Toronto Craft Alert

Sequined antlers by Cassandra Smith for Printshop Forever. Photo by Mike Goelzer.

I recently caught wind of Printshop Forever (thank you, Faythe), a Milwaukee-based web project that aims to connect work from the art/craft world with budding young collectors. Under the curation and administration of maker, writer, curator and thinker, Cortney Heimerl, this website and shop work together to fill a void she felt in the art/craft divide. At this point in [...]

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Since we were on hiatus during the first round of  Leah Buckareff’s (co-founder of the Toronto Church of Craft & City of Craft alike and all around crafty champion) wonderful Wunderkabinet exhibition, we wanted to make sure to give the second edition some love.  The Wunderkabinet 2 involves many local craft artists (4 of them part of the TCA team!),  so it is like a Toronto-Berlin craft art exchange program.  Kudos to Leah for making this happen, and happen so well.  For more background on the project, check out this post.

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Come decorate a sleeping mask before catching some Z’s in downtown Toronto!

The residents of Toronto are invited to come personalize a sleeping mask using simple crafting techniques before covering their eyes and dozing off in the city. By creating a safe sleeping zone on the site of a proposed park in the Queen West neighbourhood, Eric Moschopedis and Mia Rushton seek to legitimize public napping under the aegis of art – just sweet public dreams!

MORE INFO: www.theatrecentre.org /

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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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COME UP TO MY ROOM 2011
The Gladstone Hotel’s 8th Annual Alternative Design Event

January 27 to 30, 2011
(Coinciding with Toronto International Design Festival and the Interior Design Show)

Deadline: Monday, May 31st, 2010.

Call for Submissions

ATTENTION: DESIGNERS, ARCHITECTS, VISUAL ARTISTS, PHOTOGRAPHERS, SCULPTORS, WRITERS, MUSICIANS, SET DESIGNERS, PROP MAKERS, SOUND ENGINEERS, CERAMACISTS, TEXTILE ARTISTS, CRAFTS PEOPLE, FILMOGRAPHERS, PRINT MAKERS, NEW MEDIA ARTISTS and ALL CREATIVE MAKERS:

The Gladstone Hotel seeks Expressions of Interest for innovative, cutting-edge, contemporary design and installation-based projects for The Gladstone Hotel’s [...]

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Project 165 is seeking rental proposals for exhibitions and events in its exhibition site in Kensington Market, for its Spring, Summer and Fall programming periods.

Project 165 is an artist-run hub that exists to catalyze community and genuine collectivity; support the social, creative and professional development of emerging and early-career cultural producers; and challenge the ways in which culture is produced, perceived and consumed.
Project 165 encourages experimentation, innovation and fun!

Exhibitions are scheduled for one- or two-week periods. Project 165 is also available for
one-night events, such as performances, [...]

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