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Articulation’s Current Exhibition Connected Heritage, Gimli, Manitoba

The exhibition is on all summer at the New Icelandic Heritage Museum in Gimli Manitoba. Research for this body of work began with a study session covering Winnipeg, Gimli and the Inter-Lake area of Lake Winnipeg. I posted earlier about the trip here and here. When we Articulation members were back in our respective studios, we got to […]

WAR: A Personal Response, Body of Work, ‘Home Comfort’

Home Comfort Wool, cotton, plastic; hand knitting. Chrome Island as seen from Blue Shift’s deck 2 years ago my husband and I took a month to sail around Vancouver Island. I took a knitting project to work on every day. I wanted to feel what it was like for the ones who stayed at home […]

Greece in Winter – 2016 Family Holiday

We looked up We looked down We climbed We looked up We looked down We climbed We walked and walked And once some of us ran – on the first Olympic track, ever We fact checked And every evening we warmed up, sampled unique Greek drinks and talked about what we had seen that day. […]

National Museum of Women in the Arts – No Man’s Land

Magdalena Abakanowicz, ‘4 Seated Figures,’ 2002. Burlap, resin and iron rods. ‘No Man’s Land: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection’ (here for the online exhibition.) was recently shown at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC. ‘4 Seated Figures’ may have been inspired by Magdalena’s memory of witnessing her mother being shot […]

Visiting Washington DC Museums – Textile Museum, Renwick, National Museum of Women in the Arts

After attending the Textile Society of America Symposium in Savannah Ingrid and I flew up to Washington DC with the intention of checking out the newly relocated Textile Museum now on the George Washington University campus. Unfortunately, our timing was not great. We could only enjoy the shop because the gallery was closed while a new exhibition […]

Articulation’s 2016 Study Session in Gimli

First stop out of Winnipeg on the way to Gimli was at Arnason’s Icelandic Horse Farm. One of the few places in the world outside Iceland where these distinctive horses can be found. For more about these unique horses visit Articulation’s blog here Rock Art – Boat – Gimli The reason why Articulation went to Gimli was […]

Articulation Study Session in Victoria – Day 3

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 […]

Articulation 2014 Study Session in Victoria

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 – […]

Ursuline Museum, Quebec City

The museum shows different types of embroidery the nuns taught their students.Hair embroidery was popular in the 19th century to memorialise loved ones. Samples of different ways of working with hair. The British tradition of girls making samplers was adopted in France and Quebec.‘At the boarding school, learning this type of embroidery, as with other needlework, […]

Articulation Visits the Ursuline Nuns Workshop and School Museum

Articulation’s 2013 study session was in Quebec City. One of the highlights of the week was the time spent studying embroderies produced by the Ursuline nuns and their students. They had specialised in producing heavily embroidered textiles for the Catholic churches and their priests. Their main techniques were raised gold work and long and short stitch […]