Toronto Craft Alert

Spring at the Textile Museum of Canada!
Go to http://www.textilemuseum.ca/ to plan your visit or to learn more.

ON NOW:

Fashionably Wrapped: The Influence of Kashmir Shawls
To May 30, 2010
Curated by Natalia Nekrassova
Fashionably Wrapped presents examples of dazzling and exuberantly beautiful shawls, details this garment’s shape, style and symbolism throughout history and discusses the impact of fashion trends and industrialization on traditional craft practices. Follow along as Fashionably Wrapped traces the origins of the shawl from the noble courts of India, where finely woven pieces were made and worn by men for several centuries, to the high-fashion market in Europe, where shawls were desired for their unusual beauty and exquisite weaving.

In Touch: Connecting Cloth, Culture + Art
To April 11, 2010
Curated by Patricia Bentley
In Touch: Connecting Cloth, Culture + Art is an exhibition based on our newest Web project. It explores how textiles are created and the characters that bring them to life. Come face-to-face with some of the Web site’s featured objects, as well as compare them to their digitally rendered and animated counterparts. This is will be the only opportunity to see a remarkable digital reconstruction of a 1,000-year-old Peruvian garment beside the only four fragments that remain. Visit the In Touch Web project.

COMING SOON:

Person Place Thing
Featuring Lia Cook, David R. Harper and Stephen Schofield
April 9 – September 6, 2010
Opening reception Friday April 9, 7:00 – 8:30; remarks at 7:30 pm
Person Place Thing showcases the tactile, large-scale works of Lia Cook, David R. Harper and Stephen Schofield, who create displays of intimacy, exploring portrait-based iconography as a lens to cast light on themselves and reflect it on the viewer. Person Place Thing is where textiles and sculpture meet: Cook, Harper and Schofield make work that is tactile, physical and large in scale – qualities that intensify a sensory encounter. They draw the viewer into embroidered, sewn and woven narratives of nature, identity and history.

Skin & Bone: David R. Harper and Stumble: Stephen Schofield are curated by Sarah Quinton, Curatorial Director at the Textile Museum of Canada.
Faces & Mazes: Lia Cook is curated by Wendy Weiss and organized by the Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Textile Museum of Canada
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Toronto ON M5G 2H5
416-599-5321
http://www.textilemuseum.ca/