Toronto Craft Alert

Celebrating a crafty victory with Awards For Nothing by the sweetie pie press

I am tardy in sharing this with you, but there is still time to get together your application for the Ontario Arts Council’s revamped Craft Projects grants, due October 17, 2011.

As some of you may know, I had the privilege  of conducting a review of the craft sector for the OAC so that they could gain a clearer understanding of present-day craft practices and re-evaluate their Craft Projects [...]

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Bioplastic Buttons by Stephanie Phillips

For those of you who don’t know, Subtle Technologies is a really exciting annual festival of art and science that gathers artists, scientists, innovators, technologists, engineers, designers and the general public to discuss and exhibit work that intersects such disciplines. A few weeks ago, I noticed their website was up and was thrilled to see that there is some really interesting crafty programming attached to the festival this year. One piece [...]

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I Wonder image courtesy of Onsite (at) OCADU’s website

A few weeks ago I dropped in to see the exhibition I Wonder at Onsite (at) OCADU, which features the innovative and utterly seductive work of Canadian graphic artist Marian Bantjes. I Wonder is also the title of Bantjes’ new book, which not only features her lush and highly original work with design and typography, but it also discusses her thoughts on design. Having flipped through the book in [...]

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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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Sonja Ahlers
The Selves
At Magic Pony, May 13-25, 2010
Artists’ Talk and Zine Making Workshop with Sonja Ahlers and Selena Wong
Tuesday, May 25. 6-9pm

Review by Tara Bursey

What did your bedroom look like when you were 7 years old? What did it look like when you were 12? What sorts of things were on your bookshelves and walls? The altars of our youth reflected our lives and experiences at the time, as well as the era [...]

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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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