiles brings forth a fresh and wholesome re-invention of the trousseau for the modern woman, whether she is single, engaged or married"  from the website Joanna Schleimer

 

 transat chair a new product by Emanuelle Dion & Isabelle Bergeron
Foutu Tissu, One of A Kind Show, Booth: K-29 

"Within a few years, Foutu fabric, small manufacturing company and upholstery textiles, has developed a style all her own. She creates designs ranging from pop and modern to suit any decor. Emanuelle Dion Bergeron and Isabelle are true artisans." 

... Marie-France Léger La Presse February 20th 2012

Zipper Pouches from Jenna Fenwick & Kate Hunter
Jenna Rose at the One of a Kind Show Toronto
Booth: I-16 

"When I am not creating things in the studio, I spend the majority of my spare time creating things at home. Whether it is crocheting a blanket, refinishing an old cabinet, learning to play the ukulele, planting a garden or canning my own preserves, self-sufficiency and creating are a big part of my life — at least when I’m not tearing through the forest on a bike." 

The Etsy Blog: Featured Seller: Jenna Rose Handmade ,Jan 16, 2012

You can see what I saw on opening day in my facebook album 

A parliament of Owls? One of a Kind Show Toronto Spring 2012

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 This is a mock up of a concept to make buy hand made and local textile products easier, the products in this image are top left wise: "Great Out Doors" a picnic set by Kerry Croghan Images printed on Hemp, made of Hemp and cotton twill, and/ or wool fabrics available at MADE Design, Bag by "jenna rose", Felt Lampshade by Fiona Duthie of Barefoot Living Design, A selection or printed textile products from Arounna Khounnoraj of Bookhou Design, ottoman by Emanuelle Dion of Foutu Tissu, Hand tufted "Birch Tree" carpet by Andy Blanchette, baskets by Wendy Durfey Basketry, Black and white woven curtains by Armstrong Textiles centre Mohair Blanket by WILD HALIBURTON ELEPHANT WEAVERS.

the question is will the concept become a reality is there a need and desire for a directory of this sort in Canada for Canadian shoppers. I have created a facebook page to test the market so to speak

The question about shopping seems to have fallen out of the equation/ the discourse on contemporary craft practice. After being in Philadelphia for the opening weekend of Fiber Philadelphia  I found myself a few days later at "Craft and the New Economy" a one day symposium presented at OCAD University in Toronto presented by the Ontario Craft Council. While an interesting event with rather small quick presentations by a world class selection of presenters operating with in the contemporary design, craft and art worlds discussion of the market place and representatives of the market place seemed to be absence. That worries me. While I attend all categories of events and see the interconnectedness of hand and industrial produced objects (of desire perhaps) I see the approaches makers take to fit into specific curated categories and i see curators exploring functional. non functional and methods of making. Occasionally i see price tags and production work.

I get asked to make suggestions and questions about sources of local green and handmade. It seems there is a lot of curiosity and while trying to write I tend to ignore the buyers and encourage that at the same time. I think about this along with textile history and how textiles are used in contemporary art practice, and craft practice and then I look at more stuff, find out about more events and then Star Track technologies and then I lie down Can you say "Beam Me Up Scotty"

 

 Always more to come... the Spring issue of fibreQUARTERLY will cover these events and raise as many questions as it answers no doubt, see you some where soon.

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Hard Twist,opens at the Gladstone, Holiday Sales, Lectures: Cross Country Check In

This is a very soft double pocket knit by String Theory, who made their Toronto debut at the One Of A Kind Show where they were awarded best Booth Design and had record sales String Theory  is Lysanne Latulippe is the knit designer while Megan Price is the weaver their third partner is Etienne Proulx communications and marketing 

 

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You can see some of what I saw at the One of A Kind Christmas 2010, and Hard Twist, at the Gladstone, in my facebook album of the same name

One of A Kind Christmas 2010, Hard Twist, at the Gladstone, Holiday Sales

 

Isabelle Veilleux and her company zazaï from Quebec City where in booth: O-47  at  Show. Isabella introduced herself to fibreQUARTERLY readers in the Quebec Seen :Volume 3 Issue 3 2007 story on the Students of Maison des métiers d'art de Québec

her wbsite is isabelleveilleux.odexpo.com

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It is a busy weekend in Toronto with the One Of A Kind Christmas 2010 sale opening on Thursday November 25 and running until December 5 at the Direct Energy Centre, Exhibition Place 100 Princes' Blvd., Toronto.  

Meghan Price, Etienne Proulx & Lysanne Latulippe
String Theory
Booth: V-47
Duration: Full Show
http://www.stringtheory.ws/
Montreal, QC

 The one of a kind show has 24 artisans listed/ Identified as fabric/Textiles 4 of which are weavers, 2 identified as Weavers,. Under the category of Decor 6 make decor accessories with tiles they print themselves. Jocelyne Mange, of Rain Goose in Booth: P-59 is a printer from North Vancouver whose printed textiles entertain the eye, as they have evolve. Arounna Khounnoraj & John Booth of  bookhou in Booth: T-05 are from Toronto, Arounna as a textile artist, embroider, printer and book artist along with her partner  John as a furniture builder and designer have been producing an interesting blend of hard and soft furnishing, decor  accessories, hand made papers letterpress books and "art" for the last eight years. At some point in time they produced a couple of children and with them came a re-visioning of children's decor and fashion. Their work is an addition to any design connoisseur collection while being fun , homey, warm and comfortable at the same time. Their work was seen earlier this fall in FABRICation: Studio Production Textiles for Interiors exhibition at the Design at Riverside in Cambridge Ontario. They are  a Canadian Design laboratory gaining an international following of shoppers and collectors and the most amazing thing about them is the incredible affordability of their well made, high quality, products. If your not in Toronto for the One of a Kind but visit you can always drop into their store at 798 Dundas Street West  (on the north side of the street a few blocks west of Bathurst) and if you just never come to Canada visit their website and enjoy the exploration www.bookhou.com

Arounna Khounnoraj (Toronto, ON) "untitled" 2000, Salt and Copper wire.(approx 4' high)
This piece is part of the Cambridge Galleries permanent collection added in 2001
Gift of the Artist [photo: joe lewis]

 

I am writing this before the One of a Kind opens and being familiar with many of the artisans I am looking forward to seeing new work by them, but what I am really looking forward to is seeing the debut work of the Montreal based textile design laboratory String Theory in Booth: V-47. Meghan Price, Etienne Proulx & Lysanne Latulippe are known to me as individuals Meghan as a weaver Lysanne as a knitware designer and both graduates of the Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles where Etienne is Director of Communications. The buzz around this new artisan designed industrial production line has me holding my breath. All three of these people are dedicated to what they do and bring a range of professional experience to it. I interviewed Lysanne in the late winter of 2009 for the fibreQUATERLY issue on Entrepreneurial Textiles about her "MaJolie" Knit Ware company and was envious of her use of industrial machinery . With String Theory they are producing  artisan directed small run industrial jacquard cloth for a line of fashion accessories and part of the new wave of high end boutique industrial production that is establishing itself in the few remaining textile weaving mills in North America and Europe. You might find this an odd idea but with closures and production moving off shore the technical knowledge to run this industrial machinery is disappearing in less then a generation and unless you want raise sheep and learn to weave your own green textiles.... 

 

 http://www.stringtheory.ws/fashion Accessories from String Theory in Booth V-47

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On Friday night from 6 until 10 the Gladstone Hotel at 1214 Queen Street West,  Hard Twist their 5 annual textile based arts exhibition opens as does their weekend PIECEwork sale

Hard Twist has become an important annual event within the Canadian textile art community as well as being a signature event for the Gladstone. For this fifth anniversary of Hard Twist, exhibition space will be expanded to include public spaces on all four floors of the hotel.

2010 Jurors: Eva Ennist, Shaun Moore, and Julie Nicholson

2010 Participants:

Amy Bagshaw, Fiona Bailey, Susan Bidinosti, Monserrat Brandan, Kerry Croghan, Dhashi Farha, Lindsay Fisher, Holly Gabel, Angela Iarocci, Say Ivison, Shuyu Lu, Alanna Lynch, Amanda McCavour, Renata Meirelles, Joyce Melander-Dayton, Melanie Schaffer, Kat Shaughnessy, Mafalda Silva, Marcy Sperry, W Collective, Sarah Waldman-Engel, Jennie Wood

This is a rug entitled Dirty Dishes  by  Bev Hisey ,4o" diameter 100% wool. Canvas  from Made presents Radiant Dark 09 Elegant Corruptions . Bev is a featured artist during Hard twist and will be speaking about her work Sunday  afternoon 

Feature Artist during Hard Twist  is Bev Hisey, her exhibition OP - Tufted Wool Carpets  is currently running in the Gladstone Cafe  Selected works by Bev Hisy  are presented by Toronto’s Canadian design store  MADE . www.madedesign.ca  which is owned by two of this years three jurors Shaun Moore, and Julie Nicholson

Rebecca Squoant, Silk screened and found wooden block printed dresses, 2009 from last years Hard Twist

You can see more images from last years Hard Twist in my facebook album from last year "November 2009 more textile things to see"  The Gladstone began this annual exhibition in 2006 with "hand-face-body" which was mounted to coincide with the Textile Society of America's 10th biannel symposium " Textile Narratives and Conversations' in the fall of 2006. i reviewed hand face body in fQ Volume 3 Issue 1/ Winter 2007.

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Detail of Kai Chan's Family Moon, 1997, buttons collected in St Hyacintha , Quebec and nails, as installed at the Textile Museum of Canada.  from the collection of the artist ( (photo by me taken with permission of the gallery for fQ use)

Kai Chan: A Spider's Logic continues at the Varley Art Gallery of Markham in Unionville and the Textile Museum of Canada at 55 Center

The Complex Practice of SimplicityA panel discussion of Kai Chan's work with exhibition curator Sarah Quinton, Shannon Anderson (writer curator educator) , Charles Guilbert (Video Artist) and Kai Chan. Moderated by Lynne Milgram.(Professor of Anthropology OCAD University)


Sunday November 28, 2:00 - 4:00 pm at the Varley Art Gallery of Markham in Unionville

Pre-registration required. Contact the Varley at (905) 477-9511.

For directions to the Varley from Toronto by public transit click here
View Larger Map for travel details between the Textile Museum in Toronto and the Varley Gallery in Unionville
you can easily travel on Public Transit if you don't drive it takes appropriately 90 minutes from Union Station

Kia Chan work at the Varley, The Tower and its Spirit 1984 wood, thread, cotton organza 234 X 59 X 51 cm and 239 X 56 X 61 cm ( in the collection of the Museum of Civilization CMCC -94_576.1...-2 (photo by me taken with permission of the gallery for fQ use)

 Kai Chan: A Spider's Logic
September 26, 2010 - February 2011
The Frederick Horsman Varley Gallery
Curated by Sarah Quinton

The exhibition includes a selection of Kai Chan’s sculptural works, created between 1975 and 2010. The exhibition is in partnership with the Textile Museum of Canada in Toronto. it is in two parts with the first section opening in Markham on September 26 at the The Frederick Horsman Varley Gallery  216 Main Street, Unionville (visit their facebook page ) and part two opens at the Textile Museum of Canada, 7 November 2010 to 1 May 2011.

Then the show will tour

Kai Chan has an exhibition opening at DAVID K GALLERY 1092 Oueen Street West in Toronto on saturday December 4th 2-5 pm. the shows runs December 2 2010 through to January 16. 2011.

There are two facebook albums covering the opening of this 2 part exhibition: tThe last week of September 2010, Kai Chan: A Spider's Logic and Kia Chan, Pae White and El Anatsui

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Mean while in Calgary

 

Barclay Mall Banners by Tara Griffiths on 3rd St NW in downtown Calgary.
If you want to see more of them this facebook album Barclay Mall Banners link may work but you'll have to sign in to see them

Live! Auction Fundraiser + Holiday Party: December 3, 2010 at Truck Gallery

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Soirée-bénéfice / Benefit event 20X20 (2e édition/(2nd edition)
Tuesday, December 7th from 5 pm to 7:30 pm

Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles

5800, rue Saint-Denis
Montreal, QC H2S 3L5

Over 200 textile creations as well as some exclusive and unique pieces donated by renown artists and designers will be put up for auction. Yves Jean Lacasse (Envers), Mariouche Gagné (Harricana), Lysanne Latulippe (Majolie), Rosie Godbout, Louise Lemieux Bérubé, Claude Bouchard, Dahlia Milon, Annik St-Arnaud, Mélanie Champagne, Marie-Pierre Daigle, Emilie Desmeules, Josée Hamelin, Zent Keymole as well as many others have graciously donated clothing, accessories, wall and sculptural artworks.

Beginning November 15th, the public will be able to place their bids in the hope of acquiring their favourite artworks. The silent auction will end during the benefit event which will be held on Tuesday, December 7th, 2010, from 5 pm to 7:30 pm. This festive evening honouring textiles is an event not to be missed. Several surprises await you!

The funds collected during this benefit exhibition will be used to increase the creative potential of the MCCT through the purchase of specialized equipment. Your participation constitutes a tangible support of the Centre and is a recognition of the undeniable contribution the MCCT has made to the promotion of creative textiles in Quebec and in the world.

Go to the website to see images of the work and you might think about contacting them and putting in a bid long distance Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles 

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Calls for submissions

|FAT| TORONTO ALTERNATIVE ARTS AND FASHION WEEK 2011: CALL 4 FASHION DESIGNERS AND VISUAL ARTISTS

Toronto Alternative Arts and Fashion Week |FAT| is looking for contemporary fashion designers and visual artists to showcase their work in the upcoming festival in April 2011.
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Starting this month, those who are interested in participating can download an application through our website: www.getfat.ca

DEADLINE: DECEMBER 22, 2010
LATE DEADLINE: JANUARY 9, 2011

We are currently accepting proposals in: FASHION DESIGN / INSTALLATION / MUSIC / PERFORMANCE / PHOTOGRAPHY / VIDEO

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Jessica de Haas brings Funk Shui to the One of A Kind in Booth: G-22

 On that Note I am off to the One of a Kind and will be Posting photos on facebook as usual

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This Week has 10 days Oct 28 - November 7 2010



Champaign by artist designer Kate Jenkins repesented by the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery from England [photo: joe lewis]

 Last year it was Champaign and Caviar to remind us of the "High Life" in 2008 it was sardines, cigarettes and a blue plate special. or at least that was the beaded and crocheted work by British designer and textile artist Kate Jenkins was showing at the Rebecca Hassack Gallery. One of my favourite Galleries that comes to the TIAF.

Thursday October 28th 2010 in Toronto is a very busy day with the 11th Art Toronto [TIAF 2010] opening at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, 255 Front Street West North Building, Exhibit Hall A and B with its now annual benefit for the Art Gallery of Ontario kicking of the event 6:30-10:00 pm.

TIAF October 28 - November 1

to see some images from this years art fair see this facebook album
TIAF October 28, 2010

Notes on the Art Writing and Publishing market place

It has become a growing concern for me as a publisher trying to find writers who specialize in textile in terms of research, reviewing of contemporary or historic material, and as a writer looking beyond the limited number of publications dealing with Textiles ranging from the newsstand available Fibrearts and Selvedge Associational publications like Textile Forum from the European Textile Network and Surface Design from the Surface Design Association which have a general subscription outside or membership  membership only publications like Shuttle Spindle & Dyepot, from the Handweavers Guild of America, Inc. Specialized academic publications like Textile History from The Pasold Research Fund which has been publishing for over 40 years. The more specialized the publication the higher the price is to get it and there is an assumption of obscurity. Does anybody really want to read about The East Anglian Linen Industry. Rural industry and local economy, 1500-1850. [ actually today i started to read "The Linen Trade of Europe" by John Horner published in 1920 in Belfast by the Linen Hall Press at the Textile Museum's library so i for one would say yes to reading about the East Anglian Linen Industry By Nesta Evans in published by The Pasold Research Fund in 1985.]

 Then there are the interesting on-line experiments like Clothes line the on-line Journal of Costume which i just found today and of course there is John Hoppers "the Textile Blog" which I think is exceptional.

What this means is there is a market place for textile writing unfortunately every one is currently suffering financially and the institutional subscriber such as Museums and universities are not renewing subscriptions, printing cost are prohibitive and the Internet has become a new delivery system. Traditional publishers are losing their market share and we are losing places to publish and things to read. So who do you write for and do you subscribe to these publications. When a write ask me "How much do you pay" as a first response to a request for an article I realize my answer has to be "do you have a subscription to fibreQUARTERLY?"

I am just asking are we digging our own grave rather then watering a garden that will continue to nourish us? Or to put it terms of being a maker: Do you buy other peoples work? 

And now back to events in and around Toronto

Lois Schklar, Familiar Territory: Pathways opens Thursday October 28th, from 7-10 at The Department 13 89 Dundas St West, Toronto

http://www.thedepartment.ca/index.html

Lois Schklar is organizing a show for March 2011: Thirty Years of Dolls, will trace the journey of her doll making through the display of 30-40 dolls, early work from 1979-1986 and mid career work from 1991-2003. Half of the work in the exhibition gallery will be on loan from collectors and the rest from her own inventory. 

MADE presents:


A display of Bev Hisey's work at "FABRICation - Studio Production Textiles for Interiors"
August 24 - October 24, 2010. Cambridge Galleries; Design at Riverside 

 

OP: Hand Tufted Carpets by Bev Hisey
Wed, Oct 27, 2010 - Mon, Feb 28, 2011 
Gladstone Hotel
1214 Queen Street West,
Toronto, Ontario 


Opening October 28th 9:30 - 11:00

An exhibition of hand tufted carpets by Bev Hisey in the Gladstone Cafe.
Since 2002 Bev Hisey's work is been in MADE Canadian Design "Radiant Dark" exhibitions presented during the what is now the Toronto International Design Festival for the past few winters.Her work is available through Made and other outlets across north America. visit her website http://www.bevhisey.com/

Dirty Dishes - Influenza  by Bev Hisey 4o" diameter 100% wool. Canvas
Made presents Radiant Dark 09 Elegant Corruptions

Notes for writing about Carpets:

The obvious market for stories on designers and interior design objects is the large number of popular interior design magazines which go from "How to" shopping driven publications like Canadian House and Home, or "in the know" design shopping magazines like Azure. Then there are more obscure academic journals, but because Bev Hisey is a designer of Contemporary Carpets  Hali Modern:Carpets and Textiles for Interiors  would be a good choice. 

Hali (the name means carpet in Turkish) " is the glue that holds the international rug and textile art market together. Described as "the benchmark against which all other art publications measure their quality", HALI is an international quarterly magazine of exceptional style, brimming with information. It is essential reading for the amateur and the connoisseur alike"

Hali Modern which they have published since 2005 is for a consumer of contemporary design. 

Hali Modern " Wider appreciation and the increased involvement of top-tier designers has taken contemporary design rugs to a new level. We look at the innovative collaborations and commissions that are changing the face of the industry"

Kai Chan: A Spider's Logic part two opens at the Textile Museum of Canada on Nov 7

Two Islands and a River, Kia Chan, 2010 Silk Thread, 234 X 333 X 5 cm, this piece is on display at the  Frederick Horsman Varley Art Gallery of Markham [photo by Joe Lewis]

Kai Chan: A Spider's Logic

Nov 7, 2010 - May 1, 2011
Textile Museum of Canada
55 Centre Avenue Toronto, Ontario

(Dundas St. W & University Ave., St. Patrick subway)

A 35-year retrospective at the Textile Museum of Canada from November 7, 2010 - May 1, 2011 and the Varley Art Gallery of Markham from September 26, 2010 - January 30, 2011. http://www.varleygallery.ca/

That concludes my round up for the next 10 days but November is just beginning and we have Hard Twist and Piece Work at the Gladstone to look forward to and the Christmas One of a Kind.

Hard Twist 5: Chorma
Nov 26, 2010 to Jan 30, 2011
The Gladstone Hotel

Nov 26, 2010 to Jan 30, 2011

The Gladstone Hotel’s 5th Annual Juried Textile Exhibition, held in the 3rd and 4th floor Galleries, opens on Friday November 26, 2010 – 6pm-10pm .
Year five of this annual juried exhibit is all about colour. Participating artists explore colour symbolism, meaning, relationships and perceptions through textile and fibre-based mediums.

Hard Twist artists present an exceptional palette of works ranging from the monochrome of Angela Iarocci’s subtle scientific exploration Sky Condition that visualizes the climate data of Canada’s urban centres, through American artist Joyce Melander- Dayton’s playful patterned expressions to Amanda McCavour’s intense “super-saturated, super-spiro-scribble decoration that is so bright it’s almost blinding”.

HARD TWIST 5: CHROMA! runs for two full months and is free to the public 12pm-5pm daily in the third and fourth floor public galleries at the Gladstone Hotel

2010 Participants:

Amy Bagshaw, Fiona Bailey, Susan Bidinosti, Monserrat Brandan, Kerry Croghan, Dhashi Farha, Lindsay Fisher, Holly Gabel, Angela Iarocci, Say Ivison, Shuyu Lu, Alanna Lynch, Amanda McCavour, Renata Meirelles, Joyce Melander-Dayton, Melanie Schaffer, Kat Shaughnessy, Mafalda Silva, Marcy Sperry, W Collective, Sarah Waldman-Engel, Jennie Wood

Curators: Helena Frei and Chris Mitchell,

2010 Jurors: Eva Ennist, Shaun Moore, and Julie Nicholson

Heather Goodchild:" hooked"  at hard twist 2009

 You can see images from last years exhibition in my facebook album
november 2009 more textile things to see
 

One Of A Kind

I bought these Susan Harris Spats at the Gladstone during pieceWORK which will be happening again this year during the first weekend of Hard Twist and as always you will find Susan at the One Of A Kind Show

Check out my facebook album from the spring One Of A Kind Show to remind yourself what it is all about 

March 31 2010, One of a Kind , weave in

So if you attend any of these events and post something on a blog, in facebook, or want to write about for me, leave a comment, send a link or just get in touch. This is just what is happening in Toronto, other exhibitions and events are happening across the country.

where do you share your information?

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march 2010 agenda / cross Canada check in

You can follow my March Agenda as I get out to events and post them in this Facebook Album of the same name
March 2010 agenda/ cross Canada Check in

LAMENT, by  Maggie Tchir in the By Hand - BC and Yukon  contemporary craft exhibitions from Canada, Korea and BC and the Yukon. exhibitions were a part of the cultural Olympiad in Vancouver and will run until April 11.

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Before looking at what is about to happen here is a quick look at what has opened and is continuing in different parts of Canada.

British Columbia

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Ruth Scheuing working on a TC-1 loom during her residency in the Tech lab at the Surrey Art Gallery, where she is working with a hand-operated Jacquard loom on a series of pieces based on the Silkroad between January 23 – April 3, 2010.

for more information go to her SilkRoad on her Project Blog

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 Openings

Morija Reeb felt at Circle Craft.

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March 5 – 30, 2010 Circle Craft’s Annual Student Scholarships Exhibition
This exhibition features the works of Circle Craft’s 2009 student scholarship recipients. Featured will be: Hamza Vora & Raneen Nosh, Emily Carr University of Art & Design, Ceramics Program; Morija Reeb, Capilano University, Textile Arts Program; Patrick McIvor, Kootenay School of the Arts , Metal Program; and, Angie Arsenault, Vancouver Community University, Jewellery Program.

Circle Craft Shop & Gallery, Daily 10 am – 7 pm,
1 - 1666 Johnston St. , Net Loft Granville Island

For information about o the r upcoming gallery exhibitions, visit: http://www.circlecraft.net/

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Quebec

tricot nouveau by Lysanne Latulippe (AKA majolie)

January 18th, 2010 - From January 27th to March 12th, 2010, the Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles (MCCT) presents tricot nouveau, an exhibition of recent works by Lysanne Latulippe (AKA majolie) prize-winner of the Prix Lucien-Desmarais, in 2008. The opening of the exhibition will take place on Wednesday, January 27th 2010, starting at 5 pm.

instaltion view of Lysanne Latulippe work at the MCCT Gallery

Montreal Center for Contemporary Textiles / Le Centre des textiles contemporains de Montréal, 5800 St-Denis espace 501, Montréal (Québec)
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Diagonale, le centre des arts et des fibres du Québec “Ombres à porter” by Amélie Brisson-Darveau until march 6

The relation between the self and the surrounding environment and individuals is the central theme of Amelie Brisson-Darveau’s work. Fabrics and fibres as material and metaphor allow her to explore these dimensions of human relations in time and space through performative actions. Different states of embodied experience and immediacy provide the ground for an aesthetic of presence.
In the recent project Ombres à porter, she traces her friends’ shadows to make patterns for clothing that she tailors afterwards. From these fluid, abstract shapes she creates phantasmagorical, improbable, unusable clothes. Their rich materiality merges into the real while at the same time their usability has to remain on an imaginary plane. The spectator is compelled to engage with the work by projecting his or her fleeting shadow onto the clothes. “I imagine the shadow as a form always in motion, approaching choreography. I visualize the work as a small portable stage (following me like a cloud) creating moving images similar to a dance.”

 
Diagonale, le centre des arts et des fibres du Québec

Opening at Diagonale this month

Traversée, Exposition à la Maison de la culture Côte-des-Neiges,

Buenos Aires : Florencia Vitón, Ester Nazarian, Eliana Castro, Hernán Sansone, Josefina Laratro, Mercedes Fidanza, Paloma Catalá del Río, Verónica Longoni, Luis Marte
Montréal : Alanna Lynch, Claudia Bernal, Lise Létourneau, Lyne Girard, Nicole Panneton, Héloïse Audy, Natalie Rolland, Karen Tam

March 11 - April 11, opening March, 11 5 pm

5455, rue de Gaspé, espace 203, Montréal

Alanna Lynch, Ugly White Fetishist, 2008, mix media. from You’re Too Close: Body Politics, Spatial Relations, March 10 to march 14 2009, Art Mûr, 5826 St. Hubert - Metro Rosemont
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TORONTO this March.

Mary Kroetsch "faces"

the 3 – 3 – 3 Group Exhibition,  Gallery Hittite, March 3rd to 24th, 2010.

107 Scollard St., Toronto, Ontario, M5R 1G4

The artist Project

 Queen Elizabeth Building, 180 Princes’ Blvd., Exhibition Place, 

Toronto, Ontario
 

Thursday, March 4: 7PM – 10PM (Opening Night Party)
Friday, March 5: 12AM – 9PM
Saturday, March 6: 11AM – 9PM

Sunday: 11AM – 6PM

Outcropping #3 2009 Lorraine Roy

Lorraine Roy: Art Textiles: at the Artist Project Toronto in Booth #320, www.Lroytextileart.com

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A Curious Development: new mixed media sculpture by EVA ENNIST:
March 4- 26, 2010
DAVID KAYE GALLERY
1092 Queen Street West
(entrance on Dovercourt)
Toronto, ON M6J 1H9

www.davidkayegallery.com 

2:00 - 5:00 p.m. Saturday, March 6th, to meet Toronto-based artist EVA ENNIST

EVA was on sabbatical last year from her teaching at the Ontario College of Art & Design and had the privilege of travelling to visit the Angkor Wat temple complex at Angkor, Cambodia. It was built for the King Suryavarman II in the early 12th century as his state temple and capital city. Her sustained visit over many days to this amazing architectural wonder has led to this new body of mixed media sculpture. The sculptures developed through her exploration of both industrial materials (concrete and wire mesh) and organic fibres, namely bamboo, reed and handmade paper pulp. The contrasts and similarities of these chosen elements reflect the influences and observations from her travels. The dualities of heavy and light, dense and open, natural and manmade, inherent in her materials, have also been compelling motivators in the development of this new work.

SELECTIONS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION

March 2 – April 11, 2010
OPENING RECEPTION: Tuesday, March 9, 6:30 pm

Cambridge Galleries, Design at Riverside, 7 Melville Street South. Cambridge, Ontario

Cambridge Galleries Permanent Collection of contemporary Canadian Fibre Art is considered one of the best and most comprehensive in the country. The collection was conceived in homage to the region's rich textile manufacturing history and as a means by which to encourage and support outstanding contemporary work in the discipline.

This annual exhibition provides an excellent overview of Cambridge Galleries’ collecting activity over nearly 22 years, and demonstrates the diversity and ingenuity of Canadian artists creating textile based work. Works from the collection are frequently loaned to other art galleries across the country and beyond, however, only once at year at Design at Riverside, is there an opportunity to present larger groupings of related or thematic works here at home in Cambridge. In each subsequent year we build greater awareness of the collection and the artists whose work is represented.

Mary Misner
Director
Cambridge Galleries

IMAGE: (foreground), Arlene Turkington, Thin Skin - Thorn Nettles and Spikes, 2003. (background) Robin Morey, Dawning, 1985. Photo: David Popplow. Images courtesy of the artists.

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Noelle Hamlyn photographed at The Best of the TOAE 2009 at the First Canadian Place Gallery

 Noelle Hamlyn FIBRE - BEST OF CATEGORY, with an embroidered jacket, this one made of tea bags.

Noelle Hamlyn “Uncovering - The Blanket Form” Closing reception: Saturday March 13th, 2-5 pm.
At *new* gallery, 906 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON M6J 1G6 www.new-gallery.ca

Anna Bourque Champion - Mezzopunto Retrospettiva
march 1- 28, 2010

Opening Saturday the 13th of March from 4-6 pm
North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge St, Toronto

Not your standard Berlin Woolwork.

Exuberant, joyful colour compositions using feminine icons from the twentieth century - such as the "Little Black Dress". Appropriating an art form that's been used to fill the idle time of women in the place of outdoor sports and education, Anna's work is bright, beautiful, playful and fun.

"Please join us at the Library on the Saturday the 13th of March from 4-6 pm to view the pieces. Bring your chequebook if you want to take one home."
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Laurie Swim will help unveil " Breaking Ground", now part of the City of Toronto ’s Permanent Art Collection, at the York Mills TTC station on March 17, 2010. 

Commemorating the  "Hogg's Hollow Disaster" which happened on March 17 1960  when five immigrant Italian workers lost their lives while building a new water main in suburban North Toronto. The unavailing of this large community quilt marks the 50 anniversary 

"The quilt serves not only as a memorial to the lives tragically lost while on the job, but also as a celebration of the spirit of community – the volunteers, city officials, organizations and corporations who worked together with a number of individual donors to create this commemorative portrait of a moment in Toronto’s history that should never be forgotten."

to find out more about Lauri Swim visit http://www.artquiltpublishing.com/

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Altered > Martina Edmondson and Monica Bodirsky

  March 17 -April 4

 *new* gallery, 906 Queen Street West, 

Toronto, ON M6J 1G6 www.new-gallery.ca

Opening reception Friday March 19th 5-7 pm

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Around the Frayed Edges
Curated by Laurie Carmount
March 18-May 29
Minden Hills Cultural Centre 705.286.2808 Minden, Canada
Opening Reception Friday March 19 at 4pm

Artists: Marianne Kyryluk, Carl Stewart, Robin Ripley, Jean Farrell, Heidi Hudspith,
David R. Harper, Jill Odegaard, Laura Trach, Liz Menard, Nadine Papp, Wendy O'Brien, Johanna Nousiainen, Fay Wilkinson, Audrey MacLean, Caitlin Erskine-Smith, Barbara Wisnoski, Erika DeFreitas, Carmella Karijo Rother, Suzen Green, Sandi Luck, Cynthia Jackson, Amanda McCavour, Ilona Staples, Karen Goetzinger, Catherine Vamvakas Lay, Karina Bergmans, Jane Tingley 

 

This exhibition delves into the outer edges of fibre arts. Fibre arts is a style of fine arts made with textiles and is more concerned with creativity and skill in the end product than functionality. In Around the Frayed Edges a narration will be spun through work that pushes the confines as to what an artist can do with fibre today. Twenty-seven fibre artists from across North America have created works for this exhibition. From sculptural to painterly to installations this leading edge exhibition addresses all of the visual arts elements – all in fibre.

 

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This Just a quick look at what is happening in March, this information has come from facebook event invitations, akimbo or directly to me from the Artist or Galleries where the shows are happening. 

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One Of A Kind Spring Show

March 31 -April1 2010

Direct Energy

 http://www.oneofakindshow.com

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