Monthly Meeting: November 8, 2018
Nov
8
7:30 PM19:30
Monthly Meeting

Monthly Meeting: November 8, 2018

  • 4397 West 2nd Avenue Vancouver, BC, V6R 1K3 Canada (map)
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Cloth and Connection with Thomas Roach

While a quilt is typically defined as three layers stitched together, I believe that the result is vastly more than the simple sum of the component materials.

There are a myriad of layers of meaning, memory and connection that at first don’t seem visible, but are often transmitted anyway by the visual and tactile experience.

Such is the power of cloth. As quilters, weavers, fibre artists and lovers of textile we know this.

Imagine opening that experience up to a community to (re)discover together.

Join Vancouver textile artist Thomas Roach (www.thomasroach.ca) to hear about his

experience leading two large textile based community projects and how it has changed his approach to textile artmaking.


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Thomas Roach

A Vancouver based textile artist who recently managed the (in)finite: spiritual conversations in cloth exhibition at Christ Church Cathedral.

It is in that community that he created the Prayers of the Church Project (2016) and co-led the Common Threads Indigo Quilt Project (2012-4).

Thomas currently serves as the BC Rep for the Surface Design Association.

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Monthly Meeting: January 11, 2018 - Off-site tour
Jan
11
7:00 PM19:00

Monthly Meeting: January 11, 2018 - Off-site tour

We are very pleased this month to be offering a curator guided gallery tour of the exhibit "Fabric of our Land: Salish Weaving" at the Museum of Anthropology.  

It will be at our usual meeting time and date, January 11, 2018 at 7pm.  Meet in the main entrance of the Museum of Anthropology, UBC.

You must register ahead of time as Only 10 spaces remain.  Please email before January 5,
2018: kmcmanus@cartodesign.com indicate if you are
a “senior.” Or, phone or text 604 788 6552 and leave a message with your name and
whether you are a senior.

This is a free event for VGFA members only.

“For generations Salish peoples have been harvesting the resources of their territories,
transforming them into robes of rare beauty and power. Symbols of identity they acted as
legal documents and were visible signifiers of the presence of knowledge holders and
respected people.
 
”Now mostly stored away in museums these masterworks are rarely seen. They have much
knowledge to share and many stories to tell. Musqueam asked the Museum to bring these
weavings to inspire weavers and share part of this rich legacy with all of us.”

 


 

 

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Monthly Meeting: November 9, 2017
Nov
9
7:30 PM19:30

Monthly Meeting: November 9, 2017

Slow Clothes Fashion Show film screening.

This fashion show occurred as part of the Harmony Arts Festival in August this past summer. If you missed the fashion show, you'll have another opportunity to see it at the meeting because Ramin Mohseni, an international award-winning film
director and producer, filmed it for us.

The clothes and accessories all come from local designers, many of whom are VGFA members.

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Strawberry Social and Show and Tell
Jun
8
7:00 PM19:00

Strawberry Social and Show and Tell

June Monthly Meeting

Havn't been to a meeting for a while?  Well come in June as we get ready to say hello to summer and have strawberries and tea.  It's tradition to wear your fancy hat!

Also, here is your chance to show us what you've been up to all year and see what others have done.  Don't be shy!

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May
11
7:00 PM19:00

Monthly Meeting

CONFESSIONS OF A CLOSET DIVA:

Melanie Kobayashi

Melanie Kobasyashi is the creator of the blog “A bag and a Beret”  http://bagandaberet.blogspot.ca/.

Mel is an expert pattern mixer and vintage celebrator. For me, she seems to have no fear but she tells me that she really is very shy. Mel will share her closet confessions with us and encourage us to be brave with our fibres and our textile creations. Expect to laugh out loud. Here are some of her confessions:

      “My closet is so full I put my skeletons in the dishwasher, on the rinse cycle.”

     “In the dark, I secretly slipped on my pink Fluevog Munster shoes. Now I was ready, ready to be carried away to New York City. (Preparing to watch the documentary on Bill Cunningham, street style photographer of the New York Times, playing at a Vancouver theatre)”

           Check out Street Style Blog  https://aaacultureserf.wordpress.com/  

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Apr
13
7:00 PM19:00

Monthly Meeting

  • 4397 West 2nd Avenue Vancouver, BC, V6R 1K3 Canada (map)
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When: April 13th, 2017 at 7:30pm

.Jennifer Love  will talk about the work in her upcoming exhibition at the Eve Smart Gallery in the Gibsons Public Art Gallery: the concept for the show, her printing and collage methods and her presentation techniques.

She will show images and bring some finished works.

 Her current work is inspired by issues of memory and selfhood.

Jennifer creates abstract textile paintings using collaged hand-painted and printed fabric. Sometimes they are stitched.

Occasionally she uses similar techniques with paper. Layering – of  colours, of patterns and textures, of fibres and stitches,

of references gleaned from nature and human culture – this is at the core of her art practice. She is particularly interested in

intersections, disruptions and reversals where positive and negative space, natural and man-made patterns, order and

randomness have an opportunity to coexist and interact. http://surfacedesignbc.org/gallery/jennifer-love/

               https://www.pinterest.com/jenniferannelov/art-jennifer-love/

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