Toronto Craft Alert

Was just trolling the web for something fun to do tonight after realizing that our AGO date could only have happened before 5.30pm (guess I’m used to free night!) and came upon this show on BlogTO – looks like an interesting exploration of our culture’s relationship to the handmade in times of distress…

MKG127 is pleased to present I Can’t Stop This Feeling: Crisis, Comfort, and Craft, an exhibition of new work from the Toronto/Hamilton based collective, SHAKE -n- MAKE.

“We grew up in the 70s, in the midst of turmoil [...]

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by Tara Bursey

antipersonnel, knitted yarns, detail landscape.

Barb Hunt is a Newfoundland-based artist and educator, whose work I was lucky enough to be introduced to by a beloved teacher in art school a few years ago. Her political and often poignant work employs craft processes to explore rituals of mourning and address the devastation of war.

You refer to your work as influenced by the history and customs of Newfoundland. Can you talk a bit about the role of craft in both Newfoundland’s [...]

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Enamelling for Beginners

Saturday, June 6th & Sunday, June 7th
Each day 10am to 5pm (with a 1hr break for lunch)
Total in-class time: 12 hours

We are very pleased to offer you our new Enamelling Workshop. In this beginners class you will learn 3 techniques – Sifting & Stenciling, Underglazes & Painting and Cloisonné. Each student will complete up to 3 finished pieces in this 12hr workshop. Our instructor Catherine Crowe has been showing her wares and sharing her very special art with eager students for over 25 years and [...]

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Methinks Presents’ 2nd annual GARGANTUAN Garage Sale BBQ Corn Roast series slams into Project 165‘s next Open Studio Peekaboo and spills into Kensington Market’s Car Free Sunday for an amazing day of art and insane bargains! – Wha?!

Proceeds of this event help fund Project 165 operations and Methinks Presents’ next traveling art project – Collective Action Expedition 09 and We Made a Deal with the Devil show – which tours across Central and Eastern Canada for the month of August.

Gargantuan [...]

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2009 Visiting Artists’ Exhibitions
Kai Chan: Seaweeds & Other Floating Things
Endi Poskovic: Marry Folly at Mt. Blanca and Some Other Stories

May 28 – June 20, 2009

Artists’ talks Thurs. May 28, 6-7 pm
Opening Reception: Thurs. May 28, 7-9 pm

Open Studio is pleased to present the second of two 2009 Visiting Artists’ Exhibitions featuring Toronto-based artist Kai Chan and Ann Arbor, MI-based artist Endi Poskovic, May 28 to June 20, 2009. Each [...]

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Friday May 29:  11:00 am – 6:00 pm
Saturday May 30:  10:00 am – 1:00 pm

Very soon bargain-hunting fibre addicts will descend on the Textile Museum of Canada for the annual More Than Just A Yardage Sale.  Created and run by the Museum’s volunteers, the sale is a bonanza for textile aficionados and a major fundraiser for the Museum.  Shoppers will have their pick of an eclectic mix that includes yardages, yarns, vintage oddments and a wild variety of patterns, quilt fabrics, notions, crafts and books. All sale proceeds support [...]

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