Studio Magazine

25/07/2024

Team Mongolia’s uniforms for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games‘ parade have taken the internet by storm with their elaborate designs and embroidery inspired by the country’s traditional clothing, Deel.

team mongolia’s intricate paris 2024 olympic games uniforms Team Mongolia’s uniforms for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games‘ parade have taken the internet by storm with their elaborate designs inspired by the country’s traditional clothing, Deel. Michel and Amazonka Choigaalaa are the mastermind...

22/07/2024

18/07/2024

Manitoba Craft Museum and Library is looking for passionate craftspeople who are interested in sharing their knowledge and skills. We are accepting proposals for hands-on workshops on various craft techniques until July 24, 2024.

All the info you need, and a link to apply is here: https://c2centreforcraft.ca/2024/05/15/call-for-submission-workshop-instructor-at-mcml-2024/

11/07/2024

Studio has curated a small selection of all the wonderful craft available at the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, July 12-14th at Nathan Phillips Square.

Craft and design are expansive, from materials to the breadth and depth of skill. Our connection is through the objects that we hold and cherish. Connecting with Studio’s recent issue theme, the objects in this collection were chosen for their unique and playful approaches to everyday objects.
See the full collection in the link below:
https://toaf.ca/curated-by-studiomagazine/

10/07/2024

In the center of "We Who Have Known Many Shores" you can find an ongoing work: "leaving the table." This communal space features carpets and pillows from Alize's communities, as well as hand-tufted carpets that represent important bodies of water in Ontario alongside symbols found in Anatolian and Egyptian carpets.

It is a gathering space that calls for us to contemplate, rejuvenate, and rest. We are to contemplate our sense of mutual responsibility and care- for each other and our land. We are to use the space as a necessary grounding zone and rejuvenate. In our rest we are to acknowledge "how we came to here on this land, and what our responsibilities are in being here together."

Alize Zorlutuna, We Who Have Known Many Shores, Art Gallery of Burlington, 2024, Photo Credit: Roya DelSol.

09/07/2024

09/07/2024

World of Threads Festival 2023
Solo Show by Leisa Rich of Howe Island, Ontario, Canada.
Curators: Gareth Bate Artist and Dawne Worldofthreads
Photo: Gareth Bate Artist

08/07/2024

A glimpse of the evocative poetry by Anne Steves and her accompanying textile work and series Flight Cage, from our Spring/Summer 2024 issue.

…..

Dear Flamingo,
The phrase 'failure to thrive' comes to mind.
For when we can't explain the steady decline.
We migrate from full to empty. Empty to full.
Licking up the salt that leaves us satisfied but
also bloated, uncomfortable.
The collapse.
Something is lacking.
And the deliciousness only makes it worse.

…..

Anne Steves is a Welsh-Canadian multi-disciplinary artist, working on Vancouver Island, B.C. Steves’ project Do You Whisper A Tiny I’m Sorry? was featured at the C2 Centre for Craft in Winnipeg, and will be exhibited in 2024 at the Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador (St John’s, NL) and ODD Gallery (Dawson City, YK).

The magazine: https://www.studiomagazine.ca/issues/2024/vol-19-no-1

05/07/2024

Propeller started in 1996, founded by a few OCAD grads. They struggled to find exhibition space in Toronto, so they joined together to create this artist-run gallery. Nearly 30 years later, we’re still here, giving artists a place to grow and shine. With skyrocketing rents, access to exhibition space grows ever scarcer in Toronto. Propeller continues to play an important role in providing gallery space for both emerging and established artists to exhibit.

Help us Save Our Space

Donate: https://propellerartgallery.com/save-our-space/
Spread the Word: Share our story with your friends, family, co-workers and your employer.
Every bit helps. Your support can make a huge difference.

Let’s keep Propeller’s legacy alive.

04/07/2024

An interview with Zimra Beiner, a ceramics professor discussing his approach to teaching and making, and balancing it all while parenting.

02/07/2024

The Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador, through the provincial Year of the Arts initiative, announces the Made in Canada: Sustainable Fibre Arts Conference 2024, taking place September 19 - 23, 2024.

Sustainability has been a central conversation in the arts and cultural community in the past decade, and as such a diversity of makers and craft artists are turning their attention to sustainable practices at a local, national and international level. In 2024, Made in Canada celebrates fibre artists of the province and the country adding a valuable contribution to the Year of the Arts.

Artists of diverse cultural backgrounds will present a series of workshops, panel discussions, exhibitions and the sustainable foraging of fibres on the West Coast of Newfoundland.

Register now as spaces are very limited and workshops are filling up!

https://www.fibrearts2024.ca/

For more information and group discounts contact: [email protected]

26/06/2024

26/06/2024

World of Threads Festival 2023
Installation by Artist: Ixchel Suarez of Warkworth, Ontario, Canada
Ixchel Suarez
Curators: Gareth Bate Artist and Dawne Worldofthreads
Photo: Gareth Bate Artist

25/06/2024

Studio has curated a small selection of all the wonderful craft available at the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, July 12-14th at Nathan Phillips Square.

Craft and design are expansive, from materials to the breadth and depth of skill. Our connection is through the objects that we hold and cherish. Connecting with Studio’s recent issue theme, the objects in this collection were chosen for their unique and playful approaches to everyday objects.

See the full collection in the link below:
https://toaf.ca/curated-by-studiomagazine/

21/06/2024

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day, Happy Summer Solstice, and Happy Pride Month!

📷 Luminous Bird by Malaija Pootoogook, 2015, Etching & Aquatint

ID: A profile of a bird with three prominent head feathers looking to the right. It is printed in a rainbow of colour, from purple to blue at its head to green and yellow and pink at the centre of its body, then back to purple by its tail.

17/06/2024

17/06/2024

CALLING ALL MCC MEMBERS!

The theme for the 2025 Manitoba Craft Council Member Show is Craft in Miniature! Show us all the teenie-tiny crafted items coming out of your studio space. All Manitoba Craft Council members are welcome to submit recent works in craft, and all submissions will be accepted. Submissions do not need to fit the classic definition of a miniature (ie. a tiny replica of something much larger), rather they must fit into the maximum size requirement of 15cm x 15cm x 15cm or 6 x 6 x 6 in.

Submission Deadline: December 1st, 2024
Show Run: January 10-February 27th, 2025

Find out more at the link below!

https://c2centreforcraft.ca/2024/06/13/call-for-submission-craft-in-miniature-manitoba-craft-councils-member-show-2025/

12/06/2024

Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka's many artistic explorations stem from traditional Japanese crafts, including washi, ink drawing and making natural dyes.

🔗 Read the full Portfolio interview from our S/S 2024 issue online:
https://www.studiomagazine.ca/articles/2024/2/alexa-kumiko-hatanaka

12/06/2024

We’re thrilled to announce the appointment of Franchesca Hebert-Spence as the Gardiner Museum’s inaugural Curator of Indigenous Ceramics, a new position generously supported by the Lindy Green Family Foundation. �

Franchesca will oversee the content development of the Gardiner Museum’s new Indigenous gallery space, part of a full-scale transformation of the our ground floor guided by the principles of access, connectivity, and Indigeneity. She will also lead the stewardship of Indigenous collections at the Museum as well as strengthening relationships with Indigenous partners and community members.

“I am so grateful for the warm welcome I’ve received from the Gardiner team and to be joining at a moment filled with eagerness and excitement generated by the ground floor transformation. The creation of this role would not have been possible without the commitment, dedication, and advocacy of Indigenous makers, community members, and Gardiner staff and management, past and present. It’s important not only to see Indigenous cultural production within institutions but to also embrace the responsibilities that are integral to deep and meaningful relationship building.”

Read the full press release here:
https://www.gardinermuseum.on.ca/gardiner-museum-welcomes-first-curator-of-indigenous-ceramics-franchesca-hebert-spence/

11/06/2024

🎉Congratulations to the six shortlisted artists of the 🎉

◼️ Taqralik Partridge (Circumpolar)
◻️ Judy Chartrand (Pacific)
◼️ Rhayne Vermette (Prairies)
◻️ June Clark (Ontario)
◼️ Nico Williams ᐅᑌᒥᐣ (Québec)
◻️ Mathieu Léger (Atlantic)

Mark your calendar! 🗓️ Works by the six finalists will be on view at the Gallery from October 4, 2024, to March 16, 2025. 🏆 The winner will be announced on November 9, 2024.

For more details about the finalists and the independent jury, visit: https://www.gallery.ca/whats-on/sobey-art-award

👏 Congratulations to all! 👏

10/06/2024

06/06/2024

For Provocations, Julie Hollenbach writes about the legacies of archives and counter-archives.

“Allan Sekula, a photo historian, introduced the concept of the shadow archive in his article “The Body and The Archive” (1986). Sekula writes that the photographic archive is a highly edited collection that makes concrete and visible a particular narrative that privileges certain bodies, institutions and histories over others. I see a parallel in how handmade objects are managed and treated when they enter archives and institutional collections. For Sekula, the shadow archive represents the subordinated bodies and suppressed traces of subjugated people not foregrounded in the heroic story centred by the archive.
Furthermore, the shadow archive is never separate from or removed from the archive; it is always found within and in between the lines — documents and objects of the archive’s privileged, dominant narratives. The logic of the archive established that the Euro-American settler colonial regime and the values and ideals it enshrined are visible, dominant and made legible, because the cultures it supplants had to be either assimilated into its narrative or destroyed by what the narrative represented.
Dis-identifying with the triumphant story of art history brought me, years ago, to craft and the domestic. I did not see myself, or my experiences, or my desires represented in the pages of art history textbooks. I did not find artworks made by people like me — a fat, q***r, neurodivergent, white woman. What were people like me making in the past? Because I knew that we had to exist.”

Read an excerpt on our website, and the full text in the Spring/Summer 2024 issue of Studio!

Julie Hollenbach writes about the legacies of archives and counter-archives.

05/06/2024

Experience "Net-Work" by Adrian Baker at the Mississippi Valley Textile Museum ! With over 300 participants from across the globe, this exhibit shows how we are all connected.

ID: Three photos of draped textiles in varied colours, looping and intertwining throughout a gallery space.

https://mvtm.ca/

04/06/2024

“Our fashion—Indigenous fashion—will always be in demand, and we have reclaimed it.”

04/06/2024

We’re thrilled to announce a unique opportunity for Indigenous curators to join our Delegation Program. This initiative aims to foster professional development, cultural exchange, and global representation of Indigenous voices in the arts and curatorial practices. We are seeking passionate individuals to form delegations attending major events in Venice, Berlin, New York City, Regina, Ottawa, Santa Fe, Honolulu, and Whitehorse.

Please apply by June 17. More details on our website. https://icca.art/call-for-indigenous-curators/

04/06/2024

09/05/2024

Celebrate the launch of Studio Magazine's Spring/Summer 2024 Issue on Thursday May 23, from 6-8PM at the Craft Ontario Shop + Gallery in Toronto! 🌟

In this issue, we're diving deep into the DEFINITION of craft, exploring its history, beauty, and boundless creativity. From thought-provoking essays to captivating features, this issue is a treasure trove of craft inspiration!

Join us for an evening of artful conversations, creative connections, and endless inspiration. See you there!

08/05/2024

Introducing the Spring/Summer 2024 issue of Studio: DEFINITION!

Our stunning cover is the work of Kye-Yeon Son, whose work navigates the tension between fragility and strength.

The theme for this issue of Studio is “Definition,” and rather than attempt to assign meaning to craft or determine what it could be, we are most interested in the demarcations, distinctions and clarifications of craft. To that end, the articles in this issue reflect these explorations.

In this issue, Julie Hollenbach points out that the absences in canonical craft thinking indicate the presence of alternate craft histories. And in Michael Prokopow’s text, the questions posed of craft by the processes of decay and destruction are explored.

While attending Collect in London, artist Mary McIntyre talks to metalsmith Kye-Yeon Son about her work. Editor-in-chief Nehal El-Hadi writes about Charmaine Lurch’s engagement with an enigmatic and invisible—yet powerful—literary character. Fae Logie explores beauty, grief, and memory in the crafted installations of Jenny Judge.

Michele Hardy, Julia Krueger and Timothy Long, the curators of Prairie Interlace: Weaving, Modernisms, and the Expanded Frame, 1960-2000, write about their
approach and experiences.

Julien Silvestre celebrates the achievements, contributions and global impact of Saidye Bronfman Award Winner Louise Lemieux Bérubé. A Q&A with the Inuk printmaker Shuvinai Ashoona in recognition of her practice and accomplishments with managing editor Lera Kotsyuba.

Poetry by multidisciplinary artist Anne Steves whose writing and fibre installations explore loss, beauty and relation, and read about our three Portfolio artists: Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka, Alana Morouney, and Matt Jenkins. And in Inquiries, co-founder and principal architect Tura Cousins Wilson of the Studio of Contemporary Architecture is drawn to exploring the potentials and possibilities of design projects.

https://www.studiomagazine.ca/issues/2024/vol-19-no-1

Thank you to our superstar Studio team! Art Director and Designer Dale Barrett, Editor in Chief Nehal El-Hadi, Copy Editor Ambrose Li, Advertising Rep Julie Nicholson, and Managing Editor Lera Kotsyuba.