Congratulations to Shuvinai Ashoona from Kinngait, recipient of the King Charles III’s Coronation Medal. Shuvinai is a third-generation Inuit artist who has gained international recognition for her contributions to the arts.
✨️In “Mediating Perceptions”, glassblower Katherine Gray wrote about the nature of glass making and our connection to the digital through black screens.
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ALT Craft meme with a text post reading "Penelope: Yeah, tis shroud is taking me 20 years. Suitors: Always Sunny in Philadelphia meme edited to say "That doesn't sound right, but I don't know enough about weaving to dispute it."
📣 Call for submissions / pitches / articles!
Theme: NOISE
Deadline: February 28, 2025
For this issue of Studio, we’re interested in the sound of craft and design.
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ALT A graphic with the call for pitches outlined with the deadline. The prompt reads: For this issue of Studio, we’re interested in the sound of craft and design — from soundscapes and rhythms, to audio associations, in language, production and application. We’re looking for articles on audio resonances of crafted objects, how sound is used to learn about a material or an object, what sounds can be provoked, coerced or cajoled.
Haliburton School of Art Design offers year-round programs tailored to all skill levels – from beginners exploring their creative side to professionals refining their craft.
Visit HSAD.ca for more details and discover where you can take your creativity!
Don't miss “Coast to Coast to Coast” at the Salon des métiers d’art du Québec in Montreal, Dec. 12-22!
Ne manquez pas « D'un océan à l'autre » au Salon des métiers d'art du Québec à Montréal du 12 au 22 déc. canadiancraftsfederation.ca/…
✨️From the Studio Archives
📍Why is the is the Craft Writing Award named after Jean Johnson?
Read all about the life, career and legacy from the article:
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ALT An old sepia photograph of a young girl enjoying Lake Simcoe in the 1940’s.
ALT A photo from 1994 of Jean Johnson smiling broadly in sepia tone to match the other photo.
"Johnson saw the rich potential of the Craft Studio’s artist-in-residence programme and with determination and vision transformed it to a highly sought after destination for Canadian graduates."
Earlier this year, Shuvinai Ashoona, winner of the 2024 Governor General Award, gave a short interview with our managing editor, Lera Kotsyuba (@LeraKotsyuba ).
Read the full interview: studiomagazine.ca/articles/2…
ALT A lithograph of a family enjoying an evening indoors, with the mother preparing dinner wearing an Amauri, a traditional Inuit parka, where a baby sleeps in the hood. Three other children are sprawled on the ground waiting for dinner. The domestic scene is complete with discarded mittens on the floor, dinner preparation underway with a cut fish an, and pantry staples of sugar, flour, and pilot biscuits, and an eponymous box of red rose tea.
ALT Shuvinai Ashoona’s portrait has her smiling against a snowy backdrop in a red winter parka.
ALT The left shows the ‘Octopuses’ print of a swarm of stylized octopuses in yellows, greens, blues and pinks and purple. The right shows the ‘Inner Worlds’ lithograph of multiple planets against a serpent coiled and tangled with a human face.
ALT A black ground with white etching of a person wearing a Vancouver sweater holding an image of a figure made of globes in high heeled shoes showing a large image of three figures holding stylized $50 and $100 bills. Four people hold an image of two figures, and a woman holding a child in her hood holds up an image of a person.
Alana Morouney is a textile artist and metal sculptor who uses sculptural knitting, needle felting, weaving and natural dyeing in her work.
Read the full Portfolio interview from our S/S 2024 issue online:
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ALT A felted hand with a pointer finger pointed to the side, wrapped in gold leather, akin to a finger trap. The felted hand is elevated above a metal two-tone shadow.
ALT A felted four-strand knotwork oval, with two human hands grasping the stands from within.
ALT A felted hand raised palm upwards, with three fingers curling and uncannily long.
ALT The Dream-O-Scope stands like a telescope in a public park aimed across a body of water.
“Absence is a form of presence — the empty space takes the shape of what has been removed, erased or excluded. This can be a powerful thing.”
Nehal El-Hadi (@iamnehal) wrote on the work of Charmaine Lurch (@clurch) for Studio issue 19.1:
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ALT A detail of The Sycorax, a wire sculpture of the female form with the wire woven together with bright copper wire and black and white wires woven in dense sections to give weight to the body, as well as resembling leaves against a dark background.
ALT The full metal sculpture of the female figure where the wires are woven in a loose outline, with more dense sections against a white background.
ALT Maker Charmaine Lurch looking off to the side through the cascading metal wires of one of her works.
“Kye-Yeon Son’s work explores ideas of fragility, endurance, emotion and emptiness through the formal language of vessel forms and consummate metalsmithing technique.”
Mary McIntyre (@mary_k_mcintyre ) interviewed Kye-Yeon Son for the Studio 19.1:
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ALT A brooch made of small thin metal gold leaves clustered together in a rounded gathering.
ALT Thin metal wires are clustered together, shaped like feathers or leaves, arranges in a circle to resemble a ringed or crown of a forest.
ALT A tall blue vessel made of thin wires with a sectioned, tilting form stands against a white and grey background.
ALT A copper toned undulating tall vessel made of thin metal clustered together with horizontal sectional striations.
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ALT Two jewellers working on wooden workbenches with a variety of jewellery making tools, wearing protective glasses, focussing intensely.
"One of my favourite stages in the design process is what I refer to as the “what if?” stage."
Read the full interview with Tura Cousins Wilson, architect, educator, and cofounder of the Studio of Contemporary Architecture (@soca_arch)!
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ALT A greyscale profile photo of Tura Cousins Wilson against a whitewashed brick background. His gaze is both direct and relaxed.
"Woven by Hand: Contemporary Canadian Tapestries" is a beautiful collection of recent works inspired by challenging times of isolation and social unrest. The exhibit is on display until September 28!
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