Catherine Whyte An exciting event that has come out of Articulation’s Women Rock project is an invitation to exhibit at the Whyte Museum in September 2011. Michale Lang, the Director and Chief Curator of the Whyte, saw some of our work while it was hanging in the Other Gallery in the Banff Centre last March. […]
Read More...This week Donna Clement & I travelled to Edmonton to take down Articulation’s exhibit of Winnipeg inspired work that has hung in the University of Alberta Hospital McMullen Gallery for the past couple of months. This a bag made by Miriam Levi Birkenthal that was a late entry to the exhibition because the courier person […]
Read More...People have been asking me about my month-long residency experience. When they are looking for the short version tell them about the thrill of having my bed made every day, my room cleaned and tidied every day and my breakfast & lunch prepared for me with no cleaning up for me afterwards. It was bliss. […]
Read More...While in residency at The Banff Centre, Donna Clement & I got to know a new type of dye Donna had bought, called Alter Ego. Some very clever chemist has developed these dyes to work on cellulose (cotton, rayon, tencel, bamboo) fibres & protein (silk, wool, soy) at the same time, in the same dye […]
Read More...The person next to ReBecca is Jorie Adams. She is a special person. While she was heading up the music & sound department at The Centre, she suggested Articulation apply for a residency & gave us all of the information & contacts required. So we owe her a great deal. She has since retired & […]
Read More...This is Erika Lincoln, an artist who works with electronic media, who was also in-residence for the month. She was part of a large group in a directed residency called Liminal Screen, where each artist worked on their own project but all focused on getting the electronic image off the 2D screen. One afternoon, all […]
Read More...I caught this mountain man on his way back from his coffee break. Just look at all of the safety equipment he has to wear. He looks like a mountain climber. I zoomed right in with my little point ‘n’ shoot camera (so not a good quality image) to get a closer look at conditions […]
Read More...+Quality time together so Articulation was able to move to the next level as a successful textile arts cooperative. +Time to share & learn from each other while we all speak the same language. +Experiencing life in the mountains as contemporary women+Developing empathy for the women who came to this place before us +Appreciating The […]
Read More...This is Wendy Klotz’s work in Articulation’s Loose Threads: Works in Progress exhibition on the Other Gallery here in Banff. 2 of the themes Wendy is exploring are Edith Cavall’s story and the pine beetle problem. Wendy’s specialty these past couple of years has been working with sheers. This month she has made a lot […]
Read More...Here is the work I put up for our Loose Threads: Works in Progress exhibition in the Other Gallery, Glyde Hall, The Banff Centre. A deconstructed silk screen, whole cloth. I was thinking about harmony & balance while working on this. This is Woman Mountain, part of my ‘Re-gendering the Mountains’ series. A deconstructed screen, […]
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