Like a Rolling Stone – Habitat

Step into the landscape and make it your own

Created by Saskatchewan fibre artist and longtime Saskatchewan Craft Council member Heike Fink, Like a Rolling Stone – Habitat is an interactive fibre art installation designed to be explored, touched, and re-imagined. Thousands of hand-felted pebbles create an ever-changing riverscape, inviting you to move, stack, roll, rearrange, and create. Build landscapes, discover patterns, or tell your own story through the stones. This hands-on installation offers a playful glimpse into Fink’s larger exhibition Like a Rolling Stone – Habitat currently on view at the Saskatchewan Craft Council Gallery at 813 Broadway Avenue in Saskatoon!

Robert Jekyll Award for Leadership in Craft • Charley Farrero

Award Presentation • Saturday, October 3, 2 pm

Earlier this year it was announced that the Canadian Crafts Federation appointed Saskatchewan ceramic artist Charley Farrero as the 2025 Laureate of the Robert Jekyll Award for Leadership in Craft. We will be hosting an official award presentation in the Saskatchewan Craft Council’s booth at Art Now!

This prestigious national award recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding dedication to advancing Canadian craft and honours the recipient’s esteemed reputation and exceptional leadership within the craft community.

Guest Speakers

• Leslie Potter, sculptor and Honorary Lifetime Member of the SCC
• Jennifer Wicks, Executive Director of Canadian Crafts Federation
• Charley Ferrero, ceramic artist and award recipient

Sunday, October 4

Learn from our talented marketers as they share their artistic process

1 pm • Connie Chaplin | Booth 32

Explore the art of eco-printing, where flowers and leaves transfer their natural colours and textures onto fabric using heat and bundled. Discover this beautiful, sustainable process and its one-of-a-kind botanical results.

1:30 pm • Patrick Bulas | Booth 7

Artist Patrick Bulas will have a variety of printing blocks, carving tools, inks, brayers, and papers available to explore, along with all the materials needed for printing. Using a small press, he will demonstrate the complete printing process — from inking the block to pulling a finished print.

2 pm • Emily Gillies | Booth 2

Discover the art of handweaving. Watch traditional weaving techniques transform natural fibres into beautiful handwoven rugs, table linens, pillows, tote bags, yoga mats, and unique home décor. Learn about the craft and ask questions throughout the demonstration.

2:30 pm • Trudy Berscheid + Vivian Wasiuta | Booths 31 + 32

Join us for a come-and-go textile weaving demonstration where the artists will create a twill weave structure with treadling variations on a four harness floor loom. Additional demonstrations will be held episodically throughout the weekend.

Nancy Bird

Presented by the Saskatchewan Craft Council

stART is a special display at Art Now that features emerging artists, those in the early stages of their career, as chosen by exhibiting galleries. Discover a new up-and-coming favourite and support the next generation of artists!

Nancy Bird is a self-taught weaver living in rural Saskatchewan. Bird draws inspiration from the rhythms, colours, and landscapes of prairie life. While managing a large animal veterinary practice on the family farm and raising cattle, she began experimenting with natural dyeing using garden flowers and natural three-ply wool sourced from MacAusland’s Woollen Mills in Prince Edward Island. Working with a slow cooker and successive dye baths, she discovered a rich palette of vibrant colours and subtle gradations that harmonized beautifully together.

This exploration fostered a deeper connection to the natural world and inspired her to pursue the art of weaving wool rugs. An existing farm building was transformed into a weaving studio and greenhouse, creating a dedicated space for her craft. There, she works on a Saskatchewan-built floor loom crafted by Ward’s Woodworking—a sturdy, quiet, 45-inch, four-harness counterbalance loom with a weighted overhead beater, ideally suited for weaving weft-faced rugs.

Retirement provided the opportunity to fully embrace her long-held goal of weaving. Although rug weaving is a slow and deliberate process, she relishes the time spent designing directly on the loom, creating patterns that reflect her rural lifestyle, agricultural roots, and appreciation for the beauty found in everyday prairie landscapes. Her work celebrates the connection between handcraft, natural materials, and the enduring character of rural Saskatchewan.