Toronto Craft Alert

Flyer design by Caitlyn Murphy

Even though it is the middle of summer, applications are now open for one of Toronto’s coolest winter craft fairs, City of Craft.

This much-anticipated show draws crowds upwards of 5000 people to its tightly curated Queen West West event annually. The competition to get in is historically tough but is worth the annual gamble to catch a ride on what feels like Toronto’s most dazzling annual indie craft carnival.

City of Craft 2012
December 8&9
The Theatre Centre
1087 [...]

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Well, Hello.

It’s been awhile – been busy here in Hamilton working on multiple projects which include Modular Beauty, a Beehive Craft Collective installation of hand-sewn, English paper pieced hexagons for the upcoming and always awesome Supercrawl festival in September.  The hexagon clusters will creep and grow out of unexpected places along James Street North (the main corridor of art and culture in Hamilton), mimicking hives in the wild. We’ve set up some donation stations specifically to engage our crafty compatriots in in Toronto, and I wanted to invite you all [...]

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Knit Night on the Brain (2011). Installation by The Beehive Collective. Photo by Kate Hunter.

Last year’s Supercrawl (the annual music-enhanced version of Hamilton’s monthly James Street North Art Crawl) blew everyones minds.  While the bands were incredible and the eats & treats delicious, the thing that really got me was the caliber of public art that studded the streets and sidewalks of James North. Beehive-like pods engulfed street lamps, trees painted day-glo in tentacle-like formations overtook roadways, and knit brickwork [...]

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Self-published book In My Baba’s Kitchen by Monique Motut-Firth, courtesy of the Eyelevel Reshelving Initiative 5 website.

The Eyelevel Reshelving Initiative is an exhibition of zines and small works that happens every two years at Eyelevel Gallery, a fantastic artist-run centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Zinesters and self-publishers, take heed! Register online, and send your work in by the end of the month!

ERI 5 is an exhibition and sale of artist books, zines, multiples and other kinds of artist-made [...]

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Sandra Gregson’s Ulysses, 2010. Photo courtesy of the World of Threads website.

Came across this call recently for the next World of Threads Festival– an annual event based out of Oakville that brings together fibre artists from Canada and all over the world. Check out their website for more information, and while you’re at it, give their excellent interview series a gander, which profiles fibre artists from T.O. and abroad.

The World of Threads [...]

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FAT has become an institution in the world of Toronto fashion over the past few years. They seem particularly great at mashing up fashion design with other artistic practices in their annual festival’s awsomely diverse programming. Take a look at this call for submissions for their exhibition component this year, which will centre around notions of the body within the landscape…

Call For Submissions
Multi-Arts Festival – |FAT| Arts & Fashion Week ‘fashionSCAPES’ 2012
Produced by Fashion Art Toronto |FAT|

In its seventh year, |FAT| Arts & [...]

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