Toronto Craft Alert

The day is getting a little dreary, and despite having a gigantic to-do list, I can hear the mohair blankets sprawled across my couch calling my name for a mid-afternoon nap. It is timely therefore to be posting this call for subs from local small press outfit Red Claw Press, who are looking for visual and written ruminations on the topic of sleep. I think my submission would probably involve a fuzzy blanket orgy (warm blanket on blanket action!).

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
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I spotted this exhibition listing yesterday featuring a trio of TCA’s favourite crafty superstars, Grant Heaps, Sonja Ahlers and Alexx Boisjoli. Not only is Niagara File an exhibition, but the reception will double as a catalogue launch for the exhibition, which will feature the work of additional talented folks on top of the three exhibiting artists. I can’t wait to treat myself to a copy!

Installation detail by Alexx Boisjoli

NIAGARA FILE

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Do you design unusual or unexpected pieces of needlepoint? If so, you should design a pattern for Hoopla, The Art of Unexpected Embroidery, to be published by Arsenal Pulp Press in fall 2011.

Hoopla: The Art of Unexpected Embroidery rebels against the traditional notions of quaint embroidery with motifs of flowers and songbirds. The book will feature unusual stitch work on a variety of [...]

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PIN UP, PARTY DOWN

WORN Fashion Journal Issue 10 Launch Party and Art-on-Pins Exhibit
Limited edition buttons for sale – a buck a button
Sixties songs for dancing

Friday, May 28th 2010
9pm-2am

CINECYCLE – down the lane behind 129 Spadina Ave.
$7 cover. $5 if you wear a pin.
Free Issue 10 with cover

www.wornjournal.com

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Red Claw Press Announces
A Writerlicious Anthology About Food:
Literal, Poetic, Imagined

Call for Contributions

We invite the submission of works about Food and Drink in all their meanings:  stories, poems and works of art in any medium that celebrate food, or decry it; the joy of eating, or not; foods you love or hate now, or did as a child; cooking experiences bad and good; foods you ate recently or a long time ago; cooking recipes with commentary; food for thought, recipes for disaster, recipes for love.  When [...]

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bbrrrr! grab a cup of tea and please join us for another batch of lovely picks!
happy weekend sweet friends

Amy says:

(image from Daniel Douglas)

1. Jenni Rope

Okay, look at all these books. I’m overwhelmed.

2. Sofia Arnold/Icebear

Other wordly silkscreened prints. Love.

3. Susie Cowie

Vintage-inspired embroidery.

4. Daniel Douglas

This picture is perfection: the tumbledown wood, the yarn-roof, oh!

5. Mariska Karasz

Incredible, [...]

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