Toronto Craft Alert

Exit Through the Gift Shop: A Banksy Film
Review by Kalpna Patel

“Imagine a city where graffiti wasn’t illegal, a city where everybody could draw whatever they liked. Where every street was awash with a million colours and little phrases. Where standing at a bus stop was never boring. A city that felt like a party where everyone was invited, not just the estate agents and barons of big business. Imagine a [...]

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Toronto queer craft artist Will Munro passed away yesterday of brain cancer at the sadly premature age of 35. He was majorly talented, motivated, and also a really sweet person. While many of us in the craft community only knew of him, or were only acquainted with him, we all feel the impact he has had on this city’s culture.

Portrait of Will Munro by Melinda Josie

Here’s an amazing interview by Leila Pourtavaf where he speaks candidly about his work, his [...]

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Well it’s mother’s day, and I thought it would be a good time to write my first installment of a new column that I think I’m going to call Craft Culture. In the contemporary craft movement, we often like to distinguish our work from that of our “grannies,” but many of us got our skills from our moms, grand-moms, and other women (and sometimes men). This column is meant to pay homage to those who passed on the culture of craft and DIY that is still [...]

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