Jun 23, 2016 | #ABCraft, 3D printing, art, artist, artist interview, artist profile, design, fashion, laser cutting, leather working, skill building, technique, Wearable Art |
Written by: Vivian Orr, SCC Communications and Publications Coordinator #ABCraft is the current exhibition in the Feature Gallery at Alberta Craft Council (ACC), 10186 – 106 Street, Edmonton, AB – on until July 2, 2016. #ABCraft looks at how digital technology...
Jun 21, 2016 | art, artist, craft, process, technique, visual art, watercolour batik |
Written by: Paige Mortensen, SCC member and watercolour batik artist Batik is an ancient art form. The process of dying fabric using a wax resist process was used in Asia as early as the first century AD. I do not know when the first artists started using a...
May 4, 2016 | art, artist statement, craft, exhibition, fabric, fibre, fibre art, process, technique, textiles |
Submitted by: Geoffery Bendel, Collector of Sumbanese Textiles The Island of Sumba Sumba is an island in eastern Indonesia. It is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, in the province of East Nusa Tenggara. Sumba has an area of 11,153 square kilometers (4,306 square miles)...
Apr 20, 2016 | art, artist, artists in schools, arts community, collaboration, community, craft, fabric, fibre, fibre art, Saskatchewan Arts Board, skill building, technique, textiles |
Submitted by: Kara Perpelitz, SCC member and fibre artist Late last year, a friend of mine (who happens to be a teacher in our local school), Jessica Lepitzki, approached me about teaching a class of grade 8 & 9 students to spin, dye, and weave. The thought...
Apr 8, 2016 | art, artist profile, artist statement, craft, design, fabric, fibre, fibre art, process, technique |
Submitted by: Susan Marles, SCC Member and Fibre Artist Introduction I gravitated to textiles from a natural fibres expertise, first learning hand-spinning and -weaving with raw fleece. Embellishments with found objects such as dried lichens, plant materials...
Mar 18, 2016 | art, art book, artists, book review, craft, design, events, exhibition, fibre art, international, SCC staff, silver smith, technique, textiles, Wearable Art, wood |
Submitted by Vivian Orr, SCC Communications & Publications Coordinator OFF THE WALL: The World of Wearable Art Photography by Martin de Ruyter, Neil Price, Rohit Chawla and Daniel Rose 746.920993 OFF – Frances Morrison Fine Arts Library in Saskatoon...
