Artistry & handwork skills at Fibre Art Talents show
05 Oct '05
2 min read
One of eight museums Textile Museum of Canada (TMC) will organize a Fibre Art Talents during October 11 to November 13, 2005.
This volunteer exhibition at the Textile Museum of Canada showcases the fibre art talents of Museum volunteers. Twenty-three works made in various materials and techniques demonstrate the artistry and handwork skills of those who generously donate their time and knowledge, their hearts and minds to the Museum while running the H.N. Pullar library, selling goods in the Museum Shop, hosting visitors at the front desk, touring groups through the Museum, and cleaning, shelving and preparing artifacts for exhibitions in the storage area.
Curated by Natalia Nekrassova
October 11 to November 13, 2005
Opening reception: Tuesday October 11, 6:30 - 8 p.m.
Museum volunteers are talented in different ways: they sew, quilt, embroider and embellish textiles with beads, buttons and sequins; they weave, braid, knit, print, dye and paint. They design and assemble from various media, inspired by the permanent collection, by exhibitions and by their artistic impressions of the rich artistic and cultural life of Toronto.
They are as multicultural as the city and find inspiration in Indian detail work, Japanese street fashion, Victorian crazy quilts, in kimonos of all shapes, colours and sizes and even in a variety of colours and techniques at the Museum's annual yardage sale. Some of them are traditional in their artistic approach; others use new technologies. And all of them are artists - talented and innovative individuals who express themselves through the beauty of the textiles they create.
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