Many news

I have many news. You will be absolutely welcomed to participate if one of you are in Toronto for these dates:

 

I will be giving two Tapestry for Beginners workshops for Culture Days Toronto 2012:

 

1) Northern District Library on Saturday Sept. 29, 10-1.

2) Leaside Library on Friday Sept. 28 from 2-5 pm.
Please go to the website for more details: www.culturedays.ca

I will participate in the 2012 World of Threads Festival in Oakville, Ontario. www.worldofthreadsfestival.com
My work will be exhibited in the show called Variegated Threads at the Queen Elizabeth Park Community and Cultural Centre, 2302 Bridge Road, Yorkville, Ontario from Nov. 2 - 25. Opening reception will be on Saturday Nov. 3, 2-5 pm.

Toronto Public Library selected me again to exhibit in one of its branches. That will be the Yorkville Library on July 2013. I will send a notice more closer to the date.

The Toronto Guild of Spinners and Weavers made me the recipient of their 2012 Bursary with what I have to weave a Tapestry and show it to them in May 2013 and give a speech about the process of weaving it.

Bursary

I'm so glad to tell that the Toronto Guild of Spinners and Weavers made me a recipient of their 2012 Bursary. In retribution they ask me to weave a tapestry for May 2013 and in that May meeting I'll have to show them the tapestry and explain the techniques I used to make it.For that I've told them I'll use one of my very artistic granddaughter's designs. She is just five but her "artworks" are amazingly good. I hope I dont sound like a very proud grandma. I keep her drawings in a folder and being in the process of weaving a scribble when I blew it up to the seize I wanted to acheive I realized that everything is in a "golden proportion"! and that was fascinating for me. I will be showing the work in progress very soon. 

Thank you to my fellow members!

Videos of my exhibition

I've added 3 Youtube videos of my tapestry exhibition at Fairview, Toronto. Library May 2012

3 youtube videos of my exhibition at Fairview Library this month of May 20112

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeLiFFoWtJM&feature=youtu.be

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zceJ9HJZQvo&feature=youtu.be

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni6XrgbYS2U&feature=youtu.be

Exhibiting my work at a private event in Richmond Hill, Ontario, May 6th. 2012

I was invited to participate in a small charity event taking place in a private mansion. My work was there with others' eg. quilts.
In the first picture I show a small tridimensional tapestry in a shadow box; in the 2nd. a sculpture including a wrapped tapestry, a basket with a Brasilian stone centre; 3rd. picture my book interpretation in an acrylic box. Meaning and explanations are provided in older posts in this blog except for the middle sculpture which is new. It's name: "Open the gates of the Garden of Eden".

Pictures of my exhibition at Fairview Library May 2012

My new tapestry exhibition

I have some news that I'd like to share with you all:

I will be exhibiting tapestries during the whole month of May at the Fairview Library, 35 Fairview Mall Drive, Toronto. Works can be seen at the regular library opening hours in the main hall.

If you'd like to know more about myself go the Spring issue of Fiber Focus Magazine, page 28 and read my article called "Tapestry...an unstoppable creative force".

I will post pictures of the exhibition after May 1st.

Watch out!

More pictures of Culture Days

All below photos by Christian Badanjak, courtesy of Culture Days

Two more Culture Day pictures

More Culture Day pictures

More tapestry in progress

Hope to finish it soon and start a new one.

Teaching the workshop at Culture Days

Updated previous work

I've updated the presentation of some of my previous work

Culture Days 2011

This year I'm participating again in the Culture Days event with a Tapestry for Beginners workshop on Saturday October 1st. from 1pm to 4 pm at the Barbara Frum Library in Toronto, please see the link below:

http://www.culturedays.ca/en/2011-activities/view/4e2f2a84-6f40-409a-a880-70184c4a89be.

more tapestry in progress

organized chaos

Yarns for new tapestry

starting new work

Started weaving for next year's exhibition at the Library

Finally the WTA 6th Biennial of Contemporary Textile Art ended and here is the work I've exhibited - one full image and a detail.
Name of the work: "The Colours of the Air" - "Los Colores del Aire". In Spanish because this year it took place in Mexico.
Here also the concept of the work, in Spanish and English:
Para tejer esta obra me inspiré en el tema de la contaminacion. El aire lleno de gases nocivos toma colores diferentes, brilla y se vuelve amarronado y amarillento en algunas partes. El choque de las particulas gaseosas que flotan sin control provoca una explosion que desgarra la capa creada por la polucion y deja ver el cielo puro que estaba detras. Los colores del aire surgen y se imponen sobre todo lo demas. Los azules se mezclan con los restos de la explosion que los invvaden sin control. La luz se abre paso filtrandose a traves del caos. Finalmente todo tiende a acomodarse antes que venga la noche. Otra vez los colores del aire vuelven a aparecer en todo su esplendor.
My inspiration for this work came from the issue of contamination. The air full of noxious fumes takes many different colours, it shines and turns tones of brown and yellow. Gas particles floating uncontrollably crash and blow tearing the layer created by the pollution and expose the clean sky behind. All the colours of the air emerge and dominate everything. Wildly, the remains of the explosion invade the blue shades.The light makes its way and filters through the chaos. finally, everything seems to accomodate before the night. The colours of the air appear again and show in full splendor.