SDABC & Yukon's Exhibition 'mended' Opening March 17th, 2015, 7pm at Il Museo in Vancouver

My apologies for the LONG period of time since my last post. We are working on a complete redesign of our website, which will probably incorporate a new blog, so things will be looking up before too long. JL
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SDABC & Yukon's exhibition mended will open March 17th, 2015, 7pm at Il Museo in the Italian Cultural Centre, Vancouver. Click on the images for more details about the three venues, with dates and locations.

SOME RECENT & CURRENT EXHIBITIONS FEATURING SDA BC MEMBERS

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SDA BC members have been featured in a number of exhibitions around the province lately. Some info and pics follow...

MICHELLE SIROIS-SILVER AT THE CULTCH IN EAST VANCOUVER

Hanging the exhibition in the Lobby Gallery

The East Vancouver Cultural Centre presented Michelle's work, Love, Decay, Repair, from May 13 to May 31, 2014. Lobby Gallery, CULTCH, Vancouver, BC

Imagined Dialogue I

Imagined Dialogue II detail

Decay

JENNIFER LOVE AND KATHLEEN AINSCOUGH AT THE GALLERY AT ARTISAN SQUARE ON BOWEN ISLAND

Informed by Nature continues until June 22nd, 2014 at The Gallery at Artisan Square on Bowen Island. Just a fifteen minute ferry ride from Horseshoe Bay, one can walk or take the shuttle up the hill to the square. Gallery website. More images of Kathy's work to come soon.

Nocturne. K Ainscough

can spring be far behind? J Love

Stone Garden. J Love

Seeded Ground. J Love

Kathy with her headdress in SDA BC's 2013 Talking Heads exhibition.
This piece is also in the Bowen Island show. 

CATHERINE NICHOLLS WITH THR3FOLD AT FIBREWORKS GALLERY IN PENDER HARBOUR

Laura & Linda Kemshall from the UK and BC SDA member Catherine Nicholls are showing new work in an exhibition titled thr3fold unfinished business, at FibreWorks Gallery in Pender Harbour. The exhibition continues until July 13, 2014. FibreWorks website. More photos can be seen on Catherine's website here.

Catherine Nicholls

Laura Kemshall

Linda Kemshall (detail)

BARBARA HELLER AT THE MAPLE RIDGE GALLERY

Falling from Grace: The Tapestries of Barbara Heller continues at the Maple Ridge Art Gallery until July 26, 2014. Gallery website. Barbara's website.

Related Events: 

Weaving Demonstrations: Barbara Heller will demonstrate the techniques used to create her tapestries.

Saturday, June 14, 11:00AM – 4:00PM (free); Saturday, July 12, 11:00AM – 4:00PM (free)

Lecture: Tapestries, Decorative Art and the Culture of Consumption

Saturday, June 28, 1:30PM – 2:30PM

Presented by Angela Clark, Curator of Il Museo, Italian Cultural Centre

Still Life with Bird

MATERIALIZE - SDA Sunshine Coast exhibition at FibreWorks Gallery; Calls for Entry

Child by Penny Connell

 SDA BC website - click here

Materialize at FibreWorks Gallery

Saturday, April 5th marked the opening of the 2014 season at FibreWorks Studio and Gallery in Pender Harbour on BC's Sunshine Coast.

The first FibreWorks exhibition of the year, Materialize, showcases the art of the Sunshine Coast branch of the Surface Design Association. Artists include artists Marie Barry, Ursula Bentz, Leslie Campbell, Constance Chapman, Penny Connell, Dorothy Cross, Pat Crucil, Jean Biccum Curry, Gail Hunt, Trisha Joel, Jennifer Love, Lois McArthur, Sharon Roye, Jill Sullivan and Patt Wilson.

The opening reception was very well attended and there was great enthusiasm about the diverse and inspiring range of artworks. Below you'll find images of one piece by each of the participating artists, as well as a couple taken at the reception.

Patt Wilson & Connie Chapman at opening reception.
Works by Connie (left) and Jennifer Love in the background.

Laughter in the Garden, side view by Jennifer Love

Who are They? by Jill Sullivan

Marie Barry in front of her work, at opening reception

Letting Go by Dorothy Cross

Robert Service Cabin, Yukon by Gail Hunt 

Ohm mane padme (detail) by Trisha Joel

Winter's Palette  by Connie Chapman

Vessel & Night Skies by Pat Crucil

Encaustic triptych by Sharon Roye

Reds (detail) by Leslie Campbell

Hillside Houses by Lois McArthur

PH Community Choir Banner (detail) by Jean Biccum Curry

Blue by Ursula Bentz

For more info contact Yvonne Stowell at Fibreworks Studio & Gallery, 12887 Sunshine Coast Highway, Madeira Park, BC V0N 2H0

Website; Email; 604-883-2380

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CALL FOR ENTRY

British Columbia SDA Members

Call for Entry for exhibition : mended

Relationships, a broken heart and socks can all require mending at some point. Have you improved something by mending? Made it more useful or functional? Or even mended your ways? We invite you to share your story and submit work that reflects the theme, whatever it means to you.

Click HERE for the call for mended.

Deadline for Entry: September 1, 2014
For more information contact: Anni Hunt

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ANOTHER CALL FOR ENTRY

Canadian SDA members

Call for Entry for exhibition: EDGE OF THE FOREST

Click HERE for the call for EDGE OF THE FOREST, a traveling exhibit scheduled for 2015 and 2016. All Canadian SDA members are invited to submit images of their work for jurying. This is an opportunity to participate in an art event that expresses the unique Canadian perspective.

Deadline for Entry: October 1, 2014
For further information contact: The Edge of the Forest Team

Exhibitions in BC

SDA BC website - click here

Canadian SDA exhibition for 2015 - there have been some changes to the plans for this exhibition. Thanks very much if you expressed interest in participating - the response has been very enthusiastic. We will be updating you asap.

Ongoing and upcoming in BC
Great show now on - the owner of the Silk Weaving Studio, Diana Sanderson, is an BC SDA member.

ELEANOR HANNAN

Anni Hunt has produced a video of an interview with Eleanor Hannan, whom many of you know either as an artist, friend or teacher. Click here.

COMMON THREADS

As many of you know, Thomas Roach and Sheila Wex gave a presentation last month at the Vancouver SDA meeting, about the Common Threads project. Some of you may be interested in following the progress of that project - check this blog for lots of pics and information. We in the Lower Mainland will have a chance to see the completed masterpieces hanging in the Cathedral, in due course.

VOX STELLARUM

Exhibition of work by Elin Noble at FibreWorks Gallery in Pender Harbour on the Sunshine Coast. 

October 5-17, 2013

Website of gallery: click here. 

Elin's website: click here

Award-winning artist, author, and teacher Elin Noble was inspired to create Vox Stellarum by the 18th century prints of German theologian Jakob Scheucher, who believed science and sacred scriptures were not mutually exclusive. For the series, Noble utilizes the itajime clamp-resist process of folding and clamping the silk organza, then selectively removing the sericin (silk gum). The result: an exquisite interplay between transparency and opaqueness, and a subtle shifting of moiré patterns when pieces are hung together and the cloth gently moves.

“I seek to fill the room with the transformative qualities of cloth in space.” – Elin Noble

Canadian SDA exhibition

SDA BC website - click here


EDGE OF THE FOREST: EXPLORING PERIMETERS

A SURVEY OF CURRENT PRACTICES OF CANADIAN MEMBERS

OF THE SURFACE DESIGN ASSOCIATION

Call for Expressions of Interest

Several Canadian SDA members who attended the 2013 SDA Conference in San Antonio have been exploring opportunities to mount this exhibition in a number of venues – at the SDA conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma, June 2015, at the Newfoundland and Labrador Fibre Arts Conference in Gros Morne National Park,.October 2015, and elsewhere. When we have confirmed venues, a Call for Entry will be sent out by email in 2014, and posted on relevant websites and blogs. 

At this time we need you to email your expressions of interest by November 1, 2013, with your name, address, phone number and email address to: Melanie Siegel

THEME

Boundaries, borders and edges...
To what extent is a country defined by its perimeter...by the choices and placement of edges?
Whether political, historical, psychological and/or geographical, our comprehension and expression of these points of delineation represent integral pats of who we are, both as individuals and collectively.
Be it selvedge to selvedge, raw edge or treated, our textiles have unavoidable beginnings and endings. How these are handled can be as varied as the makers themselves.
We welcome your rich interpretation of this concept in presenting a diverse Canadian perspective on our boundaries.

GUIDELINES

All Canadian members of the Surface Design Association are invited to participate. Artists must be current members of the Surface Design Association as of January 2015, and resident in Canada.

All work is to be created as a two-dimensional 16x28 inch rectangle format, to be hung vertically.

The top of the work will be required to have a “sleeve” for hanging purposes.  The sleeve should measure two inches, in which a flat metal rod will be inserted, and should stop ½-3/4” short of the side edges so that the rod will not show on the front. The top edge of the sleeve should be placed one to two inches from the top of the work.

Label sewn on the back indicating artist’s name, mailing address, materials, techniques.

All work must be finished to a professional standard and be ready for hanging as per the parameters stated above. 

The work should best represent your current practice, be it experimental or signature style, and speak to the theme expressed above.
The gallery director or curator will have final say regarding which pieces will be exhibited. We expect there may be a requirement to send digital images, bios and artist statements to the galleries ahead of time.

Details about venues, with shipping instructions, etc, will be provided in 2014.

Contact 

Please email your expressions of interest by November 1st, 2013, with your name, address, phone number and email address to: Melanie Siegel

If you would like to volunteer to help with either the travelling exhibition or with the 

Vancouver-area show, please email Jennifer Love.

Newfoundland and Labrador Fibre Arts conference: website 

SDA 2013 Conference exhibitions in San Antonio: website 

Talking Heads: The Workshop at Cityscape Gallery

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SDA BC website - click here

Following is a description of the recent workshop held in conjunction with the SDA BC exhibition Talking Heads, which is still on at Cityscape Gallery in North Vancouver. This was written by Brigitte Rice, who co-led the workshop, with AnneMarie Andrishak:

Workshop in progress

Anne Marie and I lead the Headdress workshop this past Saturday at Cityscape.   We didn't know what to expect.  The gallery told us the usual turnout for their workshops averaged 20 participants.   We had around 30 ranging from children as young as four  to adults (some artists).  While we cut out a few forms for them, they were like butterflies coming out of cocoons and  took off with their own ideas (some using inspiration from the exhibit) working very intensely on their projects.  They rummaged around the fabrics, fake furs, etc. that we brought to come up with some really creative headdresses.  We finally had to shoo some of them out the door at closing time with fabric in their hands….they could have kept going.  A big part of the success was the variety of materials we put together--women were positively fawning over the  printed fabrics, our leftovers from Cap College.   Everyone enjoyed themselves.

A sampling of some of the creations made during the workshop: