Toronto Craft Alert

EXHIBITION:
Let Them Eat Cake

February 4 – March 21, 2010 at the Ontario Crafts Council Gallery
Please join us for the opening reception on Thursday, February 4, 5:30 – 8:30 pm

An Exhibition of Fine Sterling Silver Objects to Adorn the Home and Body

Susan Watson Ellis and Todd Jeffrey Ellis together have over 50 years of experience in the metal working field. Jovially named Let Them Eat Cake, the exhibition shows off individual directions in their works as they have evolved since moving from their cramped Toronto Studio [...]

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DORIE MILLERSON
This celebrated textile artist, writer and teacher visits Harbourfront Centre in late January to share her expertise in needle lace-making. Millerson works in a variety of constructed textile techniques and her award-winning artwork is exhibited internationally. She holds an MFA in textiles from the Nova Scotia College of Art & [...]

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This post will be a little long, but gosh does Motherbrand has some fun stuff going on this month and I want to make sure you don’t miss out!  Really makes me wish there was 4 of me this weekend, with all of the Toronto International Design Festival events on the roster…

Info below via the Design Exchange.

Motherbrand Events and Exhibits
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Motherbrand and Harbourfront Centre present the Innovators + Ideas Lectures series featuring TOBIAS WONG and CYNTHIA HATHAWAY
Saturday, January 23, 2010
1:00 – 4:00 p.m.

$10/$7 (stu/sen)

Harbourfront Centre, Brigantine Room, 235 [...]

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Leah tortures Steve with Bookbinding Lessons

Becky Johnson is curating tonight’s Trampoline Hall, and one of the lecturers (Steve Fisher) will be speaking about his general hatred of crafts.  Becky forced Steve to confront his hatred aversion-therapy styles by making him knit a pin cushion at the knit cafe and book bind with Leah of the coldsnap bindery.   See documentation here.  I’m really interested to see how this immersion in actual craft informed his feelings about it.

Another local maker who will be lecturing tonight is Shannon [...]

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Click image for more info on Glenn Adamson’s book

President’s Speaker Series: Dr. Glenn Adamson

“Rethinking Postmodernism”
Central Hall (Room 230)

6:45pm, Tuesday November 17, 2009

Dr. Adamson is Head of Graduate Studies, Research Department, Victoria & Albert Museum

Sara Diamond, President of the Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD), presents Dr. Glenn Adamson as the third and final keynote speaker in the 2009 President’s Speaker Series.

Dr. Glenn Adamson is Deputy Head of Research and Head of Graduate Studies at the Victoria and Albert Museum, where he leads a graduate program in the History of [...]

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Nomadic Resident Hal Foster presents 
a free public talk at OCAD:

“How To Survive Civilization, Or What Dada Can Still Teach Us”

Tuesday, November 3, 7:30 p.m.

Ontario College of Art & Design
Auditorium, 100 McCaul Street, Toronto
416-977-6000  |   www.ocad.ca

OCAD is pleased to welcome internationally acclaimed author Hal Foster as the next resident of its Nomadic Residents program, generously supported by the Jack Weinbaum Family Foundation. Foster will be in residence at OCAD from November 2 to 6, and will deliver a free public [...]

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