[For Paid Members] This profile of film and television costume designer Joanna Syrokomla highlights her work on the popular period drama Murdoch Mysteries. She shares secrets of costuming for changing times, some of her favourite sources for fabric and costumes, and the importance of recognizing and building the costuming community.
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[For Armchair & Studio Members] A connection between a fan of Murdoch Mysteries and the show’s costume designer led to a community effort across the global fandom to sew a quilt from costume scraps.
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[For Armchair & Studio Members] A virtual tour of the Darn It! exhibition at the Maritime Museum of BC. The exhibition explores sustainability through the lens of the necessary repair and reuse of items at sea.
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[Open Access] A round-up of fibre and textile arts and crafts in Canada in February, 2023, including events and exhibitions, education for makers and artists, and links to interviews with the costume designer for the feature film Women Talking.
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[For Armchair & Studio Members] Andrea Tsang Jackson’s large-scale public art installation, “In Conversation,” adorns a parkade in Kjipuktuk/Halifax, Nova Scotia. The work uses textile imagery to tell six stories about diverse craft traditions and makers, illustrating history for all to see.
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Tara Klager visits the Prairie Interlace exhibition of 20th century Canadian textile art, which toured in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The sixty works featured were created by artists based in the Canadian Prairies in the second half of the twentieth century.
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[Open Access] A round-up of fibre and textile arts and crafts in Canada in November 2022, including events and exhibitions, a studio guide for Newfoundland and Labrador, a new book of textile art on the topic of motherhood, and a call for artists to participate in an exhibition about ornamentation.
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A round-up of fibre and textile arts and crafts in Canada in October, 2022. New exhibitions and live events to attend, and a list of upcoming craft fairs for holiday shopping.
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