Toronto Craft Alert

Clothing Brand Experiment (best known for their most awesome colour-blocked hoodies), is opening the doors to its holiday Pop-Up Shop tomorrow, and will keep em open all the way until the end of December. In the spirit of all CBE projects, in addition to their clothing line, the Shop will feature the work of 15 Toronto-based makers (Monster Factory, SLO, Julie Sinden & Ella’s Botanicals to name a few) as well as rotating installation window by local artists including Lauren Hall, Caroline Larsen, Braden [...]

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I am excited to see so many opportunities to learn the craft of natural dyeing around town these days – it is a process that feels good to do and the unpredictability of the results only adds to the beauty.  The Make Den is offering an affordable class as part of their “Which Class” series (a play on “witch”y crafts) on the 28th – but you’ll need to sign up asap as they need you to drop off your fabric a week in advance for pre-mordanting.

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Growing up as a non-Christmas celebrator, I’ll admit to harbouring a certain amount of cranky attitude about the holiday for much of my youth. A month and a half of tacky tinsel, red and green everything, jammed malls, non-stop Christmas-themed sitcoms, friends being stressed about present-buying (not to mention getting huge presents!) did not inspire holiday cheer for someone watching from the sidelines. My icy Scrooge-like heart experienced a serious meltdown however when I found myself in Prague’s main [...]

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Some of you may be familiar with Paul Bultler’s roving Collage Parties, where the public (or a group of artists) is encouraged to get down and dirty with a giant pile of magazines and art supplies and create a temporary exhibition on the walls of the party space where individual creations mash up and riff off of those of other attendees.  It is the simplest of ideas, but really very liberating to make something just for the sake of making something, and to share (and get inspired [...]

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Image courtesy of Chuckman’s Other Collection (Toronto Postcards) Volume 5

Having pen pals and being one was such a huge part of my life as a teenager who made zines– a practice that was, in the [...]

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Just saw this call from O’Born Contemporary’s Holiday Multiples Fair via Akimbo and it seemed like a noteworthy thing to post, not just because it is a timely call for a unique holiday sale but also because there seems to be much confusion in the indie craft world surrounding what art multiples are. Art multiples/Artist’s multiples/Multiples are objects or prints, usually released in limited edition and usually signed that are made specifically for commercial purposes. They are designed and [...]

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