textiles here and there in Febuary and March

After the ETN symposium in Lithuania we had a visit to the Baltic I am chatting with Fiona Kirkwood and artist from South Africa.

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While I may be in Toronto and able to see what is happening around here, there is a much bigger world to explore in a number of real and virtual ways. Carol Westfall provided me with a preview of FiberPhiladelphia 2012 which is under way others are sending me event invites or sharing on facebook, sending press releases to my fibre_quarterly@yahoo.ca address [ EAST/PACIFIC/WEST: CONFLUENCE sent by Claire Campbell Park see below}then of course there is the scouring through gallery and museum websites, checking events listings on line and in magazines. All of this is time consuming but necessary. Editorial space in print magazines for exhibition reviews is scarce and for textile shows there is even less. This space needs to negotiated for months in advance of the actual events. The need for high res images of work to be shown along with bios of the makers involved and the space where the exhibitions are being held is necessary so we become dependent of public relations / communications people. with social media/ networking becoming the source of  advance information the timing of it is so tight you find out about local events the day before.

with that in mind here is a quick sampling of things happening in the next few weeks.

Philadelphia 

A Sense of Place
February 2 - April 21, 2012.

 curated by Bruce Hoffman

 Philadelphia Art Alliance

251 South 18th Street, 

Philadelphia, PA 19103

Reception Feb 2, 5:30 to 7:30
Walk Thru Feb 2 at 5pm
Artists Discussion Feb 3 at 12:30
Walk Thru Feb 21 at 3:30

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Washington DC

Dragons, Nagas, and Creatures of the Deep
February 3, 2012 through January 6, 2013
THE TEXTILE MUSEUM
2320 S Street, NW, Washington, DC

Welcoming 2012 as the East Asian calendar’s Year of the Dragon, Dragons, Nagas, and Creatures of the Deep presents a global selection of textiles depicting dragons and other fantastical creatures of legend.

Drawn entirely from the museum’s collection, the textiles in this exhibition illuminate imaginative images of mythical creatures as diverse as the peoples who created them.

5 februari 2012
Monika Auch /De intelligentie van de hand The intelligence of the hand 
3D woven objects and graphic work on textile
Publication with essay by Monika Auch on texture, time and weaving +plus a visual narrative in photographs.
Introduced by Prof. Albert van den Berg
Sunday, February 5 2012 at 16:00
Blom Room, Faculty Club, University of Twente

 http://www.monikaauch.nl/

Tallin Estonia 

Kaunas Biennial Exhibition second showing

REWIND HISTORY 

10th February to 8th April, 2012.

Tallin Applied Art and Design Museum 

 

Exhibition will be opens by H.E. Ambassador Mr. Juozas Bernatonis. 

Kaunas Dance Theatre AURA will present several performances during opening.

Please visit us and read about biennial and this particular exhibition in online catalogue (p. 22-67): 

 

you can read a selection of articles about the  Kaunas Biennial on line 

 

In fQ volume 7 Issue 3   Six Weeks on the Velvet Highway: A textile Journal part one takes on my journey to the opening night of the Kaunas Biennial. Part two which will be in fQ volume 8 issue 1 will talk about the event itself.  

Toronto

 Dare to Wear Love

 Feb 8, 2012 - May 6, 2012

Opening reception February , 14 6:30 -8

Textile Museum of Canada 

Tucson

Claire Campbell Park

EAST/PACIFIC/WEST: CONFLUENCE
Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery, Pima Community College, West Campus


January 30 - March 9

Gallery talk - TH, February 9, 1:30-2:30 p.m.
Mary Babcock, Nancy Tokar Miller, Claire Campbell Park


Book signing - TH, February 9, 2:30 -4:00
Claire Campbell Park - Creating with Reverence
Nancy Tokar Miller - Artist’s Monograph
Proceeds benefit the Bernal Gallery

Reception - TH, February 9, 5-7 p.m.

Lecture - TH, February 9, 7 p.m.
Mary Babcock, professor and fibers program chair,
Department of Art and Art History, University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
With short presentations by Nancy Tokar Miller and Claire Campbell Park
Bernal Gallery


Taunton SW England

MAPS DEFINE THE FUTURE: WHERE ARE YOU NOW? 
23 February 2012 - 24 March 2012
 The Brewhouse, Taunton

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Now the big question is which if any of these exhibitions will get coverage, previewed in local media print or virtual. Will any get reviewed and where? While we can share photo albums on facebook. write things up in blogs, share the postings, use tags and key words and hope our postings show up on searches. then move on to the next search, the next opening

 

August turns into the Fall; Cross Country Textile Round Up

Ange Yake Class of 2006  Textile Program at Sheridan College, in Oakville

Classic Comfort, Materials: Antique Fabric, Linen, Dye, Thread. Dimensions: 28”h x 29”d x 28”w, Process: Pot Dyeing, Devoré, Machine Stitching. March 2006. Photo provided by the designer/ maker and used with permission 

[from fibreQuarterly volume 2 Issue 3 Summer 06] 

 Danielle Dengerink OCAD University Class of 2009 Digital Print on Silk Tunic Dress photo by Christine Lim, provided by the designer/ maker and used with permission

[from fibreQuarterly Volume 5 Issue 2/ Spring 2009]

fibreQUARTERLY has since 2005 showcased the work of 30 young makers just as they have left school for the "real" world or the Harbourfront Centre Craft Studio in Toronto or which some may think delays entering real life but it doesn't make the stress of paying your student loans off any different then anybody else's. This is a moment for them to pause and reflect on where they were and where they see themselves going in terms of a future working with fibre. Volume 7 Issue 2 Summer 2011 Finishing School is now on line and that is what it is all about. Ten students representing 5 different school, ACAD University, Capilano University, University of Lethbridge, OCAD University and Sheridan College.

Leanne Shea Rhem OCAD University Class of 2011
Target Suit weight silk, pleated silk organza, zipper, red permanent marker writing, thread

photo: Christine Lim

Model: Leanne Shea Rhem

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Cross Country Round Up August into the Fall

Ontario

this slap of cement was the footing for the construction (rather then relocation of ) a new building at Lang.

August 2009 photo taken by Joe Lewis August 2009 with permission

Lang Pioneer Village’s Heritage Celebration Weekend, Featuring the Festival of Textiles Saturday & Sunday, August 13 & 14 ~10am to 4pm each day

on Sunday august 8th 2010 I photographed the unfinished but obliviously there new building at Lang. this is the "Weaver's Shop" photo taken by Joe Lewis August 2010 with permission

Come celebrate textile traditions at Lang Pioneer Village during Lang’s Heritage Celebration Weekend featuring the “Festival of Textiles” on August 13th and 14th from 10am to 4pm each day. Join us for the much anticipated official opening of Lang Pioneer Village’s newest building, the S.W. Lowry Weaver Shop and Jacquard Loom Interpretive Centre, built to house a rare original Jacquard loom and an exquisitely crafted replica Jacquard loom. Help us celebrate our proud achievement at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Saturday August 13th at 1pm.

"The Jacquard Loom revolutionized the textile industry and led to the birth of the computers" image and quote from Lang

Lang Pioneer Village will host a Fibre Artist Marketplace. Browse through gorgeous displays of handmade fibre works for sale and meet with the artists.

Experience a “Sheep to Shawl” demonstration both days as hand weavers and spinners create a shawl from start to finish beginning with a sheep shearing demonstration, carding, spinning, weaving and ending with a raffle for the completed shawl. Throughout the Village, view various textile demonstrations including weaving, rug hooking, quilting, felting, stitching, embroidery, leather work, knitting, spinning, lace making, tatting, natural dyeing, chair caning and textile conservation. Learn about their craft from members of visiting guilds including the Ontario Handweavers & Spinners, Northumberland Rug Hookers, Northumberland Hills Stitchery Guild, Campbellford-Seymour Rug Hookers, and Peterborough and Warkworth Handweavers and Spinners.

Weaver Carrie Osbourn is weaving rag rugs on a two harness loom  made of maple which was among the Samuel Lowry possessions that came into the collection of Lang Pioneer Village. This loom which is located in the "Trades Barn"

photo taken by Joe Lewis August 2010 with permission

Stop in at the Village’s Keene Hotel, where you can purchase ice cold beverages and fresh-baked goods. Enjoy your snacks on the Village Green while listening to live musical performances from Kirby & Yates and Appalachian Celtic. Take a tour of the Village by free horse-drawn wagon ride and children can try their hand at weaving by creating their own woven bookmark to take home.

You can see more images of Lang and the progress of the Weavers Shop in my facebook Albums

August 14 -17 2010,Lang Pioneer Village & Hutchinson House Museum

Festival of Textiles, Lang Pioneer Village, August 2009

Admission: Adults ($10), Students and Seniors ($9), Youth (5-14) $6, Family ($30) includes 2 adults and 4 youth, under 5 free. All taxes included.

For more information visit http://www.langpioneervillage.ca/

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Alberta

At the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies in Banff there are two exhibitions featuring the paraphernalia of daily life of woman. Silk organza and GORE-TEX® are both serviceable materials for life in the Canadian Rockies

Mary Schaffer’s buckskin shirt, donated to the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies by Mary’s great-nephew, Eric, the son of Paul Sharpless, who traveled with Mary to Maligne Lake in 1911, and a lantern slide of Mary wearing the shirt, Mary Schaffer fonds (V527 / PS 1 – 01) image provided by Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies * 

Women Adventurers in the Rockies

June 19 - November 15, 2011

Follow the stories of 10 women, five women from our colourful past & five contemporary women. They have all contributed to our unique Rocky Mountain culture. Their stories will be told through their possessions, images & interviews. One of them Mary Schäffer Warren whose buck skin shirt is pictured above is one of the "Mavericks" featured in the permanent exhibition of the same name at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary.

Mary Schäffer Warren (1861 – 1939) raised in a Pennsylvania Quaker family, visited the Canadian Rockies for the first time in 1889, returning year after year. When her husband Charles Schäffer died in 1903, Mary returned to complete the botanical guide to the flora of the Canadian Rockies that she and Charles had begun. With guide William (Billy) Warren, Mary developed the outdoor skills required to complete her project and to become the first non-Native woman to travel through much of the area now encompassed by Banff and Jasper national parks. In 1911, at the request of the Canadian Government, Mary, by this time an accomplished artist, photographer, and writer, was asked to survey Maligne Lake, an undertaking that was regarded as the exclusive domain of men in the early 20th century. Her survey ultimately led to its inclusion in Jasper National Park.

Dresses from the collection of the Eleanor Luxton Historical Foundation, featured in the High Fashion in the Rockies exhibition now at the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies. image provided by Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies 

The Stuff of Legend: The Luxton Family in Banff and the Bow Valley featuring High Fashion in the Rockies– A surprising collection of gorgeous dresses belonging to Georgina and Eleanor – the Luxton ladies - is now featured. Rediscovered in the Eleanor Luxton Historical Foundation collection were dozens of beautiful dresses from 1910 through the 1960s. A small percentage of this extraordinary assortment of apparel along with accessories including gloves, purses, smoking paraphernalia, and lingerie, is on display in the Heritage Gallery  

Purple Dress from the Renel Dress Salon, in Montreal, Canada, ca.1950 is part of collection of the Eleanor Luxton Historical Foundation, image provided by Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies* *

Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

111 Bear Street

Banff, Alberta

http://www.whyte.org/

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* You can find out more about Mary Schȁffer at the Glenbow Museum in their on-line version of the Mavericks exhibition in the "newcomer" section

** to see what High Fashion was also available in Montreal shops in the 1910- 1960s check out these "western garments" which are part of the Musee du costume et du textiles du Quebec collection

These exhibitions along with the new "Woman In Palaeontology." hallway leading from the  "Lords of the Land exhibition up to Special Exhibition space featuring "I think..." (Charles Darwin, 1837) at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller Alberta show female rolls in the west were more then just the hookers farm wives and missionaries of Hollywood Westerns would have us believe.

August 20 - September 28 2011
Glenbow Museum, Calgary 

Discover the glamour, luxury and artistry of cinematic fashion. Delight in the sumptuous fabrics, the lavish lace, skilled embroidery and unparalleled craftsmanship and creativity. Bask in the ambiance of big-screen cinema and the allure of famous film stars. An experience like no other awaits visitors to CUT! Costume and the Cinema.

On view for the first time in Canada, this exhibition reveals the integral role of costume design in creating unforgettable screen characters. "When actors put on those clothes that is when the character comes alive," says Nancy Lawson, exhibition co-curator. More than 30 actors are represented from some 25 films which depict five centuries of history, drama and comedy.

Cut! also allows the viewer to appreciate the fine details of costumes that often only appear fleetingly in the final film. The attention to detail in the research, design and creation of these film costumes crosses the line from craft to couture.

Fashion and film become fine art in this exciting exhibition. All 43 costumes were made by the renowned British costumer, Cosprop Ltd., and many have won major film awards for costume design, including the coveted Oscar™.

Glenbow Museum Website http://www.glenbow.org/

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British Columbia

"Slipstitch" JACKIE FRIOUD – Clay, JUDY ROBERTSON - Fabric

Circle Craft Gallery

Granville Island, Vancouver, BC

Sept. 2nd - Oct. 4th, 2011

These Okanagan based artist’s unique talents are a combination of hooked rugs and porcelain functional ware. Robertsons’ hooked rugs tell a detailed story embroidered into the fabric before being hooked. She favours natural fibres and chooses these for each rug with foresight. Frioud’s white porcelain line explores ‘stitching’ and ‘wrapping’ within a series of functional limited

http://www.circlecraft.net/page432.htm

detail of hooked rug by Judy Robertson

Judy Robertson says, “The stories I write are hand-embroidered on strips of fabric. I then use a traditional hooked-rug method, embedding the story into the piece.“Approximately three-quarters of the text disappears within the folds, leaving only fragments of words showing. I think these works are about a presence that cannot be known, a voice that is just outside of understanding. Perhaps it is the unconscious trying to surface or the quiet pleas of a person all alone.”

Dateline Toronto:

In Place: new landscapes

Dorothy Caldwell

September 29 - October 30 2011

David Kaye Gallery

1092 Queen Street West

Toronto Ontario

http://www.davidkayegallery.com/

you can read my profile of Dorothy Callwell in Textile Fibre Forum Volume 28 issue 4 No 96, 2009, p. 30 profile: Dorothy Caldwell: Marking Time

find Textile Fibre Forum on line at http://www.tafta.org.au/

Grace Ndiritu, Still Life: White Textiles, 2005-07, photograph from video.

Image: Courtesy the artist and The Agency Gallery, London, provided by the TMC

Opening soon at the Textile Museum of Canada

Veiled: Andrew McPhail, Grace Ndiritu and Tazeen Qayyum

October 12, 2011 to February 12, 2012.

Curator Sarah Quinton,

 The exhibition examines the act of veiling as a physical, emotional and personal processes.

In September 2009 during the Hamilton Arts Crawl I accompanied Andrew Mcphail as he strolled down James Street North as he performed "all my little failures" McPhail in a shroud made of a grid of adhesive Bandages looking like either a fishing net or flesh colour lace glided down James Street North repelling or interacting with the milling crowd. I photographed and shot video during this event little realizing it was the star of a new body of work.

Andrew has just spent the month of July as Artist in Residence at  Gallery Connexion is Fredericton’s only artist-run center, located in the capital city of New Brunswick, Canada. Continuing to work with band aids as a medium. the exhibition of this work runs August 4 to September 30, 2011

currently running

Silk Oasis on the Silk Road: Bukhara

March 23 - September 25, 2011

Permanent Collection: An Iconography of Celebration

March 23 - September 25, 2011

Magic Squares: The Patterned Imagination of Muslim Africa in Contemporary Culture

May 18 - November 20, 2011

Cold Comfort: New and Improved Souvenirs of Canada

June 18 - September 18, 2011

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On Tour

detail of Kai Chan's 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 Joe Lewis taken with permission of the Varley Art Gallery in September 2010 opening of  A Spider's Logic

KAI CHAN : LA LOGIQUE DE L'ARAIGNÉE /
May 24 _ September 4 2011
Musée d’art de Joliette
145, rue Père-Wilfrid-Corbeil
Joliette (Québec) J6E 4T4

http://www.museejoliette.org/

Organized by the Textile Museum of Canada and the Varley Art Gallery of Markham

Kai Chan: A Spider’s Logic will continue to tour throughout 2012 at the Mendel Art Gallery (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan), Cambridge Galleries (Cambridge, Ontario), and Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery (Halifax, Nova Scotia).

New Publications:

 Kai Chan: A Spider's Logic Exhibition Catalogue is available now through ABC Art Books

Essays by Sarah Quinton, Shannon Anderson and Charles Guilbert

Co-produced by the Textile Museum of Canada and the Varley Art Gallery of Markham; © 2010

87 pages, 27 colour ill., 20.25 x 26.5 cm in softcover

$35.00 CDN.

Kai Chan: A Spider's Logic : A 35-year retrospective documenting the work of Toronto-based artist Kai Chan, A Spider's Logic brings together key artworks, many of which have never been seen together before. Chan’s work is critically received equally within the discipline of textiles and the visual arts in general. 'A master of the unremarkable', Chan has successfully altered the gene pool of what constitutes sculpture and what constitutes textiles. The essays presented here bring together different perspectives and responses to Chan's work. Sarah Quinton, Shannon Anderson and Charles Guilbert's texts are insightful, attentive to his evolving concerns, and offer an in-depth reading of a lifelong practice.

Tapestry Weaving - Design and Technique by Joanne Soroka

ISBN: 9781847972804, Published: 01/08/2011 by The Crowood Press
Pages: 184
Binding: Hardback
Size: 260x215 mm
Inside: 190 colour photographs & diagrams

"Tapestries were among the most prestigious of art forms, created for the mightiest in the land and valued for centuries. Despite its illustrious history, tapestry weaving is actually a simple technique that requires little equipment or expenditure, and can be done anywhere. Written by a prominent tapestry weaver, this lavishly illustrated book gently leads you through the whole process with detailed diagrams and exciting work by contemporary weavers. It will be useful to the absolute beginner, but experienced weavers will also find new ideas and techniques to tempt and inspire them."

avilabel through The Crowood Press

Canadian born, now based in Edinburgh Scotland, Joanne Soroka with her work, GoldenSections, tapestry 2007, wool, cotton, flax, synthetic thread and wire 155 x155 cm  at the group show Art Textiles in Canada at the Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles to launch  "Art Textiles of the World: Canada" from  Telos Art Publishers in April of 2009

Website: http://www.joannesoroka.co.uk/index.html

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This is a small sampling of Textile events and exhibitions happening in Canada over the next few months. So get out there and if you feel the need to write about what you are seeing or reading, fQ is looking for content.

cheers

Joe Lewis wearing Keiley Stewart 's Lion's Head
Size: 60cm x 40cm Medium: Felted; coopeworth, camel, 2011. Photo take at the opening of Shape of Things, Sheridan College 2011 Graduate exhibition

May Exhibition round up including Student Exbitbtions

In Montreal

‘Self Fold #4’ by Philippa Brock, 2009, CAD/CAM woven Jacquard
Loom: Dataweave jacquard
Technique: triple,double and single layer cloth
Materials: Warp: Silk organzine. Weft: Paper, copper wire, elastemeric.
Dimensions: Width: 104cm. Height: 215cm

The work is based on exploring the potential for a self folded fabric to work with a diagonal design, developed from a self generated tessellation folding idea, which combined with the authors own yarn and weave structure interaction, self folded into a 3D structure as it came off the loom. The piece also continued to self fold more through humidity in the atmosphere.. You can read more about Phillipa Brock's work at the Textiles Future Research Centre

plier/déplier - fold/unfold 
 Phillipa Brock (United Kingdom) - Tine De Ruysser (UK) - Sarah Kelly (United Kingdom) - Stephanie Lau (Canada) - Elisabeth Lecourt (United Kingdom) - Eun-Kyung Suh (USA)

March 14 - April 29

MCCT Annual Student Exhibition
featuring  Marie Anne Adam Dominique Dansereau Carine La Roche
May 16th to May 27th

Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles
5800 St Denise suit 501
Montreal,  Quebec

From May 16th to May 27th, the Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles presents its annual exhibition with a special focus on the 2011 finishing students and their collections : Marie-Anne Adam, Dominique Dansereau et Carine La Roche. This exhibition is also the occasion to admire more works created during the year by all students of the MCCT. The opening is taking place on Wednesday, May 18th at 5 pm
find them on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1718251738

Aurora Borealis Behind the Trees # 4: Curtain of Light
©Thoma Ewen 2009

FIBRES BORÉALES
May 11th  - June 5 2011
Musée des maîtres et artisans du Québec
615 avenue Sainte-Croix, Montréal, H4L 3X6

The group Fibres Boréales evolved from a three year intensive course in tapestry and textile arts that Thoma Ewen taught at Moon Rain Centre from 2005 to 2008. The tapestries in this exhibition represent the woven visual explorations and meditations on northern light and the aurora borealis by Francine Chartrand, Denise Coker, Thoma Ewen, Hope Maclean, Krystyna Sadej and Phyllis Wedding

visit the MMAQ's website http://www.mmaq.qc.ca/
Attend the Art Auction and and cocktail reception on May 26, 2011 at 6 pm to celbrate the launch of the Musée des maîtres et artisans du Québec for the publication of the premier issue of their new on-line magazine L’Enclume / the Anvil. (download pdf)



Ongoing

FASHION IS THE CENTURY
Look at fashion and trends of the 20th century
February 5 to May 29, 2011
Musée du costume et du textile du Québec (MCTQ)
349, rue Riverside
Saint-Lambert, Québec

Fashion is a paradox that oscillates between the individual and the ephemeral, between consumption and art. The 20th century has been one of excess and upheaval, whether in science, technology, politics, art and of course fashion. In this sense, never a time will not be demarcated as compared to previous centuries.

Fashion is the century invites you to discover or rediscover the major trends that have shaped women's fashion of each decade. These are more than 75 objects from the collections of the museum that will decline the words: fashion, clothing, dress, hat, shoes, trend, beauty and desire.

find MCTQ on facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mus%C3%A9e-du-costume-et-du-textile-du-Quebec/111928018835551?v=wall

Quebec City on going

Vita Plume & Caitlin Erskine-Smith: a narrative "
April 15 to May 22, 2011
Centre MATERIA
395, boulevard Charest Est
Québec (Québec)

April 15 to May 22, 2011, the Center MATERIA present the works of two artists, Vita Plume (Raleigh, USA) and Caitlin Erskine-Smith (Toronto, Canada), whose words come together since their woven works explore the role textiles as a means of communication and strengthening of identity. The exhibition, which deals with communication, cultural identity and the importance of written language, combining traditional techniques with the latest technological developments.

Remains 2007 by Catlin Erskine-Smith, woven cotton and linen with painted warp, part of Making Thinking Thinking Making at Harbourfront /York Quay Centre main gallery in January 2011

Visit the website for more information http://www.centremateria.com/

KAI CHAN : LA LOGIQUE DE L'ARAIGNÉE
May 24 _ September 4 2011
Musée d’art de Joliette
145, rue Père-Wilfrid-Corbeil
Joliette (Québec) J6E 4T4
T | 450 756-0311 poste 233
F | 450 756-6511

www.museejoliette.org
Organized by the Textile Museum of Canada and the Varley Art Gallery of Markham

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]

British Columbia 

Kootenay School of the Arts at Selkirk College

Graduation Show 2011
April 21 – May 29
Touchstones Nelson,
502 Vernon Street. Nelson, British Columbia

Katie Crittenden,The Pool, grass, dyed chiffon, glass beads, crinoline, wire, 2011 

Image by Rod Taylor

Like Kootenay School of the Arts at Selkirk College on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/ksa.selkirk

Capilano University Textile Arts Department’s Grad Show

May 17 – 29
the Ferry Gallery Building
1414 Argyle Avenue
West Vancouver, BC
V7T 1C2

http://www2.capilanou.ca/programs/textile-arts.html

http://ferrybuildinggallery.com/

like Capilano University Textile Arts Department on facebook http://www.facebook.com/CapUTextileArts?sk=wall


In Ontario 

 Myself wearing Needle felted Lion's Head by Keiley Stewart Sheridan Class of 2011

 
The Shape of Things to Come: Sheridan Textile Studios
April 28-May 8, 2011April 28, 6-9pm
Ontario Crafts Council Gallery
990 Queen St. W., Toronto

Katie Walker screen printed silk scarves

Some of the Sheridan Textile Students will part of the Hamilton Arts Crawl on Friday May 13th at James Buttram & Sons 144 James Street North, Hamilton. http://www.jamesstreetnorth.ca/blog/

Joanna Schleimer OCAD University class of 2011 "Lessons on Leaving", handwoven gauze and embroidery

Show Off: OCAD University 96th Annual Open House
May 6- 9 2011

Emily Murphy OCAD University class of 2011beaded purses by Sarah Lavoie part of her Tenacity & the handbag of Canadian Suffragette series

OCAD University MAAD program

There is a facebook album School is Over and its Open House May 2011 showing more images from The Shape of things to Come ;Sheridan Textiles 2011, and OCAD University 96th Annual Open House  at http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150589821050311.679165.890860310&l=5951d83918

Amada McCavour ICEBOX

 MADE
867 Dundas Street West
Toronto, Ontario
Show runs: May 5th through June 30th, 2011

http://www.amandamccavour.com/

Amanda McCavour in the her Icebox. installation at MADE

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 Textile Museum of Canada

Magic Squares: The Patterned Imagination of Muslim Africa in Contemporary Culture 
Jamelie Hassan, Hamid Kachmar, Alia Toor and Tim Whiten
Curated by Patricia Bentley

May 18, 2011 - Nov 20, 2011
Textile Museum of Canada
55 Centre Avenue (Dundas St. W & University Ave., St. Patrick subway)
Toronto, Ontario

http://www.textilemuseum.ca/apps/index.cfm?page=exhibition.detail&exhId=323

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

detail of Coat/ yaktak, Uzbekistan, Late 19th century, material: Silk; cotton, Method: Warp ikat; velvet; card woven; printed; hand-sewn; quilted L 126 cm x W 145 cm T94.1047, From the Opekar / Webster Collection,  Image provided by the Textile Museum of Canada

track the Textile Muse of Canada on facebook http://www.facebook.com/textilemuseumofcanada

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Central Ontario comes alive with Quilt exhibitions, festivals and conferences with workshops the last week of May. There are dozens of exhibitions and the work of several hundred Quilters to be seen. The annual Quilt &Fibre Art Festival: Waterloo Region & Beyond kicks of on May 24th. This springs major group show is Stitches Across Time at the Dufferine County Museum and Archive opening on May 27th. Below I have provided Links and google maps to help you organize your schedule and road trips. all locations are an easy distance from Toronto if you drive. Some of the quilt events provide shuttle services between exhibitions consult their websites for more information.     

Quilt & Fibre Art Festival: Waterloo Region & Beyond
Tuesday May 24 to Saturday May 28, 2011
http://www.stjacobs.com/html/St.JacobsQuiltShows.html

"teaser" from the Ailsa Craig Community Quilt Festival [image proved by organizers]

The Ailsa Craig Community Quilt Festival

Monday, May 23 at 9:00am - May 28 at 5:00pm
Ailsa Craig Recreation Centre in Ailsa Craig, Ontario

155 Annie Ada Shipley

Ailsa Craig, ON N0M 1A0, Canada

The  Ailsa Craig Community Quilt Festival is a not-for-profit Community Organization dedicated to quilting our local and international communities through shared appreciation for this ancient and beautiful fibre art technique.

We are delighted to play host to a stunning collection of Dutch quilts, May 23-28, 2011. Workshops, Merchants’ Mall, Gala Dinner and Community Events are planned for the entire week – announcements, calendar dates and updates will be posted as information becomes available. Check back here regularly for news updates. This exhibition coincides with the Canadian Quilters Association annual juried show, a short bus ride away in London, Ontario.

"teaser" from the Ailsa Craig Community Quilt Festival [image proved by organizers]

http://www.ailsacraigquiltfestival.org/

 

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Canadian Quilters Association / Quilt Ontario
at University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario
May 24 - 28, 2011

Below are links to information about Quilt Ontairo 2011

Welcome to London 2011
To find current news:
BLOG: www.quiltontario2011.blogspot.com/

Quilt Ontario Conference: Reprint of information from the Autumn Canadian Quilters Newsletter (full article)

Brown taffeta two-piece dress with salmon taffeta highlights on both skirt and bodice. Skirt is heavily pleated at back with bustle and has fine pleated trim at hem. Fitted bodice has covered buttons and the same pleated trim at cuffs. About 1870. A204-005 WW Brown dress, Dufferin County Museum & Archives [image used with permission]

This was one of six inspiration pieces that accompanied the call for submission for Stitches Across Time.


Stitches across Time Juried Textile Show
May 27 - August 21, 2011
Dufferin County Museum & Archives 
936029 Airport Road
Corner of Highway 89 & Airport Road
Rosemont, Ontario

Opening Night Celebration Friday May 27, 2011 at 7:00 pm

Pieced quilt, of wool, possibly handspun. A variation of the Square in a Square pattern, made up of triangles. About 168 x 180 cm. Of solid colours and some tweeds. Consists of nine, 50 cm squares with an inner square of 38 cm, and a centre square about 25 cm. Pieced bindings top and bottom. Assembled by machine and quilted by hand. Made by Catherine Fleming who settled in what was to become Dufferin County around 1830. Quilt dates to 1860s. A208-280 Quilt Dufferin County Museum & Archives [image used with permission]

 Pat Burns-Wendland Dufferin’s Past [image used with permission]

related exhibition 

Textiles: More Than Words Can Say
March 13 - December 15, 2011

The Dufferin County Museum Archives main exhibit for 2011 features a wide range of textiles specifically selected from the Museum’s extensive textile collection. Handmade fabrics such as coverlets and woven blankets represent the pioneer period. Examples of Victorian to Contemporary fashion certainly will prove that everything old does become new again. Fashion accessories such as jewellery, fans and shoes strengthen the exhibit. Quilts and hand hooked rugs represent the skill and artistry of our local residents from 1860 to 1960. For collectors this show is a must see and includes literally thousands of textile and textile-related artifacts

visit the  Dufferin County Museum Archive's website @ http://www.dufferinmuseum.com/
and for more information about Stitches Across Time

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Fibre Mania; Open House and Shearing event 
May 28th 
Spinning Wheel Alpaca farm,
The admission is by donation fund raiser for Hearth Place Cancer Support Centre in Oshawa, Ontario. if you have never met an Alpaca or seen live shearing this is it.

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visit their website at http://www.spinningwheelalpacas.com/


Eastern Canada

NSCAD University Graduation Exhibition 2011
May 9, 2011 - May 20, 2011
Anna Leonowens, Port Loggia and Seeds Galleries
Weekly exhibitions

NSCAD Fashion Department had their year end fashion show on Easter weekend. you can find images once you Like them on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/NSCAD-Fashion-Department/122243899832?sk=wall

Lady’s beaded purse, lined in brown silk and measuring 23 cm deep by 16 cm wide. It is beaded both front and back. The upper section is a shell pattern using black, yellow, and blue glass beads. The lower section is a stylized floral in brown, wine, gold, blue, yellow, and green. A looped fringe of brown beads finishes the bottom. Handle, chain and closing of plastic in a tortoise shell pattern. About 1900. 972-01-493 Beaded purse Dufferin County Museum & Archives [image used with permission]This was one of six inspiration pieces that accompanied the call for submission for Stitches Across Time.

College Of The North Atlantic Textiles: Craft and Apparel Design 
Cut & Baste: Textile Graduation Exhibition 2011
May 28 - June 11
The Anna Templeton Centre
278 Duckworth St
St. John's, NL
12-4pm daily. Free Admission
Opening Saturday, May 28 · 2:00pm - 5:00pm

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meanwhile...

"Emily Murphy beaded purse" by Sarah Lavoie OCAD University Class of 2011. This beaded Purse is part of her Tenacity & the Handbag of Canadian Suffragette series