I have been meaning to post this for awhile but I am excited to be included in the Winter 2015 Cahiers métiers d’art | Craft Journal issue, The Question of Material and Labour, which was guest-edited by Grace Nickel and Mireille Perron. I was interviewed for Grace Nickel’s “A Conversation On Making And Teaching In …
I’m excited to be included in this Fibre alumni exhibition. Take a look if you happen to be in Calgary! The ACAD Fibre Program is pleased to announce a new pop up gallery. The National Gallery of Contemporary Fibre Art will feature work from students, alumni and even objects from historical textile collections. Please join …
I’ve added quite a bit of documentation to the site. Feel free to take a look. Below, didactic panel zine from my thesis exhibition:
Here’s the poster to share! I am still flabbergasted that this is already happening.
melinda topilko and I are participating collaboratively on a piece for Phantom Wing: A pre-demolition project at King Edward School in Calgary. Here’s a list of all the artists, and also, check out the tumblr we’ve started to document our progress (although cross-posting here is likely). And I’ll be in Calgary for the last half …
I have an exhibition at PLATFORM next week! Here’s the facebook event. I’d love to see you there!
"Hypochondria of the Heart" | Harvard Magazine Sep-Oct 2001.
I was trying to explain “kitsch” to a friend, and stumbled across this: “Camp” is derived from the French slang term camper, which means “to pose in an exaggerated fashion”. Susan Sontag argued in her 1964 Notes on “Camp” that camp was an attraction to the human qualities which expressed themselves in “failed attempts at …
I’ve been in constant comparison mode since I got here, thinking about how Calgary doesn’t seem to know what it is. It’s a strange change coming to Winnipeg, which has many overlapping stories and histories and mythologies about itself. Winnipeg has many identities which can all be true for different people. Conversely, Calgary can’t seem to …