Just a quick note to let you know that, despite the project wrapping up in March, this site won’t be dissappearing anytime soon, courtesy of craft community champions Kid Icarus. The Kids have ...
Local book arts stalwart, illustrator, animator and cactus crocheter, Shannon Gerard, is giving a public talk about her work and some other radical stuff! DORK. DREAMER. DISCERNING BIBLIOPHILE. On Pu...
Hi guys! Just popping in to make sure you are aware that the First Ever Spring Edition of City of Craft is taking place this coming Saturday at Trinity St. Paul’s United Church. If that dead zo...
Creative workers don’t always live with much of a financial safety net, but, when they are good at what they do and active in their community, they do accumulate good will credits. That’s...
Man, I LOVED Thunder Bay. Never having been this far north, this was the most anticipated stop on my craft tour of Ontario and I was not dissapointed. Incredible industrial architecture, a surprisi...
Stop two on my Ontario craft road trip was Kitchener-Waterloo, and a definite highlight was visiting the Joseph Schneider Haus Museum and Gallery, a Pioneer Village-eque spot in downtown Kitchener. T...
Spark Box Studio With TCA wrapping up in just a few short days (whoa!) I wanted to try to squeeze in some pics from my Ontario craft odyssey to Prince Edward County, Kitchener Waterloo, and Thunder B...
Everything about this talk sounds right on: ceramics, public space activism, live kiln work, oh my! Visit the Gardiner website to purchase tickets. RORY MacDONALD: PUBLIC CRAFT (Lecture) THURSDAY MA...
Winter may still be blustery, but life never stops in the deep abyss (read: big green suitcase) of the Toronto Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef. After a two year hibernation, the reef has emerged once a...
Upcycling (the repurposing of materials, giving them new life) has been a hot topic in craft over the past few years as consumption and waste has weighed heavy on a lot of makers’ minds. This u...
Fans of CBE‘s colour blocked (and stylishly monochrome) locally made hoodies will want to check out this event that invites you to join in a collective doodle AND allows you to walk away with a...
I posted a couple of years ago about the tradition of pysanky and if you haven’t tried it yet this workshop series hosted by Kosa Kolektiv is a great opportunity to learn the craft while suppor...
Amy and a friend at Philly Zine Fest, November 2011. Photo by Erin Oh. Interview by Tara Bursey Many of you will already be familiar with the work of Amy Borkwood– you may remember her as a reg...
The OCAD Material Art and Design shows are always great for discovering new talent and an opportunity to creep on emerging makers creative development. This Pop Up Shop at the Gladstone promise some ...
A little while ago I posted about the launch of ARTiculations, a supply store in the Junction. They are hosting a couple of workshops/craft socials this month for people to get together and make st...
TCA Table circa 2007. Photo by Becky Johnson. Dear TCA Readers, I have some big news to share with you about Toronto Craft Alert’s future. As of the end of this month, we will be wrapping up the proj...
This has been floating around the internet (even making an appearance on Poppytalk!) but I thought I’d take a minute to let y’all know a bit about the Ontario Craft Council‘s sympos...
Here’s a fantastic looking three-person exhibition happening at the Living Arts Centre in Mississauga which is crafty in both form and content. The show features some brand new work by Heather ...
I was lurking the upcoming Erotic Arts and Craft Show‘s website the other day and was pretty blown away by some of the work that will be featured this year. Big ups to Come As You Are for makin...
City of Craft & the workroom‘s annual Valentines & junk sale is here again! Here’s where crafty folk with great taste purge their supplies, vintage clothing and goodies, and other...
Perhaps some of you are aware that Artscape has plans to develop a facility for creative entrepreneurship in the areas that include art and design, new media, film, and performing arts. Artscape̵...
This month we have another stellar line up of workshops for crafters and crafty biz people (including a cool new demo series) from Wise Daughters, and a unique opportunity to own some incredible rugs...
Knit Night on the Brain (2011). Installation by The Beehive Collective. Photo by Kate Hunter. Last year’s Supercrawl (the annual music-enhanced version of Hamilton’s monthly James Street ...
Janet Macpherson, Censure. Photo courtesy of Harbourfront Centre. There are a whole new crop of wonderful looking exhibitions opening at Harbourfront Centre tomorrow night. Among them is LOOK Out, wh...
A few of my favourite Toronto designers are in this show spotlighting the work of lady designers in Canada. This is part of Toronto Design Week which is in full swing – with shows including Com...
Lots of fantastic things have been happening at the Design Exchange as of late. Last week, I attended a screening there, where I learned about these great little Valentine’s-oriented workshops ...
Knit #1 by Lyn Carter courtesy of the Ontario Association of Art Galleries website. Did you know that Cambridge Galleries are super into textiles? Hosts of the annual Fibreworks juried art exhibition...
Self-published book In My Baba’s Kitchen by Monique Motut-Firth, courtesy of the Eyelevel Reshelving Initiative 5 website. The Eyelevel Reshelving Initiative is an exhibition of zines and small...
This sounds like pretty much the best thing ever. Projection, costumes, puppets. Xylophone, wurlitzer, ukulele, cello, trumpet. Sounds like a recipe for pure magic… act FAST if you want tick...
I went to a couple of CraftTalks- a lecture and panel series co-presented by OCADU and the Ontario Crafts Council- in 2010 and took an indescribable amount of knowledge and inspiration away from them...
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