Craft Collaborations 2023 Fundraiser and Feature Exhibition

November 14 - 30, 2023

Alberta Craft is excited to present the fourth annual Craft Collaborations, an online auction fundraiser and in person Feature exhibition in celebration of the province’s enormous creative talent. 

Craft Collaborations brings together artists from across the province and across disciplines to create one-of-a-kind work.  Participating artists will be paid 50% of the retail value for works sold. This fundraiser is in support of creating more paid opportunities and programming for Craft artists across the province.

The auction will open at 11 am MT, November 14 and will close 3pm MT, November 30.

2023 Participating artists: Arts Inform-All (Linda Chow, Glenda Rowley, Natasha Kapty), Barb Temple & Ana Zanella, Deanne Underwood & Dale Ladouceur, Gillian Mitchell & Laura Olive, James Lavoie & Todd Safronovich, John Krizan & Chandell Popik, Karla Mather-Cocks & Grace Wirzba, Lindsey Bond & Terrena Boss, Kevin Farmer & Jill Allan, Lael Chmelyk & Stephanie Loewan, Mireille Perron & Karen Kryzan, Nancy Crites & Corinne Cowell, Natalie Gerber & Margaret Hall, Sara Young & Jennifer Illanes, Scott Van de Sande & Mel Schoenberger, Shona Rae & Kipling West, Susan Kristoferson & Arlene Westen, Tammy McDonald & Sheena Perratt, Wendy Passmore-Godfrey & P. Susanah Windrum, Dana Roman, and Little Blue Fibre Studio.

Raspberry Tea Set: Lindsey Bond and Terrena Boss

Celeste by Arts Inform-All (Linda Chow, Glenda Rowley, Natasha Kapty ), handmade wool felt over copper wire; handmade copper chain

A Conversation with the Collab Quilt Collective

Click the link to watch the recording and hear what Lindsey Bond, Jacquelyn Hébert, Christel Lanthier, Kalea Turner-Beckman, and Michelle Wilson share.

Recording:
https://youtu.be/o84xLiioa1g

March 8, 2023
11:00 am – 12:15 pm CST on Zoom
In conjunction with Lindsey Bond’s exhibition Conversational Threads, Gallery 1C03 is pleased to host a discussion with several members of the Collab Quilt Collective whose in-progress work, Conversational Quilt, is displayed in the gallery.

The Collab Quilt Collective self-identify as artists, folx, parents and grandparents who are sewing transformative textile conversations to unsettle divergent and overlapping colonial inheritances. The form and build relationships with inherited materials, skills and more-than-human neighbours. In striving to create more relational family legacies, we incorporate slow and diverse ecological material processes grounded in aspen parkland and prairie ecosystems. Our work acknowledges complex colonial harms and erasures while navigating interwoven histories across indigenous territories in what is now known as canada.

Images, left to right:
Jacquelyn Hébert, Souvenir de ma mémère sur un fond noir (Keepsake of my mémère on a black background) (detail), 2023, machine and hand-stitched quilting, hand beading using linen, cotton thread, leather, glass beads, 14” x 9”
Michelle Wilson, Confluences, 2022, merino and rabbit wool, glass beads, sequins and thread, 10” x 6 ½” x 1/2”
Lindsey Bond, Unwin Whirlpool, 2023, pieces of hand-me-down aunty fabric, eco printed silk and cotton with rose and tansy leaves are machine and hand sewn together, wool stuffing and cotton thread, 19” x 18” x ¼”.

CraftED: Sewing Inheritance with Lindsey Bond

Workshop Description:

C2 invites you to join the free making-space of Sewing Inheritance, with intermedia artist-mother Lindsey Bond, in collaboration with the University of Winnipeg’s Gallery 1c03. The Sewing Inheritance workshop is a call-to-action, inviting folx to create quilt pieces to start a material dialogue with their Settler-Colonial inheritances on Treaty 1 Territory.

The workshop will focus on the slow-process of sewing-as-conversation; a method that reflects on ally-ship via intimate sewing actions in support of everyday decolonization. The making-session offers space to puzzle out personal and family entanglements and complicity with Settler-Colonialism today. With the fabric as our guide, each participant is invited to unravel, reveal and re-story their own family legacy.

Participants are invited to bring inherited fabric, an item or skill (ex. crocheting, hide-work, rug hooking/unhooking, etc.). The creation method chosen must be respectfully practiced/ rightfully inherited and part of the artist’s own ancestry, heritage and of this place on Treaty 1 Territory.

Some basic sewing materials will be provided at the workshop for a material-share. A pdf with some reflective prompts will be sent out prior for participants to prepare for the discussion space of the workshop. There are no size or style guidelines for this workshop. Let the material be the teacher. By sewing decolonial conversations, this workshop aims to direct participants towards honouring long standing First Nations, Métis, Inuit and queer sites-of-resistance and relationship with the land.

This workshop is brought to you in partnership with Gallery 1C03, and will be held at the C2 Centre for Craft at 1-329 Cumberland

Accessibility Information about the space: 329 Cumberland has wheelchair access around the right side of the building. The C2 Centre has gender neutral family washrooms.

Workshop Runs:

March 4,  2023 | 1 –  3pm

In-person at the C2 Centre for Craft

Registration: FREE

Registration deadline: February 28, 2023

Register Online:

Registration for this class has reached capacity. Please contact mccprogramming@c2centreforcraft.ca for wait list options. Our apologies and thank you!

Any questions regarding this workshop? 

Contact MCC Programme Coordinator, Katrina Craig at mccprogramming@c2centreforcraft.ca or (204) 615-3951.

CONVERSATIONAL THREADS: A SOLO EXHIBITION BY LINDSEY BOND

CONVERSATIONAL THREADS: A SOLO EXHIBITION BY LINDSEY BOND
Featuring the Collab Quilt Collective
March 2 - April 14, 2023

Exhibit reception: March 2, 4:00 – 6:00 pm
Remarks at 4:30 pm by Dr. Roewan Crowe and the artist.

Gallery @1C03 @uwinnipeg is pleased to present Conversational Threads, an exhibition by white settler, intermedia artist-mother @lindseybondstudio that takes to heart textiles-as-intervention into the family archive. In the textile and multimedia works, Lindsey re-stories hand-me-down sheets, inherited photographs, drawings made by her son, as well as oral and written stories by her Aunts from the family Red Rose Tea Tin Archive.

Slow textile and intermedia processes acknowledge complex Settler-Colonial harms and erasures interwoven with the “great” pioneer narrative found in her family archive situated alongside the Battle River. Critical material conversations engage and expand dialogue around women's handwork and ancestral healing, while questioning the maker's privilege and responsibility of working ecologically. Material conversations and relationship building are central to the pieces presented and stitch together themes of: intergenerational settler repair work, the weight of inheritance, relationality, and herstories on Treaty 6 Territory.

Conversational Threads visualizes the hard conversations between Bond, her Aunts and her son from around the kitchen table, in the car and online. These daily acts of sewing serve not as a “how to decolonize” but rather a series of whirlpools and loose threads that re-story Lindsey’s family narratives to create a more relational legacy that supports remembering and regeneration.
The exhibition program will feature a discussion with members of the Collab Quilt Collective whose Conversational Quilt installation is presented in the gallery, and a Sewing Inheritance textile workshop.

Gallery 1C03 is grateful to program partners the Manitoba Craft Council and The University of Winnipeg Women’s and Gender Studies department.

Image: Lindsey Bond, Inheritance is a Gift, But It Can Also Be a Burden (detail), 2021, cotton sheets, photo interfacing, Canadian national railway cloth, wool, cotton thread 80"70”

Post Secondary or Mentorship? (what is best for you) Webinar with Lindsey Bond and Jess Richter

Post Secondary or Mentorship? (what is best for you) with Lindsey Bond and Jess Richter
Wednesday April 27 6:30pm – 8:00pm CST/MDT
@carfacab CARFAC Saskatchewan @carfacsask / CARFAC Alberta
Wednesday Webinar

How do you learn to be a visual artist? There are many different ways to discover and grow your potential. In this webinar Lindsey Bond (a white settler, intermedia artist-mother born in amiskwacîwâskahikan -Beaver Hills House or Edmonton) and Jess Richter (a German-Anglo-Canadian contemporary folk artist and filmmaker based out of Treaty 4 Territory) will discuss the role mentorship and post-secondary education played in their art careers so far....

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