Toronto Craft Alert

Thoughts of the Owl (2011); image courtesy of The Guild Shop website.

In a Canadian Art History class last year, I was lucky to learn about the Inuit printmakers of Cape Dorset, on Dorset Island in Nunavut. Cape Dorset is known as the “Capital of Inuit Art,” and is well known for its rich history of stone lithography, drawing, carving and handicraft. Similarly, Pangnirtung– on Baffin Island– is known for its weaving studio, which was established in 1970. The exhibition below will [...]

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How would you like to spend July and August creating a new body of work in glorious Halifax, Nova Scotia? I spotted this call for subs for a residency program geared towards emerging craftspeople at the The Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design the other day…looks like a really fantastic opportunity to hunker down and make work in an exciting, new (not to mention beautiful) city. For more details, take a look at the NSCCD’s website.

Photo of NSCCD’s [...]

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One of my life craft goals is to collaborate with my woodworker husband on chairmaking projects.  I’ll handle the weaving bit, and he’ll do the frames.  While past visions have tended towards 70s crewel graphic pattern insanity or japanese rag weaving, there is something so elegant and not to mention durable about more traditional woven fibres like Danish Cord and Fibre Rush.  Donna Kim offers a variety of workshops in the art of chair and footstool weaving and caning in her Wallace Ave. studio, such as Bring Your Own Chair (BYOC), or learn [...]

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The wheel is an Ashford Traveller with 4 bobbins, 33″ x 18″,  wheel diameter 18″,  14 pounds. It’s in excellent condition, as you can see in the picture, and I’m asking $200.00 for it.

I have an assortment of frame looms, a lovely LeClerc frame, 39″ x 21″, adjustable, in excellent condition for $40.00, and several hand made frame looms one 26″ x 34″, in good condition, for $10.00, and one large frame, for tapestries 38″ x 78″, for $20.00, as well [...]

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Cedar Ridge Creative Centre is a vibrant arts and cultural hub housed in a historic mansion. Built as a family home in 1912, Cedar Ridge is surrounded by lush gardens and scenic woods with a variety of walking trails.  The centre is home to the Cedar Ridge Gallery, which is programmed with a diverse roster of exhibitions from September to June.

Cedar Ridge offers a variety of adult and children’s art programs, and inter-generational art programs where the whole family can learn together. Youth and children’s programs include [...]

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World of Threads Festival
September 18 – October 4, 2009

We invite you to Oakville’s biennial celebration of international contemporary and traditional fibre arts. This year we have 14 exhibitions with 90+ artists from 12 countries and 8 provinces.

The Common Thread International Juried Exhibition is the flagship event of the Festival. This year we had 215 entries from sixteen countries and eight provinces. The jurors had difficult decisions to make on jury day. Due to the quality of the pieces received, a decision was made to expand the Common Thread into [...]

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