Art Deco Art on the Figure
Here are some more luscious garments from that MOMA book I previously posted images of. In 1927, an unknown designer has appliqued an...
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Nov 23, 20091 min read
Madeleine Vionnet and Art Deco
A friend showed me this very interesting book. Its main argument is that Art Deco fashion was greatly influenced by Cubism. I found the...
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Nov 20, 20091 min read
Art Deco
This semester I am doing the Art History: 20th & 21st Century module with the JC School of Textile Arts. I have chosen to study the Art...
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Nov 13, 20091 min read
Pumpkin Art, Wolfville, Nova Scotia
While we were in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, we went to the Saturday market. Remember this is the second town in North America to apply to...
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Nov 9, 20091 min read
Briggs & Little
While in New Brunswick we stopped in at Briggs & Little, Canada's oldest woolen mill. This is their new mill, built after a fire...
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Oct 30, 20091 min read
Art Deco in Canada
This semester, for my Julia Caprara School of Textile Arts degree studies, I am investigating the Art Deco Movement. While on holiday...
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Oct 19, 20091 min read
Boats & Korea
Speaking of boats, my work 'Walls Talk', is, at this moment, in the hold of a boat bound for Korea... ...along with all of the other...
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Sep 11, 20091 min read
More 'Urban Textures' Work
I am working with these images to make another piece in my 'Urban Textures' series that will be exhibited with Articulation in the...
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Aug 16, 20091 min read
Articulation's Blog
Articulation has set up a blog to let people know what members are working on, where they are exhibiting and generally what they are up...
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Jul 22, 20091 min read
Julia Caprara School of Textile Arts
I just got word the Julia Caprara School of Textile Arts has started to set up their web site, http://www.jctextilearts.com/ This will...
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Jul 18, 20091 min read
Inspiration & Work
Summer is a time to travel and visit. I took our recent visitors/company to one of my favourite places in Alberta - Dinosaur Provincial...
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Jul 17, 20091 min read
Saying Goodbye Again
I had a lovely day sitting outside hand stitching 'Walls Talk'. It is so calming to be hand stitching again after doing only drawing &...
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Jul 16, 20091 min read
Articulation Exhibition at Whyte Museum
Catherine WhyteAn exciting event that has come out of Articulation's Women Rock project is an invitation to exhibit at the Whyte Museum...
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Jun 26, 20091 min read
Walls Talk at the Alberta Craft Council Gallery
Here is my entry to the Korean Craft Biennale having its first public showing. Joanne from Alberta Craft Council had driven down from...
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Jun 22, 20091 min read
Take Down at the McMullen
This week Donna Clement & I travelled to Edmonton to take down Articulation's exhibit of Winnipeg inspired work that has hung in the...
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Jun 21, 20091 min read
BA (Hons) Embroidered Textiles & 'Friends' Shawl
I've been very busy this past week working at finishing off this semester's module for my BA(Hons) studies. This semester I did...
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May 17, 20091 min read
McMullen Gallery, Articulation's Urban Textures
This is Articulation member Wendy Klotz's work in the Urban Textures exhibition in the University of Alberta Hospital McMullen Gallery. ...
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May 13, 20091 min read
More McMullen Gallery Work
These are the 3 works Leann Clifford put into Articulation's 'Urban Textures' exhibition currently hanging in the McMullen Gallery,...
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May 12, 20091 min read
McMullen Gallery Workshops
Donna and I drove up to Edmonton yesterday for our 2nd workshop in the McMullen Gallery. We encouraged those who came into the gallery to...
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May 8, 20091 min read
Urban Textures McMullen Gallery
Gloria's 'Ashlar' is a response to the first Ford garage in Winnipeg. This image doesn't show the detail but there is a lot of hand...
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May 6, 20091 min read