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, […]
Read More...Loose Threads: Works In ProgressSome of the work we did during our month-long stay in The Banff Centre, as self-directed, Leighton Colony artists-in-residence.The Hanging -Ingrid, Donna ReBecca Linda MacKay, who arrived the day before. ReBecca’s wall -silk fabric & threads dyed using a variety of dyes & techniques. The grey & the draped pieces are […]
Read More...Last night was finally the night we got to hear the compositions by the 5 composers who have been living in The Centre for the past few weeks. And here we are patiently waiting an hour before the performance for the chance to get in. There was room for only 20 of the general public. […]
Read More...We spent time yesterday putting up this poster to advertise our next exhibition, which begins tomorrow. We will hang in the morning and attend the opening in the afternoon. Family & friends are coming from Calgary for the event. We have been handing out small invitations, with this image on it, to everyone we know […]
Read More...We woke this morning to see fresh snow. This is the view of the dining room from the Lloyd Hall 6th floor balcony. With glass on 3 sides it feels like an eagle eerie when eating in there. Yesterday I worked in my room in the morning then after lunch in our studio in the […]
Read More...Wonderfil is a thread manufacturing company headquartered in Calgary. They generously donated boxes of machine thread for our Women Rock project. I think most of their employees are sewers and one contacted her quilting guild to tell them about our project. She told me, for several days she would find bags of treasures left on […]
Read More...ReBecca Paterson, the 6th member of Articulation to arrive in Banff, had to ignore her jet lag because we had booked a curatorial led tour of the Whyte Museum collection where we were looking for inspiration for our Women Rock body of work. Michale Lang is the curator of the Whyte Museum. She took us […]
Read More...Here is a view from our studio looking out towards the neighbouring one which is designed for an artist working with sound. Here we are last March, all bundled up in our winter gear, heading to our studio for a mornings work. Click on the title of this post to find out more information about […]
Read More...Exciting news! Articulation, the fibre arts group I belong to, has been accepted into the Artist in Residence program in the Leighton Studios for the whole month of March next year, 2009.Last March we spent 2 weeks in our studio in the trees carrying out research for our ‘Women Rock’ study. We are all now […]
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