Textile events November and December

November 17- Cambridge Ontario

SNOW, RAIN, LIGHT, WIND: WEATHERING ARCHITECTURE
TWO INSTALLATIONS BY FILIZ KLASSEN

Cambridge Galleries Design at Riverside
Opening Reception Tuesday November 17, 6:30pm, remarks 7:00pm
Exhibition related lecture by Filiz Klassen on Thursday, November 26, 7:00 pm

November 17, 2009 - January 3, 2010, multi-media exhibition, Design at Riverside
November 17, 2009 - April 11, 2010, exterior mural, Queen’s Square

Curated by Esther E. Shipman

In Snow, Rain, Light, Wind: Weathering Architecture, Filiz Klassen explores how material innovations and exterior textiles in particular, might transform rigid architectural structures into responsive weather laboratories. Imagine an applied material capable of absorbing and using the impact of nature as a means of lessening an individual building’s environmental footprint and creating weather driven kinetic art. By developing unique fibre-based coverings, skins and cladding for buildings, Klassen has revealed the capacity to harness the four elements of Snow, Rain, Light and Wind and document the findings in a methodical, yet creative and intriguing framework.

DESIGN AT RIVERSIDE
7 Melville Street S
Cambridge, Ontario

November 18 - Toronto

Fashionably Wrapped: The Influence of Kashmir Shawls
NEW EXHIBITION AT THE TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA
November 18, 2009 to May 30, 2010

Curated by Natalia Nekrassova                        
Join us for the opening reception: Wednesday November 18, 6:30 - 8:00 pm; remarks 6:45 pm

TORONTO – This exhibition traces the origins of the shawl from the noble courts of India, where finely woven pieces were made and worn for several centuries, to the high-fashion market in Europe, where shawls were desired for their unusual beauty and exquisite weaving. With 33 beautiful examples from the Textile Museum’s permanent collection, the exhibition will examine how the shawl became a symbol of femininity in Europe, integrating the romantic exoticism of the 18th century with the Victorian values of innocence and decorum of the mid 19th century. The Kashmir shawl and its European imitations embody a cross cultural phenomenon with roots in India – now identified with today’s fashion trends. To find out more or to see examples of these stunning shawls visit the TMC web site at www.textilemuseum.ca

Textile Museum of Canada
55 Centre Avenue
Toronto ON M5G 2H5
416-599-5321

 November 26 - Ottawa

Michèle Provost: ABSTRACTS/RÉSUMÉS, Installation detail, 2009,Courtesy of the artist and Dale Smith Gallery, Ottawa. Photo: Michéle Provost

Fibred Optics: Frances Dorsey (Halifax), Jérôme Havre (Montréal), Ed Pien (Toronto), Michèle Provost (Gatineau)
 
26 November 2009 to 14 February 2010
Art Gallery of Ottawa : Contemporary Galleries
 
Curated by Andrea Fatona, 
 

Ed Pien: Corridor, 2009, Installation, Courtesy of the Artist and Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal 

Fibred Optics features four artists whose work incorporates natural and synthetic fibres, old and new technologies, and methodologies from the world of craft and contemporary art. Produced through laborious processes of knotting, stitching, and weaving, the work in this exhibition invites viewers to contemplate the ways in which multi-sensory information can be sutured and layered to produce meaning about the worlds we inhabit. Each artist uses fibre–a three-dimensional, quotidian material–to produce and transmit individual and collective narratives that are at once coherent and fragmented, visible and invisible.

Ottawa Art Gallery
Arts Court, 2 Daly Avenue,
Ottawa, Ontario 

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Craft-Based Installations and Free Workshops at City of Craft 2009!

City of Craft 2009

http://cityofcraft.com/

Saturday, December 12: 12pm-7pm

Sunday, December 13: 12pm-5pm

The Theatre Centre - 1087 Queen Street West, Downstairs

$2 Admission

TORONTO, ON – City of Craft is Toronto's largest independently run juried craft sale, featuring craft-based installations, free workshops, and craft-related programming in local businesses and galleries. The calibre and range of proposals received this year was incredible and the proof is in the list of talented artists and crafters participating on December 12 and 13 at The Theatre Centre.

A full-sized crocheted skeleton! A giant piece of interactive macrame! Crafty stop-motion animation! An enormous knit tornado! This is just a taste of the many installations included in the programming for City of Craft 2009.

PinPals Green Hearts on Natural Cross Stitch Earrings

Tornado! is a large-scale natural disaster man-made completely in yarn - with a 19 foot circumference at the top! - by the Caribou Collective. Beginning to Macrame, an interactive soft sculpture comprised of multiple pieces referencing a series of knots used in the making of traditional macramé from Lizz Aston. Holly McClellan’s Garbage Dress Series is a continuation of her studies defining garbage, through examining the relationship between consumerism and waste. Escapes by Jen Spinner and Laurie McGregor consists of mini, structural models tucked in corners of The Theatre Centre and larger-than-life, layered, hand-cut, paper silhouettes.

Experiment with Craft Lab technicians and make your own holiday gifts in wonderfully creative workshops offered by local artists and studios. Learn to make jointed, illustrated paper puppets with PinPals and participate in live plaster casting of attendees’ noses with Day Milman.   Silkscreening workshops will be offered daily with Sketch and fabric-based craft will be offered by the workroom.

Between vendors, installation operators, workshop leaders, and neighbourhood partners, over 70 organizations, businesses and artists are participating in City of Craft 2009.  Stay tuned to the City of Craft website for complete installation and workshop listings including photos, bios, web links and more.

For more information on City of Craft 2009, please visit our website at: http://cityofcraft.com/

ABOUT CITY OF CRAFT - The Collective

We are an alliance of community arts organizers who came together around a shared love of craft in general, and the Toronto craft scene in particular. The City of Craft Collective aims to build community in the Toronto craftscape by supporting independent craft businesses and inspiring the larger community to become involved with crafty happenings in the city. We do so by organizing a platform of crafty events of all scope and sizes, including material swaps, film screenings, craft-related discussions, small trunk shows, and our flagship City of Craft event

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International Calls for submission.

Nebraska Digital Weaving Exhibition

 

A proposal for an exhibition of weavings that engage digital technology in some aspect of making or presentation is being developed. A more focused theme has not been determined, but may evolve as submissions are reviewed.
If you would like to have work(s) considered for inclusion, please send 2 to 4 digital images (72-150dpi jpegs sized between 640x480 and 1024x768 pixels) by the deadline of February 25 2010. Email to Janice Lessman-Moss at jlessman@kent.edu

The proposed exhibition is scheduled for a month in the fall of 2010 to coincide with the Textile Society of America's 12th Biennial Symposium at the University of Nebraska.

VALCELLINA AWARD 2009 . Seventh edition

INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY TEXTILE / FIBRE ART COMPETITION

Textile art or fibre art is a particular form of contemporary art which takes form through the use of fibres processed with traditional and contemporary techniques and everything that refers to "textile".
Le Arti Tessili Association is holding the usual international competition for the purpose of enhancing the knowledge and interest towards textile contemporary art among young people coming from different parts of the world, and encouraging new talents.

Deadline 31.11.2009

The competition is open to all young people who were born from 1 January 1974.

This edition requests that the submitted works follow this subject:
LINEA DI CONFINE / BORDER LINE

The following prizes will be awarded: 1° 2,000 € net value /
2° 1,500 € net value
/ 3° 1,000 € net value

For information on all the collateral events referring to 2009
Valcellina Award, please visit: www.premiovalcellina.org


more info are reachable on our website and please see in attach the application form (italian/english)

http://www.leartitessili.it - http://www.premiovalcellina.org 

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if you are born when ever

The International Biennial Symposium and Exhibition on Textile Art "Scythia" marked in June 2004 its Fifth anniversary. It is the only one prestigious international textile symposium and exhibition in Ukraine on European level, which includes artists, educational, fashion and cultural heritage groups and educational and professional (The Black Sea Workshop) workshops.

This event is biennial. It is Ludmila Egorova's and Andrew Schneider's private initiative and it does not depend upon any state cultural institutions. It is the first in Ukraine privately organized international art event, which is free from any kind of pressure.

The 8^th International Biennial Symposium and Exhibition on Textile Art "Scythia 8"

Traditional and Contemporary

June  22-26, 2010

1.     International juried exhibition.

Open to all techniques and textile materials, format is limited to size 3x3x3 meters. Full spectrum of fibre arts. Criteria for selection: unique design, combination of traditional (old) and contemporary (new), originality and quality of works. Works must have been completed within last 4 years. Awards.

Deadline for applications: February 1, 2010.

2.     International conference on textile art.

The papers will include all aspects of textile art.

3.     Art to wear show

Original works, cross-cultural, traditional and non-traditional materials are welcome.

4.  Workshops.

Original proposals are welcome.

Deadline for all applications:  February 1, 2010.

For information and entry forms: anschnei@public.kherson.ua

http:// anschnei.public.kherson.ua

Joe's Agenda for November 2009. Cross Country Check UP

November 3 Vancouver

Join fibreEssence as we celebrate the International Year of Astronomy with the group exhibition

Celestial Textile.

Galileo, the moon and distant galaxies are a few of the inspirations
used by artists in the show.

See Celestial Textile from Nov 3-15
at the Silk Purse
1570 Argyle Ave, West Vancouver
604-925-7292
Hours: Tue-Sun Noon-5pm

Meet the artists and reconnect with fibreEssence at the
Opening Reception Nov 3 6-8pm

fibreEssence is a non profit artist association promoting the use of fibre
and fibre techniqes in the creation of art.

November 6-Montreal

Fibre Creations and Mysteries of the Hyperbolic Plane

Lecture by Dr. Daina Taimina, of Cornell University: Department of Mathematics

presented by the Special Individualized Programs (SIP) of Concordia’s School of Graduate Studies
Friday, November 6, 2009, 2:15 p.m.,

Concordia’s EV Building, Room 1.605,
1515 St. Catherine St. West

Dr, Daina Taimina

“I first developed mathematical models in crochet in 1997 as tools to explain to my students some properties of surface with negative curvatures and basics of hyperbolic geometry. these fibre creations became my guides for explorations in fibre arts – experimenting with different materials, different colours and becoming involved in collaborative art projects. I will share with the audience the experience of a mathematician stepping into a different world". 

co-sponsored By Concordia’s Fibre Programme,Department of Studio Arts, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and Linguistics Student Association.

for more information contact: Charles Reiss : Linguistics Program reiss@alcor.concordia.ca

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November 6 - Toronto

Heather Goodchild: hooked

HARD TWIST - NEW TWIST and pieceWORK, at The Gladstone Hotel opening on Friday November 6th. Opening Reception Fri Nov 06, 2009 6pm-9pm


The Gladstone Hotel’s 4th annual juried textile exhibition Hard Twist - New Twist opens in conjunction with pieceWORK, an annual weekend-long show and sale of work by fibre artists, 

Sat Nov 07, 2009 to Sun Jan 03, 2010
Exhibition Hours 12pm-5pm Daily

Gladstone Hotel 1214 Queen St W Toronto

Curators:

Helena Frei, Toronto Artist and Curator, Chris Mitchell, Director of Exhibitions Gladstone Hotel

Thank you to our 2009 Jurors: David Kaye, Josette Luyckx and Allyson Mitchel
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November 11 - Vancouver

CIRCLE CRAFT CHRISTMAS MARKET


November 11-15, 2009 | Wednesday-Friday 10am to 9pm
Saturday 10am to 7pm | Sunday 10am to 5pm.
Admission: Adults $12 | Students & Seniors $8 | Children Under 12 FREE
Any ticket purchase entitles you to unlimited re-admission any day of the show.



Special feature :
Student Art Exhibition – Circle Craft presents, for the third year, an exciting showcase celebrating student creativity featuring over 120 artworks of young people from grades 9 – 12: Gleneagle Secondary (Coquitlam); Burnaby North Secondary (Burnaby); McNair Secondary ( Richmond ); Walnut Grove ( Langley ); Elgin Park (Surrey); Riverside Secondary (Coquitlam); Delta Secondary (Delta); Lord Byng ( Vancouver ); Argyle Secondary ( North Vancouver ) and West Vancouver Secondary ( West Vancouver ). This exhibition is made possible with the generous support of Opus Framing and Art Supplies who provide the framing and matting.

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November 18 - Toronto

Textile Museum of Canada  
Fashionably Wrapped: The Influence of Kashmir Shawls  November 18, 2009 - May 30, 2010

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November 26 - Toronto

One of a Kind Christmas Show Toronto November 26 – December 6 2009
Direct Energy Centre, Exhibition Place, 100 Princes' Blvd., Toronto
Weekdays 11am-10pm, Saturdays 10am-9pm, Sundays 10am-6pm

This year featuring workshops: - Hand-spinning with Shawn O’Hagan
All workshops are $50/session and include a light breakfast, studio materials and a finished project. Spaces in each class are limited so register early! For more information click here

 

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 November 26 - Ottawa

Fibred Optics: Frances Dorsey (Halifax), Jérôme Havre (Montréal), Ed Pien (Toronto), Michèle Provost (Gatineau)
 
26 November 2009 to 14 February 2010
Art Gallery of Ottawa : Contemporary Galleries
 
Curated by Andrea Fatona,

Art Gallery of Ottawa
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Images will be posted as they are sent in.
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Rebecca Hossack Gallery from London brings Textiles and the son of textile artist to the fair.

Textile and fibre work was simply missing from Art Toronto 2009, with the exception of the Rebecca Hossack Gallery from London England and they had less then previous years. I was reminded that last years event took place just as the US market was tanking and investment disasters where taking place hourly or so it seemed. Then Gallery Director: James Green and I spoke about the concept of safe art.

Inside the Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery London England Booth at the TIAF Oct 4-6 2008 featuring; Peter Clark's college work, David Bromley's embroidered paintings.Last year there was a subtlety shocking crocheted pack of cigarettes and dazzling beaded Sardine Tin complete with sardines done in beads and sequence done by artist designer Kate Jenkins . This work has whimsy and delight, it is colourful and just the top of the ice burg of a dazzling number of thematic embellished crocheted and knitted work. It is just too much fun. This year Kate Jenkins was on display again.

This year its Champaign and Caviar  to remind us of the "High Life" last year it was sardines, cigarettes and a blue plate special.

 

Ross Bonfanti's mixed media  [petrified and thread bare] teddy bears sitting on David Bromley's Boxes [Printed Linen Mounted on Board] hearken back to childhood. better times (supposedly)

Wearing my Donya Coward "fox" pin I am pointing to the work of Canadian artist Balint Zsako who along with his family: Anna Torma,[textiles] Istvan Zsako [sculpture], David Zsako [drawer]exhibited in the London  Gallery last year.

 Donya Coward, Fox, woodland collection brooch 2007,

Opening Day of Art Toronto 2009 [ the new name for TIAF] the press were welcomed and unleashed  at  10:30 in the morning. Therefore the images of unpacking, then I was off to the LG Fashion Week tent for the North American debut  runway show of some designers i won't name. the textile embellishments were amazing unfortunately the clothes were not. Then it was back to the Toronto Convention Centre (north) for the Art Toronto 2009 opening night party. 

I have taken up the habit of photographing interesting apparel worn at the events I attend, opening nights in Toronto (and elsewhere) was awash in BLACK and Black and white. With the large number of Quebec galleries at the show I had hoped to get some good style. While hanging out in the Rebbecca Hossack booth i did encounter an embroider jacket 

unknown jacket on young Montrealer at the opening night, if you recognize this jacket...

You can read what I wrote about this gallery last year 

http://fibrequarterly.blogspot.com/2008/10/rebecca-hossack-art-gallery-at-tiaf.html

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else where at the fair

Martin Rondeau, Woven Photographs, Le Roy Gallerei, Montreal Booth 213

Lois Andison, Camouflage 1, 1998, Queen Anne's Lace, dressmaker's form, latex, thread, metal armature, custom electronics, dimensions variable, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, booth 524

Jacques Bilodeau,  A Burrowing, IV, wool felt, wenches, chains Joyce Yahouda Gallery, Montreal, Booth 1008

"Suspended from the ceiling, this 'soft" architecture of monumental format is activated my motorized winches. Lifting and stretching the felt pockets, the mechanics allow instant modifications to the works form. The user is invited in."

 And you are welcome into Art Toronto 2009 for the price of admission. Overhearing comments as one does I heard some saying how thrilling it was to see so much avant guard work this year. Another was about how conservative it all was. All I can say for sure is that near or part of the "NEXT" section there is a bubble wrap installation for you to walk and pop to your heart's content.

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Art Toronto 2009 (aka TIAF)

welcome from TIAF

Jeffery Spalding  who curated "Home Land" to help celebrate the 10th year of the art fair spoke about the intellect of the Canadian artist being a fertile ground of diversity and vitality. Canadian  work whether made at home or abroad  competes in the world market. The exhibition while being divers includes no textile or fibre art. "Hart land is curated into 3 distinct project themes- entry to the exhibition explores notions of wilderness, Mid discussion the story tips in favour of work that explores primarily 'human nature', our urban world and the lives we conduct therein. Then the work creates a bridge from social and psychological space to the realm of the creation of abstract work."

One artist whose always amazing work is include in the show. Aganetha Dyck. is presented by  two of her "collaborative" works, Bees Wax and figurines are included in this show. Working with bees she has produce an number of garment pieces and operates with in the scope of textiles and fibres.

Aganetha Dyck Bees Wax and figurines [front view] 

Aganetha Dyck Bees Wax and figurines [front view] back View

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  Cal Lane Wheel Barrel, plasma cut steel, 2007

An other artist in "Heart land" works in steel and by cutting with a welding torch makes it  appear to be lace. Cal Lane's Wheel Barrel is not the only piece by her in the show. Having a solo show at  Art Mûr in Montreal, [Sweet Crude, September 19 – October 31] they have brought others, Art Mûr , a gallery from Montreal in Booth 1000 has brought the work of three artist whose work bridges fine craft and "rough art" I'll let you think about that, Cal Lane, Barbara Todd and Nadia Myre. 

11 am installation in progress

8 pm the installation is complete  

Plasma Cut  Steel Oil Drums, 2008

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 By the time I returned for the opening night party Cal Lane's Oil Drum piece had been purchased by the Art Gallery of Ontario. Cal Lane , whose work has been seen in Toronto several times, I first encounter her in the group show Frey the co- curated exhibition at the Koffler Centre and Textile Museum of Canada  which I reviewed for the British  magazine Selvedge [issue no.14]  You can read about her recent site specific lace inspired out door steel sculpture "1,000 Gallon Oil Drum " created for "Lace in Translation" exhibition at the Design Center at Philadelphia University in the recent issue  fiberARTS magazine Nov/Dec 2009. 

Cal Lane "Dirt " works at Koffler Gallery Frey July 2006 January 2007,

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The other two artist Art Mûr  in Booth 1000 has brought the work of two others Barbara Todd a quilt maker who was featured in the Telos Art publishers book "Textile Arts of the World : Canada"

11 am installation time

Barbara Todd with her wool appliqué quilt at the Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles in April 2009 for book launch and exhibition Art Textile [read about this in April 21 2009 post April is now on: Montreal Month of the fibre and Textile arts

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nadia Myre  a beader who works in mixed media sculpture, and video.

Nadia Myre pieces at Art Toronto 2009, digital  print and 2 sculpture

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Moving into the main part of the fair you will find Quebec Tapestry artist Marcel Marios at the Gallery Roger Bellefeuille Both 712

Marcel Marois: perception No, 12, water colour

Marcel Marois with Scene no2, Tapestry, 2001-02, 36.75 x 37.5 in.; 93.5 x 94.5 cm
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"Target That Will Not Feel a Thing" (Central system removed) Cut paper Target acrylic on paper by Robert Waters p/m gallery Booth 1114 
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