Toronto Craft Alert

Everything about this talk sounds right on: ceramics, public space activism, live kiln work, oh my!  Visit the Gardiner website to purchase tickets.

RORY MacDONALD: PUBLIC CRAFT (Lecture)
THURSDAY MARCH 8, 2012 6:30 – 8 pm

Ceramicist and NSCAD professor, Rory MacDonald discusses the importance of ceramics within the realm of public activism and public space. He highlights a new role for decoration as a disruption to our thinking about how we organize and build public space. [...]

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This has been floating around the internet (even making an appearance on Poppytalk!) but I thought I’d take a minute to let y’all know a bit about the Ontario Craft Council‘s symposium: Craft and the New Economy coming up in March.  The Symposium was borne out of a recognition that craft artists, makers, and designers are employing new practices and creating and making a living in new contexts.  The OCC wanted to create a forum where thinkers on these topics can be brought together [...]

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I went to a couple of CraftTalks- a lecture and panel series co-presented by OCADU and the Ontario Crafts Council- in 2010 and took an indescribable amount of knowledge and inspiration away from them. For some reason (homework and general school-related chaos, perhaps?) I ended up missing 2011′s lineup of talks altogether. 2012 is another year, and I’m excited to be attending the first of many scheduled CraftTalks tomorrow evening. The speaker is textile artist and educator Rachel MacHenry- find all [...]

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***NOTE: DATE HAS CHANGED FOR THIS TALK – IT IS TUESDAY (TOMORROW), NOT TONIGHT!!***

Just reading the brief description of this OCC CraftTalk is blowing my mind a bit.  As a bigtime textile pattern lover  I am curious to delve deeper in to my understanding of patterns and relationships – cultural, material & cognitive – and am hoping this talk can provide a bit of a roadmap for doing so.

‘The Patterned Imagination’
with Patricia Bentley

Date: Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
Location: OCAD University, 100 McCaul [...]

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This talk at the Textile Museum sounds incredibly interesting and makes me want to look further into contemporary art that uses smell…any leads guys?

Robe Local (riga), Nigeria, 1900 – 1980, 233 cm x 131 cm, Cotton; silk, T94.3002 Credit: From the Opekar / Webster Collection.

MAGIC, PERFUME, ART

Jim Drobnick will speak on “Magic, Perfume, Art” at the Textile Museum of Canada on Wednesday September 21, 6:30 pm. Drobnick will address the phenomenon of smell in contemporary art, with a special focus on the TMC’s [...]

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I must admit I am not too familiar with Sandra Browlee’s work, but I have been alerted to this textile talk by several textilephiles whom I trust, so I figured I’d share this opportunity to hear this Nova Scotia based artist speak about her work and process – both which sound very intriguing.  Visit her website for a taste of it right here.

Tactile Notebooks and the Written Word, presented by the Contemporary Textile Studio
June 22, 2011 at 6:30 [...]

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