This year Articulation members collected in Winnipeg Manitoba to begin their annual 2016 Study Session. Winnipeg has wonderful artwork on its buildings – old and new. View from the rooftop of Mandy’s studio building. This rooftop building has stories to tell. Descending Wendy, Mandy, Donna Go to the Articulation’s blog link here to see more of what we got […]
Read More...On the ferry, crossing to Saltspring Island for the day: to visit Articulation member, Shannon Wardroper’s home and studio, to check out potential gallery space and time for a little retail therapy. Stitches Fibre Art Supplies, http://www.stitchesfibreartsupplies.ca/ very kindly opened up their store just for us, even though it was Sunday. Continuing our study of railway hotels […]
Read More...Articulation members at work; Lesley Turner, Donna Clement, Ingrid Lincoln, Leann Clifford, in the inner harbour. The Empress Hotel is in the background. First appointment was a morning visit to the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria http://aggv.ca/ to see ‘Kimono: Japanese Culture in its Art Form’ with many magnificent kimonos revealing the complex codes and etiquette […]
Read More...Each year Articulation does study in a special place in Canada. This year they are in Victoria researching the maritime history of the west coast of Canada. Donna climbing up the stairs from the waterfront to the street full of old warehouses, hotels and shops. Into The Maritime Museum, up in their iron elevator – […]
Read More...The 4th showing of Articulation and Material Girls’ response to the Bay of Fundy and the River Thames, respectively, will be shown in its 7th exhibition – 3 in the UK & 4 in Canada. This time it is in The Gallery on 3rd, Watrous, Saskatchewan. It is the last time before the individual works […]
Read More...The 1st showing in Canada of the Articulated Materials: Bridging Waters exhibition opens in a month, at the Cre8ery Gallery in Winnipeg. The name of the exhibition explains how the it came about and also it’s content. Articulated Materials – Articulation, a Canadian group of fibre artists teamed up with a similar group called Material Girls, […]
Read More...While in Vancouver recently I spent several hours looking at art work 2 sisters had collected over their lifetime.It was captivating. My colleague and I were so hungry after the gallery experience the line up of food trucks along the curb outside looked most appealing. We settled on grilled sandwiches.It was a most satisfying afternoon.
Read More...This weekend the Whyte Museum in Banff, Alberta, opened a new series of exhibitions, including one by Articulation 6 Articulation members traveled to Banff for the opening There is lots of signage outside the museum Opening speeches by Michale Lange, museum director, Gloria Daly, Articulation rep, and curator Mary Beth Laviolette and demos by Articulation members: […]
Read More...I have started working on a new body of work It began with an Articulation study week, where we explored the Bay of Fundy.Here we are stopped for a roadside lunch I have decided to explore all things red because it struck me as the dominant colour whereever we went around the coastline.Fields of red-leafed low-bush blueberries. […]
Read More...We eat in a Chinese restaurant in Sussex…. … before beginning our AGM. Saint John is full of interesting architecture. Here is one in the Second Empire style, popular with the French speaking Canadians long after Napoleon was deposed in Europe. Donna and Leann in ‘the oldest common law market in continuous use in Canada’ […]
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