Our next Studio Hours will feature Indigenous bead artist Malinda Gray in conversation with writer Michelle Woodvine, inspired by their recent pieces in Digits & Threads.
Tuesday, February 9, 2021, at 4:30PM Pacific / 7:30PM Eastern Time.
Monthly virtual Studio Hours are open to all Studio Members and feature opportunities to learn, share, and socialize with fellow fibre and textile lovers across Canada and around the world.
[For Armchair & Studio Members] From the Coast Salish wool dog—”ignited by Indigenous ingenuity and extinguished by European colonization”—to WWII-era wool shortages, the remarkable and not well known history of dogs’ wool.
A round-up of fibre and textile arts and crafts in Canada in August, 2022. Online photo galleries of exhibitions from earlier this year, late-summer events to visit around the country, and news of the Great Canadian Wool-A-Long, including links to vendors, discount codes and free presentations.
[Open Access] Métis artist Krista Leddy became famous for her beaded portrait of Louis Riel, published by Canadian Geographic Magazine in 2019. Her work is considered to be controversial by some, and she is thoughtful about the conflicts inherent in honouring tradition while allowing artists to interpret that tradition in their own modern way.