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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Hamilton Supercrawl (deadline: March 1, 2012; crawl: September 14 &15, 2012)

jen — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:57:58 +0000

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 [...]

EXHIBITION: Jeannie Thib’s Column at *QueenSpecific (Runs December 2, 2011-January 17, 2012)

tara — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:22:42 +0000

Thanks to my pal Lizz and her blog post reminding me about interdisciplinary artist extraordinnaire Jeannie Thib’s installation in *QueenSpecific Gallery‘s window space. I passed by it a few nights ago in a mad holiday-fuelled rush and it provided me with both a brief respite and the lingering pleasure of pondering it for the rest of my walk…! Aren’t window galleries great for just these reasons?

Jeannie Thib, Column, 2011. Photo courtesy of *QueenSpecific Gallery.

Jeannie Thib
Column
02.12.11 – [...]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: World of Threads Festival 2012

tara — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:49:05 +0000

Sandra Gregson’s Ulysses, 2010. Photo courtesy of the World of Threads website.

Came across this call recently for the next World of Threads Festival– an annual event based out of Oakville that brings together fibre artists from Canada and all over the world. Check out their website for more information, and while you’re at it, give their excellent interview series a gander, which profiles fibre artists from T.O. and abroad.

The World of Threads [...]

CALL FOR SUMBISSIONS: Expressions of Interest for Permanent Art for Regent Park Arts & Cultural Centre (deadline: November 4, 2011)

jen — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:29:49 +0000

So far most of the successful projects coming out of Regent Park seem to emerge from honest engagement with the existing community and the local culture, and it sounds like this call for public art calls for a similar approach. I also appreciate the broad possible materials list that includes textiles and ceramics and the fact that this is open to collectives and community orgs. Excited to see what pieces they choose!

Artscape is seeking [...]

QUESTIONS FOR CRAFTERS CHEONGJU: Robyn Love

tara — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 08:52:32 +0000

Robyn lays down The Knitted Mile in Dallas, Texas (2008)

Greetings, readers! Welcome to the first installment of a short series of interviews with a few of the talented craftspeople taking part in this year’s International Craft Biennale in Cheongju, Korea, which opened just a few days ago. There are 8 Canadians taking part in the festivities this year– one of them being Robyn Love, who was invited to the Biennale to create an ambitious site-specific installation. Robyn is an [...]

GET TOGETHER: Create A Collaborative Fabric Sculpture With Amanda Browder For Nuit Blanche! (Sewing Days: September 27th & 28th, 12-5pm)

tara — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:28:08 +0000

Wanna find a way to take part in this year’s Nuit Blanche? Check out this call for fabric and makers to help with Brooklyn-based artist Amanda Browder’s fabric-ky take on the art car. Group sewing days will conveniently take place at The Workroom on the Wednesday and Thursday afternoons before the big (white) night. Find all the details you need below!

Amanda Browder’s Rapunzel courtesy of amandabrowder.com

Be Part of the…Chronomatic Hi-Five!
How to participate in Nuit Blanche? Participate!

Artist Amanda Browder is [...]

CRAFTY HAPPENING: Knit Night on the Brain @ SUPERCRAWL in Hamilton (September 10, 2011)

jen — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:42:50 +0000

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 [...]

POSTCARDS FROM THE ROAD: Baby Fatso hidden installation in Berlin, Germany

jen — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:06:59 +0000

We had to climb over a gate and use a map to navigate the ruins of an abandoned factory – that also acts as an amazing gallery of spray painted art – to find the Baby Fatso installation by Karl Addison hidden on the fourth floor of one of the buildings. Our first attempt was on a Monday morning, but we didn’t feel comfortable scaling the front gate in front of the workers of [...]

CALL FOR SUBMISSION: Help Robyn Love Make Knitted Squares for the Cheongju Avenue of Trees! (Deadline: September 3, 2011)

tara — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 05:53:26 +0000

Photo courtesy of Robyn’s blog; http://myfairisle.blogspot.com

This just in from NFLD/NYC fibre artist extraordinnaire Robyn Love…a call for submissions of knitted or crocheted squares to put towards a massive piece of public art for the 2011 Cheongju International Craft Biennale! Robyn’s work is well known and loved for her understated and often profound takes on public art. The following text was scooped up from a recent post on her blog, My Fair Isle. Read on for [...]

EXHIBITION: Paradise Lost at Fly Gallery (June 24-August 13, 2011)

tara — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 11:11:00 +0000

Paradise Lost banner design by Scott Carruthers

What can I say about Fly Gallery? Toronto’s longest running window gallery space, Fly is a Toronto institution. It dedicated itself to the noble task of making art accessible and available to both a suspecting and unsuspecting Queen Street public 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The proprietors, Tanya and Scott, are talented artists in their own right, and they did a service to the streetscape by programming [...]

CRAFTY HAPPENING: (Pop)corn Maze Performance/Installation by Tara Bursey.

becky — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:50:33 +0000

Photo courtesy Tara Bursey

If you were lucky enough to be walking through Dundas Square this balmy afternoon, you may have noticed the TCA’s own Tara Bursey working out her performance muscles with the public installation of a (pop)corn maze. Me, I just spied the photos on Flickr (to watch the whole series of photos, start here) and wished I was there. If you are not familiar with her body of work, I highly suggest a stroll through Tara’s portfolio [...]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: for CONTACT 918 (April 28-May 29, deadline: before April 30)

rosalyn — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:54:15 +0000

Contact 918, now in its second year, creates an international online forum for photographers. Throughout the month of May, a selection of photographs submitted through this website will be showcased as part of a running video projection in the 918 Bathurst Cultural, Arts, Media and Education Centre open to all audiences for the Contact Photography Festival. It emerges as an exciting digital playground that connects photographers and communities by linking the virtual with the physical.

The aim of Contact 918 is to create new communities through the medium of [...]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Toronto Sculpture Garden (next deadline: May 15)

rosalyn — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 03:13:46 +0000

image: Reading the Garden, by Josh Thorpe and David Court
on view April 6 – 30, 2010

TORONTO SCULPTURE GARDEN
115 King Street East, Toronto

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Next Deadline: Submissions received by May 15, 2010

The Toronto Sculpture Garden has been recognized in Canada as a leader in the commissioning of contemporary sculpture since it opened in 1981. Located in an urban park in the downtown core, it serves as a testing ground for artists to explore public space and to address issues [...]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Toronto Sculpture Garden (deadline: May 15)

toronto craft alert — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:03:23 +0000

TORONTO SCULPTURE GARDEN
115 King Street East, Toronto

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Next Deadline: Submissions received by May 15, 2010

The Toronto Sculpture Garden has been a leader in Canada in the commissioning of contemporary sculpture since it opened in 1981. Located in an urban park in the downtown core, it serves as a testing ground for artists to explore public space and to address issues of urban context, materials and scale.

BACKGROUND:

The TSG is a non-collecting institution that is unique in its partnership between the City of Toronto, which owns and operates the [...]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: The Winterlude Urban Cozy Project (deadline February 1)

jen — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 20:04:15 +0000

This February 2010, Spins & Needles, in collaboration with Ottawa’s National Capital Commission, is calling on artists, crafters and the public, individuals and groups, of all ages, and all creative levels to be part of the Winterlude Urban Cozy Project. Various warm coverings, or cozies, wrapped around trees, lampposts, and other urban elements will be installed on two major festival sites. The intervention will remix warmth, cold, art, craft, music and the city, and also play with traditional images and conceptions associated with a country known around the world for [...]

CRAFTIVISM: Act today for an artier city! (by November 30)

jen — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 18:20:39 +0000

FINAL VOTE ON BILLBOARD TAX FOR ART NOV. 30 / DEC 1

After seven years of BeautifulCity.ca Alliance campaigning, Toronto City Council will be voting on a billboard tax for art at its next meeting on November 30 and December 1.

The BeautifulCity.ca Alliance is seeking a tax on billboards with the funds going to art in the public sphere (e.g. murals, sculptures, festivals, accessible arts programming, outdoor performances, etc.) as well as enforcement of the new sign by-law that governs billboards. The proposal is endorsed by over 50 Toronto organizations, thousands of signatories and, [...]

CRAFTY HAPPENING: Interactive Sculpture meets Fire Circus (Nov. 8)

toronto craft alert — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:51:02 +0000

We the Magpie Collective invite you to participate via the internet with our free interactive public sculpture project.

On November 8th 2009 at the All Souls Procession in Tucson, Arizona the phenomenal pyrotechnic circus, Flam Chen will present and our gigantic 25′ electronic cocoon containing 4 enormous weather balloons and hundreds of handmade japanese paper moth kites.

Dedicate kite to a soul important to you and we will fly your kite with hundreds of others spirits both living and past. Write a letter, poem, or thought on our website [...]

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Toronto Sculpture Garden seeks proposals (deadline: Sept. 15)

toronto craft alert — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:42:21 +0000

TORONTO SCULPTURE GARDEN
115 King Street East, Toronto

CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Next Deadline: received by September 15, 2009
The Toronto Sculpture Garden has been a leader in Canada in the commissioning of contemporary sculpture since it opened in 1981. Located in an urban park in the downtown core, it serves as a testing ground for artists to explore public space and to address issues of urban context, materials and scale.

BACKGROUND:

The TSG is a non-collecting institution that is unique in its partnership between the City of Toronto, which owns and [...]

CRAFT TORONTO PICS: Guerilla knit up by miss.print

becky — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:45:57 +0000

Guerilla knit up, originally uploaded by miss.print.

Guerilla knit-up on Brock Street, between Queen and Dundas (toronto)

A little documentation of a lamp post sweater by local crafter, Martha Brown. You can read more about the project here and here. Or, if you’d like a spectator’s report, check out this post from makesomething.ca.

From the Craft Toronto photo pool on Flickr. You can join, too!