Toronto Craft Alert

This sounds like pretty much the best thing ever. Projection, costumes, puppets.  Xylophone, wurlitzer, ukulele, cello, trumpet.   Sounds like a recipe for pure magic… act FAST if you want tickets!

A year and a half in the making, Everything Under the Moon is the most ambitious creation to date by celebrated Toronto visual and performance artist Shary Boyle and innovative Winnipeg songwriter and performer Christine Fellows. The pair have enchanted audiences with their daring, moving [...]

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Image: Katy Horan, Spinster; courtesy of Narwhal Art Projects.

I came across this latest exhibition of eye candy taking place at Narwhal Art Projects about a week ago, and I have no idea why it has taken me this long to post about it. The reception was last week, but you still have a couple of weeks to check it out! I particularly love the mixed media work of Katy Horan, whose figures look as if they’re being smothered in [...]

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Hazel Meyer is a Toronto-based artist, aspiring athlete and amateur sports broadcaster who sometimes explores relationships between textiles and sports in her work.  She recently did a residency at Struts Gallery and Faucet Media Arts Centre in Sackville New Brunswick, where she kept this blog documenting experiences, inspiration & process.  She can also be found at www.hazelmeyer.com

I was warned of the Sackville panty snatcher and told NOT to leave my laundry alone, so, I stayed with my [...]

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Behold our final vendor spotlight for the Bloorcourt Arts and Crafts Street Fair Market with illustrator Jack Dylan.  Find Jack and dozens of other super talented makers’ stuff at the Market on Saturday – it’s gonna be a goooood one.

1. What processes and materials are involved in creating your work? Normally I’ll start a sketch with pen, not a good pen, but a cheap little Bic pen (I like black best). Then I’ll scan that and start making some magic in the photoshop [...]

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Yes, yes, I’ve been blogging about little else lately in the form of vendor profiles, but sometimes it’s easy to miss the forest through the trees! So just a quick ‘mark your calendars’ type note that this very Saturday, the Bloorcourt Arts and Crafts Street Fair is coming up, and the market action is NOT TO BE MISSED.

We’ve got several dozen artists and makers offering up prints, ceramics, paper goods, textiles for the home and bod, accessories and jewellery galore, and even [...]

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I am running out the door so just a flyer and some links for this pop-up shop – stylish & tasty looking (& opened today!):

http://blog-fieldandmarket.tumblr.com

Facebook event

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