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NEWSFLASH!
March 14th, 2019: Volume 832
From the Office
Hi Everyone
Happy Pi Day everyone! I think we all could use a mathematical excuse to eat sweets this week. Following that theme I have picked the pies of amateur baker and writer Lauren Ko to feature. Her complicated, colourful, geometric work is edible artistry. I thoroughly enjoy her complicated basket weave designs. I am assuming she must have a lot of parties because no one could ingest that much pie and live. In high school we had to do a art as food project, I re-created Van Gogh's sunflowers with cake, mint shoestring licorice, mini donuts and almonds, it looked good; tasted weird. In my family pies are for holidays, but what a lovely world it would be if there was a just because pie. Perhaps there should be a day of each month that is for pies, surely 12 pies a year won't kill a person. Does your creativity spill into the kitchen? How would you combine your craft skills with food?
Trina
For Your Interest
Halifax Art Talks
Up next: Studio 21 What Makes a Painting
Free Admission
FREE MONOTYPE WORKSHOP
Saturday 23 March at 1-4pm
Working with artist David Dahms, participants will learn the basics of monotype printmaking, inspired by current exhibition James R Shirley: Landscapes from the Soul. No experience necessary, attendance is free and materials will be provided. Due to limited availability participants must contact claire.dykhuis@msvu.ca by March 21 to register. ASL interpretation is available by request with registration.
MSVU Gallery, Seton Academic Centre
166 Bedford Highway, Halifax
Joe and Gudi Pach of TerraBijou have been a wonderful part of Craft Nova Scotia shows, the Designer Craft Shop, and the greater craft community for many years now. The staff, volunteers, and members of Craft Nova Scotia are sending healing thoughts their way as they navigate Joe’s recent cancer diagnosis.
“If you’ve been to a craft show in New Brunswick in the past 10 years, chances are, you’ve met Joachim Pach, better known as Joe. He’s pretty unforgettable – friendly and always ready to show kindness to friends and strangers alike. Now, it’s our turn.
We don’t yet know what kind of treatment Joe will need over the coming months, but we do know there will be countless trips into the city, special accommodations for Joe, who can’t climb stairs due to the cancer in his leg, and a huge loss of income for them both. By raising funds for Joe, we hope to ease some of the stress and financial pressure he and Gudi are facing together, along with this challenging illness.
Thanks for taking the time to read Joe’s story. He’s a kind, compassionate, funny and supportive friend, and any support for Joe and Gudi would be truly appreciated.”
-From the Gofundme campaign page
Contemporary Camouflage
Rebecca Hannon
March 8th - April 28th
A dazzling display has taken over the Mary E. Black Gallery. Local contemporary jeweller Rebecca Hannon has been playing with notions of concealing-and-revealing following her research into the extra ordinary history of Dazzle Camouflage used in WWI. This bright and visually stimulating camo was designed to confuse the senses of three dimensional forms and distance. Rebecca Hannon will envelope the viewer in an immersive installation, covering the walls with patterns of Dazzle Camo to create a back drop for her graphically stunning jewellery.
Craft LAIR (Local Artist In Residence) - Gillian Maradyn-Jowsey
The Centre for Craft Nova Scotia welcomes Gillian Maradyn-Jowsey to the Craft LAIR. Maradyn-Jowsey is a ceramic artist and designer. Often her practice is invigorated by meaningful creative exchange and collaboration. She creates functional and sculptural art grounded in her interest in craft and design for everyday living. " My process is fuelled by my delight for exploring materials and foraging for pattern, texture, and colour. These aesthetic influences trickle into all facets of my ceramic based practice."~ Gillian Maradyn-Jowsey
Centre For Craft
1061 Marginal Rd. Suite 140, Halifax, NS
Residency Duration: March 8 - April 28, 2019
Aestival Festival tickets are now available! Makes a great Valentine's Gift!
Join us Friday, June 14th 2019 at 7pm for a evening of fine craft and great company.
Tickets are $80 each. For more information or to buy tickets call 902-423-3837 or stop by and visit us at 1113 Marginal Road, Halifax
In case you missed it this week CBC's The Passionate Eye had an interesting episode of the environmental havoc created by the fashion industry, definitely worth a watch or a re-watch.
Seattle-based pie baker Lauren Ko has a multitude of non-edible inspirations that influence her creative pastry designs, including textile patterns, architecture, and string art. These elements are woven into her colorful, and often geometric, fruit pies and tarts topped with thin, undulating strips of apples, precisely placed pomegranate seeds, and triangles of radiating strawberries. Often Ko will color a portion of her dough with natural food dyes like beet butter to add even more color to the finished dessert. You can learn step-by-step instructions for how Ko creates her enticing sweets in this video made by Tasty. Read more at Colossal see more of Lauren's amazing work on Instagram.
Call For Proposals & Submissions
NS Potters Guild Call: The Birds and The Bees
The birds and the bees refers to many things. Written in poetry and song, in jest and all-seriousness, the phrase evokes images far and wide. We encourage you to think outside the box, challenge your creativity and create work that inspires and responds to the phrase. The show is open to functional and sculptural works. Open to all individual members of the NSPG from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and PEI.
Deadline for entry July 1st, 2019
Call for Exhibition Proposals
The Mary E. Black Gallery invites proposals from community groups, cultural groups, guilds, artists, craftspeople and curators for exhibitions in 2021. Annually, seven shows are selected by the Exhibition Review Committee to fulfill the gallery's mandate, as Nova Scotia's only public fine craft gallery, to exhibit traditional and contemporary fine craft created by aspiring and established local, regional, Canadian and international artists.
Deadline: 4pm AST on March 29, 2019.
Centre for Craft Nova Scotia & Mary E. Black Gallery
902.492.2522
administration@craft-design.ns.ca
Funding & Opportunities
Visual Arts Nova Scotia's Subsidized Studio Program is accepting applications from members for our space in downtown Sydney!
Member artists can apply to rent studio space for 2 – 3 months from April 1, 2019 – November 31, 2019.
There is no expectation of work to be completed during the studio rental. It is an opportunity for an artist who may be new to working in an independent studio or an artist who has a specific project to work on and could use support to fund a short-term studio space. Located on the 3rd floor of the New Dawn Centre for Social Innovation, 37 Nepean Street, Sydney, NS, the studio is 7' x 10' with partial dividers.
Deadline for applications: Monday, March 18, 2019.
Classified
Loom for Sale
8/10 Harness Glimakra Ideal, 100cm
Call or text Indigo at 902-430-7935
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