Kaleidoscope Art

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays Everyone! Relax, eat, enjoy, stay warm and see you in 2010!

  

Gaiters in the Shop!

I finally got to putting the gaiters in the Etsy Shop.  Look super cute and stay warm all winter! These ones are my favorite right now.  So Fuzzy! 

 

Studio Video: making Gaiters

  

I love production days! Here's a time lapse video of my work day at the studio yesterday. I am making a bunch of fuzzy gaiters for this weekend's Idle Hands Craft Show (pdf of invite here). The show features 29 crafters and runs from 10am to 5pm on Sunday November 29 at 160 Elm Street, Ottawa. I'll have gaiters, hoodies, sweaters and fuzzy brooches! All the things you'll need to make *winter* dressing cozy, layered and fun. See you there!

Show at Textile Centre

I've made a photo album of pics from the exhibition of sleeves at the Centre Contemporain de Textiles de Montreal.  It is quite a nice show to be in, and such a beautiful table full of sleeves. 

Magical Dreamworld

In keeping with the show that's opening tonight (Magical Dreamworld at LPM Gallery), my cat Pandora has been having a magical dreamworld of her own.  For three days in a row this week, she has been consistently burrowing under a pile of blanket on various beds in the house.  Its too cute. Maybe one day she can have her own YouTube channel and book like my fav internet cat Maru from Japan.

Wednesday:

Thursday:

Friday:

...and you thought November would be dreary...

When November dayz are dreary, cold, and getting darker, all we need is a bit 'o Kaleidopscope Art to cheer us up. Here's what I'm up to this month: 

La Petit Mort, Magical Dreamworld, Ottawa

306 Cumberland Street, Ottawa,

November 6 - 29, 2009
Vernissage Friday November 6 / 7 - 10pm
Ottawa curator Missy Marston-Shmelzer has invited artists to find their happy place. “This show is the result of an open call to artists to produce work, in the medium of their choice, that represents a perfect world, a place of dreams, where anything is possible. Invented landscapes, creatures, or machinery, and the participation of both the living and dead were encouraged.” www.lapetitemortgallery.com/

I'll be showing my Pink Orifice Creatures fresh from their show at Toronto's Hysteria Festival

Pleins Les Bras

at Montreal Centre for Contemporary Textiles

5800 St. Denis Street-espace 501, Montreal

From November 11-December 18 2009

Vernissage November 11 at 5:00pm

"MCCT will host in its gallery an exhibition entitled Plein les bras. The object of this exhibition is to display ornaments designed to embellish our arms, authentic works of art specifically designed to be worn. Works are produced through various techniques of textile construction: knitting, weaving, embroidery, felting, sewing, lace, fulling etc. "

http://www.textiles-mtl.com/

I'm thrilled that my sleeves were selected for the invite! SWEET!

Idle Hands Craft Show

at Patrick Gordan Framing

160 Elm Street, Ottawa

November 29 11:00-6:00pm

Local crafty mavens gather to sell their handmade treasures.  I’ll have sweet sweaters, lovely sleeves, brooches and you-can’t-through-winter-without-them-Fuzzy GAITERS!  I’ll also be taking orders for custom letter pillows for christmas gifties.  All details soon to appear on the www.patrickgordonframing.ca website.  Look for Kaleidoscope Art on the invite around town!

Organisms and Orifices at Toronto's Hysteria Festival

These cute and cudley creatures, the Pink Orifices, will be joining their Organism Creature friends at Toronto's Hysteria Theatre Festival from Oct 22 to the 31st.  These fibre sculptures will be part of an installation in the lobby and lounge of Buddies In Bad Times Theatre, at 12 Alexander Street.  Although the Pink Orifices look adorable and sweet, they have been known to have a temper and be vicious if provoked.   Thus, please do not touch or feed the animals.

Hysteria website at www.artsexy.com

Video of TEXT-ING at DUMBO

Here's a quick video of some the TEXT-ING activity this past weekend at DUMBO.  

DUMBO arts Festival! THIS weekend!

I'm just about ready to go to Brooklyn next weekend THIS WEEKEND! to exhibit at the Dumbo Arts Festival.  I'll be exhibiting my TEXT-ING project on Plymouth Ave btween Main and Washington Streets.  I have been studying the area with google Street View, how handy is that? That's the Brooklyn Bridge in the background to the left and the Manhattan Bridge on the right.

 

So just imagine the image below on the street down somewhere there.  

I'm not planning on taking the fencing, and changing the tarp to astro turf (still need to find :).  and I need to sew up just a few extra letters like 'o' and 's' and 'n', you know the ones that come in handy when there's a spare.  

Now here's the cool part. I have set up a Flickr site for this exhibition. The festival has created an ipod app so people can get info on the artists and exhibitions in the palm of their hand.  So I sent in tiny pics and a wee video for my profile.  I also included an email address: font24move@photos.flickr.com

that people can use to upload a photo right to the flicker account.  So then, when people are taking pics of the pillow TEXT msg, they can send it right them and there to the interweb flickr account.  

So if you're perusing my blog during the weekend of Sept 25-27, there may be some new photos being uploaded every once in a while.  I'll likely be adding some of my own pics at the end of each day.  

holidays are good to take

we took a wee trip east this month: New Brunswick is where its at these days.  It had been while since we've had holidays, and it turns out they are very relaxing and enjoyable: camping, visiting family, swimming in the ocean, hiking a mountain, you know, the usual vacation things.  Plus we had great weather too.

ah, beachy-ness

A tiny baby bird.  So Cute!

Beach excitement

Hiked Mount Carleton, the highest peak in the maritimes, beautiful view!

Pretty mushroom, don't eat it!