Toronto Craft Alert

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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The Beehive Craft Collective here in Hamilton have been working hard to execute an ambitious and adorable installation plan for SUPERCRAWL, Hamilton’s indie music and art fest going down this Saturday. We are mid-way through the install of this piece and I am so excited to see how the whole thing comes together.

With the help of mums, aunts, friends, and members of the Hamilton area craft community, the Beehive [...]

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Mark your calendars folks, Hamilton’s crafty event of the summer will be taking place August 12 & 13!   The show will feature handmade jewelry, ceramics, textiles and more by over 20 talented makers from Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia in one of the many beautifully restored buildings in downtown Hamilton.  The space will also be adorned with installations by textile artists Courtney Lakin and Amanda McCavour.

I know you keep hearing about how fun the monthly Art Crawl is ( I for one keep [...]

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I spoke too soon! Here is another contender for best in show at the upcoming James Street North Art Crawl. This one is of a more tactile nature by Domestic Scientist Thea Haines, featuring monogram embroidery on old tea towels and sewn construction.  If you missed her Fruit Cellar of Miss H installation at Harbourfront, you can catch it here as well.

In this show Thea is riffing on the modern-day pressure we are under to keep a stylish and immaculate home, [...]

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It’s art crawl time again (yes, I am going to keep plugging this thing until I see more of you guys wandering the streets of Hamilton every second Friday night of the month!) and this is the show I am most excited about checking out.  A fantastic little group of local illustrator/designers have come together to explore the wonders (and from the sounds of it, horrors) of the animal kingdom.  Behold:

ZOO
or, A Motley Menagerie of Magnificent Mammalia

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